Abel Elkins

1759 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Abel Elkins
  Birth	Between 1749 and 1759
  Gender	Male
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I41909	Ingram-Related
  Last Modified	14 Aug 2024

  
  

  Father	Nathaniel Elkins,   b. Abt 1726, Probably Virginia d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	MARRIAGE: Source: FHL Nathaniel Elkin b. 1753, md Rachel Elizabeth Hart b. 1757. >From the book, The New River Early Settlement by Patricia Givens Johnson, Chapter 17, The Long Hunters. The Wallens, Blevins, Coxes and others lived as squatters in western Pittgylvania (later Henry County) on land owned by speculators.  1767 Pittsylvania County tithables, later New River hun? were John Ward, Joseph, Thomasand Elisha Wallen, John Rowland and Nathaniel Judd, Thomas, Charles, Richard Calloway ( they were in   Boonsborough (lz), Charles Scaggs and the Elkins brothers, Ralph, Jesse, Richard and Nathaniel  A good long hunter could bring back skins worth nearly seventeen hundred pounds, an immense sum.  They departed the first of October and returned the first of April. I think that is why James Elkins was a Indian Spy ranger in Revolutionary War because he knew about the Indians. Hope some of these names are familiar to you all.  Linda Z. from Okla. Pittsylvania County Tithables - 1767 LIST OF TITHABLES TAKEN BY PETER PERKINS FOR THE YEAR 1767 Ralph Elkins Jr. Richard Elkins(1 tithe) NATHANIEL ELKINS, son JESSEY JESSE ELKINS(1 tithe)
  Family ID	F16670	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jessica,   b. Abt 1760   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F17028	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 May 2015