Name origin: From Peir or Peter and the patronymic or diminutive termination ins--little Peter or the son of Peter. Pierre de Morlaix sometimes written Peter Morley alias Perkins was high steward of the estates of Sir Hugo Despencer 1380-81. The family was seated at Upton, County Berks, Eng.
b.ca.1350 Normandy, France; parents ukn
m.Agnes Taylor
b.ca.1352
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Pierre was the High Steward for Hugh Le Despenser, one of the most powerful lords during the reign of King Edward II. The Dispenser fell from favour of Queen Isabella and the Younger Hugh was executed, although he was a nephew of King Edward. Pierre's name was changed to Peter Morley, hence his descendants became Peter's Kin.
Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis by Davis, Vol. III page 165: It has been stated in print that "there is no reason to doubt" that the Perkins family descended from Pierre de Morlaix who flourished in the reign of Richard II and had a son called Henry Pierrekins, and a grandson John Perkins. As a matter of fact there is every reason to doubt it and surely nothing is offered that even remotely approaches proof... [Davis starts the Perkins line with Thomas Perkins d.will proved April 21, 1528.-haw]
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b.ca.1377 England; s/o Pierre de Morlaix
m.Margaret _____
b.ca.1379
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Henry Perkins was High Steward of the estate of Hanley Castle, the fortification which guarded the forest of Malvern on the River Severn, England. the castle was surrounded by two moats, one of which remains today, as the vestige left of the castle.
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b.ca.1397 Hillmorton, West England; s/o Henry and Margaret Perkins
d.ca.1430
m.Margaret ______
b.ca.1401 Hillmorton
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FROM: State of Maine page 508: John Perkins....followed his father as steward of the Despencers, and in numerous transfers of land he was required to make, he wrote his name indifferently, John Perkins, Perkyns Armiger, and Parkyns.
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b.ca.1430 Hillmorton, England
d.ca.1495
m.ca. 1455 Joanna Read
b.ca.1434
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William's title was Lord of Ufton.
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b.ca.1452; s/o William Perkins and Joanna Read
m.ca.1482 Ellen Tompkins
b.ca.1461
d.ca.1538
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b.ca.1482-4; s/o Thomas Perkins and Ellen Tompkins
d.ca.1547
m.ca.1529Alice ______
b.ca.1489
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b.1484 Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England; s/o James and Alice Perkins
d.1549 Hillmorton
m.abt..1529 Alys (Alice) _____
b.abt.1489 Hillmorton, Warwichshire, England
d.will proved Oct. 15, 1538
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b.ca.1500/1510; s/o Thomas Perkins and Alice ______
d.ca.1547 England
m.1555 Alice Kebble (Kibbie)
b.ca.1535 Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England
d.Aug. 20, 1613 Hillmorton
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b.1525 Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England; s/o Henry Perkins
d.bur.March 25, 1592 Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England; will proved May 11, 1592
m.Alice (Kebble?)
b.1534
d.Aug. 20, 1613 England
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NOTE: Occupation--Husbandman. Four U.S. Presidents descend from this family: Millard Fillmore, Calvin Coolidge, Jr., Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Richard Milhous Nixon.
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b.Nov. 29, 1556 Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England; s/o Thomas Perkins and Alice (Kebble?)
d.bur.March 11, 1608/9 Hillmorton
m.Nov. 29, 1579 at Hillmorton Elizabeth Sawbridge
b.1564 Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England; d/o William and Elizabeth Sawbridge
d.bef.1618 Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England
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b.ca.1583 Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England; s/o Henry Perkins and Elizabeth Sawbridge
bapt.Dec. 23, 1583
d.Sept. 23, 1654 Ipswich, MA
m.Oct. 9, 1608 England, Judith Gator
bapt.March 19, 1588/9 Hillmorton, England; d/o Michael Gator and Elizabeth Bailey
d.1684 Ipswich, MA
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From Jacob Perkins of Wells, ME by Perkins, "Sailed from Bristol, England Dec. 1, 1630 in the ship "Lion" [Lyon]. William Pierce, master, bound for Boston,Mass., taking with him his entire family, consisting of his wife and 5 children. The boat arrived at Nantucket Feb. 5, 1631 and the next day anchored in Boston." From LDS Family History Center: "The Lion was one of the ten ships that brought the 700 members of the Massachusetts Bay Colony under John Winthrop, Jr. It is not commonly known that an advance party had preceeded to prepare for the above coming party. the advance party had met with much misfortune that they were unprepared for above arrival so the colony was immediately short of supplies. The Lion carried only 26 passengers as it was loaded with 200 tons of food and other supplies that saved the colony from starvation. The passenger list included Roger Williams, famous pastor who opposed the Purtians and established Rhode Island.
He first settled in Boston, where on May 18, 1631 he took the oath of freeman which admitted him to all the rights of the colony.
In 1633 he removed to Ipswich, Mass, the colony newly founded by John Winthrop, where he had several grants of land."
John's will says..."also I do give and bequeath to my son Jacob Perkins, my dwelling house together with all the out housing and all my lands of one kind and other together with all improvements thereupon to be his in possession according to a former covenant after the decease of my wife and not before, and so to remain to him and to his heirs forever."
From Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families 1620-1700 by Holmes: JOHN b.Newent Gloucestershire, Eng. 1590, came with Roger Williams to Boston, Mass., 1631, removed Ipswich, Mass., 1633.
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b.s/o John Perkins and Judith Gator
bapt.Sept. 12, 1624 Hillmorton, England
d.Jan. 27, 1699 Ipswich, MA
m.(1)abt. 1648 Elizabeth Lovell
b.abt. 1630; d/o Thomas Lovell and Ann ______
d.Feb. 12, 1685 Ipswich, MA
m.(2?)1648 Ipswich, MA Elizabeth Whipple
b.Nov. 1, 1627 Salem, MA; d/o Elder John Whipple and Susannah Stacy Clark
d.Feb. 12, 1686
m.(3)ca.1687 Damaris (______) Robinson, widow of Nathaniel Robinson
b.1636
d.1716 age 80
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NOTE: Some genealogists believe his second? wife was Elizabeth Whipple was d/o Matthew Whipple; not John Whipple. She died 1684/85 Ipswich, MA.
Old MA court files relate the story of Jacob Perkins' farmhouse which was burned in Ipswich in 1668..."Master Perkins and his wife had gone to town one summer afternnon leaving the house in charge of Mehitable Brabrooke, a sixteen-year-old serving maid. "About 2 or 3 o'clock in the afternoon she was taking tobacco in a pipe and went out of the house with her pipe and got upon the oven on the outside & backside of the house (to stay herself) and with left hand knocked out her pipe over her right arm upon the thatch on the eaves of the house (not thinking there had been any fire in the pipe) and immediately went down into the corn field to drive out the hogs she saw in it, and as she was going toward the railes of the field...she looked back, and saw a smoke upon her Mistress' house in the place where she had knocked out her pipe at which she was much frighted. The wife of a neighbor came running to the assistance of Mehitable and afterwards testified that when she reached the house she looked into both fireplaces and saw no appearance of fire, only a few brands nearly dead under a great kettle hanging in the chimney. She also looked up into the chamber through the floor boards that lay very open on the side where the smoke was...as for the careless Mehitable, she was brought before the Quarterly Court on suspicion of willfully setting the house on fire; a serious offense, which as late as 1821, was the cause of the execution in Salem of a sixteen-year-old boy. Among those who disposed at her trial was a young man who said that as he and she were going into the meadow to make hay she told him that her mistress was angry with her, but she had 'fitted her now' for she had put a great toad into her kettle of milk. As it turned out the Court ordered Mehitable to be severely whipped and to pay 40 lbs. damages to her master Jacob Perkins."
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b.Aug. 3, 1662 or 1664 Ipswich,MA; s/o Jacob Perkins and Elizabeth Lovell/Whipple
d.Nov. 12 1704/5 Ipswich, MA
m.(1)Dec. 25, 1684 at Ipswich Elizabeth Sparks
b. d/o John Sparks and Mary Sinnett
d.April 10, 1692 (or Dec. 10, 1692)
m.(2)Jan. 5, 1693 Sarah Treadwell
b.Jan. 10, 1673; d/o Thomas Treadwell and Sarah Titcomb
d.Aug. 5, 1738
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Jacob was a tailor.
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b.Feb. 15, 1685 Ipswich, MA; s/o Jacob Perkins and Elizabeth Sparks
d.March 19, 1770 Wells, ME
m.(1)Oct. 15, 1712 Lydia Stover
b.1702 Wells, ME; d/o John Stover and Abigail Alcott
m.(2)Oct. 12, 1717 Anne Littlefield
bapt. June 28, 1702 Wells, ME; d/o Josiah Littlefield and Lydia ______
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Jacob was a large man, and was called "Much Big" Perkins by Indians. Jacob, a cooper of Ipswich, Mass.; bought 60 acres of upland and marsh at Cape Neddick, Maine and other land in 1708 and moved there. In 1717 he sold this land and purchased a farm in Ogunquit, Maine where he spent most of the rest of his life. He was part-owner of mills at Phillipstown, York, and North Berwick. He was active in the civic life of Wells, ME serving as constable, surveyor of highways, and selectman. Re: Jacob Perkins of Wells Maine.
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b.Feb. 8, 1716/7 Cape Neddick, York, ME; s/o Jacob Perkins and Lydia Stover
d.bef. Feb. 4, 1747
m.Dec. 22, 1739 York, ME Abigail Wardwell
b.June 27, 1715 Andover, MA; d/o Eliakim Wardwell and Ruth Bragdon
d.bef. Mar. 31, 1760
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b.Oct. 19, 1746 York, ME; s/o Joseph Perkins and Abigail Wardwell
d.Aug. 20, 1818 Castine, ME
m.Apr. 29, 1770 Phoebe Weare
b.Sept. 10, 1747; d/o Joseph Weare and Mary Webber
d.Aug. 2, 1815
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