Milly (Adkins) Large (abt. 1768 - aft. 1850)

Born about 1768 in Pttsylvania County Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Large — married 8 Oct 1782 (to 1827) in Pittsylvania County Virginia

Descendants

Died after 1850 after about age 82 in Lawrence County Kentucky

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Biography

Milly Atkins, at the age of 98, on the above date in Lawrence Co, KY, requests the widows pension for her husbands service during the Revolutionary War. This file includes a letter from the county clerk of Pittsylvania County, Virginia that provides the dates of marriage for Milly and Thomas as October 8, 1782. It also provides the date of his death as September 29, 1827 and that she has remained a widow. It provides, to the best of her memory, when and where her husband served. Without proof of such service, her request was denied. She states that her son John tore up his father's discharge papers.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ "U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900," digital image, multiple pages s.v. "Thomas Large," Ancestry.com. https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1995/images/MIUSA1775D_136106-00637?pId=34566

• 1820 census Floyd County Kentucky. 1850 Census Lawrence County Kentucky.