Increase ROBINSON
Biography

"Dea. Increase Robinson, the progenitor of the Robinsons that have since lived in Sumner, was born in 1739, and his wife, Rebecca Bourne, in 1733.

They moved into town from Pembroke, Mass., in 1783, being the sixth family to settle in the east part of the town.They brought with them eight children, four boys and four girls....

Dea. Increase Robinson was, in his early days in the new settlement, a useful citizen, as he erected the first saw, shingle and grist mills, and opened the first place for the sale of groceries.He also was a cooper, and made many useful wooden utensils for pioneers' use.The first public religious meetings were held in his house.The house that he built was the first framed house in town, and is still in good condition, and occupied by some of the fourth generation. His son, Increase, Jr., suceeded him in the mills, and he in turn was succeeded by his son, Dea. Sharon Robinson, who operated the mills many years, and lived and died at the old homestead.

"Dea. Sharon, as he was familiarly called, was also a useful and respected citizen, a devoted christian man, a hard-working and honest person, with a character above reproach.His son, Sharon, Jr., at date of this sketch, still lives upon the old farm, ans was the author of the three-page account of the Sumner Centennial, published in the Lewiston Evening Journal, June 11, 1898.

Tradition says that numerous families bearing the name Robinson in New England, sprang from one of two brothers that came over from England and one of whom settled in New Jersey and the other in Massachusetts. As will be seen in the foregoing paragraph of this sketch, Dea. Increase Robinson came from Massachusetts. History and observation show that the Robinsons were hardy, industrious, temperate and useful in their day and generation."


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