Display Patriot - P-101760 - Benjamin ADKINS/ATKINS
Benjamin ADKINS/ATKINS
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P-101760
The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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Benjamin Adkins was born about 1762, in Lunenburg County, Virginia, a son of John Adkins and Mary.
He appears as a private on a muster roll dated 9 September 1778, for the Company of Captain Benjamin Coleman of the Second North Carolina Regiment. Atkins enlisted on 10 December 1777, for a term of three years, and was reported sick at Valley Forge.
Earlier in 1778, that regiment had fought at the Battle of Monmouth, New Jersey. After Valley Forge, Adkins was encamped near the Hudson River Highlands and at West Point. The regiment was ordered south and arrived at Charleston, on 3 March 1780, where the British army had laid siege. American Major General Benjamin Lincoln surrendered to the British and the men of the Southern Army were taken prisoner, which may have included Adkins.
Of Adkins’ wife, nothing is known. He was the father of at least three children: William, Thomas, and Lucinda F.
Benjamin Adkins died on 27 November 1827, in Madison County, Alabama. His final resting place is not known.
References:
Owen, Marie, ed.: Alabama Historical Quarterly: State Department of Archives and History, Vol. 6, No. 3, Winter Issue 1944, Pg. 523.
Hay, Gertrude May: Roster of the Soldiers from North Carolina in the American Revolution, with an Appendix Containing a Collection of Miscellaneous Records, North Carolina. Durham: The North Carolina Daughters of the American Revolution, 1932, Page 104.
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