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DESCENDANTS OF EDWARD PERKINS


Third Generation



Sam'l Humiston and Hannah (Johnson), who was born February 7, 1690-1, and died ; second, December 18, 1723, Mary Alling.

He made his will January 31, 1763, which was admitted to probate March following, and in it he mentions his wife Mary, who is to have the use of his estate during life, and "my daughters" (whose names are not given) are "to share equally in its distribution after her decease."

Timothy Ball and wife Mary were named executors. The inventory amounted to £95, 13s. His widow Mary of Amity (now Woodbridge), Conn., left her estate to her daughter Mary, wife of Nicholas Russell of Cheshire, and to the heirs of her daughter Martha Brooks.

He seems to have left no children by his first wife. He died in 1763.

The children of (13) Aaron3 and Mary (Alling) Perkins were:

73 AARON4, born May 6, 1725; died before 1763.
74 RACHEL4, born March 3, 1726-7.
75 MARY4, born ; married Nicholas Russell.
76 MARTHA4, born ; married Moses Brooks.

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SETH3 PERKINS, son of (4) Jonathan2 [(1) Edward1], was born in New Haven September 4, 1685, and February 28, 1716-17, married Elizabeth, daughter of John Munson and Sarah (Cooper), who was born May 15, 1695. He was living June 27, 1728, when his father gave him all his real estate, and was deceased June 30, 1730, when his father made a deed of gift to his "grandchildren Amy and Eleanor Perkins, children of his son Seth."

There is no death record, nor any settlement of his estate on record. His widow married for her second husband Nicholas Russell, Sr., June 7, 1733.

The children of (14) Seth3 and Elizabeth (Munson) Perkins were:

77 THOMAS4, born May 20, 1717; died , 1758.
78 *AMY4, born Sept. 3, 1726.


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