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- from "The family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Massachusetts"
Nathaniel (John, John) was born in Ipswich, Mass., about 1652. He married Judith --- in 1684. At this time his father gave him a farm of one hundred acres in Chebacco, adjoining that of his brother Isaac. In early life he "followed the sea," being probably engaged in fishing, in which business his father and brother Abraham were both interested. After his marriage and the gift of a farm from his father, he appears to have devoted himself to husbandry for a while, but his affairs, evidently, did not prosper, and about 1700 he sold various parcels of his farm. Jan'y 30, 1691. He and wife Judith, sell meadow in Chebaceo to John Wise. Feb. 27, 1701. He and wife Judith sell to Abraham Perkins, jr., "20 acres of salt marsh and upland in Chebacco, being part of said Nathaniel's homestead where he now lives." June 23, 1702. He sells more of his homestead to John Burnham. June 3, 1703. He and wife Judith sell to Adam Cogswell, jr., yeoman, in consideration of nine score and twelve pounds lawful money, certain tenements and tracts of land in Chebacco, with dwelling houses, barnes, orchard, pasture, etc., etc., which land was bounded by land of Isaac Perkins, by "a black birch tree, a red oak, a grape vine, a heap of rocks, and a cherrie tree." After this sale we lose sight of him entirely.
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