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REV. EDWARD⁷ PERKINS, son of (253) Edward⁶ [(147) Edward⁵, (60) Peter⁴, (8) Peter³, (2) John², (1) Edward¹], was born July 21, 1804, and married

In 1828, when he was teaching school in New Haven, someone gave him a small printed volume, purporting to be a history or genealogy of the Perkins family.

The book was then nearly one hundred and fifty years old and gave an account of many of the name, some in England and some in America.

He kept the book until May, 1833, when he moved to Ohio, leaving it in the house he had occupied. It did not interest him at that time, as he knew nothing of his ancestors back of his grandfather.

In 1848 he returned to Waterbury, and going to the house where he left the book he failed to get any trace of it. He frequently spoke of this old book to his children and grandchildren, and it is one of the latter who furnishes this information.

Note--William Perkins wrote a pamphlet which was printed in Boston in 1682; it is very rare, and no copy, if there are any extant, has been located.

It probably was printed from an original manuscript which was later copied into the town records of Topsfield, Mass., and which is printed in the Essex Antiquarian, Vol. III.

This manuscript was written by "Mr." Edward Perkins of London, and his brother, Rev. William Perkins of Topsfield, Mass., added to it, so that it mentions four generations, ending with the children of the last-named person. This volume was the earliest genealogy printed in America.

The children of (364) Rev. Edward⁷ and ( ) Perkins were: