| Willet Bishop all the land they had purchased of Capt. Beecher. He died in December, 1746, and December 22, 1746, administration was granted his widow, Elizabeth, who, April 6, 1747, was appointed guardian of the minor children, Elizabeth and Jabez. At the same time an inventory of the estate was presented and it amounted to £583 12s. 11d. The U.S. Census of 1790 enumerates the family of Elizabeth Perkins of Woodbridge as consisting of one male 16 and upwards, four males under 16, and two females. The date of the death of the widow is unknown. The children of (82) Daniel4 and Elizabeth (Miles) Perkins were:
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83 | AMOS4 PERKINS, son of (23) Lt. Daniel3 [(5) David2, (1) Edward1], was born in New Haven, January 19, 1720-1; married, January 23, 1744-5, Hannah, daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Atwater) Bishop, who was born April 16, 1725, and died at Woodbridge, Conn., August 22, 1798. May 11, 1782, for £15, Roger Alling and wife Lydia conveyed to him 1½ acres land in Amity parish, New Haven, bounded on said Perkins, north; east on Joseph Peck; south on David Perkins, and west on the highway. February 20, 1787, he sold his son Amos, Jr., of Woodbridge, two acres in New Haven at a place called the Clubb. He lived in the town of Woodbridge, and was deacon of the church there. He died December 9, 1793. He had left an unsigned will in which he mentions his sons, Amos, Dan'l; daughter Hannah, wife of Thaddeus Thompson; grandson Elias Perkins (son of Abraham), and sons Elijah and Silas. But the children and heirs agreed to divide the estate according to their father's original intent and signed a paper to that effect. According |