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Joseph Perkins

Male 1810 - 1883  (73 years)


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  • Name Joseph Perkins 
    Birth 27 Mar 1810  Salem, Essex, MA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Census 24 Aug 1850  Salem, Essex, MA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age 40, born MA, branch pilot 
    Death 20 Nov 1883  Salem, Essex, MA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I20873  Family Tree
    Last Modified 14 Jun 2018 

    Father Joseph Perkins,   b. 1785, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Elizabeth Hunt 
    Family ID F8203  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Maria Burnham,   b. 1816, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 26 Nov 1833  Salem, Essex, MA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • from "Vital records of Salem, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849", 1916 (archive.org)
      Joseph Perkins, jr., and Maria E. Burnham, married Nov. 26, 1833.
    Children 
     1. Joseph Perkins,   b. 1834, Salem, Essex, MA Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Maria Perkins,   b. 1836, Salem, Essex, MA Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Nathaniel B Perkins,   b. 1839, Salem, Essex, MA Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Asa B Perkins,   b. 1843, Salem, Essex, MA Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Henry T Perkins,   b. 1845, Salem, Essex, MA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F8208  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 14 Jun 2018 

    Family ID F8210  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 14 Jun 2018 

  • Notes 
    • from "Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts", Vol 2, 1908
      Captain Joseph Perkins, eldest son of Captain Joseph and Elizabeth (Hunt) Perkins was born probably in Salem, March 27, 1810, and died there November 20, 1883. He was licensed pilot April 27, 1827, and continued in active duty until physical infirmities led him to give up his office. He was perhaps the most active of the three famous pilots who had the same name, his father, himself, and his own son, and notwithstanding the fact that he weighed nearly four hundred pounds he was remarkably agile and rarely "missed connection" when he saw that his service was needed. And none of the three were idle for want of employment, for they all had the confidence and friendship of the Salem merchants and vessel owners, masters felt secure if their ships were in charge of Captain Perkins, whichever of the three it might be. Their services as pilots covered a period of more than three quarters of a century. Captain Perkins, second, married Maria Burnham.
    • from "Massachusetts, Death Records, 1841-1915" (ancestry.com)
      Joseph Perkins, age 74y 7m 24d, a pilot residing Salem MA, born Salem to Joseph Perkins b. ME & Elizabeth Hunt b. Salem MA, died 20 Nov 1883 in Salem MA of diabetes & gangrene.