Col. Beverley ROBINSON

1722 - 1792  (70 years)

• Name	Beverley ROBINSON
  Title	Col.
  Birth	1722	King & Queen County, VA
  Gender	Male
  Death	1792	Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England
  Notes	(1) Purple, Edwin R., "Contributions to the History of the Ancient Families of New York: Varleth-Varlet-Varleet-Verlet-Verleth," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol. 9 (1878), pp. 121-122: . . . CAPT. BEVERLEY ROBINSON, son of Hon. John Robinson, of King and Queen County, Virginia, . . . was prob. born [there] in 1722. His father, on the retirement of Sir William Gooch as Governor of Virginia, in August, 1749, became President of the Council of that Colony, but died a few clays thereafter. His mother, Catharine Beverley, was a dau. of Robert and Catharine (Hone) Beverley, of Virginia, and a sister (not the dau., as Bishop Meade has it) of Robert Beverley, author of the history of that colony, first published in 1705. He came to New York as early as 1746, and was Captain of a "Company of Foot lying in Fort George," in November of that year. His marriage made him wealthy, giving him as it did, the possession of his wife's large estate on the Hudson River, near West Point. He was living here at the commencement of the Revolution, and opposing the separation of the colonies from the mother country, he raised the Loyal American Regiment, and sought to prevent that glorious result. Of this Regiment he was commissioned Colonel. In the treason of Arnold, Col. Beverley Robinson's name is conspicuous, and it is supposed he was aware of that officer's defection, before any other person. It is said he was much opposed to Major Andr??'s trusting himself to the honor "of a man who was seeking to betray his country." After the capture of that unfortunate gentleman, he was conveyed, Sept. 26, 1780, to Col. Robinson's own house, which Arnold had occupied as headquarters, and then used by Washington temporarily as such. He and his wife and his son Beverley, Jr., were included in the "Act for the Forfeiture and Sale of the Estates of Persons who have adhered to the Enemies of this State, etc," passed by the New York Legislature, 22d October, 1779, and the whole of their immense estate passed from the family. The British Government granted him the sum of ??17,000, which was considered only a partial compensation for his loss. At the conclusion of peace in 1783, Col. Robinson left for England, where he lived in retirement at Thornbury, near Bath, and died there in 1792, aged 70 years. Susanna his wife died at the same place, in November, 1822, aged 94. For an account of their children, see Burke's Landed Gentry, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, and Sabine's Loyalists of the American Revolution, vol. 2, p. 221 to 229.
  Person ID	I10782	Frost, Gilchrist and Related Families
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family	Susanna PHILIPSE,   b. Bef 20 Sep 1727   d. Nov 1822, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England (Age > 95 years)
  Family ID	F4970	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024