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- from "Vital records of Ipswich, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849", 1910 (archive.org)
PERKINS, Beamsly, s. Abrahm, born Apr. 7, 1673. CTR
PERKINS, Beamsly, Capt., died July 23, 1720, a. 47 y. 3 m. 16 d. [in his 45th y. GR1]
- from "The family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Massachusetts"
Beamsley (Abraham, John John) was born in Ipswich, Mass., April 7, 1673. He was married in September, 1698, to Hannah Glazier, who Nathaniel Emerson says was his daughter. She was a widow Glazier when married to Capt. Beamsley Perkins. After this marriage, Abraham Perkins, the father of Beamsley, commenced a suit against Rev. John Emerson, of Gloucester, who had married them, for performing the marriage ceremony illegally, inasmuch as they had not before been regularly published. Emerson acknowledged his fault and paid his fine.
Beamsley Perkins was a mariner, and was early in life the owner and captain of a sloop. In 1716, he commanded the brig Ipswich of 100 tons. At the time of the attack of the British forces upon Port Royal, in 1710, he commanded "Her Majesty's ship Dispatch, friggott," mounting twenty guns. He retained his interest in shipping until his death, and was always addressed as Capt Beamsley Perkins. Two small vessels are mentioned upon the inventory of his property, viz.: " 1 skooner valued at £200, a small' skooner at £22. ? Sea beding £4. Instruments of navigation 30 shillings."
In 1714, he bought of his father, Perkins Island, said in the deed to contain " 100 acres more or less." This Island, with the stage and buildings, was valued at £800, and was probably used for the curing of fish; a part of this property he resold to his father the same year. He sold a large farm in 1719 to Thomas Choate for £1400. He had sold a large portion of Perkins Island before his death.
His will was executed Feb. 5, 1718-19, and proved July 29, 1720. His estate was valued at £1587. He gave all his property to wife, Hannah, during her life, to be distributed "to her children" at her death. His wife, Hannah, was appointed executrix. His death upon the town record reads thus: " Capt. Beamsley Perkins died at his house in Ipswich ye twenty third day of July 1720, being 47 years three mo. and 16 days old." The inscription upon his tombstone makes an error of about two years in his age. He is therestated to be "in ye 45th year of his age."
In the disposition of some of his property after his death, his widow and four of her children by her first husband, Glazier, sign a deed, as well as the children of Capt. Beamsley. They sign as " children of Hannah and legatees of said Beamsley."
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1673 - 1720 (47 years)
Abraham Perkins, b. 1640, Ipswich, Essex, MA