Rufus Perkins

- 1803

• Name	Rufus Perkins
  Gender	Male
  Death	1803	Chester, Windsor, VT
  Person ID	I20124	Family Tree
  Last Modified	21 Jun 2018

  
  

  Father	Oliver Perkins,   b. 29 Apr 1713, Preston, New London, CT d. May 1782, Little Hoesock, Albany, NY (Age 69 years)
  Mother	Hannah Gates,   b. 1714, Preston, New London, CT d. 21 Oct 1762, Scituate, Providence, RI (Age 48 years)
  Marriage	10 Jan 1734
  Notes	from "Preston Vital Records Part I 1687-1850" (Barbour Collection) PERKINS, Oliver, of Voluntown, m. Hannah GATES, of Preston, Jan. 190, 1734.
  Family ID	F7883	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Susannah Dutton,   b. 7 Mar 1759, Lunenburg, Worcester, MA   [1, 2]
  Marriage	6 Nov 1785	Chester, Windsor, VT
  Census	1790	Chester, Windsor, VT
  	6M<16, 1M>=16, 4F
  Census	1800	Chester, Windsor, VT
  	4M<10, 3M10-15, 1M>45, 2F<10, 2F16-25, 1F26-44
  Children	+ 1. James Perkins,   b. 29 Apr 1785, Rockingham, Windham, VT d. 13 Dec 1844, Otsego Co, NY (Age 59 years) + 2. Moses Perkins,   b. 10 Apr 1786, Rockingham, Windham, VT d. 4 Jan 1858, Rutland, Rutland, VT (Age 71 years) + 3. Rufus Perkins,   b. 29 Aug 1788, Rockingham, Windham, VT + 4. Abel Perkins,   b. 3 Mar 1790, Chester, Windsor, VT + 5. Oliver Perkins,   b. 12 Feb 1792, Chester, Windsor, VT d. 14 Oct 1839 (Age 47 years)   6. Lydia Perkins,   b. 23 May 1794, Chester, Windsor, VT + 7. Amasa Perkins,   b. 5 Feb 1795, Chester, Windsor, VT d. 3 Aug 1875, Shrewsbury, Rutland, VT (Age 80 years) + 8. Aaron Perkins,   b. 25 Jan 1797, Chester, Windsor, VT d. 21 Oct 1884, Rochester, Windsor, VT (Age 87 years)   9. Betsey Perkins,   b. 25 Jan 1797, Chester, Windsor, VT d. Mount Holly, Rutland, VT + 10. Silas Perkins,   b. 25 Jan 1799, Chester, Windsor, VT d. 2 Jun 1882, Mount Holly, Rutland, VT (Age 83 years)   11. Stephen Perkins
  Family ID	F7894	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Jun 2018

  
  

• Notes

  Rufus Perkins joined the Baptist Church, Rockingham, Vt., 1781. Married Susannah Dutton, daughter of Thomas Dutton and his wife Sarah (Fitch) Dutton of Lunenburg, Mass., and Rockingham, Vt., according to Chester, Vt., Town Records, Nov. 6, 1785. (Town Record of Chester, Vt., fails to give the Family name of his wife Susannah.) He died at Chester, Vt., in 1803-4. Estate was administered in 1804 by Aaron Leland of Chester, Vt.... His age at the time of his death is not obtainable; where he was buried is not known, no record could be found. Where he was born in not known. No deeds nor papers found, reveal his native town or previous place of residence.

  
  

• Sources

  [S194] Steven G Perkins, Branches & Roots of Oliver Perkins, (Gateway Press, 1999). [S196] Rufus Lyman Perkins, Family of Rufus Perkins of Rockingham and Chester, Vt. 1781 to 1803, (1916).