Cornelius Atkinson (1732 - 1815)

Born 1732 in Ireland

Husband of Mary (Cross) Atkinson — married 1758 in Northumberland Co PA

Descendants

Died 1815 at about age 83 in Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Cornelius Atkinson served with Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.

This profile is part of the Atkinson Name Study.

Cornelius Atkinson migrated from Ireland to United States.

Cornelius was born about 1732 in Ireland. He married Mary Cross in 1758 in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. He died in 1815 and is buried in Halifax, Pennsylvania in the Halifax United Methodist Church Cemetery ^[1]

"Cornelius Atkinson served as lieutenant with the Northumberland county associators, 1776 under Col. James Potter. His sons Charles and James served as privates." Mentions Mary Cross as wife of Cornelius Atkinson. ^[2]

Excerpt from CORNELIUS ATKINSON - FRONTIER RANGER by William C. Hudson

Ft. Augusta in what is now Northumberland County was one of the forts authorized and established after Braddock's defeat for the protection of the western settlements of Pennsylvania from attacks by the Indians. Cornelius Atkinson was listed as a private in Captain Joseph Shippen's company of the First Pennsylvania Regiment April 3, 1756 and on April 20th was issued clothing consisting of one coat, two pairs of leather breeches, one white shirt and two pairs of shoes(l). How long he had been in America at that time we do not know. He is said to have been born in Ireland in 1732, son of Robert Atkinson and wife both natives of that country. He settled in a region colonized by fellow-Scotch-Irish Presbyterians. He was in active service more than a year and later received a land warrant, presumably because of it.

In 1758 he married Mary Cross in Northumberland (then part of Lancaster) County and within the next three or four years exercised his land warrant by settling on the south side of the Juniata River just west of its junction with the Susquehanna where his immediate neighbors were the Baskins, Kerl and Ellis families. This locality was then in Cumberland, but it is now a part of Perry County. On May 7, 1762, Marcus Huling, recently returning from Pittsburg, filed a complaint with the Pennsylvania authorities that the above-named families during his absence had occupied lands previously granted to him and that Cornelius Atkinson was encroaching upon his Onion Bottom lands south of the Juniata. The Pennsylvania Board of Property, at a meeting held October 27, 1766, decided that Huling held the prior warrant and appointed arbitrators to first set off Huling's land and then Atkinson's, giving due regard to the improvements each had made. (2) Huling was not satisfied with the award but his appeal from the decision of the arbitrators was denied. To continue reading... ^[3]

Children

1. Mary Atkinson Martin
2. William Atkinson
3. Mitchell Atkinson
4. Jane Atkinson Robinson
5. Rebecca Atkinson Clark
6. Keziah Atkinson Martin
7. Cornelius Atkinson
8. Robert Atkinson (1758 - ____)
9. Charles Atkinson (1760 - 1834)
10. James Atkinson (1762 - 1845)
11. James Atkinson (1762 - 1845)
12. William Atkinson (1764 - 1840)
13. Isaac Atkinson (1769 - 1853)
14. Margaret Atkinson Baskins (1769 - 1814)

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #21356732
2. ↑ Lineage Book - National Society of the Daughters of the American ..., Volume 20
3. ↑ CORNELIUS ATKINSON - FRONTIER RANGER by William C. Hudson The Detroit Society for Genealogical Research Magazine - Volume XIII; June; Number 5, pages 123-128

• "Find A Grave Index," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/QVVG-C7R3 : accessed 8 December 2014), Cornelius Atkinson, 1815; Burial, Halifax, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Halifax United Methodist Church Cemetery; citing record ID 21356732, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

• Find A Grave: Memorial #21356732

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed Nov 27, 2020), "Record of Cornelius Atkinson", Ancestor # A003614.

• "United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHKJ-GQY : accessed 27 November 2020), Cornelious Atkinson, Hopewell, Newton, Tyborn, and Westpensboro, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States; citing p. 34, NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 8; FHL microfilm 568,148.

• "United States Census, 1810," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH27-WKT : accessed 27 November 2020), Cornelius Atkinson, East Hanover, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States; citing p. 554, NARA microfilm publication M252 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 54; FHL microfilm 193,680.

• "United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG2M-BSL4 : 16 March 2018), Cornelius Atkinson, 24 Jan 1776; citing Military Service, , Citing various published state rosters, United States; FHL microfilm 102229256.

• "United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG29-SPXP : 16 March 2018), Cornelius Atkinson, 24 Jan 1776; citing Military Service, Northumberland, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States, Citing various published state rosters, United States; FHL microfilm 102229250.

• "United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG29-9KJL : 16 March 2018), Cornelius Atkinson, 1776; citing Military Service, Northumberland, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States, Citing various published state rosters, United States; FHL microfilm 102229250.