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Rix Robinson (1789-1875) was a Michigan pioneer. He was a fur trader in the employ of John Jacob Astor's American_Fur_Company, the first permanent white settler of Kent County, Michigan, a representative to the state constitutional convention of 1850 and a state senator.

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[edit] Early Years

Rix Robinson was the secondson of Edward Robinson, born in Preston, Conn., and Eunice (Rix) Robinson, born at the same place. His birthplace was at Richmond, Berkshire county, Mass., where his father, for many years, carried on his trade of blacksmithing, and the cultivating of a very few acres of land.[1]


  1. Edward R. ROBINSON
  2. Sex: M
  3. Birth: 16 JUN 1763 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut
  4. Death: DEC 1836 in Scipio, Cayuga Co., NY
  1. Name: Eunice RIX
  2. Sex: F
  3. Birth: 3 JUL 1765 in Preston, New London, Connecticut
  4. Death: 24 AUG 1834 in Scipio, Cayuga, NY

[edit] Pioneering in Michigan

During the early settlement of Michigan, Robinson, the first permanent settler of Kent County, established a fur trading post in conjuction with John Jacob Astor's American_Fur_Company, at the mouth of the Thornapple River in 1821 to trade with the Potawottomi and Ottawa, and conduct other business.[2]

By 1837, with the fur trade in decline, Robinson facilitated a treaty between local tribes and the Federal governmentthat opened much of the area, including the Thornapple basin, to white settlement.[3]


[edit] References

  1. ^ Family tree from Rootsweb
  2. ^ A Snug Little Place Memories of Ada Michigan 1821 - 1930, Ada Historical Society/Jane Siegel, 1993, (Siegel 1993) p.21
  3. ^ Siegel 1993 p.22

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