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- from "The family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Massachusetts"
Elisha (Wm., Abraham, Abraham, Isaac, John, John) was born in Lyme, Conn., July 25, 1768. He married Mary Ransom, of Woodstock, Vt. He removed from Lyme, Conn., to So. Woodstock, Vt., where he engaged in the tanning business and shoemaking; he afterwards sold his interest in this business to his brother, Gaius. He also kept a store there for a while, and was at one time an innkeeper. In 1819 he, with his family, consisting of two sons and three daughters, removed to Troy, Mo., which was then considered as the far west. There he began an extensive leather manufactory, and also a shoemaking establishment. Their journey to Troy, then a very great undertaking, was made with two large wagons and five horses, one of these was taken as a reserve, and was often used by the daughters for a little pleasant variety of horseback riding. Both Elisha and his wife died in Troy, Mo., in 1851.
- from "The Sterling Genealogy" by Albert Mack Sterling, 1909
271 ELISHA PERKINS (Lydia, Joseph, Daniel, William), b. in Lyme, Conn., July 25, 1768 ; m. Mary Ransom of Woodstock, Vt. (No. 233), b. at Lyme, Conn., Feb. 3, 1769, dau. of Richard and Mary (Sterling) Ransom. Elisha left Lyme with his father, when 25 years old, and settled in Vermont, where he engaged in the tanning of hides and shoemaking. Later sold his business to his brother Gaius and for a time kept a store and later a tavern. In 1819 he removed with his family to what was then the remote West, Troy, Lincoln Co., Mo., where he established an important industry in the manufacture of hides and in the making of shoes. The journey to Troy was then a very great undertaking and was made with two large wagons and five horses; of these, one was taken as a reserve and often used by the daughters for a lit tit pleasant variety of horseback riding. Both Mr. Perkins and his wife d. in Troy in 1851.
- from "Spooner's Vermont Journal (Windsor, VT)", 8 Sep 1817 (genealogybank.com)
On the 20th of June last, Mr Elisha V. Perkins, while preparing a blast for blowing rocks for the building the county stone jail, in Woodstock, was thrown about thirty feed, by the powder accidentally taking fire; he was taken up for dead, but soon resuscitated. He was bruised and mangles in a most shocking manner - The wounds and fractures did well, except for a severe compund fracture of the elbow joint; this being likely to destroy him, the arm was amputated on the 16th of August, by Doctor Gallup. We the happy in stating, that he is restored to health, but with the loss of a limb.
- from "Missouri, Wills and Probate Records, 1766-1988" (ancestry.com)
Elisha Perkins names daughter Fanny Perkins, grand daughter Mary Perkins, daughter of Charles E Perkins (deceased), daughter Mary Wing, daughter Sarah H Block, and grandson Frederick Wing. Dated 19 Nov 1849, Recorded 28 Nov 1851
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1768 - 1851 (83 years)
