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Family: PATRIOT Parker Vortimer Atkinson/Adkinson/Adkins / Mary 'Polly' Fry (F7641)  [1

m. Abt 1754


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  • Father | Male
    PATRIOT Parker Vortimer Atkinson/Adkinson/Adkins

    Born  Abt 1720  Mechamps Creek, Henrico Co., Virginia Colony Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  Yes, date unknown   
    Buried     
    Married  Abt 1754  Halifax Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location
    Other Spouse  Mary Blue Sky Cornstalk | F7633 
    Married  Bef 1767   
    Father  William Vortimer Atkinson/Adkinson/Adkins | F6734 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Elizabeth Parker | F6734 Group Sheet 

    Mother | Female
    Mary 'Polly' Fry

    Born  Abt 1730  Virginia Colony Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  Yes, date unknown   
    Buried     
    Father   
    Mother   

    Child 1 | Male
    Elijah Atkinson/Adkinson/Adkins

    Born  Abt 1764  Halifax County, Virginia Colony  Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  Abt 1799  Tennessee  Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried     
    Spouse  Nancy White Wing Cornstalk | F7658 
    Married     

  • Notes  Married:
    • Children of Polly Fry
      Millington Adkins b: 20 Sep 1755 in Halifax County, Virginia
      Keziah Adkins b: Abt 1756 in Halifax County, Virginia
      Isom Adkins b: Abt 1757 in Halifax County, Virginia
      Hezekiah Adkins b: 20 Sep 1759 in Halifax County, Virginia
      Susanna Adkins b: Aft 1760 in Halifax County, Virginia
      Champ Adkins b: Abt 1763 in Halifax County, Virginia
      Elijah Adkins b: Abt 1764 in Halifax County, Virginia
      Sherrod B. Adkins b: Abt 1765 in Halifax County, Virginia
      William Adkins b: Abt 1771 in Virginia

  • Sources 
    1. [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/196703414/parker-adkins.
      Parker Adkins
      Birth 1720
      Henrico County, Virginia, USA
      Death 15 Mar 1794 (aged 73?74)
      Montgomery County, Virginia, USA
      Burial Burial Details Unknown, Specifically: Burial Lost to History. His name appears on the Monument to Revolutionary War soldiers of Giles County, along with his son Hezekiah and Millington

      Parker Vortimer Atkinson and Polly Fry Atkinson lived on the South side of the Pigg River (Story Creek Area) in the Snow Creek District of what is today Franklin County, Virginia. His wife was Mary Fry (c1730-c1777). Mary was the mother of all his children. She was a daughter of John Peter Fry and Catherine (French) Fry, and a sister of George Fry (d.1793). One branch of Parker?s descendants has embraced the story that, in addition to the children he had with his wife, Mary, he had two children by a daughter of Chief Cornstalk named Blue Sky and, when Blue Sky died, Parker took his two half-Shawnee children, Littleberry and Charity, home to his wife, Mary, who raised them along with their other children. No proof existed, one way or another, until 2016 when a direct female descendant of Charity Adkins was located and agreed to have her mitochondrial DNA analyzed. Mitochondrial DNA traces a female?s maternal ancestry, mother-to-mother-to-mother, back through time. The DNA came back as Haplogroup H, the most common female haplogroup in Europe. Therefore, Charity?s mother was a white woman with mostly English and Irish ancestry. Many other women match her descendant?s DNA kit, all of them with the same basic ancestry. An article published in 2017 goes in to great details on the movements of Chief Cornstalk and Parker Adkins during the period of time that Littleberry and Charity were born. From that analysis, it is clear that Chief Cornstalk and his daughter Blue Sky could never have met Parker Adkins. Children: Keziah Adkins Fry, Millington Adkins, Isom Adkins, Hezekiah Adkins, Susanna Adkins McGriff, Littleberry Adkins, Champ Adkins, Elijah Adkins, Sherrod B Adkins, Charity Adkins Adkins, William Adkins, and Shadrach Adkins.