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     furniture for the outward voyage, and two beds and furniture for the home voyage. 
     
    

    
     Of course Rowland Robinson’s friends and neighbors all laughed at his credu— 
     
    

    
     lity in trusting his faithful slave, but as he had a crusty temper he was saved 
     
    

    
     from an outward show Oftheir amusement, for it was a bold man who offended him. 
     
    

    
     A man that had such faith in human nature must have safely been trusted. 
     
    

    
     A short time before he left England for America, he quarrelled with one of his 
     
    

    
     brothers; some ten or fifteen years afterwards a son of this brother came to seek 
     
    

    
     his fortune in New England, and, of course, went to his uncle’s house. The 
     
    

    
     uncle refused to see him, but gave him the best room in the house, and detailed 
     
    

    
     a servant to the young man’s own service. He staid several months, and then 
     
    

    
     his uncle bought for him an estate in Virginia, built a house, furnished it, and 
     
    

    
     sent him, with the slave he had given to him, to take possession of the new home. 
     
    

    
     \It is to be hoped that the nephew had as fine a sense of honor as the slave, who 
     
    

    
     returned with her boy, and served her master faithfully to the end. 
     
    

    
     Many years after Rhode Island had freed her slaves and provided for the Old, 
     
    

    
     weak, and feeble, a descendant of this Abigail, Bristol by name, worked for James 
     
    

    
     Robinson, grandson of Governor William. One day, in mid—winter, the Old 
     
    

    
     man had been busy all day unloading a sloop. It was quite dark when the last 
     
    

    
     load was brought home. Mr. Robinson met him and said, “Thee is late, Bris— 
     
    

    
     tol, but never mind, the days will soon be longer.” “ ’Fore God, massa,” said 
     
    

    
     Bristol, “I hope the days will never be any longer.” 
     
    

    
     As Rowland Robinson is the ancestor Of many of the Hazard family, he has 
     
    

    
     been given a place in these records. 
     
    

    
     CHILDREN OF WILLIAM AND MARTHA ROBINSON 
     
    

    
     322. ROWLAND ROBINSON, born Oct. 8, 1719; married Amtir Gardiner, Dec. 3, 1741; she was a 
     
     niece of his step-mother. 
     
    

    
     323. JOHN ROBINSON, born July 23, 1721; died 1739. 
     
    

    
     324. MARY ROBINSON, born Jan. 27, 1723; died April 16, I723. 
     
    

    
     325. ELIZABETH ROBINSON, born June 16, 1724; married, March 27, I742, T/Jama: Hazard, son of 
     
    
   
   
    
     Raaert and Sara/2. For children, see T/yamar Hazard, No. 194. 
     
     326. MARTHA ROBINSON, born Nov. 11, 1725; married, 1747, Lataam Clarke. 
     
    
   
   
    
     § 153. JOHN POTTER, 4 (John Potter, 3 ; Martha Hazard, 2; Thomas, I), 
     
    
   
   
    
     was born May 20, 1695; he died 1739; and married Mercy, daughter of Row— 
     
     land and Mary Robinson, October 28, 1714.. She died in 1762. He was called 
     
     ‘Colonel John Potter. 
     
    
   
   
    
     CHILDREN 
     
    

    
     327. JOHN POTTER, born Jan. 3, 1716; married, Ist, Oct. 20, 1736, Mary Perry, daughter of 
     
     7amer Perry; 2d, Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen Hazard. 
     
    

    
     328. WILLIAM POTTER, born Jan. 21, 1722; married Perle/ape, daughter of Col. Thoma: Hazard. 
     
    

    
     329. SAMUEL POTTER, born Jan. 20, 1724; married Arm Seagar. 
     
    

    
     33o. MARY POTTER, born Aug. 15, I727. 
     
    

    
     331. SARAH POTTER, born Aug. 11, 1730. 
     
    
   
   
    
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