 1725 - 1810 (85 years)
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| Name |
Jacob Adkins |
| Born |
1725 |
Goochland Co, VA  [1, 2] |
- also listed as born Snow Creek, Lunenburg Co, VA
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| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
1810 |
Greenbrier Co, VA [1, 3, 4] |
| Person ID |
I5620 |
adkinshorton |
| Last Modified |
1 Sep 2022 |
| Father |
William V. Adkins, Sr., b. Abt 1690, Henrico Co, VA , d. Abt 1774, Henrico Co, VA (Age ~ 84 years) |
| Mother |
Elizabeth Parker, b. Abt 1695, Charles City Co, VA , d. betw 1735-1736, Goochland Co, VA (Age ~ 41 years) |
| Married |
17 Jan 1715/16 |
St. John's Church, Richmond, Henrico Co, VA [1, 5, 6, 7] |
| Family ID |
F25047 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
Judah, b. 1734, Halifax Co, VA , d. 1770, Shawano Co, VA (Age 36 years) |
| Married |
1758 |
Halifax Co, VA |
- (2nd wife of Jacob, son of William Adkins)
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| Children |
| + | 1. Sherrod Adkins, b. 1759, VA , d. 1816, Tazewell Co, VA (Age 57 years) |
| + | 2. Elijah Adkins, b. 1760, Augusta Co, VA , d. 1850 (Age 90 years) |
| + | 3. Jacob Adkins, b. 1763, VA , d. 1799, Monroe Co, VA (Age 36 years) |
| + | 4. Parker Adkins, b. 1763, Franklin Co, VA , d. 11 May 1857, Raleigh Co, VA (Age 94 years) |
| | 5. Isaac Adkins, b. 1767, VA , d. Aft 1785 (Age 19 years) |
| | 6. John Adkins, b. 1769, d. 1824, Preble Co, OH (Age 55 years) |
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| Last Modified |
1 Sep 2022 |
| Family ID |
F25071 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 3 |
Mary Parker Bennett, b. 1748, Halifax Co, VA , d. Aft 1800, VA (Age 53 years) |
| Married |
1770 |
Halifax Co, VA |
- (3rd wife of Jacob, son of William Adkins)
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| Children |
| | 1. Mary Ann Adkins, b. 1771, Halifax Co, VA , d. 1840, Greenbrier Co, VA (Age 69 years) |
| | 2. Moses Adkins, b. 15 Sep 1773, Pittsylvania Co, VA , d. 16 Apr 1839, Giles Co, VA (Age 65 years) |
| | 3. Judith Adkins, b. 1775, VA , d. Est 1870, Hinton, Summers Co, WV (Age 95 years) |
| | 4. John M. Adkins, b. 1777, Halifax Co, VA , d. Aft 1810 (Age 34 years) |
| | 5. Hiram Adkins, b. 1779, VA , d. 12 Oct 1834, Giles Co, VA (Age 55 years) |
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| Last Modified |
1 Sep 2022 |
| Family ID |
F25072 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- REFN: 1149, History of Summers County, By Judge James H Miller, Page 474
One of the oldest families of people in all this region of the New River Valley was that of Adkins or Atkins. They are said to have come into this region during the time of the Revolutionary War, and were first discovered living under cliffs on the Summers side of the river from New Richmond Falls, supposed to be the magnificent cliffs in the canyon at the mouth of Laurel Creek which empties into the New River half a mile from Lick Creek at New Richmond Post Office.
They were hunters and trappers in the earliest days, and have continued so as long as there was game in this region, and their descendants are scattered one place and another throughtout this region and other counties. Once in awhile you will find a member of the generation rising above the common level, but no great advancements have been made in this race.
There was a Parker Adkins, a man noted for his nose, the end of it being half the size of a man's fist; Riley Adkins, known as the "Chestnut Mountain Lawyer"; Leonard Adkins living in the Chestnut Mountain area; Albert Adkins, one of the most intelligent, lives near Hinton. Hen Adkins, one of the race, was drowned in Laurel Creek with L. M. Alderson's wedding suit on. Mr. Alderson was married twice and this was the suit he had purchased for his first marriage. He said that he sold a steer to secure the broadcloth suit.
Sometimes the name is spelled Atkins and sometimes Adkins.
The Gills are said to have come into the country about the same time and to have lived about the same way. The Gills and the Adkins have intermarried. There is an intelligent family by the name of Atkins, now residing in the Little Bluestone country of a different generation. A thriftless, harmless, indolent, unambitious race of people as a race, but without malicious cunning or dangerous, indigenous race are the Gills and Adkins.
Possibly the ancestors were Tories who emigrated into this then fastness to escape military service.
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| Sources |
- [S18786] huffmanjr.ged.
- [S18792] Michael Hager FTW.
- [S18790] Adkins Land of York to Beech Fork, Page 738.
- [S18793] H4355.ged, Page 104.
- [S18790] Adkins Land of York to Beech Fork, Page XIX.
- [S18793] H4355.ged, Page 113.
- [S18793] H4355.ged.
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