Mary “Polly” Hess was born about 1790 to Henry Hess and Mary Harter in Amelia County, Virginia.

She married John Robertson Robinson on December 11, 1806, in Botetourt, Virginia.  The marriage record gives Henry Hess as her father.  They had 9 children in 18 years given in order of age:  John, Issac Keys,  Henry, Sophia, William, Thomas, Betsy, James, and Charles Phillip.

She died after the 1860 census in Giles County, Virginia where she is 70 years old and living with her daughter Elizabeth and Charles Simpkins.  As of yet, no death or cemetery record.