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- from "Vital records of Ipswich, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849", 1910 (archive.org)
Abraham Perkins, "being run over by a Tumbrill, broke many bones a Cross his breast," died Apr. 27, 1722, in his 82d y.
- from "The family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Massachusetts"
Abraham (John, John) was born in Ipswich in 1640. He married Oct. 16, 1661, Hannah, daughter of William and Hannah Beamsley, of Boston. She was born in December, 1643. Abraham Perkins was a man of very considerable energy and enterprise, and had the full confidence of his father. He was the oldest son, after the death of his brother John, and acted as his father's attorney in his old age. It is very probable that his father died at his house, as he had made his home there after the death of his wife. He is said to have built the Ipswich meeting-house, which Hammat says he contracted to do " to the turning of the key." He was at one time an innholder, as appears from his licenses and from two deeds of land he had sold, in which he calls himself an "Innholder." Jan. 2, 1698, "I, Abraham Perkins, Innholder, and Hannah my wife," sell to Capt. Daniel Rindge, of Ipswich, carpenter, 2 1/2 acres of marsh at Plum Island; March 28, 1700-1, "I, Abraham Perkins, Innholder, and Hannah my wife," sell to Col. John Wainwright, 2 1/2 acres of upland and meadow. He was a representative to the General Court in 1710. He owned and cultivated "Perkins Island," formerly granted to his grandfather, John, sen., and employed his brother Luke to "tend cattle," etc., there, as Luke testifies in a suit between Thomas Borman and Aljraham Perkins, that he had lived upon the Island for several years. The death of Abraham Perkins was very sudden, and took place on the 27th of April, 1722, and was the result of an accident, "he being run over by a tumbril which broke many bones across his breast." At that time he was eighty-two years old. Abraham Perkins gave all his property, real and personal, to his wife, by his last will, to be disposed of by her to their children at her death. His widow, who died Oct. 16, 1732, at the age of ninety-one years, makes the following bequests in her last will, as follows: she gives the homestead of her late husband to the three children of her son Abraham; namely, to Joseph, Nathaniel and Abraham; Abraham to have a double share, that is one-half of the house. These three grandsons were then under age. She mentions her son Stephen, but speaks of her son Abraham as deceased; she speaks also of her loving and dutiful son, Doct. John Perkins, as having had his share already. She gives to Sarah, Hannah and Martha, daughters of my son Beamsley; and to Abraham and Sarah, children of my son Nathaniel; to Hannah Stanford, daughter of my daughter Hannah, the Late wife of Daniel Rindge of Ipswich; to John and Mary, children of my daughter Martha Brewer, late deceased; to Joseph and Elizabeth children of my daughter Elizabeth Eveleth, deceased; to my grandson Samuel Ingalls, son of Martha, my said daughter. Her son Stephen she appoints to be the executor of her will, which was signed February 1, 1722-3, and proved in Court, October 23, 1732. The sudden death of her husband, it may be supposed, prevented him from making such a will as he desired. His will was made the day before he died. His signature, as here made Nov. 20, 1684.
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1640 - 1722 (82 years)