John Robertson was Deputy Commissary General of Issues during the American Revolution and later a schoolmaster in Albemarle County and Lynchburg, Virginia.

Robertson's account book includes receipts for supplies received from him at the magazine in Williamsburg (October-November, 1781); indexed accounts of his school in Lynchburg (1801-1802); house expenses (1807-1810); and, a register of his children with Sarah Rogers Robertson. The entries for 1781 include some for British prisoners of war.