Mercy Robinson1,2,3,4

b. 4 July 1647
Mercy Robinson|b. 4 Jul 1647|p5144.htm|Isaac Robinson|b. c 1610\nd. 1704|p5151.htm|Margaret Hanford|b. c 1619\nd. Jun 1649|p5152.htm|Reverend John Robinson|d. 19 Feb 1625/26|p5201.htm|Bridget White||p5202.htm|Jeffrey Hanford||p5166.htm|Eglin Hatherly|b. 8 Jun 1586\nd. a 17 Jan 1653/54|p5167.htm|

6th great-grandmother of William Lemuel Horn Jr.
8th great-grandmother of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Horn and Allied Families
Appears on charts:
Pedigree for William Lemuel Horn II
     Mercy Robinson was baptized on 4 July 1647 in Barnstable, New Plymouth Colony.1,2 She was the daughter of Isaac Robinson and Margaret Hanford.1 She married William Weeks, son of William Weeks, on 16 March 1669 in Falmouth, New Plymouth Colony.1,3,4
     
Additional Data
Captain Myles Standish, in his will, 7 March 1655, made a bequest to Mercy in the following words: "Further my will is that Mercye Robinson, whome I tenderly love for her grandfather's sacke shall have three pounds in some thing to goe for ward for her two years after my decease, which my will is my overseers shall see p'formed."4

Mercye Robinson was mentioned in her granduncle Timothy Hatherly's will dated 20 December 1664 in Scituate, New Plymouth Colony.3

Children of Mercy Robinson and William Weeks

Citations

  1. [S622] Leonard H. Smith Jr., comp., Cape Cod Library of Local History and Genealogy, a Facsimile Edition of 108 Pamphlets Published in the Early 20th Century, Vol. 1 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1992), 907.
  2. [S623] Amos Otis, "Scituate and Barnstable Church Records", New England Historic and Genealogical Register (NEHGR) 9 (July 1855): 283.
  3. [S170] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-16?? (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-200?). The Great Migration Study Project is ongoing. Several volumes have been published in hardcopy, and new sketches appear frequently in the "Great Migration Newsletter" (online subscription or hardcopy). The database is online and may be viewed at New England Ancestors.org or Ancestry.com, both of which are subscription sites. It is also available in hardcover and CD-ROM from NEHGS.
  4. [S624] Amos Otis, "Notes Respecting the Descendants of Isaac Robinson, Son of Rev. John Robinson of Leyden", New England Historical and Genealogical Register 14 (January 1860): 20.
  5. [S613] Weeks/Chase Family Registry, A Listing of the Descendants of Benjamin and Mary Chase Weeks of Falmouth, MA and Carteret County, N.C., online <http://www.geocities.com/~weekseekers/>.
  6. [S621] Leonard H. Smith Jr., comp., Cape Cod Library of Local History and Genealogy, a Facsimile Edition of 108 Pamphlets Published in the Early 20th Century, Vol. 2 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1992), 1003.