These notes are meant to list the reference that indicate that Joseph Robison and his family were in Ohio during the period 1825-1855. References are also made for John Noland since he seems to have been connected with our Robisons.
Joseph Robison is listed on the personal property tax list for Green Township, Columbiana County, Ohio for 1826. This indicates he was there in 1825. The listing was for 1 horse and 2 cattle. Joseph is not listed as a land owner. 1826 has the first year that a personal property list was filed in the Court house.
John Noland is first listed in 1826 in Milton Township, Trumbull County, Ohio. He is listed for 57 acres of land in the South Survey and for 2 horses and 4 cattle.
Joseph Robison is listed again in Green for 2 horses and 2 cattle. John Robbins (probably John Robison) is listed for 1 cow. John Robison married Mary Baker on October 18, 1827 as shown in Marriage Book 2, Page 285, Columbiana County Records.
Joseph Robison is listed this year for Green for 2 horses and 2 cattle. John Robbins is again listed for 1 cow.
Joseph Robison is listed in Green for 3 horses and 1 cattle. John Robbison listed in Green for one cattle. John Noland is listed in Milton with the same land as in 1826 and for 1 horse and 8 cattle.
The personal property lists for Green now reflect William in addition to Joseph and John. These listings were:
Joseph Robinson - 2 horses and 6 cattle
John Robbison - 1 cattle
William Robinson - 1 cattle
William Robison was the grantee on a deed from John and Sarah Walker for Lot 68, Green Village, Columbiana County. This deed was dated February 4, 1830 and recorded in Volume Q at Page 294 of the transcribed records in Youngstown, Ohio. This is the same lot deeded to John Walker by Jacob and Elizabeth Cook on March 25, 1829.
The 1830 federal census returns for Green Village, Green Township, Columbiana, Ohio show the three Robinson families all living next to each other. The names added in brackets are a guess:
Household of William Robinson
1 male 20 to 30 (William)
1 Female 20 to 30 (Rebecca)
Household of John Robinson
1 male under 5 (Reason)
1 male 5 to 10 (Joseph B-)
1 male 20 to 30 (john)
1 male 30 to 40 Unknown - Silas Robison or perhaps a Baker
1 female 20 to 30 (Mary)
Household of Joseph Robinson
1 male 10 to 15 (Edward)
1 male 15 to 20 (Thomas)
1 male 20 to 30 (Joseph, Jr.)
1 male 50 to 60 (Joseph)
1 female 5 to 10 (Harriett Ann)
1 female 15 to 20 (Mary Ann)
1 female 50 to 60 (Elizabeth)
The personal property lists for Green show Joseph Robison with 3 horses and 3 cattle, and show John Robbinson with 2 horses and 2 cattle.
Under date of April 11, 1831 William and Rebecca Robison sold Lot 68 in Green Village to William W. Durbin. This deed is recorded in Volume X at Page 42 of the transcribed records in Youngstown.
There are no entries for green after 1831 until 1840.
Although the tax lists for this year are missing for Milton Township, Trumbull County, it is clear that the Robisons were there for Jacob Cook (Jr) married Mary Ann Robison there on November 26, 1832. The application for the license was made by William Robison.
William Robison of Milton took 2 deeds for land in Lot 18, North Survey of Milton Township, Trumbull County, Ohio. The first of these was from Ezkiel Hover of Milton for 81.30 acres. This deed was dated April 30, 1833 and recorded in Volume 36 at Page 521. Elijah Miers and Alexander Sutherland were the witnesses with Sutherland the JP. The price was $320.00. The second of thesedeeds was from Jacob and Ruth Snyder of Salem, Ohio (near Green). The witnesses and JP were from Salem. The deed was dated September 16, 1833 and recorded in Volume 29 at Page 481. Price $240.00. The tax lists for 1833 show the 181 acres as belonging to William Robison. The personal property lists for Milton show Joseph Robison with 2 horses, and William Robison with 1 horse and 1 cow.
Although there are no deeds to divide the 181 acres the land tax records show a division (apparently based upon occupation) as follows:
Robinson, John - North Survey .42 acres Lot 18
Robinson, Joseph B. - North Survey .20 acres Lot 18
Robinson, William - North Survey .58 acres Lot 18
Jacob Cook - North Survey .61 acres Lot 18
The personal property tax lists for Milton show:
Joseph Robinson - 2 cows
Joseph Robinson, Jr. - 2 horses
John Robinson - 2 cows
William Robinson - 1 cow
William Robison takes a deed from David and Sarah Caldwell of Newton Township for 52.86 acres in Lot No. 11 of Newton. This deed was dated April 19, 1838 and is recorded in Volume 40 at Page 453.
The tax lists for 1838 for Newton show William Robison as a landowner and on the personal property lists for 2 horses and 2 cows. John Robison is carried for 1 horse and 2 cows.
The tax lists for Milton show John Robison with 42 acres of land but no personal property. William Robison is charged with 16 acres of land but no personal property. Joseph Robison, Jr. is on the personal property lists for 2 cows. Alexander Robbison appears with 3 cows and Jacob W.Cole appears for the last time here with 2 horses and 1 cow.
William Robison and his wife, Rebecca (she signs by mark) deeded the 42.21 acres in Lot 18 of Milton to Joseph Robison, Jr. This was the land occupied by John and Mary Robison. This deed was dated March 6, 1838 and recorded on May 1, 1838 in Volume 40 at Page 468. The deed mentions as a southerly boundary "a parcel surveyed off to Joseph Robison on December 3, 1832. (there is no record of such a survey). The witnesses on this deed were Thomas Robison and James Moore and Moore was the JP. (Moore was a neighbor on the east; his wife's mother's maiden name was Margaret Robison).
Joseph Robison, Jr. and his wife Nancy sold the 42.21 acres on April 11, 1838 to Robert Price. The witnesses on this deed were Thomas Robison and William Porter, with Porter the JP. This deed was filed on May 1, 1838 and recorded in Volume 40 at Page 469. The two deeds for the 42.21 acres were filed at the same time. Joseph Robison Jr. married Nancy Cook, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Cook on November 18, 1834, he was of legal age. The marriage return was from Newton Township which is on the north border of Milton.
The tax lists are roughly the same as for 1834.
The tax lists are missing for 1836.
The real estate tax lists is the same as that published in 1834. The present tax lists show:
Joseph Robison, Sr. 1 horse and 3 cows
Joseph Robison, Jr. 1 horse and 1 cow
William Robison 1 horse and 1 cow
William Robison and his wife, Rebecca (she signed by mark) sold the 61 acres occupied by Jacob Cook to Daniel Eckis. The deed was dated June 16, 1837 for a consideration of $793.00. John Orr and Jacob Cook were the witnesses and James Moore the JP. This deed is recorded in Volume 40 at Page 199 of the Trumbull County Records.
John Robison (son of Joseph B., Sr.) takes deed for 50.1 acres in Lot 24, Newton Township, Trumbull County, Ohio. This deed was signed by John Thatcher and his wife, Elizabeth under date of July 3, 1838 and is recorded in Volume 43 at Page 457. Thomas Robison died June 26, 1838 aged 24 years and 7 months. He is buried in what is now called the Vaughn Cemetery on John Noland's lot. John Noland, his 2 wives, some of his children and some of his grandchildren are buried here.
Joseph Robison and his wife, Elizabeth (she signed by mark) were the grantors on a deed for the 20.00 acres they occupied. This deed called it 21.30 acres, starts at a corner of Daniel Eckis's lands; is dated February 1, 1838 for a consideration of $300.00. The grantee on the deed was Jacob Harroff who then lived in Austintown which is 10 miles east of Milton. Jacob Harroff had lived near Harrisburg, Pa. before he came to Ohio. The witnesses on this deed were William Robison and Robert Trumbull, with Trumbull as the JP. Joseph Robison had no title to this parcel yet the deed was accepted. This deed was not recorded until July 19, 1845 when Edward Robison filed it. It is recorded in Volume 55 at Page 202.
On August 9, 1838 Edward Robison and Arminda Cole went to Ravenna, the County Seat of Portage County, Ohio; secured a marriage license; and were married that same day by a Justice of the Peace in Edenburgh. This indicates that her parents, Jacob W. and Hannah Elston Cole had moved to Palmyra from Milton. They had been in Milton since 1813.
The personal property lists for this year for Milton show:
Alexander Robison 1 horse and 1 cow
Joseph Robison 1 horse and 1 cow
Edward Robison 2 cows
Warranty deed from William Robison and Rebecca (by mark) to Elijah Miers, for 61.3 acres - SW part of Lot 18, Milton, dated March 11, 1839, William Moore and Samuel Strawder were witnesses, James Moore the JP, filed June 25, 1839, and recorded in Volume 44 at Page 110.
Warranty deed from John and Mary Robison to Robert Price, Part Lot 24, SE corner, Newton Township, Trumbull County, dated April 4, 1839, William Porter and Martin Donat were the witnesses, and Porter the JP, recorded in Volume 43 at Page 457.
Warranty deed from William and Rebecca Robison to Henry Hudson for 52.86 acre tract in Newton Township, price $500.00, dated March of 1839, and recorded in Volume 42 at Page 519.
John Noland takes deed from Tillinghart Mowry and wife Elizabeth of Rootstown, Ohio for Lot in Milton Town Plat, dated June 8, 1839 - NOT FILED UNTIL - 1845 and then by Edward Robison.
The tax lists show no Robison in either Milton or Newton. The federal census for Milton, Newton, Green, Palmyra show John and Mary back in Green Township, Columbiana County. The others are missing. In Milton in the 1840 census were:
Amy Robison
1 male under 5 3 females 20-30
1 female 5-10 1 female 40-50
1 female 10-15
She is the widow of John Robinson and no relative of Joseph so far as we know.
Also there was Alexander Robbison
1 male 60 - 70
1 female 60-70.
He is not on tax list.
Where are Edward and the others?
The tax lists show this for Milton:
Alexander Robison 1 horse and 1 cow
Edward Robison 1 horse and 3 cows
Joseph B. Robison, Sr. died August 3, 1841. Where?
Only Edward Robison appears on the Milton personal property tax list 1 horse and 2 cows.
The personal property tax lists for Milton showed:
Alexander Robison 1 horse and 1 cow
Edward Robison 1 horse and 3 cows
Only Edward Robison appeared on the personal property tax lists for this year. He had 1 horse and 2 cows.
About this year John and Mary Robison purchased land in Perry Township, Columbiana County, Ohio and moved there from Green Township. This farm was on what is now State Route 45, north of Salem.
On July 19, 1845 Edward Robison appeared with two deeds executed in 1844 and with two deeds executed in 1838 and had all four recorded. One of these was from Jacob and Hannah Harroff and conveyed the 21 acres or so where Edward's father had lived; the other was from John Noland and Elizabeth Noland for Lot No. 20 in the Milton Town Plat. These deeds were recorded in Volume 55 at pages starting with 202.
In late 1845 Mahoning County was formed from the 10 southerly townships from Trumbull County and the five northerly townships from Columbiana County. Thus Green and Milton became part of the new county.
Edward Robison is the grantee for the 42.21 acres formerly occupied by John and Mary Robison. This deed is recorded in Volume 1, Page 350 of Mahoning Deed Records.
Both Edward Robison and John Noland moved from Milton to Palmyra, Portage County which is 5 miles west of Milton. They lived on land owned by John Noland around what was later called the Robison Church Cemetery.
The federal census for 1850 showed John and Mary Robison in Perry Township, Columbiana County and Edward on a farm in Palmyra.
Harriett Ann Robison Lewis, sister of John and Edward, dies in Indiana in September of 1851. All of her family excepting 2 little girls, Jane and Emeline, died. By November of 1851 Edward had been to Indiana, returned to Palmyra with the girls and had himself appointed as Guardian of his nieces.
In 1854 Edward secured the consent of the Courts in both Ohio and Indiana to see Emeline's interest in farm land in Indiana (Jane had died). Edward sold the land to his brother, John. During the period 1854-1855 John and Mary and all of their children left Ohio and moved to Indiana.
By 1855 Edward and his wife and children seem to be all of Joseph, Sr.'s family left in Ohio.