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- from "Vital records of Ipswich, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849", 1910 (archive.org)
no record found
- from "The Concord New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette", 18 Jul 1836 (genealogybank.com)
In Texas, in March last, Mr. Joseph Perkins, son of Dea. James Perkins of Londonderry, N.H. aged 24. This young man like may other has fallen a prey to the violence of war in Texas. He was connected to the Regiment of Col Fannin, and either was slain in the battle or cut down on the 27th of the month in the cold and ruthless butchery of that day. Whether engaged in actual service as a regular, or a volunteer; or whether, in travelling through that country, he sought the protection of that regiment at Fort Goliad, is still doubtful. In the last communication he made to his friends, he observed that he was interested in the cotton expedition, and should touch at Texas if there was not too much danger. In a letter from a townsman in Mississippi, there is melancholy reason to believe that, if he survived the battle, he was one of the 412 young men who were victims of the most heartless and faithless massacre of modern times. In either case, a wound of no ordinary kind is inflected upon his fond parents, and a large circle of surviving friends.
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1811 - 1836 (24 years)
James Perkins, b. 2 Jan 1780, Ipswich, Essex, MA 
