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- from "The family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Massachusetts"
Benjamin (Benjamin, Francis, Jacob, John, John) was born in Gloucester, Mass., April 1, 1734. He married about 1760. The name of his wife is unknown. (It is with some hesitation that we here offer the suggestion, that the names given as children of Benjamin Perkins, jr., of Gloucester, were, in fact, such as we have stated; but as he was the only person of the name, that we know of, living in Gloucester at the time, who could have sustained that relation, we venture to give it, with the hope, that if wrong, it may be detected and corrected. The records of Gloucester, like those of many other towns at that period, were very imperfectly kept, and we must, at times, venture upon the most plausible inference, until the truth is ascertained.)
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