5 | DAVID2 PERKINS, son of (1) Edward1 was born in New Haven, Conn., October 3, 1656, and died October 27, 1732. He was a farmer and administration on his estate was granted to his son Daniel, but there is no record of his appointment. The inventory of his estate was taken January 9, 1732-3, and it amounted to £70, 19s, 2d. June 14, 1703, he bought of Daniel Mason of Lebanon, attorney for John Fowler of same town, one acre of meadow and one-half acre land in Club Cove, New Haven, lately belonging to Mark Fowler. January 23, 1709-10, he bought land of William Johnson, Jr., by way of exchange. In 1717 he bought of William Johnson ten acres woodland in rear of the latter's second division lot, formerly Capt. Fowler's, bounded east on said Johnson, west on the highway, south on Isaac Johnson, and north on the church's lot. November 28, 1723, a deed of gift to his only son Daniel, of twenty-five acres in the third division, it being a parcel of land laid out to my Hon'd. father, Edward Perkins, bounded east on the highway, south on Jona Perkins, west on highway or the dividend line between New Haven and Milford, and north on Peter Perkins. The name of his first wife is not recorded. He married second, June 8, 1682, Sarah Johnson, widow of John Wolcott and Benjamin Bradley. She was born and died November 1, 1733. |