Obedience Robins b. 1601 Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, England d. Bef 30 Dec 1662 Northampton Co., Virginia: Genealogy at Pitard.net

1601 - Bef 1662 (< 61 years)

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Name	Obedience Robins [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
Birth	1601	Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, England
Baptism	26 Apr 1601	Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, England
Gender	Male
Death	Bef 30 Dec 1662	Northampton Co., Virginia
Origins
Patriarch & Matriarch	Thomas Robins b. Abt 1480 d. Aft 1531, Holdenby, Northamptonshire, England (Age > 52 years) (2 x Great Grandfather) Mary Rushall d. Yes, date unknown (Grandmother)
Notes	On this family: Adventurers of Purse and Person Virginia 1607-1624/5. According to SpaldingGenealogy, s”he arrived in Virginia by 1628. He was appointed one of the first commissioners [justices] of Accomack Co. in 1632, was six times a member of the House of Burgesses, and a member of the Council. Col. Robins settled on a 950 a. tract "Salt Grove" or "Cherrystone" on Cherristone Creek, n.w. of modern-day Cheriton in Northampton Co. which passed to his son, Major John Robins, and continued in the family until 1866. He married Grace Waters, widow, after 1630, and died abt. 1662." His name, and his family's names, indicate that he was Puritan. On Virginia Puritans in the early Chesapeake, see Kevin Butterfield, "Puritans and Religious Strife in the Early Chesapeake," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 109.1 (2001): 5-__. The history of Puritans in the south differs from New England; most were gone from Virginia by 1650, either assimilated into the Church of England or moved to Maryland. [6]
Person ID	I11772
Last Modified	15 Mar 2025

Father	Richard Robins b. Abt 1566 d. 1634 (Age 68 years)
Mother	Dorothy Goodman d. 20 Feb 1639
Marriage	21 Jun 1597

Spouse / Partner Grace O'Neil
b. Abt 1603
d. Bef 2 Mar 1683 (Age < 80 years)
Other Partners:
└─Lt. Edward Waters
b. Abt 1584, England
d. 1630, Elizabeth City Co., Virginia (Age 46 years) m. 1621

Marriage 1634

Children 1 son and 1 daughter

+	1. John Robins b. 6 Jul 1636, "Cherrystone", Accomack Co., Virginia d. Bef May 1709 (Age < 72 years) └─ Esther Littleton m. 9 Jan 1662
+	2. Mary Robins d. Yes, date unknown └─ Capt. John Savage (Age 54 years) m. 1667; └─ William Cowdry m. 2 Mar 1684

Family ID F8273 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 15 Mar 2025

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	Birth - 1601 - Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, England
	Baptism - 26 Apr 1601 - Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, England
	Death - Bef 30 Dec 1662 - Northampton Co., Virginia

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Reference Pitard, D. "Obedience Robins". Genealogy at Pitard.net. https://ancestors.pitard.net/getperson.php?personID=I11772&tree=1sttree (accessed March 16, 2025).

Sources

[S1143] M.K. Miles, Eastern Shore of Virginia Public Library, Miles Files 23.0, https://espl-genealogy.org/getperson.php?personID=I25357&tree=1.
[S1296] John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person Virginia 1607-1624/5, 2.310 ff..
[S166] Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775, 6.69-70.
[S450] Jacob Cochran Savage, with Bertha Williams Savage and Mae Francis Hall Curtis, We are the Savages: Descendants of Ensign Thomas Savage of Jamestown, This includes a page on Obedience..
[S122] Fredric Zimmerman Saunders, Fredric Zimmerman Saunders.
[S455] Stephen M. Robins, et al., Spalding Genealogy.
[S205] Robert W. Barnes, British Roots of Maryland Families, 457.
[S210] J.D. Warfield, The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland, 45.
[S1224] Philemon Berry Waters, Herbert M. Milam, A Genealogical History of the Waters and Kindred Families: In Two Parts, 16.

Died	Yes, date unknown

Family 1	Mary Robins
Married	2 Mar 1684

Family 2	Savage

Obedience Robins[1, 2]

Thomas Robins

Mary Rushall

Richard Robins

Dorothy Goodman

Grace O'Neil

Lt. Edward Waters

John Robins

Esther Littleton

Mary Robins

Capt. John Savage

William Cowdry

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