1Some Notices of the Family of Perkins in America, NEHGR Vol. 10, pp. 213-214 (Jul 1856).
"1. John2 jun., b. 1614; admitted freeman, May 17, 1637; m. Elizabeth ------, who died Sept. 27, 1684. He died Oct. 14, 1686, aet. 72.
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1. John,2 jun., his oldest son, lived and died in Ipswich. In Sept. 1633, at the first settlement of the town, and when he was only nineteen years old, he saved the inhabitants from destruction by the Eastern Indians, who had come into the river with forty canoes "to cut them all off." Robin, a friendly Indian, told him of their plot, and he, with a few others, bravely defeated them. He is often called on the records "Quarter Master Perkins." His children were, 1. John,3 m. Judith; d. 1659, leaving a widow, one daughter, and a child "new born," an estate of £103, which the court gave the widow till her youngest child should be 18 years old.
2. Abraham,3 b. 1641; m. Hannah, dau. of William Beamsley, of Boston, Oct. 16, 1661. He d. April 27, 1722, aet. 81. She d. Oct. 16, 1732, aet. 91.
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3. Jacob,3 m. Sarah Wainwright, 1667;* maltster, lived on Sagamore Hill and d. 1719.
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4. Luke,3 m. Elizabeth Jago [Jaques?] April 26, 1677.
5. Isaac,3 lived at Chebacco; d. 1725; wife Hannah.
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6. Nathaniel,3 lived at Chebacco, in 1684; wife Judith.
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7. Samuel,3 m. Hannah West, 1677; d. 1700. Ch., Samuel,4 b. 1679. Ebenezer,4 b. 1681; Elizabeth,4 b. June 13, 1685; John,4 b. May 12, 1692.
8. Thomas,3 perhaps was a son of John, jun.".
1Duane Hamilton Hurd, History of New London County, Connecticut: with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, p. 512 (1882).
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BENJAMIN, m. Tabitha -------. Chil., Amos, b. April 3, 1721; John, Feb. 26, 1723; Hannah, Feb. 9, 1725; Timothy, July 5, 1727.".