John Robinson (1773–1850)
In 1807 Robinson and Bushrod Washington exchanged letters on the subject of taxes on George Washington's lands.
John Robinson was born on 13 February 1773. A resident of Richmond, he was clerk of Henrico County Circuit Court for over fifty years. In 1801 he married Agnes Conway Moncure (1780–1862). Among their eleven children who reached maturity was Moncure Robinson, a civil engineer who helped develop several early railroad lines. John Robinson died in Richmond on 26 April 1850.
"To James Madison from John Hartwell Cocke, 2 April 1827," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/04-04-02-0336. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Retirement Series, vol. 4, 3 March 1826–29 February 1828, ed. Armin Mattes, David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Anne Mandeville Colony, Ellen D. Goldlust, Mary Parke Johnson, Katherine E. Harbury, and Mary K. Wigge. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2023, pp. 378–379.]
"Letters of Moncure Robinson to his Father John Robinson, Clerk of Henrico Court," The William and Mary Quarterly, Volume 9, Number 1 (January 1929), 13–33.
Robinson Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Daily Richmond Times, 27 April 1850, page 2, column 5 (Newspapers.com).
John Robinson at Hamm Family History.
John Robinson at Find a Grave.
Moncure Robinson at Find a Grave.
John Robinson at FamilySearch.