Robert Dunbar
Robert Dunbar was a Scot who settled at Hingham, Massachusetts, soon after 1650. Lincoln's History of Hingham says so in one sentence: "Robert, a Scotchman, and prob. the ancestor of all the families who have borne this surname in Ply. County, became a resident of Hing. shortly after 1650." He was a farmer and lived on Scotland Street.
A Scot arriving at Hingham in the early 1650s fits the Scottish soldiers taken prisoner at the battles of Dunbar in 1650 and Worcester in 1651, many of whom were sent to New England. No source says he was one of them.
His wife was Rose. Her surname is not known. Their children, by Lincoln, were John in 1657 and Mary in 1660, who married Isaac Harris of Bridgewater. Joseph followed in 1661/2, James in 1664, a first Robert in 1666, Peter on 6 September 1668 and Joshua in 1670. A second Robert was born in 1672/3, then Sarah, Hannah in 1677, and Benjamin.
He made his will on 13 September 1693. It leaves Rose "a living in my now dwelling-house, and the use of all the land ... the whole term of her keeping the name of Dunbar", gives Joseph "enough apples, annually, from the trees in my orchard to make two barrels of cyder", and leaves the land across the river to his three unmarried daughters. He died six days later, on 19 September 1693. Rose survived him and died on 10 November 1700.
His son Peter was a selectman of Hingham in 1699 and moved his family to Bridgewater about 1706. Peter's daughter Abigail married Joshua Fobes there in 1711.
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Cite: Heirology, "Robert Dunbar (d. 1693)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/robert-dunbar-1693-7a8b23.