Robinson, Christopher

  • DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY ARTICLE: JR. E. Saunders, “ROBINSON, CHRISTOPHER (1763-98),” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 4, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–. https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/robinson_christopher_1763_98_4E.html
  • DCB profile notes:
    • Army officer, lawyer, and office-holder; b. 1763 in Virginia, probably the son of Peter Robinson and Sarah Lister; m. 1784 to Esther Sayre, and they had six children, d. 2 Nov. 1798 at York (Toronto).
    • He was educated at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, but he may have left the college in 1780 or 1781 to go to New York to aid the loyalist cause. On 26 June 1781 he was commissioned ensign in the Queen’s Rangers under the command of John Graves Simcoe. He served with the regiment until the surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, on 19 Oct. 1781.
    • Simcoe took care to find employment for disbanded officers of the Queen’s Rangers, and in 1792, shortly after his arrival in Upper Canada, he appointed Robinson surveyor general of woods and forests there. The Robinsons moved to Kingston that year.
    • In 1794 he was licensed to practise law in Upper Canada and two years later he was elected member of the House of Assembly for Ontario and Addington. 
  • Proven Loyalist in Loyalist Directory –https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=7058
  • Find a GRAVE: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69075266/christopher-robinson