Elisha Perkins

1768 - 1851  (83 years)

• Name	Elisha Perkins
  Birth	25 Jul 1768	Lyme, New London, CT
  Gender	Male
  Census	22 Aug 1850	Lincoln Co, MO ; age 83, born VT, living in house of daughter Harris & Mary Wing
  Death	1 Nov 1851	Troy, Lincoln, MO
  Burial		Troy City Cemetery, Troy, MO
  Person ID	I9202	Family Tree | 12 Generation Ancestor Chart
  Last Modified	14 Jun 2018

  
  

  Father	William Perkins,   b. 20 Oct 1743, Lyme, New London, CT d. 24 Jun 1826, Woodstock, Windsor, VT (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Lydia Sterling,   b. 1 Apr 1747, Lyme, New London, CT d. 11 Apr 1813, Woodstock, Windsor, VT (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	20 Feb 1766
  Notes	from "The Sterling Genealogy" by Albert Mack Sterling, 1909 LYDIA STERLING, b. at Sterling City, Apr. 1, 1747; m. there Feb. 20, 1766, William Perkins, b. in Lyme, Thursday, Oct. 20, 1743, son of Abraham and Sarah (Cogswell) Perkins. Capt. Perkins, as he was called, was a tanner and shoemaker. In February, 1793, he removed from Lyme to Hartland, Vt., with his two sons and a daughter, again removing in 1801 to South Woodstock, Vt., where his brother-in-law, Joseph Sterling, had settled twenty years before. Lydia Sterling d. in Lyme, Apr. 11, 1793. William m. 2d, in South Woodstock, Oct. 11, 1813, Mrs. Irene Smith, wid. of Stephen Smith of Hartland. He d. in South Woodstock, June 24, 1826. Children of William and Lydia (Sterling) Perkins: Elisha Perkins, b. July 25, 1768; m. Mary Ransom; Lydia Perkins, b. June 9, 1770 ; m. John Ransom; Francis Perkins, b. July 13, 1772; m. Sally Dennison; William Perkins, b. Dec. 22, 1774; m. Mary Bigelow; Gaius Perkins, b. in Sept., 1778; m. Eunice Field; Benjamin Perkins, b. July 12, 1785; m. Ezubah Hatch. (Essex Institute Hist. Collection, Vol. XX.)
  Family ID	F3121	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Ransom,   b. 3 Feb 1769, Lyme, New London, CT d. Bef 1850, Troy, Lincoln, MO (Age 80 years)  [1, 2]
  Children	1. William Perkins,   b. 1800 2. Mary Perkins,   b. 19 Apr 1801, South Woodstock, Windsor, VT d. 9 Feb 1858, Troy, Lincoln, MO (Age 56 years) 3. Sarah Hamilton Perkins,   b. 5 Feb 1803, Woodstock, Windsor, VT d. 4 Sep 1876, St Louis, St Louis, MO (Age 73 years)   4. Fanny Perkins,   b. 1807   d. 9 Dec 1869, St Louis, St Louis, MO (Age 62 years) + 5. Charles Ely Perkins,   b. 1812, South Woodstock, Windsor, VT d. 27 May 1847, Cap au Gris, Lincoln, MO (Age 35 years)
  Family ID	F3123	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 May 2018

  
  

• Headstones

  Elisha Perkins Gravestone SACRED TO / the Memory of / ELISHA PERKINS / DIED / Nov.1, 1851, / AGED / 83 Years.

  
  

• Notes

  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

  
  

• Sources

  [S81] Perkins, George Augustus, The family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Mass, (Salem, Mass, Salem Press, 1889). [S172] Albert Mack Sterling, The Sterling Genealogy, (The Grafton Press, 1909).