Quintus Flaminius Atkins, was the first born, his birth being May 10, 1782, in Wolcott, New Haven, Ct. Quintus had enlisted in the Army in 1799, when aged seventeen, but never served in battle. In 1801-02, he worked on the Genesee Turnpike in New York, and in the middle of 1802, he joined a wagon train of emigrants, coming to the Reserve, arriving in Morgan Township in November of that year. Only two men, and they were surveyors, had arrived in Morgan before them, according to the history of Morgan in Williams Brothers 1878 History of Ashtabula county. Mr. Atkins bought a farm in east part of the township, and on Feb 22, 1804 he married Sarah Wright, youngest daughter of Captain Wright.
He carried mail during 1805, between Cleveland and Detroit, a dangerous service which required carrying a gun and axe to get through the bad swamp area. He carried the U. S. Mail on his back, wading the Maumee Swamp and sometimes swimming the rivers that crossed the Indian Trail, the only road between these now flourishing cities. In 1806 he and his young wife Sarah, went with his family on board of a boat, built for the purpose in Austinberg, sailed down Grand River to the Lake, then in company with Omick, The Ojebwa Chief, Condashua Sogamore and other Indian families in their canoes, coasted the Lake to Sandusky. Here they were assistants to missionary Joseph Badger among the Wyandot Indians. They built a boat on Grand River at Austinberg, and loaded it with supplies for Badger; Atkins and wife and their small daughter Emily, who later married Col. George Turner of Geneva. They were joined at the mouth of Grand River by a band of Indians who accompanied them with canoes to Sandusky. They remained in that mission for 1 1/2 years, returning because of illness with fever, from living in the swamp region.
In 1835 was employed by the Arcole Furnace Co. in Madison as agent. In February, his wife died at their home in Brooklyn, near Ohio City, now Cleveland. Quintus Flaminius Atkins died at "Barber Cottage", Brooklyn, (then home of Mr. Judson) on January 23, 1859, at the age of 77. Quintus and Sarah had one son and nine daughters who lived to maturity, the son being Capt. Arthur R. Atkins, who lived in Chicago. The daughters living in 1878 were:
Mrs. Stella M. Gaylord, Saginaw, Mich.;
Mrs. Ophelia Bostwich, Oberlin, Ohio;
Mrs. Mary Lunch, California;
Mrs. Martha Todd, Iowa;
Mrs. Bertha Judson, Ohio.
Mrs. Emily Turner died in Geneva, Ohio 1841; Mrs. Flora Wheeler died Portville, in 1850 and Mrs. Sarah L. Wade in Brooklyn, Ohio in 1852.