Gaius Perkins

1778 - 1870  (91 years)

• Name	Gaius Perkins
  Birth	9 Sep 1778	Lyme, New London, CT
  Gender	Male
  Census	28 Sep 1850	Barnard, Windsor, VT ; age 69, born VT, farmer
  Census	26 Jun 1860	Woodstock, Windsor, VT ; age 81, born CT, farmer, son Charles & family living in house
  Death	3 Mar 1870	Woodstock, Windsor, VT
  Burial		South Woodstock Burying Ground, South Woodstock, VT
  Person ID	I9206	Family Tree | 12 Generation Ancestor Chart
  Last Modified	23 Jun 2019

  
  

  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	Eunice Field,   b. 1781, New Hampshire d. 25 Jun 1858, Woodstock, Windsor, VT (Age 77 years)  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Samuel Field Perkins,   b. 12 May 1805, South Woodstock, Windsor, VT d. 14 Feb 1866, Grand Rapids, Kent, MI (Age 60 years)   2. Adeline Perkins,   b. 18 Aug 1807, South Woodstock, Windsor, VT d. 19 Feb 1830 (Age 22 years) 3. Marcia Perkins,   b. 1 Mar 1809, South Woodstock, Windsor, VT d. 28 May 1900, South Woodstock, Windsor, VT (Age 91 years) 4. Frederick Perkins,   b. 13 Oct 1810, South Woodstock, Windsor, VT d. 23 Mar 1863, Minnesota (Age 52 years) + 5. Charles Dunham Perkins,   b. 23 Mar 1813, South Woodstock, Windsor, VT d. 4 Feb 1890, Clarendon, Rutland, VT (Age 76 years)   6. Edward Perkins,   b. 9 Apr 1815, South Woodstock, Windsor, VT d. 24 May 1882, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA (Age 67 years)
  Family ID	F3127	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 May 2018

  
  

• Headstones

  Gaius Perkins Gravestone GAIUS PERKINS / DIED / MAR. 3, 1870, / AE. 92 YRS.

  
  

• Notes

  from "Vermont, Vital Records, 1720-1908" (ancestry.com) Gaius Perkins Esq, age 92, died 3 Mar 1870. Burial in So Woodstock Cemetery. Attested Town Clerk of Woodstock VT, Dec 1919. from "The family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Massachusetts" 39 Gains {Wm., Abraham, Abraham, Isaac, John, John) was born in Lyme, Conn., Sept. 9, 1778. He removed to Hartland, Vt., and afterwards to South Woodstock, Vt., in 1801. There he married Eunice Field, June 26, 1804. She was born Feb. 12, 1785, and died June 25, 1858. He earned on an extensive business of tanning and shoemaking in South Woodstock for many years, and died there March 3, 1870. He was an ardent supporter of institutions of learning, and contributed largely towards the establishment and support of an academy in South Woodstock. We quote the following in relation to him from Prof. W.R. Shipman. "Major Gaius Perkins died in South Woodstock, March 3, 1870, aged ninety-one years and six months. His long life was not more remarkable for the number of its days than for the wonderful preservation, to its very close, of the faculties and spirit of youth. He was not, indeed, exempt from the weariness of age, but not one of his senses was materially impaired; his judgment remained adequate to the transaction of business, while his heart was as young as ever; and his interest in passing events, whether of the neighborhood or the nation, was undiminished. Naturally social, he was to the last a genial companion for all, and his beautiful old age was a perpetual joy to the home in which children's children rose up to call him blessed. His favor was extended to all good enterprises, and he always heeded the injunction to 'follow after the things that make for peace.' A life-long and active Universalist, his venerable form was, until very recently, familiar in the gatherings of the denomination far and near. He made the first and largest subscription in Vermont, for the Green Mountain Central Institute (Now, the Green Mountain Perkins Academy), and gave more than any others to sustain our school at South Woodstock. It was hardly too much to say that, as his last days were his best, so like the evening twilight were his lingering years. Honored and loved by a multitude of friends, his memory will long be cherished in their hearts, while he, departing from the earth at peace with man and God, and now, united with the great company of the redeemed, shall dwell forever in the mansions of the blest." from "The Sterling Genealogy" by Albert Mack Sterling, 1909 GAIUS PERKINS (brother of the above), b. in Lyme, Sept. 9, 1778, removed to Hartland and afterward to South Woodstock, Vt., with his father in 1801, where he m., June 26, 1804, Eunice Field, b. Feb. 12, 1785. Mr. Perkins was engaged for many years in conducting an extensive tannery and in the making of shoes; he was an ardent supporter of institutions of learning, contributing largely toward the establishment and support of an academy in South Woodstock. Eunice Perkins d. Jun 25, 1858; Gaius d. Mar. 3, 1870.

  
  

• Sources

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