This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Robinson, Shaw, Trafton, Cushman, Spaulding Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3cDBAIB/8040 Message Board Post: My Robinson line goes back to the immigrant ancestor William Robinson who m Margaret Beach. In 1783 Increase Robinson and family migrated from MA to Sumner, ME, now Oxford County. Some of Increase's grandch later migrated north and settled the town of Sherman in Aroostook county ME [1830's] along with other pioneer families Cushmans, Traftons, Perry's. The Shaw line also migrated then, two of the Shaw sisters married into these lines and moved north also. [Spaulding Robinson m Ruth Bucknam Shaw and Lydia Shaw m Theodore Trafton. I am descended of Spaulding and Ruth] While I am fine tuning details and filling in documentation, most of the mysteries of this line for me are gone. I am posting this in hopes of helping others researching this line, as well as to connect with some who can help fill in the gaps. I have considerable info on this family. The following taken from "Personal Sketches: East Sumner History Book" "Dea. Increase Robinson, the progenitor of tthe Robinsons that have since lived in Sumner, was born in 1739, and his wife, Rebecca Bourne, in 1733. They moved into town from Pembroke, Mass., in 1783, being the sixth family to settle in the east part of the town. They brought with them eight children, four boys and four girls.... [among them my ancestor who m Patty Spaulding] Dea. Increase Robinson was, in his early days in the new settlement, a useful citizen, as he erected the first saw, shingle and grist mills, and opened the first place for the sale of groceries. He also was a cooper, and made many useful wooden utensils for pioneers' use. The first public religious meetings were held in his house. The house that he built was the first framed house in town, and is still in good condition, and occupied by some of the fourth generation. His son, Increase, Jr., suceeded him in the mills, and he in turn was succeeded by his son, Dea. Sharon Robinson, who operated the mills many years, and lived and died at the old homestead. "Dea. Sharon, as he was familiarly called, was also a useful and respected citizen, a devoted christian man, a hard-working and honest person, with a character above reproach. His son, Sharon, Jr., at date of this sketch, still lives upon the old farm, ans was the author of the three-page account of the Sumner Centennial, published in the Lewiston Evening Journal, June 11, 1898." NOTE: The house referred to in the above historical sketch is now the Increase Robinson Library, housing historical and genealogical materials of this family and related lines.