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1790 New Hampshire

New Hampshire Biographical Sketches

TIMOTHY PERKINS

Timothy Perkins b.1789 NH d.1881 NH. Son of (Lemuel & Abigail (Foss) Perkins). His wife SALLY D. (JONES). They resided at Holderness, N.H. and at Centre Harbor, NH.

Their children were:

1. William J. Perkins b. ? NH
2. Emeline R. Perkins b. ? NH m. Gooding Piper
3. Paul Perkins b. ? NH
4. John S. Perkins b. ? NH
5. George S. Perkins b. ? NH
6. Ebenezer F. Perkins b. NH
7. Alonzo Perkins b. 1832 Centre Harbor, NH m. Henrietta C. (Keyser)
8. Timothy Perkins Jr. d/y
9. Charles H. Perkins d/y

Source: Biographical Review - Volume XXI - Containing life sketches of leading citizens of Strafford and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire. (1897)

SOLOMON PERKINS

Solomon Perkins b. ?. Son of (Nathaniel & Unknown (Unknown) Perkins). His wife UNKNOWN. He is listed on the 1790 Census at Middleton, Strafford Co., NH.

I find a Land Deed dated 8.19.1818 recorded at Adams Co., IL where Solomon Perkins of Middleton, Strafford Co., NH is referred to as a father and only heir of Nathaniel Perkins, a late a soldier in the Army of the United States (deceased). Solomon Perkins is selling the land that he or his father received as a bounty land grant to a man named Nehemiah Eastman. It being a tract of land containing one hundred & sixty acres being the North West quarter of Section Thirty-Two of Township One North in Range Eight West in the tract appropriated by acts of Congress for Military Bounties in the Territory of Illinois. He states that this land grant is recorded in the General Land Office at Washington, D.C. Volume twenty-eight, page one-hundred and fifty.

Source: NH Census Records
Source: Adams Co., IL - Land Records 1818

TIMOTHY PERKINS

Timothy Perkins b.1772 NH. His wife MARY "POLLY" (GENTLEMAN). They were listed on the 1790 Census at Barrington, Strafford Co., NY. This family later removing to Jackson, Carroll Co., NY.

Their known children were:

1. Lemuel Perkins b.1789 NH
2. George F. Perkins b.1799 NH m. Florinda (Wentworth)
     2a. Alice Perkins b.1820 NH d.1828 NH
       2b. Eunice Perkins b.1823 NH m. David Butler
       2c. Francis L. Perkins b.1824 NH
       2d. Ezra G. Perkins b.1826 NH
       2e. Diantha L. Perkins b.1827 NH
       2f. Lucinda Perkins b.1828 NH d. 1846
       2g. James E. Perkins b.1832 NH
       2h. Charles M. Perkins b.1835 NH
       2i. Louisa Perkins b.1837 NH d.1849 NH
       2j. Laura A. Perkins b.1842 NH
       2k. Lafayette Perkins b.1845 NH

Source: The Wentworth Genealogy : English and American, v.II by John Wentworth (1878)