wife Rachel
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Additional information below has been supplied by: Bill McKern
Birth: Sep. 21, 1796, Ferrisburgh, Addison County, Vermont.
Death: Aug. 25, 1879, Ferrisburgh, Addison County, Vermont.
Abolitionist. Born in Ferrisburgh shortly after his parents moved there from Rhode Island, he was raised and educated as a Quaker and farmed at the family home, which his father named "Rokeby." Robinson became a dedicated anti-slavery activist, and from the 1830s through the end of the Civil War he corresponded and planned with local abolitionists and national leaders of the movement, including Lucretia Mott, William Lloyd Garrison and Issac T. Hopper. His home was a stop on the Underground Railroad, and his activities included harboring fugitive slaves and helping transport them to both free states and the British dominion of Canada, negotiating with slave masters in southern states to obtain manumission documents for escaped slaves, and aiding former slaves to find employment. Hundreds of letters documenting his activities are stored at the Sheldon Museum in Middlebury, and serve as valuable sources of information about the abolition movement. Rowland T. Robinson was the father of artist and author Rowland E. Robinson (1833-1900). Rokeby is now a National Historic Landmark and museum that chronicles Rowland T. Robinson's involvement with the Underground Railroad and Rowland E. Robinson's art and literature.
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Additional information below has been supplied by: Bill McKern
Birth: Sep. 21, 1796, Ferrisburgh, Addison County, Vermont.
Death: Aug. 25, 1879, Ferrisburgh, Addison County, Vermont.
Abolitionist. Born in Ferrisburgh shortly after his parents moved there from Rhode Island, he was raised and educated as a Quaker and farmed at the family home, which his father named "Rokeby." Robinson became a dedicated anti-slavery activist, and from the 1830s through the end of the Civil War he corresponded and planned with local abolitionists and national leaders of the movement, including Lucretia Mott, William Lloyd Garrison and Issac T. Hopper. His home was a stop on the Underground Railroad, and his activities included harboring fugitive slaves and helping transport them to both free states and the British dominion of Canada, negotiating with slave masters in southern states to obtain manumission documents for escaped slaves, and aiding former slaves to find employment. Hundreds of letters documenting his activities are stored at the Sheldon Museum in Middlebury, and serve as valuable sources of information about the abolition movement. Rowland T. Robinson was the father of artist and author Rowland E. Robinson (1833-1900). Rokeby is now a National Historic Landmark and museum that chronicles Rowland T. Robinson's involvement with the Underground Railroad and Rowland E. Robinson's art and literature.
wife Rachel
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Additional information below has been supplied by: Bill McKern
Birth: Sep. 21, 1796, Ferrisburgh, Addison County, Vermont.
Death: Aug. 25, 1879, Ferrisburgh, Addison County, Vermont.
Abolitionist. Born in Ferrisburgh shortly after his parents moved there from Rhode Island, he was raised and educated as a Quaker and farmed at the family home, which his father named "Rokeby." Robinson became a dedicated anti-slavery activist, and from the 1830s through the end of the Civil War he corresponded and planned with local abolitionists and national leaders of the movement, including Lucretia Mott, William Lloyd Garrison and Issac T. Hopper. His home was a stop on the Underground Railroad, and his activities included harboring fugitive slaves and helping transport them to both free states and the British dominion of Canada, negotiating with slave masters in southern states to obtain manumission documents for escaped slaves, and aiding former slaves to find employment. Hundreds of letters documenting his activities are stored at the Sheldon Museum in Middlebury, and serve as valuable sources of information about the abolition movement. Rowland T. Robinson was the father of artist and author Rowland E. Robinson (1833-1900). Rokeby is now a National Historic Landmark and museum that chronicles Rowland T. Robinson's involvement with the Underground Railroad and Rowland E. Robinson's art and literature.
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Additional information below has been supplied by: Bill McKern
Birth: Sep. 21, 1796, Ferrisburgh, Addison County, Vermont.
Death: Aug. 25, 1879, Ferrisburgh, Addison County, Vermont.
Abolitionist. Born in Ferrisburgh shortly after his parents moved there from Rhode Island, he was raised and educated as a Quaker and farmed at the family home, which his father named "Rokeby." Robinson became a dedicated anti-slavery activist, and from the 1830s through the end of the Civil War he corresponded and planned with local abolitionists and national leaders of the movement, including Lucretia Mott, William Lloyd Garrison and Issac T. Hopper. His home was a stop on the Underground Railroad, and his activities included harboring fugitive slaves and helping transport them to both free states and the British dominion of Canada, negotiating with slave masters in southern states to obtain manumission documents for escaped slaves, and aiding former slaves to find employment. Hundreds of letters documenting his activities are stored at the Sheldon Museum in Middlebury, and serve as valuable sources of information about the abolition movement. Rowland T. Robinson was the father of artist and author Rowland E. Robinson (1833-1900). Rokeby is now a National Historic Landmark and museum that chronicles Rowland T. Robinson's involvement with the Underground Railroad and Rowland E. Robinson's art and literature.
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