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Author: jrrobins1
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It turns out that there were two Jonathan Robinsons/Robertsons in Jackson Co. at this time
(1840's and 50's). One was Jonathan Jackson Robinson, father of Jacob Robinson,
who this query is about; the other is Jonathan Robertson, connected to a large extended
Robertson family from Virginia, living in Hamilton Tp. They are both nearly the same age,
but from unrelated families. I think the son of George Robertson, whose probate records
you saw, was probably Jonathan Robertson, not Robinson. Although the names in the early
records are spelled both ways, often for the same people, the descendants of the different
families consistently spelled their names differently.
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