Experience (Lumbert) Robinson, the second wife of the early Windham settler Peter Robinson, and mother of the 13 youngest of her husband's 16 children, d. April 30, 1727 at Windham, Conn., Æ 55. She is buried with her infant grandson, Amasa Palmer, who also died on April 30, 1727. Experience's inscription forms the left panel of a two panel "winged" gravestone. Grandson Amasa was the first child of Elihu Palmer and Experience's eldest daughter, Abigail Robinson. Experience's first child was Peter Robinson, Jr., born Dec. 7, 1696 at Tisbury on Martha's Vineyard (Dukes County), Mass.

In the 1925 Robinson Genealogy, Experience is stated to have been Mary (Manter) Robinson's niece, which is not correct. She was Mary's first cousin once removed, or more simply Mary's half second cousin. Suffice it to say, in this presentation the memorialist has cut short the background required to uncover Experience (Lumbert) Robinson's correct identity. Nevertheless, in the time in which Experience and her husband Peter Robinson lived, the term "niece" did not mean the daughter of one's sibling or of a spouse's sibling. Rather, it most often referred to a person's cousin by blood or marriage. If the memorialist is correct in the trail of Peter Robinson's "great bible," Peter's second wife Experience was referred in the family bible as the niece of first wife Mary. Unfortunately, modern writers (including the author of the 1925 Robinson Genealogy) failed to recognize how the term "niece" was used in the 1600s and 1700s.

Experience Lumbert was the eldest dau. of Jedediah Lumbert and Hannah Wing, b. in Apr. 1673 at Barnstable, Mass. (the date of her birth in the Barnstable town records is mangled and switched with that of her sister Hannah). She was bapt. Mar. 23, 1683/4 at the Barnstable First Church with the rest of her siblings. Her maternal grandparents were Daniel Wing and first wife Hannah Swift, who were Quakers at Sandwich, Mass. Her maternal great grandparents were Rev. John Wing and Deborah Bachiler (q.v.), latter whose father, Rev. Stephen Bachiler, was the founder of the Town of Hampton, NH. Experience's paternal grandfather was Thomas Lumbert, the early settler of Barnstable, Mass. Thomas was the gr. grandfather of Mary (Lumbert) Robinson, whose grandfather Barnard Lumbert was the much older brother of Experience's father Jedediah Lumbert.

Husband Peter and many of Experience's children are interred with headstones at the southeast uphill portion of the old part of the Scotland Village Cemetery, on the north side of Cemetery Road in Scotland, Conn. That entire section of the Scotland Village cemetery is not included in Hale's Cemetery database.