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Joseph Perkins

Male 1811 - 1836  (24 years)


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  • Name Joseph Perkins 
    Birth 8 Nov 1811  Ipswich, Essex, MA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 28 Mar 1836  Texas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Valley Cemetery, Londonderry, NH Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I17451  Family Tree
    Last Modified 20 Jan 2018 

    Father James Perkins,   b. 2 Jan 1780, Ipswich, Essex, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Apr 1864, Londonderry, Rockingham, NH Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years) 
    Mother Sally Smith,   b. 12 Feb 1790, Ipswich, Essex, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Mar 1859, Londonderry, Rockingham, NH Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years) 
    Marriage 20 Nov 1806  Londonderry, Rockingham, NH Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F6667  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Headstones
    James & Sally (Smith) Perkins Family Gravestone
    James & Sally (Smith) Perkins Family Gravestone
    James & Sally (Smith) Perkins Inscription 3
    James & Sally (Smith) Perkins Inscription 3
    JOSEPH PERKINS / DIED IN TEXAS / MAR. 28, 1936 / AE 24 Yrs.
    FRANKLIN PERKINS / DIED AT SEA / FEB. 26, 1843 / AE 19 Yrs.

  • Notes 
    • from "Vital records of Ipswich, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849", 1910 (archive.org)
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    • from "The Concord New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette", 18 Jul 1836 (genealogybank.com)
      In Texas, in March last, Mr. Joseph Perkins, son of Dea. James Perkins of Londonderry, N.H. aged 24. This young man like may other has fallen a prey to the violence of war in Texas. He was connected to the Regiment of Col Fannin, and either was slain in the battle or cut down on the 27th of the month in the cold and ruthless butchery of that day. Whether engaged in actual service as a regular, or a volunteer; or whether, in travelling through that country, he sought the protection of that regiment at Fort Goliad, is still doubtful. In the last communication he made to his friends, he observed that he was interested in the cotton expedition, and should touch at Texas if there was not too much danger. In a letter from a townsman in Mississippi, there is melancholy reason to believe that, if he survived the battle, he was one of the 412 young men who were victims of the most heartless and faithless massacre of modern times. In either case, a wound of no ordinary kind is inflected upon his fond parents, and a large circle of surviving friends.