Draft:Sylvester Robinson
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Sylvester Robinson (January 23, 1735 – June 28, 1809) was a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from May 1790 to May 1792.[1]
Sylvester, son of Hon. William Robinson, was born January 23, 1735. He married (first) in 1756, Alice Perry, born July 20, 1736, daughter of James and Anna (Bennett) Perry. ... He was a deputy from South Kingstown in 1760-73-74. In 1776 he was appointed judge of the court of common pleas, and in 1779, third judge of the supreme court.[2]
He married Alice Perry on December 18, 1755. After her death, he married Sarah Nichol, widow of John Nichol and daughter of Captain John and Margaret Benton.
Of South Kingstown.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Manual - the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1891), p. 208-13.
- ^ William Richard Cutter, New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of the Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1914), p. 1215.
- ^ Samuel H. Allen, "Rhode Island Judiciary", in James N. Arnold, ed., The Narragansett Historical Register (1889), Volume 7, p. 62.
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