PERKINS, Abraham I

Notes:

Abraham was born in England about 1613. He first appeared in Hampton, NH, in 1638, having gone there with Rev. Stephen Batchelder from either Ipswich or Newbury, MA. At that time Hampton was in Norfolk Co., MA. He was granted 80 acres of land in Hampton in 1639; he was appointed marshall in 1654. He married Mary Wise before 1639 (she was the daughter of Humphrey and Susan Wise).

Abraham was made a freeman 13 May 1640. To become a freeman at that time it ws required that the individual be a respected member of some Congregational Church and subsribe to an oath (written out in the source reference) before the General Court of the Quarterly Court of the county.

[from: Perkins, Carolyn C. (Compiler), Descendants of Abraham Perkins of Hampton, New Hampshire, pp.1ff (#1 in author's numbering system). Peter E. Randall Publishier, Portsmouth, NH. 1993]

Abraham married WISE OR WYETH, Mary in 1638 in Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England. Mary (daughter of WISE, Humphrey Wyeth and PAKEMAN (TIDD), Susanna) was born in 1618 in Warwickshire, England; died on 29 May 1706 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. PERKINS, Sarah was born on 26 Jul 1659 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died on 10 Nov 1675 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.
2. PERKINS, Sarah was born on 26 Jul 1659 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died on 1 Sep 1748 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.
3. PERKINS, Humphrey II was born on 17 May 1661 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died on 7 Jan 1711 in Rye, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.
4. PERKINS, Abigail was born on 12 Apr 1655 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died on 11 Dec 1715 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.
5. PERKINS (TWIN OF MARY), Abraham Jr was born on 2 Sep 1639 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died on 13 Jun 1677 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.
6. PERKINS, Timothy II was born on 29 Jun 1657 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died on 29 Jan 1660 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.
7. PERKINS, Caleb was born in 1663 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died in 1763.
8. PERKINS, Jonathan was born on 30 May 1650 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died on 24 Jan 1689 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.
9. PERKINS, James was born on 5 Oct 1647 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died on 9 Dec 1731 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.
10. PERKINS, Caleb was born in 1645.
11. PERKINS, David was born on 28 Feb 1653 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died on 1 Oct 1736 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA.
12. PERKINS, Mary was born on 28 Feb 1654 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died on 1 Oct 1736 in Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.
13. PERKINS, Humphrey was born on 22 Jan 1642 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died on 26 Jan 1643 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.
14. PERKINS (TWIN OF ABRAHAM), Mary was born on 2 Sep 1639 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died on 29 May 1670 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.
15. PERKINS, Timothy was born in 1635; died in 1641.
16. PERKINS, Luke I was born on 24 Mar 1641 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died on 20 Mar 1709 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA.
17. PERKINS, Timothy was born in Jul 1646 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died on 29 Jun 1657 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.
18. PERKINS, James was born on 11 Apr 1644 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died in Dec 1644 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.
19. PERKINS, Humphrey was born on 23 Jan 1642 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA; died on 17 May 1661 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA.
20. PERKINS, Luke was born on 18 Mar 1667 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 27 Dec 1748 in Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA.
21. PERKINS, David was born in 1635; died in 1641.

Notes:

ORIGIN: Hillmorton, Warwickshire
MIGRATION: 1631 on first trip of the Lyon
FIRST RESIDENCE: Boston
REMOVES: Ipswich 1633
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: "John Perkins and Judith his wife" were admitted to Boston church as members #107 and #108 (this would be in early 1631) [BChR 14].
FREEMAN: 18 May 1631 [MBCR 1:366].
EDUCATION: He made his mark to his will.
OFFICES: Deputy to General Court for Ipswich, 25 May 1636 [MBCR 1:174]. Committee to set the bounds of Roxbury and Dorchester, 7 November 1632 [MBCR 1:102].
Essex grand jury, 28 [December] 1641, 26 September 1648, 28 September 1652 [EQC1:37, 145, 260].
On 26 March 1650 "John Perkins Sr., being above sixty years old, is freed from ordinary training" [EQC 1:187].
ESTATE: He had Ipswich land grants: forty acres in 1634, three acres of upland; ten acres of meadow; an island at More's Point; ten acres where "he hath built a house"; six acres of meadow; six acres of upland in 1635, and forty acres at Chebacco in 1636, and six acres of plowland in 1639 [Dudley Wildes Anc 88].
On 10 December 1644 "John Perkins of Ipswich in America" and Thomas Perkins exchanged land in Ipswich [ILR 3:1, 4:268].
In his will, dated 28 March 1654 and proved 26 September 1654, "John Perkines the Elder of Ipswich being at this time sick and weak in body" bequeathed to "my eldest son John Perkines a foal ... also ... to my son John's two sons John and Abraham to each of them one of my yearling heifers"; to "my son Thomas Perkines one cow and one heifer also ... to his son John Perkines one ewe"; to "my daughter Elizabeth Sarjeant one cow and a heifer to be to her and her children after her decease"; to "my daughter Mary Bradbery one cow and one heifer or a young steer ... to her & to her children"; to "my daughter Lidia Bennitt one cow and one heifer or steer ... to her children"; to "my grandchild Thomas Bradbery one ewe"; to "my son Jacob Perkines my dwelling house together with all the outhousing and all my lands ... according to a former covenant, after the decease of my wife"; residue "to my dear wife Judeth Perkines" sole executrix, "as also to dispose of some of the increase to children of my son Thomas and of my three daughters" at her discretion [EPR 1:190-91].
The inventory of John Perkins was undated but totalled £250 5s., including real estate valued at £132: "the dwelling house and barn with out housing," £40 60s. [sic]; "land about the house about eight acres," £12; "more land unbroke up about fourteen acres," £21; "a parcel of marsh about six acres," £12; "a parcel of upland and marsh being much broken about twenty acres," £20; "twelve acres of improved land," £24 [EPR 1:191].
BIRTH: Baptized Hillmorton, Warwickshire, 23 December 1583, son of Henry and Elizabeth (Sawbridge) Perkins [Dudley Wildes Anc 87].
DEATH: Ipswich "1654 aged sixty four years" between 28 March 1654 (date of will) and 26 September 1654 (probate of will).
MARRIAGE: Hillmorton 8 October 1608 Judith Gater, baptized Hillmorton 19 March 1588/9, daughter of Michael Gater [Dudley Wildes Anc 87].

CHILDREN (i-vi baptized Hillmorton, Warwickshire [Dudley Wildes Anc 89-90]):
i JOHN, bp. 14 September 1609; m. by about 1636 Elizabeth _____ (eldest child b. about 1636 [EIHC 19:255, 265-66]; Elizabeth, wife to Quartermaster John Perkins, d. Ipswich 27 September 1684).
ii ELIZABETH, bp. 25 March 1611; m. by about 1636 WILLIAM SARGENT.
iii MARY, bp. 3 September 1615; m. by 1637 Thomas Bradbury (eldest child b. Salisbury 1 April 1637).
iv ANNE, bp. 5 September 1617; no further record.
v THOMAS, bp. 28 April 1622; m. by about 1644 Phebe Gould, daughter of Zacheus Gould (eldest child b. by 1644 [Dudley Wildes Anc 92]; in his will of 11 December 1685 Thomas Perkins bequeathed to his son Zacheus "the farm he lives upon `which I had of my father Gould'" [Dudley Wildes Anc 92]).
vi JACOB, bp. 12 July 1624; m. (1) by 1649 Elizabeth _____ (eldest child b. 1 April 1649 [EIHC 19:264]) [EQC 1:389]; m. (2) after 12 February 1685 Damaris (_____) Robinson, widow of Nathaniel Robinson [Dudley Wildes Anc 90 (evidence not supplied)].
vii LYDIA, bp. Boston 3 June 1632 [corrected from 1631] [BChR 277]; m. by about 1651 Henry Bennett of Ipswich [NEHGR 19:165-69].
ASSOCIATIONS: Walter Goodwin Davis discusses the possibility that Isaac Perkins of Ipswich was a close relative [Dudley Wildes Anc 89].

COMMENTS: On 3 April 1632 a Court of Assistants ordered "that no person whatsoever shall shoot at fowl upon Pullen Poynte or Noddle's Ileland, but that the said places shall be reserved for John Perkins to take fowl with nets" [MBCR 1:94].
In the 1 April 1633 list of men authorized by the court to begin the settlement of Ipswich, the eighth name is "William Perkins" [MBCR 1:103], which must be an error for this John Perkins, inasmuch as WILLIAM PERKINS was at Roxbury at this time, and would not move to Essex County for nearly two decades more.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1959 Walter Goodwin Davis published the English origin of John Perkins and his wife, and pushed the Perkins ancestry back to 1475 [Dudley Wildes Anc81-90].

Source: The Great Migration Begins (Sketch 1432) on Ancestry.com

1Threlfall, John Brooks, The Ancestry of Thomas Bradbury (1611-1695) and His Wife Mary (Perkins) Bradbury (1615-1700) of Salisbury, Massachusetts (Madison, Wisconsin: J.B. Threlfall, 1988.), pp. 580-3, Family History Library, 929.273 B726t 1995.

2Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995-), 3:1431-2, Los Angeles Public Library, Gen 974 A549.

3Paul, Edward Joy, The Ancestry of Katharine Choate Paul (Milwaukee: Burdick & Allen, 1914. FHL US/CAN Film #1,320,781 Item 2.), p. 71, Family History Library.

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John married GATER, Judith on 9 Oct 1608 in Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England. Judith was born on 19 Mar 1588 in Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England; died on 26 Sep 1654 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]