1Abram English Brown, History of the Town of Bedford, Middlesex County, Mass.: from its Earliest Settlement to the Year of Our Lord 1891, p. 29 (1891).
"ROBINSON, William,1 resided on a farm of 200 acres in Cambridge. He was one of the original petitioners for the separation of "Newtowne" from Cambridge in the year 1678. He m. Elizabeth -----, and d. about 1693. Ch. Elizabeth. Hannah, b. at Concord, July 13, 1671 (called Ann). She d. in Cambridge, Oct. 5, 1672. William,2 b. July 10, 1673. Mercy, b. Aug. 7, 1676. David,2 b. May 23, 1678, "lame and helpless in 1695." Samuel,2 and h Jonathan,2 twins, b. April 20, 1680. They were all living, except Hannah, when the will was probated in 1693.".