Edward Robins
Edward Robins was baptised at Long Buckby in Northamptonshire on 26 August 1604. The clerk wrote "Edward s Richard Robens & ux", Edward the son of Richard Robens and his wife. His father was a gentleman of the parish. His mother was probably Dorothy, the only wife of Richard's named in the register.
He was the fifth of at least eight children. His brothers and sisters were Continue, Richard, Obedience, John, Sarah, Thomas and Dorothy.
He and his elder brother Obedience both went to Virginia. They settled on the Eastern Shore, the peninsula across Chesapeake Bay from the Virginia mainland, in the county then called Accomack. Edward was a merchant there. The Virginia Magazine of History gives another account of him: "Edward Robins, born in England 1602, came to Virginia in the bark Thomas, in 1615. He was of Northampton, now Accomac County, and built 'Newport House,' now Eyreville." If he came in the Thomas in 1615, he was eleven.
Obedience became the leading man of the Eastern Shore. He sat as burgess for Accomack in 1629-30, 1639 and 1642. He married Grace, the widow of Edward Waters, and in 1633 he was in trouble with the parish minister, William Cotton, for refusing to issue warrants for the minister's tithes.
Edward died in July 1641. His wife's name is not known. He left two daughters. Rachel married Richard Beard and Elizabeth married William Burgess. After William Stone of Northampton became the first Protestant governor of Maryland, Beard and Burgess took their families up to Maryland. Beard belonged to the people "in scorn called Quakers," and Burgess was for a time in sympathy with the Cromwellians. When Richard Beard made his will in 1675 he named his "Brother-in-law Wm. Burgess" as an overseer.
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