Ellen Atkins (abt. 1648 - aft. 1684)

Born about 1648 in Chard, Somerset, England

Ancestors

Died after Jul 1684 after about age 36 in Charles Town, Province of South Carolina

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Biography

Ellen Atkins was a Carolina colonist.

Ellen was the daughter of Aaron and Joan Atkins of Chard, Somerset, but her baptism does not appear in the baptismal records, which begin in 1649.

According to a land warrant for 650 acres for Mr. Thomas Smith dated 10 July 1684, Ellen Atkins was listed as one of the persons Mr. Thomas Smith imported into the Province of Carolina. The transcribed record shows:

In the Warrants for Lands in the Province of South Carolina, 1680-1692, 166 is recorded a warrant for 650 acres of land to be laid out to Mr. Thomas Smith for the arrival of himself, and wife Barbara, sons Thomas and George Smith, Matthew Crosse, Philip Adams, Joan Atkins, Johanna Atkins, Elizabeth Adams, Aron Atkins, Ellen and Mary Atkins and Michael Peirce. Dated 10 July, 1684.^[1][2]

Her mother Joan Atkins wrote her Will on 11 July 1684 in Carolina, leaving bequests to her daughters Joana and Ellen Atkins. When her brother Aaron Atkins wrote his Will on 1 September 1684, however, only sister Joanna was mentioned.^[3] Ellen does not appear in Carolina records after that date.

Sources

1. ↑ Salley, A. S. Warrants for Land in South Carolina 1680-1692 (1911) p. 166 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015070241313&view=1up&seq=5&skin=2021
2. ↑ South Carolina Historical Society, The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine: Volume 22, 1 Jan 1921, article: Contributed by Smith, Edward Leodore, Landgrave Smith's Visit to Boston, Massachusetts page 60, citing Aron Atkins. Accessed 7 June 2020.
3. ↑ Smith, Thomas, and A. S. Salley. “The Family of the First Landgrave Thomas Smith.” The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine 28, no. 3 (1927): 169–75. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27569732

Acknowledgements

This person was created through the import of Beaman Family Tree.ged on 31 March 2011.