Editing Roger A. Pryor (section)

===Ancestry===
Pryor could trace his ancestry to the [[First Families of Virginia]]. His father was a grandson of [[Richard Bland|Richard Bland II]].<ref name=A>Scott pp. 585-590</ref> Other paternal ancestors included Burgesses [[Richard Bland (burgess)|Richard Bland I]], [[Theodorick Bland of Westover]], and Governor [[Richard Bennett (Governor)|Richard Bennett]].<!-- Richard Bennett's daughter, Anne Bennett, was married to Theodorick Bland of Westover. --><ref>{{cite book |last1=New York State Society |title=Sons of the American Revolution Yearbook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KjISAAAAYAAJ |year=1894 |publisher=The Republic Press |page=198 |chapter=Roll of Members |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KjISAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA198 }}</ref> His mother was descended from Roger Pleasants Atkinson (1764-1829), whose English-born father was a wealthy Petersburg merchant during the Revolutionary War and whose brothers and cousins also attained distinction in learned professions.<ref>Peter V. Bergstrom, Roger Atkinson (1725-1800) in Dictionary of Virginia Biography vol.1 (1998), pp. 241-142</ref> Her mother was Agnes Poythress, whose father was patriot [[Peter Poythress]] (1715-1787) and whose ancestors had arrived in the earliest days of the Virginia colony.<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/1920064</ref>