This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Robinson, Hilton, Huntington Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3cDBAIB/8170 Message Board Post: From "History of Grant County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 919. PLATTEVILLE THOMAS ROBINSON, Secs. 25 and 36; P. O. Platteville; born in April, 1816, in Yorkshire, England. He came to the United State and Grant Co. in 1841; with him were his father, M. W. Robinson, his brother, Joseph and wife, and his brother-in-law, William Hilton, a lad of 14 (see sketch of Joseph Robinson). In place of the log house of forty years ago, Mr. Robinson has a capacious brick farm house, with farm building to correspond. The original 40 acres has increased to 255. He married Ann Hilton, a native of Massingham, Lincolnshire, England. They have had nine children - Sarah, Jane, Mary, Thomas, George H., Charles W., James R., Amelia and John M. All were born on the Platteville farm except the eldest; she married James Huntington, and died at his home in Seymour, La Fayette Co., Wis. Mr. Robinson was with his brother, Joseph, and a few of his neighbors, among the founders of the local P. M. Church. [I am not related to this family. I am posting this as a service and hope it helps!]