BIO: Philip ROBINSON, Dauphin County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JAWB Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/dauphin/ http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/dauphin/runk/runk-bios.htm _______________________________________________________________ Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers. Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 169. _______________________________________________________________ ROBINSON, PHILIP, son of Thomas Robinson, was born about the year 1698, in the north of Ireland, came to the Province of Pennsylvania with his father's family, prior to 1730. His name appears on the first tax list of Hanover township, Lancaster county. He settled with his family on Manada creek, near the Gap. During the Indian war, 1755- 1763, there was a fort on his farm for defense against the Indiana and the safety of the settlers. His sons were already grown men, for in 1755 Governor Norris addressed a letter to Samuel Robinson, sending with it one hundred pounds of gunpowder to be used by the inhabitants of Hanover in "defense of themselves and their country." Beside their farm, the Robinsons were millers, owning a mill on the Manada at the Gap, and furnishing supplies to the Government during that war. Philip Robinson died in May 1770; his wife's name is unknown, and her death preceded her husband's.