A Long Time Ago/35 Atkins and Allied Families in Virginia

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Atkins and Allied Families in Virginia

This page is part of A Long Time Ago: A History of the Atkins-Paynter and Allied Families, the chunked book edition on the Wally Atkins Family Wiki.

  • Book section: Atkins and Allied Families in Virginia
  • Page range in the book: 251-253
  • Chunk order: 35 of 36

This section has been lightly cleaned for readability from the working transcript. It preserves some of the place-centered closing material of the book that ties the family into the early history of Virginia.

Source note

  • Book: A Long Time Ago: A History of the Atkins-Paynter and Allied Families
  • Transcript source: `032-synthesis.md`
  • Editorial note: the available transcript is partial and appears to overlap with the following section on English manors, so this page focuses on the strongest readable Virginia material first

Cleaned import

Ringfield (D)

The book identifies Ringfield as the home of Captain Robert Felgate and Sibella Atkins, widow of John Atkins of Virginia. It places Ringfield in York County, in the neck formed by Felgate's Creek and King's Creek as they enter the York River.

This is important because it helps ground the earliest Atkins generation in a specific Virginia landscape rather than leaving them as names floating in abstract colonial records.

Eastover (D)

The book says that Eastover grew out of an original grant of 2,250 acres to Henry Brown in 1637. In 1657, it was purchased by George Jordan of Four Mile Tree.

The chapter adds that the estate later consisted of 2,500 acres, some of which had been patented by Colonel John Flood in 1638. This entry helps place the Flood-connected side of the family into one of the more enduring landscapes of colonial Virginia.

Jordan's Journey (D)

Jordan's Journey is identified as the home of Lieutenant Colonel John Flood in 1625. The chapter says that Captain Samuel Jordan came to Virginia in 1609 and patented 450 acres just below the confluence of the Appomattox and James rivers, at what is now known as Jordan's Point.

The book notes that when the Indian Massacre of 1622 occurred, Jordan's Journey and all of its inhabitants were saved. Samuel Jordan had a son, George, and a daughter, Fortune, who became the second wife of Lieutenant Colonel John Flood.

The chapter says John Flood and his second wife, Margaret, were living at Jordan's Journey in 1625, according to his muster of that year. It appears that he continued to live there until 1638, when he moved to James City. The old plantation house no longer stands.

Closing significance

Although this surviving transcript slice is short, it is useful because it shows how the book closes by returning the family to place: creeks, grants, plantations, necks of land, and river crossings. This is one of the ways the book repeatedly insists that lineage is inseparable from geography.

Context notes

  • This section works best as a place-history bridge between early Virginia settlement and the older family lines discussed elsewhere in the book.
  • It is especially useful for linking early Atkins and allied-family entries to real ground in York County, the James-Appomattox region, and the wider colonial landscape.
  • The local transcript appears partial, so this page should be expanded if a cleaner copy of the final pages becomes available.

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