Ebenezer Perkins

1681 -

• Name	Ebenezer Perkins
  Birth	3 Feb 1681	Ipswich, Essex, MA
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I19596	Family Tree
  Last Modified	9 Jun 2018

  
  

  Father	Samuel Perkins,   b. 1655, Ipswich, Essex, MA d. 19 Apr 1738, Ipswich, Essex, MA (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Hannah West
  Marriage	1677
  Family ID	F6785	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Hannah Safford,   b. 24 Sep 1691  [1]
  Marriage	14 Aug 1710	Preston, New London, CT
  Notes	from "Preston Vital Records Part I 1687-1850" (Barbour Collection) PERKINS, Ebenezer, m. Hannah SAFFORD, Aug. 14, 1710 On July 8, 1754, "Newman Perkins, of Exeter, R. I., Samuel Perkins and Oliver Perkins, husbandman, of Scituate in said R. I., Valentine Perkins, of Oblong, N. Y., husbandman, Ebenezer Perkins, of Coventry, R. I., husbandman, Lemuel and Francis Perkins, of Voluntown, Conn., mariners, children of Ebenezer Perkins, late of Coventry, in the colony of Rhode Island, husbandman, deceased, by his first wife," grant to John Harris, of Boston, power to sell their land, etc., in Ipswich, which lately belonged to their (brother, by mistake of the scribe) uncle John Perkins, of Preston, in the colony of Connecticut, deceased. Another brother, Lemuel, of Voluntown, Conn., sold his interest in this property to Daniel Giddinge, of Ipswich, Gent., "about 9 acres, which is my whole shear."
  Children	+ 1. Newman Perkins,   b. 8 Mar 1711, Preston, New London, CT d. 9 May 1796, Exeter, Washington, RI (Age 85 years)   2. Samuel Perkins,   b. 18 May 1712 + 3. Oliver Perkins,   b. 29 Apr 1713, Preston, New London, CT d. May 1782, Little Hoesock, Albany, NY (Age 69 years)   4. Charity Perkins,   b. 4 Jul 1714, Preston, New London, CT d. 1803, Exeter, Washington, RI (Age 88 years) + 5. Valentine Perkins,   b. 26 Jul 1718, Preston, New London, CT d. 1789, New Paltz, Ulster, NY (Age 70 years)   6. Lemuel Perkins,   b. 2 Apr 1720, Preston, New London, CT + 7. Ebenezer Perkins,   b. 1 Jul 1721, Preston, New London, CT   8. John Perkins   9. Ellenher Perkins   10. Francis Perkins
  Family ID	F7763	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2018

  
  

  Family 2	Margaret Ashcroft Stewart  [1]
  Marriage	12 Sep 1734	Scituate, Providence, RI
  Family ID	F7877	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Feb 2018

  
  

• Notes

  from "The family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Massachusetts" Ebenezer (Samuel, John, John) was born in Ipswich, Mass, Feb. 3, 1681. He married first, Hannah Safford, Aug. 14, 1710, at Preston, Conn.; he married a second wife, but who she was has not been ascertained. He was a farmer, and removed from Ipswich, Mass, to Preston, Conn., where he bought 123 acres of land of John Hill, Oct. 27, 1714, but sold this land again to John Pray in 1716, when he removed to Voluntown, Conn., where he took possession of land which was given to his father, Samuel, in consideration of services rendered by him as a volunteer soldier in the Narragansett war, Nov. 17, 1735. He, then living at Voluntown, sold to John Wildes, of Topsfield, for £26. 8s. 6d., all his father?s rights to land in Voluntown. He removed to Coventry, R. I., after the sale of this land, and died there before 1754, as we learn from the following records. John Perkins of Preston (son of Samuel Perkins of Ipswich, and brother of Ebenezer, of Preston), who was a mariner, died abroad and left a will, giving certain property "to the children of his brother Ebenezer by his first wife.? On July 8, 1754, "Newman Perkins, of Exeter, R.U., Samuel Perkins and Oliver Perkins, husbandman, of Scitate in said R.I., Valentine Perkins, of Oblong, N.Y., husbandman, Ebenezer Perkins, of Coventry, R. 1., husbandman, Lemuel and Francis Perkins, of Voluntown, Conn., mariners, children of Ebenezer Perkins, late of Coventry, in the colony of Rhode Island, husbandman, deceased, by his first wife,? grant to John Harris, of Boston, power to sell their land, etc., in Ipswich, which lately belonged to their (brother, by mistake of the scribe) uncle John Perkins, of Preston, in the colony of Connecticut, deceased. Another brother, Lemuel, of Voluntown, Conn., sold his interest in this property to Daniel Giddinge, of Ipswich, Gent., "about 9 acres, which is my whole shear." The marriage of Ebenezer and Hannah is recorded at Preston, as are also the names and dates of the birth of their children. from "Vital records of Ipswich, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849", 1910 (archive.org) Ebenezer Perkins, s. Samuell, was born Feb. 3, 1681.

  
  

• Sources

  [S194] Steven G Perkins, Branches & Roots of Oliver Perkins, (Gateway Press, 1999).