Henry Griswold Perkins

1797 - 1856  (59 years)

• Name	Henry Griswold Perkins
  Birth	14 Feb 1797	Hartland, Windsor, VT
  Gender	Male
  Census	21 Aug 1850	Needham, Norfolk, MA ; age 53, born VT, cashier W.R. Road
  Census	Sep 1855	Needham, Norfolk, MA ; age 58, born VT, clerk
  Death	13 Sep 1856	Boston, Suffolk, MA
  Burial		St Mary's Cemetery, Newton Lower Falls, MA
  Person ID	I17012	Family Tree
  Last Modified	22 Jun 2019

  
  

  Father	Francis Perkins,   b. 13 Jul 1772, Lyme, New London, CT d. 29 Jul 1852, South Woodstock, Windsor, VT (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Sally Dennison,   b. 1774   d. 10 Dec 1843 (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	1794
  Family ID	F3125	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Louisa R Dutton,   b. 1802, Woodstock, Windsor, VT d. 1853 (Age 51 years)
  Marriage	1821	Fitzwilliam, Cheshire, NH
  Children	1. Henry Perkins,   b. 3 Oct 1822, Cabot, Washington, VT d. 3 Mar 1851, Boston, Suffolk, MA (Age 28 years) 2. Ellen Louisa Perkins,   b. May 1825, Cabot, Washington, VT d. 23 Apr 1857, Auburndale, Middlesex, MA (Age ~ 31 years)   3. John S Perkins,   b. 16 Apr 1830, Keene, Cheshire, NH d. 9 Jul 1854, Needham, Norfolk, MA (Age 24 years) 4. Mary Daman Perkins,   b. 12 Apr 1833, Keene, Cheshire, NH d. 13 Feb 1912, Boston, Suffolk, MA (Age 78 years) + 5. Francis William Perkins,   b. 25 May 1840, Boston, Suffolk, MA d. 6 Mar 1871, New Orleans, Orleans, LA (Age 30 years) + 6. William Francis Perkins,   b. 25 May 1840, Boston, Suffolk, MA d. 17 Jan 1876, New Orleans, Orleans, LA (Age 35 years)
  Family ID	F6543	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 May 2018

  
  

  Family 2	Charlotte Porter,   b. Sept. 23, 1810   d. 23 Aug 1890 (Age ~ 80 years)  [1]
  Marriage	Apr 1857
  Family ID	F6549	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 May 2018

  
  

• Headstones

  Henry Griswold Perkins Gravestone Henry Griswold / Perkins / BORN / in HARTLAND, Vt. / February 14, 1797 / [rest of photo unreadable] DIED , At GRANTVILLE Mass. / September 13, 1856 [from "Epitaphs from graveyards in Wellesley (formerly West Needham), North Natick and Saint Mary's churchyard in Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts]

  
  

• Notes

  from "The Sterling Genealogy" by Albert Mack Sterling, 1909 HENRY G. PERKINS (Francis Perkins, Lydia, Joseph, Daniel, William), b. in Hartland, Vt., Feb. 14, 1797; m. 1st, in 1821, at Fitzwilliam, N.H., Louisa R. Dutton, dau. of David and Susan (Damon) Dutton of Woodstock, Vt., who d. in 1853; m. 2d, in Apr., 1857, Charlotte Porter, of Dover, N.H. Henry was a merchant at Cabot, Vt., and at Keene, N.H., until 1833, when he removed to Boston, Mass., where he was for 22 years cashier of the Boston and Albany R.R. He d. Sept. 13, 1857. from "The family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Massachusetts" Henry G. (Francis, William, Abraham, Abraham, Isaac, John, John) was born in Hartland, Vermont, Feb. 14, 1797. He married Louisa K. Dutton in 1821, at Fitzwilliam, N.H. She was the daughter of David and Susan (Damon) Dutton, of Woodstock, Vermont; she died in 1853. He married, second, Charlotte Porter, of Dover, N.H., in April, 1857. He died Sept. 13, 1857. He was a merchant in Cabot, Vermont, and afterwards in Keene, N.H., until 1833, when he removed to Boston, Mass., and was for twenty-two years cashier of the Boston and Albany Railroad. An interesting incident, which occurred at the time of his second marriage, was that his daughter Ellen, Louisa, adorned her bride mother with orange blossoms.

  
  

• Sources

  [S172] Albert Mack Sterling, The Sterling Genealogy, (The Grafton Press, 1909).