Francis Perkins

1741 - 1821  (79 years)

• Name	Francis Perkins
  Birth	14 Dec 1741	Lyme, New London, CT
  Gender	Male
  Death	27 May 1821	Horton, Kings, NS
  Burial	Kingston Randall Family Cemetery, Aylesford, NS
  Person ID	I879	Family Tree | 12 Generation Ancestor Chart, Descendants of Francis & Elizabeth (Peck) Perkins
  Last Modified	12 May 2022

  
  

  Father	Abraham Perkins,   b. 1713, Chebacco Parish, Ipswich, MA d. 10 May 1786, Lyme, New London, CT (Age 73 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Ely,   b. 1718, Lyme, New London, CT d. 21 Feb 1759, Lyme, New London, CT (Age 41 years)
  Marriage	28 Feb 1739	Lyme, New London, CT
  Notes	from "Connecticut, U.S., Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), Lyme Vital Records 1667-1852 (ancestry.com) Abraham Perkins m. Elizabeth Ely, Feb. 28, 1739, by Rev. George Beckwith
  Family ID	F821	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Peck,   b. 21 Mar 1744, Lyme, New London, CT d. Aug 1820, Kentville, Kings, NS (Age 76 years)  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Notes	from "The (New London) Connecticut Gazette", 18 Jul 1821 (genealogybank) DIED - In Nova Scotia, May the 27th Major Francis Perkins, aged 80 years; - also in August last, Mrs. Elizabeth Perkins, his wife, and daughter of the late Mr. Benj. Peck, aged 75; all formerly of Lyme.
  Children	+ 1. Ely Perkins,   b. Abt 1762, Lyme, New London, CT d. 10 Jan 1825, Aylesford, Kings, NS (Age 63 years) + 2. William Francis Perkins,   b. 1769, Horton, Kings, NS bur. 2 Aug 1837, Trelawny Church Yard (Age ~ 68 years) + 3. Cyrus Peck Perkins,   b. 1776, Horton, Kings, NS d. 31 Jul 1826, Torquay, ENG (Age 50 years)
  Family ID	F223	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2018

  
  

• Headstones

  Francis Perkins Gravestone Site View of Cemetery knoll looking southwest

  
  

  Histories » Slide Show		Excerpts from the "Descendents of Edward Perkins"
  		Excerpts from "Family of John Perkins"
  		Benjamin Peck Bio in "The History of King's County"

  
  

• Notes

  from "Connecticut, U.S., Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), Lyme Vital Records 1667-1852 (ancestry.com) Francis, s. Abraham & Elizabeth, b. Dec. 14, 1741 from "The family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Massachusetts" 245 Francis (Abraham, Abraham, Isaac, John, John ) was born in Lyme, Conn., on Monday, Dec. 14, 1741. He married -- Lee, of Colchester, Conn. He is said to have removed to Halifax, N.S., and afterwards to Haston (?). From "The Descendents of Edward Perkins of New Haven, Conn" FRANCIS, born Dec. 14, 1741; married Elizabeth Peck, sister of Cyrus and half-sister of Benjamin Peck. In the stirring times preceding the Revolution he was a Loyalist, and on that account found life in Lyme uncongenial, and about 1761 he and other ardent Loyalists emigrated to Horton, Kings County, Nova Scotia, where they took up or were granted lands after the expulsion of the Acadians. He was a small man, but very active; his wife was a very large woman, as were her sisters, and her brothers were also large men. His wife died in 1820 and is buried in the old Oak burying ground in Horton. After her death he sold his property and moved to Aylesford, Kings County, Nova Scotia, where his son Ely had previously settled, and about two years later, in October, 1822 or '23, he died. He is buried in the Randal burying ground in Aylesford.

  
  

• Sources

  [S80] Perkins, Caroline Erickson, The descendants of Edward Perkins of New Haven, Conn, (Rochester, NY, C.E. Perkins, 1914), pg 93-97. [S81] Perkins, George Augustus, The family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Mass, (Salem, Mass, Salem Press, 1889), pg 73. [S85] Peck, Darius, A genealogical account of the descendants in the male line of William Peck, (1877). [S116] Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, The History of King's County, (Salem, Mass: The Salem Press Company, 1910), pg 774.