Stanton Adkins, I

1695 - 1754  (59 years)

• Name	Stanton Adkins
  Suffix	I
  Birth	1695	Somerset County, Maryland
  Overseer	1733	Bogerternorton Hundred, Somerset, Maryland
  He was appointed for 2 years, he had to get people who lived on the road to keep it up, w/o pay. They used oyster shells or the roads.
  Land	1734	Somerset County, Maryland
  By 1735 he owned land Wool Down 100a (purchased from a Truitt) and Adkins Delight 50a, and Hog Quarter
  Land Tax	1736	Worcester County, Maryland
  Forlorn Hope 200a
  Tax List	1723-1740	Bogerternorton Hundred, Somerset, Maryland
  Consistently in the tax lists from 1723-1740. Starting in 1735 he lists a dependent, Stephen Adkins, until 1740
  Land	1745	Worcester County, Maryland
  Listed on Worcester Co Debt Books as owing rent on three properties"Forlorn Hope", "Wolves Den" and "Atkins Delight"
  Land Tax	1745	Worcester County, Maryland
  Taxed for Dear Harbour. The original grant had been for 477a but he asked for a resurvey to acquire all vacant land. This land later passed to his son Stanton to leased it to his father in law, Joseph Holloway in 1770
  Death	1754	Salisbury, Worcester, Maryland
  	Died intestate
  Person ID	P6338	Burress

  
  

  Family ID

  F2347

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  Wife	Sarah Highway           b. 1695, Somerset County, Maryland           d. June 1759, Somerset County, Maryland (Age 64 years)
  Marriage	ca 1715	Somerset County, Maryland
  Children	5 sons
  + 1. Stanton Adkins, II           b. 1727, Worcester County, Maryland           d. Aug 1790, Worcester County, Maryland (Age 63 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. William Adkins           b. 1733, Maryland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Middleton Adkins  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Stephen D. Adkins           b. 1719             d. 1790 (Age 71 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. George Adkins           b. 1729  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F2143	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart