Capt. John Robinson (Moses1 Line)

Born

Cushing, Maine

Role

Sea captain, Mormon convert

Affiliation

LDS (Mormon convert)

Bio Notes

Capt. John4 Robinson (Simeon3, Hans2, Moses1) — married Abigail Parsons and went to Salt Lake City and became a Mormon. ONLY explicit Mormon conversion reference in the entire 1933 Robinson Genealogy Vol. 2. Lineage: Moses1 Robinson (Ireland→Cushing, ME, 1727) → Hans2 Robinson (Captain in 4th Lincoln County Regiment, Committee of Correspondence 1775) → Simeon3 Robinson (m. Hannah Hyler) → Capt. John4 Robinson (m. Abigail Parsons → Salt Lake City Mormon convert). The Parsons surname is one of the 13 colonial surnames with 100% correlation to Kirk-case institutional nodes. Sibling: Capt. Oliver4 Robinson (lost at sea 1846). Source: Robinson Genealogy Society, Vol. 2 (1933), p. 138. EVIDENTIARY TIER: SOURCE-CITED.