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- from "Vital records of Ipswich, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849", vol 2 1910 (archive.org)
Isaac Perkins, s. Isaack, born May 23, 1676. CTR
- from "The family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Massachusetts"
Isaac (Isaac, John, John) was born in Chebacco Parish, Ipswich, Mass., May 23, 1676. He married, first, widow Mary Pike (or Picket) June 3, 1703; at the time of this marriage his father gave him "£100 or other goods, chatels or lands, equivalent thereunto, in consideration that my sonne Isaac doth marry with Mary Pike of Boston, widow, and now of Ipswich." This was to be paid £10 a year, from the day and date of their marriage. This sum he gives "for love & good will that I bear to my sonne & in consideration that ye said Pike do proceed in the matter of marriage with my said sonne Isaac." His wife, Mary, died in 1720. He married, second, Lydia Vifian, of Boston, Oct. 10, 1723 ; she was the widow of John Vifian, mariner. He was a shipmaster, and was called Capt. Isaac Perkins. His home was in Boston, and all of his children, who were by his first wife, Mary, were born there. He left a will, giving to his widow £250, that being what she had when he married her; and the remainder, £397, he gave to his two minor children, Hannah and Isaac, who were living at the time of his death. His son Isaac died in Boston, Oct. 13, 1737, at the age of twenty-three years, and was interred in Chebacco. Capt. Isaac Perkins died in Boston June 14, 1725. William Cooper's diary contains the following entry: "June 17, 1725, attended the funeral of Capt. Isaac Perkins."
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