Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood

Robinsons have been in Attleboro, Massachusetts, since the beginning of white settlement, and they’ve fought over their place from the start. George came first, way back in the 1640s. He was an immigrant—from England most likely (some say Scotland)—who joined the community of Rehoboth on the western edge of the Plymouth Colony. He married Johanna

Westward Days

Nathaniel Day was the fifth child of English immigrants Anthony Day and Susanna Ring Matchett who lived on the Annisquam River in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where I drew last summer. Nathaniel was born on December 9, 1665, and he’s my 6x great-grandfather. His family moved around Cape Ann—north of Boston—quite a bit, before settling by Pole’s