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DESCENDANTS OF EDWARD PERKINS


Fifth Generation



December 2, 1799. He gives son Peter the dwelling house; daughters Elizabeth, Hannah and Mabel £3 each; daughter Sarah £35; the residue of the estate, after payment of debts, to be divided between sons Peter, Joel and Harvey.

Son Peter was named executor, and the inventory amounted to £148 1s. 6d.

The children of (146) Peter5 and Elizabeth (Perkins) Perkins were:

244 *PETER6, born Sept. 22, 1766; married Asenath Beecher, who was born Nov. 4, 1767, and died Jan. 28, 1858. He died , 1829.
245 *RUTH6, born Sept. 22, 1766.
246 ELIZABETH6, born Nov. 14, 1767; married Demas Sperry, who was born about 1765 and died June 27, 1833. She died Dec. 1, 1849.
247 HANNAH6; married Moses Wheeler of Oxford.
248 MABEL6; married Isaac Downs.
249 SARAH6, born about 1774; married Ebenezer Downs Thomas, who was born about 1769 and died Jan. 17, 1853. She died July 15, 1827.
250 JOEL6, born , 17
251 HARVEY6, born , 17
*Twins.

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EDWARD5 PERKINS, son of (60) Peter4 [(8) Peter3, (2) John2, (1) Edward1], was born in New Haven, October 25, 1743; married, first, Mary, daughter of Israel and Martha (Hine) Thomas; second, Rosanna Judd. Rosanna, it is said, married second James Brown of Burlington, Conn., and had children, Eunice, Irving and Appellina. Said widow died November 9, 1821. She was living when her third and last husband made his will, but she was not named in it.

He removed first to Whitehall, Bethany, where he kept a tavern for several years. He then went to Woodbridge.

November 1, 1781, he bought of Isaac Beecher two acres and two and one-half rods of land in the northwest corner of his farm in the parish of Bethany. The same



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