JOHN PERKINS: Owings Stone Family Genealogy — 20,000+ ancestors and their relatives

Birth Bef 23 Dec 1583 Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England [1, 4, 10]

Gender Male

Ancestor of /
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NOTE: Also apparently ancestors of Presidents Coolidge (Susannah Whipple?)and Nixon [3, 8]

Baptism 23 Dec 1583 Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England [1, 4, 6]

Death Note His will can also be found in the source (, see also , ), his estate was inventoried and valued at £250 5s., being mostly real estate (valued at £132). He names his daughter, Mary Bradbury, in the will.

Estate of John Perkins, Sr. of Ipswich
Essex Probate Docket # 21337
28th of ye first mo called March, 1654.
I John Perkins the elder of Ipswich being at this tyme sick and weake in body yet through the mercy and goodness of the Lord retaining my understanding and memory: doe thus dispose of and bequeath my temporall estate as Followeth.
First. I do give and bequeath unto my eldest sonn John Perkins a foale of my young mare being now with foale if it please the Lord she foale it well also I give and bequeath to my sonn John's two sonnes John and Abraham to each of them one of my yearling heyfers: also I give and bequeath to my son Thomas Perkins one cow and one heyfer also I give and bequeath to his son John Perkins one ewe and to be delivered for his use at the next shearing time also I doe give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth Sargent one cow and an heyfer to be to her and her children after her decease as it may please ye Lord they may increase, the proffits or increase to be equally devided amongst the sayde children: also I do give to my daughter Mary Bradbury one cow and one heyfer or a young steere to remain to her and to her children in theyr increase or proffits as it shall please the Lord to bless them and to be equaly devided to ye children: also I doe give and bequeath to my daughter Lidia Bennitt one cow and one heyfer or steere to be equaly devided to her children in theyr increase or proffits after her decease; I doe also give unto my grandchilde Thomas Bradbury one ewe to be sett apart for his use at ye next shearing tyme: also I do give and bequeathe unto my sonn Jacob Perkins my dwelling house together with all the outhowseing and all my landes of one kinde and other together with all improvements thereupon to be his in full possession according to a former covenant after the decease of my wyfe and nott before and so to remaine to him and to his heires forever; all the rest of my estate of one kinde and other
I do wholy leave my deare wife Judith Perkins apointing and ordaining my sade wyfe the sole Executrix of this my last will and Testament Desiring my sayde wife to dispose of the cattell above mentioned according to her discresion as they shall prove steeres or heyfers, also to dispose of some of the increase of the sheep to ye children of my sonn Thomas and of my three daughters at the Discresion of my sayde wife and this I doe ordaine as my Last will and Testament subscribed with my own hand this twenty eight day of ye first month 1654.
John Perkins (signed)

Signed in presence of
William Barthomew
Thomas Harris

Proved in court held at Ipswich 27 (7) 1654 by the oath of William Bartholmew and Thomas Harris per me
Robert Lord, cleric

Source: "The Family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Massachusetts", by Geo. A. Perkins, M.D., Salem, 1882 [1, 4, 5]

Immigration 1 Dec 1630 Bristol, England, to Mass. on the Lion, William Pierce, Master [1, 4, 5, 6, 11]

Religion Puritan, among formers of First Church of Boston at Charlestown, 27 Aug 1630 [1]

Died Bef 26 Sep 1654 Ipswich, Essex Co., Mass. [1, 4, 6]

Person ID I8635 Owings Stone Genealogy, Ancestry & Heritage

Last Modified 25 Oct 2004 00:00:00

Father HENRY PERKINS, b. Abt 1555, Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England

Mother ELIZABETH SAWBRIDGE, b. Bef 1563, Sawbridge, Wolfhamcote Parish, Warwick Co., England

Family ID F6061 Group Sheet

Family JUDITH GATER, b. Bef 19 Mar 1589, Warwickshire, England

Married 9 Oct 1608 Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England [1, 4, 6]

Notes

Married:

St. John the Baptist parish church

Children

	1. John Perkins, b. Bef 14 Nov 1609, Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England
	2. Elizabeth Perkins, b. Bef 3 Mar 1612, Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England
	3. MARY PERKINS, (convicted Salem witch), b. Bef 3 Sep 1615, Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England
	4. Ann Perkins, b. Bef 5 Sep 1617
	5. Thomas Perkins, b. Bef 28 Apr 1622, Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England
	6. Jacob Perkins, b. Bef 12 Sep 1624, Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England
	7. Lydia Perkins, b. Bef 3 Jun 1632, Boston, Suffolk Co., Mass.

Family ID F6060 Group Sheet

Notes

The voyage from England to Massachusetts took 67 days.

“As the winter (1629-30) came on provisions are very scarce and the people necessitated to feed on clams and muscles, and ground nuts and acorns, and these got with much difficulty in the winter season. Upon which people grew much tired and discouraged, especially when they hear that the governor himself has his last batch of bread in the oven. And many are the fears of the people the Mr. Pierce, who was sent to Ireland for provisions, is either cast away or taken by pirates. Upon this day of fasting and prayer to God, who delights to appear in the greatest straits, works marvelously at this time, for on February 5, the very day before the appointed fast, in came the ship Lion, Mr. William Pierce, master, now arriving at Nantasket, laden with provisions. Upon which joyful occasion the day is changed and ordered to be kept as a day of thanksgiving.

“February 8. The governor goes aboard the Lion riding at Long Island; the ship comes to an anchor before Boston (to the great joy of the people) where she rides very well, notwithstanding the great drifts of ice. And the provisions are by the governor, distributed to the people proportional to their necessities.

“The Lion set sail from Bristol December first, brought about twenty passengers (and two hundred tone of goods) and had a very stormy passage; yet through God’s mercy all the people came safe except one of the sailors who had not far from our shore, in a tempest having helped to take in the spritsail, as he was coming down fell into the sea, where after long swimming was drowned, to the great dolour of those in the ship, who beheld so lamentable a spectacle, without being able to help him, the sea was so high and the ship drove so fast before the wind, though her sails were taken down.” -- Prince’s Annals of New England, v.1:341 (see )

Another passenger on that voyage of the Lion was Roger Williams.

The family lived in Boston for about two years. From the Records of the Colony of Mass. Bay (v. 1, p. 103) : “It was ordered that noe pson w’soeuer shall shoote att fowle upon Pullen Poynte or Noddles Ileleand, but that she sd places shalbe reserved for John Perkins to take fowle wth netts.”

In 1633 the family moved to Ipswich (then Agawam) under the leadership of the younger John Winthrop. Their house was near the river on Jeffrie’s Neck, now East Street. He was granted a significant amount of land in that area. (see source for detailed records) John Perkins was a Deputy to the General Court at the session held on 25 May 1636; he was on the Grand Jury in 1648 and 1652 and is listed as serving on several trial juries; he was an appraiser to the estate of Sarah Dillingham in 1645.

Savage says: JOHN, Ipswich, b. a 1590, it is said, at Newent in Co. Gloucester, came, prob. in the Lion to Boston, Feb. 1631, with Roger Williams, bring. also, w. Judith,s. John, b. a. 1614; and prob. other ch. certain. Mary, wh. m. perhaps 1636. Thomas Bradbury; and Elizabeth wh. bee. w. of William Sargent. he with his w. soon join. our ch. had Lydia, bapt. 3 June 1632, was freem. 18 may 1631, and in 1633 went to I. with John Winthrop the younger, rep. in 1636, d. 1654, leav. John, Thomas, b. a. 1616; and Jacob, a. 1624, b. in Eng.; Lydia m. a Bennet.

Note that one source states that John and Judith also had Abraham. [1, 4, 5, 7, 12]

Baptism:

St. John the Baptist parish church

Sources

[S132] Threlfall, John Brooks
[S136] Lapham, William Berry, (Brown Thurston & Co., Portland)
[S150] Roberts, Gary Boyd, (NEHGS)
[S157] Davis, Walter Goodwin, CS/71/D26/1996/v.1-3.
[S158] Perkins, George A., M.D., (Salem Press Publishing)
[S171] Anderson, Robert Charles, (NEHGS, Boston)
[S106] Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England, Savage, James
[S86] Roberts, Gary Boyd, (Carl Boyer 3rd)
[S238] The Bradbury Family, Holman, Mary Lovering
[S136] Lapham, William Berry, (Brown Thurston & Co., Portland), says 1590 in Gloucestershire, England
[S136] Lapham, William Berry, (Brown Thurston & Co., Portland), (Roger Williams was a fellow passenger)
[S177] LDS File, Submitters to LDS Records

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