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Ely Perkins

Male Abt 1762 - 1825  (63 years)


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  • Name Ely Perkins 
    Birth Abt 1762  Lyme, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 10 Jan 1825  Aylesford, Kings, NS Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Kingston Randall Family Cemetery, Aylesford, NS Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1097  Family Tree | 12 Generation Ancestor Chart, Descendants of Francis & Elizabeth (Peck) Perkins
    Last Modified 12 Oct 2015 

    Father Francis Perkins,   b. 14 Dec 1741, Lyme, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 May 1821, Horton, Kings, NS Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Peck,   b. 21 Mar 1744, Lyme, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aug 1820, Kentville, Kings, NS Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Notes 
    • from "The (New London) Connecticut Gazette", 18 Jul 1821 (genealogybank)
      DIED - In Nova Scotia, May the 27th Major Francis Perkins, aged 80 years; - also in August last, Mrs. Elizabeth Perkins, his wife, and daughter of the late Mr. Benj. Peck, aged 75; all formerly of Lyme.
    Family ID F223  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Sarah DeWolf,   b. 10 Oct 1773, Horton, Kings, NS Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Dec 1865 (Age 92 years)  [1, 2
    Children 
    +1. James Perkins,   b. Abt 1792, Horton, Kings, NS Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Jun 1815, Five Islands, Colchester, NS Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 23 years)
    +2. William Francis Perkins,   b. 31 Jan 1799, Horton, Kings, NS Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Sep 1848, Yarmouth, Elgin, ONT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 49 years)
     3. Elizabeth Augusta Perkins,   b. 1802, Horton, Kings, NS Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Jan 1860, Carleton, St John, NB Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 58 years)
    +4. Mary Perkins,   b. 1802, Horton, Kings, NS Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Jun 1849, Cornwallis, Kings, NS Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 47 years)
    +5. Cyrus Perkins,   b. 13 Mar 1806, Horton, Kings, NS Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Dec 1884, Douglas, York, NB Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)
    +6. Lucilla S. Perkins,   b. 1810, Horton, Kings, NS Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Mar 1894 (Age 84 years)
    Histories
    Nathan DeWolf Bio in 'The History of King's County'
    Nathan DeWolf Bio in "The History of King's County"
    Family ID F221  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 24 Jul 2016 

  • Headstones
    Ely Perkins Gravestone Site
    Ely Perkins Gravestone Site
    Path Leading up to Randall Cemetery at the top of the knoll

    Histories
    Excerpts from the 'Descendents of Edward Perkins'
    Excerpts from the "Descendents of Edward Perkins"
    Excerpts from 'Family of John Perkins'
    Excerpts from "Family of John Perkins"
    Benjamin Peck Bio in 'The History of King's County'
    Benjamin Peck Bio in "The History of King's County"

  • Notes 
    • From "The Descendents of Edward Perkins of New Haven, Conn"
      ELY, born in Lyme about ; married, 1788 or '89, Sarah, youngest daughter of Nathan and (Prentice) DeWolfe of Horton, Nova Scotia, who was born about 1773. He was a large man and a farmer by occupation. His father settled him on part of his farm, which Ely afterwards sold and he removed to Aylesford, Nova Scotia. Being very easy-going in business matters, he managed to let most of his property slip through his fingers. He died suddenly of apoplexy Jan. 10, 1825, and is buried in the Randal burying ground in Aylesford. His widow married for her second husband Joel Farnsworth, and after his death she lived in Clarence, Annapolis County, N. S., for many years. Her death was on Christmas day, 1865, when she was nearly 93.
    • from "History of King's County"
      In the first two decades of the 19th century the following were the chief houses in and near the present town. On the "Roy farm", between Kentville and New Minas, which was originally the grant of Eli Perkins, stood the Perkins grantee house. Half a mile to the west, on the high road, stood the Benjamin Peck House, afterward enlarged or completely rebuilt, by Capt. Joseph Barss, who married
      Olivia, daughter of Judge Elisha DeWolf. A few rods further west still, on a knoll from which a charming view of the dykes could be had, stood the grantee house of Benjamin Peck's younger brother, Cyrus Peck.

  • Sources 
    1. [S80] Perkins, Caroline Erickson, The descendants of Edward Perkins of New Haven, Conn, (Rochester, NY, C.E. Perkins, 1914), pg 93-97.

    2. [S116] Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, The History of King's County, (Salem, Mass: The Salem Press Company, 1910), pg 632-633.