Esther Robins

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• Reference Number: 2506

Family/Spouse: John Barnes. John was born about 1682; died in 1738. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Arthur Barnes was born about 1708; died in 1757.

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• Reference Number: 2507

Arthur married Barbary Wise. Barbary (daughter of Col. John Wise, Sr. and Hannah Scarburgh) was born about 1652. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 2508

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• Reference Number: 872
• Emigration: 04 Jul 1635, Devonshire, England

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Memo:
John Wise, of Devonshire, the progenitor of the Wise family in Virginia, sailed, according to Hotten, from Gravesend in the ship Transport, bound for Virginia, July 4, 1635, and settled on the Eastern Shore. He was a mere youth when he arrived in Accomac, but soon married Hannah, the daughter of Captain Edmund Scarburgh, and froin him five consecutive generations of John Wises descended, each in turn occupying high positions among their people.

John married Hannah Scarburgh. Hannah (daughter of Capt Edmund Scarburgh, (I) and Hannah Butler) was born before 25 Dec 1625; died on 14 Jan 1694. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 873

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• Reference Number: 874
• Baptism: 25 Dec 1584
• Education: 15 Apr 1602, Caius College, Cambridge, England; Edmund Scarburgh attended Mr. Brigg's School, Norwich, was admitted sizar at Caius College, Cambridge, 15 Apr 1602, and studied law, probably at one of the Inns of Court, where, according to his father's will, he was to remain until he had taken"the degree of a Barrester."
• Memo: 1629
• Occupation: 1629, Jamestown, VA; a Burgess representing Accomac
• Memo: 1631
• Occupation: 1631, Accomack, VA; Justice of the first Accomac Court

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Memo:
In the Assembly of 1629, "For the Easterne Shoare noe burgesses did appear," but in the Assembly of 1629-30, Accomac was represented by Captain Thomas Graves, Captain Edmund Scarburgh, Obedience Robins and Henry Babgwell. The Assembly of 1631-2 (in which Accomac was represented by Captain Scarburgh and John Howe) enacted a law, restricting intercourse between the people and the Indians.

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Captain Edmund Scarburgh, the immigrant from Norfolk, and the father of the famous Colonel Edmund Scarburgh, was one of the Justices of the first Accomac Court in 1631-2.

Edmund married Hannah Butler before 01 Feb 1615. Hannah (daughter of Robert Butler) was born about 1587; died after 1634. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 875

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Married:
He married Hannah (Butler) and lived in the Parish of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Middlesex, where four children were bapitized.