Robeson County NcArchives Biographies.....County, Robeson 
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Sam West sam.west.1@gmail.com November 30, 2015, 3:30 pm

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Researchers should first be introduced to, and made aware of, the
correct pronunciation of the name of this county.   In the division of
old Bladen County all the western lands became a new and distinct
county known as “Robeson” to be effective January 6th 1787.  It was so
called in honor of the late Colonel Thomas Robeson, whose plantation
stood on the southwest bank of the Cape Fear River near the present
day town of Tar Heel in Bladen County.   Like many of the early
families of the upper Cape Fear River Valley, the “Robeson” family was
of Scottish origin.  Being a proper name it is actually spoken
differently than the way it appears in the English sense.  "Robeson"
in the old Scottish “Gaelic” tradition is pronounced as "Rah-bee-son,”
and that is the correct way to speak our name.  Henceforth, please
remember and be proud of the correct pronunciation of the name of the
county of your ancestral heritage.


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