Francis Perkins
1772 - 1852 (80 years)-
Name Francis Perkins Birth 13 Jul 1772 Lyme, New London, CT 
Gender Male Census 27 Aug 1850 Woodstock, Windsor, VT
; age 78, born CT, farmer, living in house of daughter Eliza D GriswoldDeath 29 Jul 1852 South Woodstock, Windsor, VT
Burial Densmore Hill Cemetery Hartland, VT
Person ID I9204 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 Sally Dennison, b. 1774 d. 10 Dec 1843 (Age 69 years) [1, 2] Marriage 1794 Children 1. Sally Perkins, b. 1795, Hartland, Windsor, VT d. 1820, Woodstock, Windsor, VT (Age 25 years)+ 2. Henry Griswold Perkins, b. 14 Feb 1797, Hartland, Windsor, VT d. 13 Sep 1856, Boston, Suffolk, MA (Age 59 years)3. Lydia Perkins, b. 1799, Hartland, Windsor, VT d. 1813, Hartland, Windsor, VT (Age 14 years)4. Eliza Perkins, b. 1801, Hartland, Windsor, VT d. 1804, Hartland, Windsor, VT (Age 3 years)5. Ulysses Perkins, b. 1803, Hartland, Windsor, VT d. 1803, Hartland, Windsor, VT (Age 0 years)
6. Eliza D Perkins, b. 17 Sep 1804, Hartland, Windsor, VT d. 11 Jul 1867 (Age 62 years)7. Mary C Perkins, b. 19 Aug 1806, Hartland, Windsor, VT d. Jun 1843 (Age 36 years)8. Charlotte Perkins, b. 1808, Hartland, Windsor, VT d. 1813, Hartland, Windsor, VT (Age 5 years)9. Frances D Perkins, b. 10 Jun 1810, Hartland, Windsor, VT Family ID F3125 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 May 2018
- from "The Sterling Genealogy" by Albert Mack Sterling, 1909
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Headstones 
Francis & Sally (Dennison) Perkins Gravestone
FRANCIS PERKINS / DIED MAY ?? 1852 / AE [unreadable]
SALLY / his wife / DIED / DEC 10, 1843 / AE 69.
[located in Densmore Hill Cemetery, Harland, Windsor, VT]
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Notes - Francis (William, Abraham, Abraham, Isaac, John, John) was born in Lyme, Conn., July 13, 1772. He married Sally Dennison, about 1794. She was born in 1774, and died Dec. 10, 1843, aged sixty-nine years. He died July 29, 1852. He removed from Lyme, Conn., to Hartland, Vt., in 1793, and again to So. Woodstock, Vt., in 1815, where he resided until his death. He was a farmer.
- from "The Sterling Genealogy" by Albert Mack Sterling, 1909
FRANCIS PERKINS (brother of the above), b. in Lyme, July 13, 1772; m. about 1794, Sally Dennison, b. in 1774; removed with his gather to Hartland, Vt., in 1793, and in 1815 to South Woodstock, where his father had preceded him. Mr. Perkins was a farmer. He d. July 29, 1852. His wife Sally d. Dec. 10, 1843.
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