Colonel Obedience Robbins (sometimes given as Robins) (April 26, 1600December 30, 1662) was a
Burgess six times in Virginia during the 17th century.
Family
Obedience Robins was born in 1600 to Richard Robins and Dorothy Goodman. In 1634, Robbins married Grace Neale Waters in Virginia. Their son John was born on May 7, 1636, in Northampton Co., Virginia. His daughter Mary Robins married Captain John Savage, whose father Thomas Savage was an interpreter of Indian languages at
Jamestown.
Biography
Robbins was born shortly before April 26, 1600, in
Long Buckby
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,
Northamptonshire
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, England. He emigrated to the
Virginia Colony
The Colony of Virginia was a British colonial settlement in North America from 1606 to 1776.
The first effort to create an English settlement in the area was chartered in 1584 and established in 1585; the resulting Roanoke Colony lasted for t ...
in 1628. Robbins represented Accomack Co., Virginia as a Burgess in 1630 and was appointed a justice of Accomack Co., in 1632. He also served several more times as a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, in 1639, 1642, 1644, and twice in 1652 in April and November. He also was a member of the Council.
During his years in Virginia he was an ardent foe of Colonel
Edmund Scarborough
Colonel Edmund Scarborough (September 1617 – 1671) was an English-born politician and military officer who served as speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1645 to 1646.
Early life and family
Scarborough was born in England around ...
. He was instrumental in getting Northampton Co., Virginia named.
[A good gene pool of the Eastern Shore of Virginia and Maryland, Robert Leland Johnson, page 115.] After Robbins' death Scarborough wanted the county divided.
Death
Robbins died around December 30, 1662, in Northampton Co., Virginia.
Ancestry
References
House of Burgesses members
1600s births
1662 deaths
People from Long Buckby
People from colonial Virginia
Emigrants from the Kingdom of England to the Thirteen Colonies
People from Accomack County, Virginia
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