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DESCENDANTS OF EDWARD PERKINS


Fifth Generation



day he sold said Beecher one and one-half acres on the southeast corner of Perkins farm in the parish of Bethany.

He died in 1787.

According to the U. S. Census of 1790, the family of Rosanna Perkins of Woodbridge then consisted only of three females.

He made his will March 1, and it was proved August , 1787.

To his two sons, Israel and Edward, he gives a horse and yoke of oxen together. To his daughters, Mary and Electa, £5 each. The residue of the estate to be divided between the children, Israel, Edward, Mary, Electa, Rosalinda and Anne.

This codicil was added later: "My sons Israel and Edward shall pay to my grandmother, Mary Perkins, yearly the sum I have engaged to pay toward her support during her natural life."

The inventory amounted to £341 19s. 2d.

The chidren of (147) Edward5 and Mary (Thomas) Perkins were:

252 ISRAEL6, born Dec. 30, 1767; died Sept. 8, 1846.
253 EDWARD6, born Feb. 7, 1769; married Lois Abbott.
254 MARY6, born Jan. 13, 1771; married Elias Lounsbury.
255 ELECTA6, born Oct. 31, 1775; married Uri Tuttle of Columbus, N. Y.
256 HULDA6, twin with Electa.

The children of (147) Edward5 and Rosanna (Judd) Perkins were:

257 ROSANNA LEVA6, born Jan. 14, 1781; married Henry Grilly of Waterbury.
258 ANNA6, born Nov. 22, 1783; married Elijah Crook.

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EBENEZER5 PERKINS, son of (60) Peter4 [(8) Peter3, (2) John2, (1) Edward1], was born in New Haven in 1753; married Mercy, daughter of Joseph Stilson, who was born , 1742, and died at Bethlehem, Conn., November 14, 1825, aged 83 years. He was a physician.



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