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Francis Perkins

Male 1741 - 1821  (79 years)


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

    Father AncestorsAbraham Perkins,   b. 1713, Chebacco Parish, Ipswich, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 May 1786, Lyme, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years) 
    Mother AncestorsElizabeth Ely,   b. 1718, Lyme, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Feb 1759, Lyme, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 41 years) 
    Marriage 28 Feb 1739  Lyme, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location
    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 AncestorsElizabeth Peck,   b. 21 Mar 1744, Lyme, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aug 1820, Kentville, Kings, NS Find all individuals with events at this location (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 Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Jan 1825, Aylesford, Kings, NS Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 63 years)
    +2. William Francis Perkins,   b. 1769, Horton, Kings, NS Find all individuals with events at this locationbur. 2 Aug 1837, Trelawny Church Yard Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 68 years)
    +3. Cyrus Peck Perkins,   b. 1776, Horton, Kings, NS Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Jul 1826, Torquay, ENG Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 50 years)
    Family ID F223  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 19 Aug 2018 

  • Headstones
    Francis Perkins Gravestone Site
    Francis Perkins Gravestone Site
    View of Cemetery knoll looking southwest

    Histories
    Excerpts from the 'Descendents of Edward Perkins'
    Excerpts from the "Descendents of Edward Perkins"
    Excerpts from 'Family of John Perkins'
    Excerpts from "Family of John Perkins"
    Benjamin Peck Bio in 'The History of King's County'
    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 
    1. [S80] Perkins, Caroline Erickson, The descendants of Edward Perkins of New Haven, Conn, (Rochester, NY, C.E. Perkins, 1914), pg 93-97.

    2. [S81] Perkins, George Augustus, The family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Mass, (Salem, Mass, Salem Press, 1889), pg 73.

    3. [S85] Peck, Darius, A genealogical account of the descendants in the male line of William Peck, (1877).

    4. [S116] Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, The History of King's County, (Salem, Mass: The Salem Press Company, 1910), pg 774.