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DESCENDANTS OF EDWARD PERKINS


Fourth Generation



Archibald, for the term of 999 years, a tract of land in Bethany, bounded east and west on the highway, north and south on heirs of David Beecher, known as the Atwater lot; also another lot of 17 acres on the west end of my home lot, known as the further Gilbert lot, bounded west and south on the highway, north on heirs of Capt. Beecher, and east on my own land.

In 1781 he resided in what was then called the Parish of Bethany, New Haven, which about the time or soon after his decease became an incorporated town. He died June 14, 1794, aged 76; his wife Anna died March 13, 1793, aged 69.

The children of (37) Azariah4 and Anna (Johnson) Perkins were:

107 AZARIAH5, born Nov. 2, 1744.
108 THADDEUS5, born Sept. 9, 1746; died young.
109 ELIJAH5, born April 19, 1748; died young.
110 MOSES5, born Nov. 30, 1749.*
111 AARON5, born Nov. 30, 1749.*
112 THADDEUS5, born March 6, 1752.
113 ANNA5, born Feb. 28, 1754; married, Aug. 4, 1774, Dan Hitchcock of Cheshire.
114 ELIJAH5, born July 17, 1756; died Nov. 22, 1843.
115 ARCHIBALD5, born Dec. 31, 1758.
116 REBECCA5, born Sept. 24, 1765.
*Moses and Aaron twins.

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PHINEAS4 PERKINS, son of (6) John3 [(2) John2, (1) Edward1], was born in New Haven February 7, 1719-20; married, December 13, 1744, Susanna, daughter of John Bradley, who was born , and died about 1778.

June 1, 1748, he bought of Stephen Gilbert of New Haven 11 acres in the fifth division.

June 14, 1779, Eliphaz Perkins, Simeon and Eunice Couch, Phineas Perkins, Gideon and Jason Perkins of Hartland, Litchfield Co., Edward and Patience Garman of Windsor, for £50, deeded to Phineas Bradley "two pieces of land and meadow in Oyster Point quarter, laid



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