I think his birthplace needs to be changed to Virginia as his father Ralph was the immigrant and arrived in Virginia in 1657
U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
Name Ralph Elkins
Arrival Year 1657
Arrival Place Virginia
Primary Immigrant Elkins, Ralph
Source Publication Code6220AnnotationRecord of 20,000 very early immigrants, with much relevant information. Taken from Patent Books 1 through 5. Title page states, "In 5 volumes," but up to 1979 only three had appeared. See nos. 6221 and 6223 for second and third volumes, published in 1977Source BibliographyNUGENT, NELL MARION. Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1666. Vol. 1. Richmond [VA]: Dietz Printing Co., 1934. 767p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1983.Household Members
Ralph, father of Richard 1669, permanently settled in Virginia in 1661. If Richard was born in 1669 he would of had to be born in Virginia. Actually all of Ralph's children would have had to be born in Virginia because they were all born after 1661.
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RALPH ELKIN SR. came to Stafford County, VA. in 1657, returning to England, he came back to Virginia in 1661 settling on 30 acres of land in Yorke County, VA, Jan. 13, 1661. His wife believed to have been Miss Ashton of England and Virginia. James Ashton of Stafford County, VA. Will dated 18 August 1686 proved 14 July 1686. James Ashton was justice of the peace of Stafford County, 1680-1690.
1681 Nov. 8th RALPH ELKIN purchased from Major Ashton, 150 acres of land in the Parish of St. Pauls, Stafford Co. Virginia, the plantation on which William Burton now lives.
1669 RICHARD ELKIN, son of Ralph, born (per ROBERT GALLOP will,page 48)-GC
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