Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Roger ATKINSON
Born in White Haven, Cumberland, England, June 25, 1725 to Roger and Jane Benson Atkinson, he came to Virginia about the middle of the eighteenth century. In 1752, along with John and Robert Bolling, Richard Eppes, Richard Kennon, Frederick Jones, and William Pride, Roger Atkinson was named trustee for the building of a bridge over the Appomattox River from Bolling's Point in Prince George County. The next year he married Anne, the daughter of John Pleasants. His first patent of land in Dinwiddie County - 99 acres on Reedy Creek — was not recorded until 1757. Three years later he added to his holdings 1,190 acres on the south side of the Appomattox River, running to Reedy Creek; and in 1765, 137 acres on both sides of Mahipponock Creek. As a farmer and merchant he prospered considerably, so that by 1782—two years before his death — a list of tithables shows him to have been a man of means. As a vestryman of Bath Parish, as a writer of distinction, and as the ancestor of notable people of Dinwiddie, he contributed generously to the county of his adoption.
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