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Family/Spouse: William Perkins. William (son of John Perkins) was born in of Abbots Salford in Salford Priors, Warwickshire, England; died between 24 Nov 1559 and 11 Apr 1560. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Katherine. Katherine died between 20 Jan 1623 and 27 Jan 1627. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of London, England
• Baptised: 1 Jan 1580, Salford Priors, Warwickshire, England

Notes:

A merchant-tailor of London, of the parish of St. Dunstan in the West.

William married Katherine on 22 May 1603 in Abbots Salford in Salford Priors, Warwickshire, England. Katherine died on 18 Sep 1618 in London, England; was buried in All Hallows, Bread Street, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Mary Purchase on 30 Mar 1619 in Abbots Salford in Salford Priors, Warwickshire, England. Mary (daughter of George Purchase) was born about 1579 in Thaxted, Essex, England; died on 29 Oct 1639 in London, England; was buried on 2 Nov 1639 in All Hallows, Bread Street, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Arrived in 1632 on the William & Francis; first at Roxbury, then Weymouth 1643, Gloucester 1651, Topsfield 1655. He was a soldier, schoolmaster, and minister.

From English Origin of Six Early Colonists by the Name of Perkins (citation details below):

William Perkins, at the age of eighteen, entered Emmanuel College of Cambridge as pensioner; later, he transferred to Christ's College from which he graduated A.B. at the Lent term, in 1627-8. He came to New England on the William and Francis, with Capt. Thomas, Master. It sailed from London 9 March and arrived 5 June 1632 with about sixty passengers. In 1633, he along with John Winthrop, Jr., and eleven others began the settlement of Agawam. "April 1th, 1633. It is ordered, that noe pson wtsoeuer shall goe to plant or inhabit att Aggawam, without leave from the Court, except those that are already gone, vz: Mr. John Winthrop, Jun'r, Mr. Clerke, Robte Coles, Thomas Howlett, John Biggs, John Gage, Thomas Hardy, Willm Perkins, Mr. Thornedicke, Willm Srieant. 5 August 1634, it is ordered that Aggawam shal be called Ipswich."

He took the oath of freeman at Boston 3 September 1634, and shortly after that, he removed to Roxbury, Suffolk Co., MA, where he had a grant of land in 1641. In 1643 he removed to Weymouth, Suffolk Co., MA and represented that town in the General Court in 1644. He was also a commissioner to settle small debts, leader of a military a company, and a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Co. in 1638. Between 1640 and 1674, William made several trips back to England. From 1650 to 1655 he was preaching to the inhabitants of Gloucester, Essex Co., MA. He became a minister of Topsfield after 1655 until his death 21 May 1682.

William married Elizabeth Wooton on 30 Aug 1636 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Elizabeth was born about 1607. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 16 Feb 1670
• Alternate death: Between 25 Jan 1687 and 19 Mar 1690, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut
• Alternate death: Bef 19 Nov 1690

Notes:

"It is not known exactly when Edward came to New England. The first record we have of him is on a record when he took the oath of fidelity, 18 October 1648, as an inhabitant of New Haven. The earliest mention of his name after that on the New Haven records, is in a volume of miscellaneous transactions or 'Estate Settlements,' p. 225, dated 3 November 1657, when as a planter he makes deposition: 'That in the Spring last he sewed about 2 acres of Pease in his lott, and after they were come up Ther came in hoggs at Stendman's fence and spoyled them--so that he had not above two bushels of pease of them; but he then got the damage viewed by John Coopr and Samuel Whitehead, who judged his loss at least six bushels of pease, which he hath demanded of Mr. Stendham.'" [English Origin of Six Early Colonists by the Name of Perkins, citation details below]

Edward married Elizabeth Butcher on 20 Mar 1649 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. Elizabeth was born about 1622; died before 1680 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]