Isaac Robinson, the second son to be named Isaac in the Isaac Robinson, Sr. family, was likely born at Tisbury, Mass. circa 1670, and by his father's last known wife named Mary. Whereas in 1686 his father deeded land to his half-brother Peter at Tisbury, Isaac Robinson, Sr. did not do so to this son named Isaac until 1699.
It would seem very unusual for this son named Isaac to have been purportedly born in 1653 as Israel, renamed Isaac after the 1668 drowning death at Falmouth, Mass. of his older half-brother Isaac, then have to wait until he was 48 years of age to receive the first division of his father's land, 14 years after a presumed younger sibling had received land. Further, that he is not mentioned for more than 30 years then marries a woman 22 years younger than himself is also highly unusual. For the memorialist, these contradictions discredit Amos Otis' 1860 conclusion that the Isaac Robinson, Jr. that died at Tisbury, Mass. in 1728 was first named Israel and born at Barnstable in 1651.
In or about 1699, this son of the elder Isaac Robinson m. Ann Cottle, dau. of Edward Cottle and his second wife Dorothy of Tisbury, Mass. Ann was born Mar. 3, 1672/3 at the Island of Nantucket. They had no known children.
Isaac's first civil appointment by the Town of Tisbury was in 1703 when he was named one of the town's selectmen. His half-brother Peter had been very active in town affairs during the previous 15 years and in 1702 was the town's treasurer. After 1703, Isaac Robinson Jr. was also active in other town affairs. He died testate June 1, 1728 at Tisbury leaving all of his property to wife Ann and upon her death to Ann's nephew, Silvanus Cottle: "I having brought him up from a Child and proving very Dutiful to my wife, after the Decease of my wife all my Lands house & Barn lying in Tisbury aforsd. that she hath not sold During her Life time to Discharge of my Just Debts, to be possessed & Enjoyed by him and his heirs for ever."
It would seem very unusual for this son named Isaac to have been purportedly born in 1653 as Israel, renamed Isaac after the 1668 drowning death at Falmouth, Mass. of his older half-brother Isaac, then have to wait until he was 48 years of age to receive the first division of his father's land, 14 years after a presumed younger sibling had received land. Further, that he is not mentioned for more than 30 years then marries a woman 22 years younger than himself is also highly unusual. For the memorialist, these contradictions discredit Amos Otis' 1860 conclusion that the Isaac Robinson, Jr. that died at Tisbury, Mass. in 1728 was first named Israel and born at Barnstable in 1651.
In or about 1699, this son of the elder Isaac Robinson m. Ann Cottle, dau. of Edward Cottle and his second wife Dorothy of Tisbury, Mass. Ann was born Mar. 3, 1672/3 at the Island of Nantucket. They had no known children.
Isaac's first civil appointment by the Town of Tisbury was in 1703 when he was named one of the town's selectmen. His half-brother Peter had been very active in town affairs during the previous 15 years and in 1702 was the town's treasurer. After 1703, Isaac Robinson Jr. was also active in other town affairs. He died testate June 1, 1728 at Tisbury leaving all of his property to wife Ann and upon her death to Ann's nephew, Silvanus Cottle: "I having brought him up from a Child and proving very Dutiful to my wife, after the Decease of my wife all my Lands house & Barn lying in Tisbury aforsd. that she hath not sold During her Life time to Discharge of my Just Debts, to be possessed & Enjoyed by him and his heirs for ever."
Isaac Robinson, the second son to be named Isaac in the Isaac Robinson, Sr. family, was likely born at Tisbury, Mass. circa 1670, and by his father's last known wife named Mary. Whereas in 1686 his father deeded land to his half-brother Peter at Tisbury, Isaac Robinson, Sr. did not do so to this son named Isaac until 1699.
It would seem very unusual for this son named Isaac to have been purportedly born in 1653 as Israel, renamed Isaac after the 1668 drowning death at Falmouth, Mass. of his older half-brother Isaac, then have to wait until he was 48 years of age to receive the first division of his father's land, 14 years after a presumed younger sibling had received land. Further, that he is not mentioned for more than 30 years then marries a woman 22 years younger than himself is also highly unusual. For the memorialist, these contradictions discredit Amos Otis' 1860 conclusion that the Isaac Robinson, Jr. that died at Tisbury, Mass. in 1728 was first named Israel and born at Barnstable in 1651.
In or about 1699, this son of the elder Isaac Robinson m. Ann Cottle, dau. of Edward Cottle and his second wife Dorothy of Tisbury, Mass. Ann was born Mar. 3, 1672/3 at the Island of Nantucket. They had no known children.
Isaac's first civil appointment by the Town of Tisbury was in 1703 when he was named one of the town's selectmen. His half-brother Peter had been very active in town affairs during the previous 15 years and in 1702 was the town's treasurer. After 1703, Isaac Robinson Jr. was also active in other town affairs. He died testate June 1, 1728 at Tisbury leaving all of his property to wife Ann and upon her death to Ann's nephew, Silvanus Cottle: "I having brought him up from a Child and proving very Dutiful to my wife, after the Decease of my wife all my Lands house & Barn lying in Tisbury aforsd. that she hath not sold During her Life time to Discharge of my Just Debts, to be possessed & Enjoyed by him and his heirs for ever."
It would seem very unusual for this son named Isaac to have been purportedly born in 1653 as Israel, renamed Isaac after the 1668 drowning death at Falmouth, Mass. of his older half-brother Isaac, then have to wait until he was 48 years of age to receive the first division of his father's land, 14 years after a presumed younger sibling had received land. Further, that he is not mentioned for more than 30 years then marries a woman 22 years younger than himself is also highly unusual. For the memorialist, these contradictions discredit Amos Otis' 1860 conclusion that the Isaac Robinson, Jr. that died at Tisbury, Mass. in 1728 was first named Israel and born at Barnstable in 1651.
In or about 1699, this son of the elder Isaac Robinson m. Ann Cottle, dau. of Edward Cottle and his second wife Dorothy of Tisbury, Mass. Ann was born Mar. 3, 1672/3 at the Island of Nantucket. They had no known children.
Isaac's first civil appointment by the Town of Tisbury was in 1703 when he was named one of the town's selectmen. His half-brother Peter had been very active in town affairs during the previous 15 years and in 1702 was the town's treasurer. After 1703, Isaac Robinson Jr. was also active in other town affairs. He died testate June 1, 1728 at Tisbury leaving all of his property to wife Ann and upon her death to Ann's nephew, Silvanus Cottle: "I having brought him up from a Child and proving very Dutiful to my wife, after the Decease of my wife all my Lands house & Barn lying in Tisbury aforsd. that she hath not sold During her Life time to Discharge of my Just Debts, to be possessed & Enjoyed by him and his heirs for ever."
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