James Robinson came with his father's family into the locality now known as Franklin township, Coshocton county, then the Northwestern territory, in 1801.  He was born in Clarksburg, Harrison county, Virginia, in 1787.  He served one term as associate judge, and two terms in the legislature; but he seems to have taken most interest in his broad acres, and to have been chiefly famed as a large land-holder and enterprising farmer,  He was also very actively interested in the Methodist Episcopal church, being chiefly instrumental in the planting of the Bethany church, where his descendants still-worship.  He died May 7, 1856.

Source:  Historical Collections of Coshocton County Ohio 1764-1876
Author: William E Hunt, pub. 1876