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was part owner at one time in eighteen vessels, schooners, brigs and barks. He carried on a ship chandlery and general merchandise busi- ness at Market Landing. He was also inter- ested in the fisheries, having two vessels, the schooners "Paul Pry" and "William R. Page" in the cod and mackerel fisheries, and in the herring fisheries at the Magdalen Islands. He resided in Eastport until 1870, when having accumulated a competence he removed to Port- land, Maine, and purchased a house at 384 Cumberland street, and lived there until his death. He was a prominent member in East- port of the Central Congregational Church, member of the Washington National Monu- ment Society, a life member of the Maine Mis- sionary Society, a prominent member of Moose Island Division, No. 72, of the Order of Sons of Temperance, initiated March 18, 1847, and was at one time an engineer of the Eastport fire department. He and General Neal Dow had the same grandparent on the Dow side, that is, Lieutenant David Perkins. ( See Dow VII and X.) David Perkins was commis- sioned by Governor John Fairfield, April 17, 1839, as paymaster of the Third Regiment of Infantry of the First Brigade and Seventh Di- vision of Maine militia, with the rank of lieu- tenant, which position he held till June 7, 1843, when he resigned and was honorably discharged. After settling in eastern Maine his brothers, James and Joshua Chase Perkins, both married, removed to Calais, Maine, to live, and became prominent citizens of that place, where they brought up their families.
His brother, William Evans Perkins, also lived at Calais, unmarried. Joshua C. and his wife and William E. Perkins died at Calais. James and family later moved to Boston, where he died October 31, 1902. His sons and daughters, Frank Nathaniel and Frederick Heber, married, Helen and Mary, both mar- ried, now reside there. The children of Joshua C. Perkins removed from the state ; one, Alice (widow), was wife of S. W. Golding, living in Chicago, Illinois ; a son, Harry H., married, living in Cleveland, Ohio, and Grace L., wife of Alfred P. Balch, living in West Winsted, Connecticut. David Perkins married, in Port- land, November 5, 1839, Margaret Brazier, born January 3, 1812, died March 25, 1875, daughter of Harrison and Abigail (Riggs) Brazier, of Portland (See Brazier II). Chil- dren: I. Mary Abigail, born February 25, 1842, living unmarried in Portland, Maine, 1908. 2. Nathaniel Rawson, March 29, 1845, died unmarried, May 10, 1874. 3. Sophia Kellogg, June 26, 1847, married, June 26, 1884, Julius Jennings Clapp, of Columbus, Georgia, who was born September 9, 1839, at Columbus, Georgia, died April 24, 1897, at Birmingham, Alabama. They resided in Woodlawn, a suburb of Birmingham. They had one child, Marion Perkins Clapp, born in Portland, Maine, August 30, 1885, who married, September 25, 1907, Henry C. Lar- rabee, of Portland, Maine. 4. David Page, mentioned below. 5. Corinne, born January 24, 1853, died young.
(XVIII) David Page, second son of Lieu- tenant David and Margaret ( Brazier) Per- kins, was born at Eastport, March 2, 1850. He attended the common and high schools of his native town, now a city, and at sixteen years of age went to Poughkeepsie, New York, and took a course in Eastman's Nation- al Business College. In 1867 he was at East- port in his father's office; in 1868 in the em- ploy of H. & C. W. Barnard, St. Stephen, N. B., until springtime, when he obtained a position as timekeeper and paymaster on nine miles of the European and North American Railroad, then building between Bangor, Maine, and St. John, New Brunswick, being located at Harvey-Mannersutton, N. B. In 1868 he was called home to take charge of the business of his father, who had been pros- trated by a stroke of paralysis. In August, 1869, he was again at Harvey, and adjusted the accounts of the contractors of the Euro- pean and North American Railroad to the sat- isfaction of all concerned. From December 7, 1869, to November 13, 1872, he was in the
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office of Sewall Day & Company, Boston, im- porters and manufacturers of cordage. While in Boston he spent most of his evenings for two years in the study of French and Span- ish, under the instruction of Charles De La- garlière, of Bordeaux, France, a teacher in the Boston schools. In 1873 he was in business on Washington street, under the firm name of Raymond, Perkins & Company. At the close of the year he went to Portland, Maine, where he has since resided. In the thirty- four years of his residence there he has held positions as head bookkeeper in a number of wholesale grocery houses on Commercial street, and acted in several capacities in Port- land banks. He was in the wholesale fish business for two years, and since 1904 has been in the commission and merchandise bro- kerage business, office on Commercial street, Portland, Maine. He has traveled extensively in the United States and has visited, for pleas- ure, every state east of the Mississippi river except Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida, and also visited Minnesota, and the Provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. He has been much interested in Odd Fellowship; was twice noble grand of Unity Lodge, No. 3, and chief patriarch of Portland Encampment, No. 19, in 1896; was a member of the Grand Lodge and the Grand Encamp- ment of Maine, serving on committees and holding minor offices in the Grand Lodge, and was for two terms district deputy grand mas- ter at Portland. He has been a member of the Independent Order of Good Templars and the Temple of Honor, and was admitted to the Grand Lodge of Good Templars at Richmond, Maine, April 14, 1869. He is a member of the New England Order of Protection, and Maine Genealogical Society, and, in connection with his language study, of La Sociedad Literaria Española. He was a member of the Maine Association of the New Church, and for many years its secretary and treasurer. He was a member of the Weber Club, a musical society, organized at his house, which for many years was the best club of male singers in the state, comprising more than thirty members, was led by Mr. John Morgan, and for a few years by Professor Hermann Katzschmar. Mr. John B. Coyle, a noted Portland bass singer, was one of the honorary members. He was a member of the Haydn Association, sang first tenor, and was also a member of the Maine Musical Festival Chorus, Western Division. He has been an ardent lover of nature, and much devoted to piscatorial sport, having fished for speckled trout in many streams and
lakes in New Brunswick, Maine, and New Hampshire. He published a History of the Portland Society of the New Jerusalem, of which he was a member; also Time Saving and Systematic Manner of Conducting Busi- ness ; a game called Multi, a game of multi- plication, and copyrighted various other prod- ucts of his pen. He has also taken much in- terest in numismatics. His principal literary work is a genealogy of the entire Perkins fam- ily of the United States, a manuscript com- pilation of much value to those who desire to know of this family, upon which he has spent much time in research. In younger days he was a devoted patron of the lecture and dra- matic stage, and the grand operas. David Page Perkins was married at Eastport, in Christ's Church ( Episcopal), by Rev. William D. Martin, to Margaret Williams Fessenden, June 10, 1884. She was born in Saco, Maine, January 31, 1855, daughter of Dr. Hewett C., a graduate of Dartmouth College, and Mary ( Peterson) Fessenden. She is descended from Nicholas Fessenden, the immigrant, who was living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1674: William Fessenden, his son, a carpenter, born 169; William, schoolmaster, a graduate of Harvard College, born December 7, 1718; Rev. William, graduate of Harvard College, born November 3, 1747 or 1748; General Samuel, her father's father, born July 16, 1784, graduate at Dartmouth College, 1806. The children of this marriage are David Fessenden and William Hayden Perkins. David F. is mentioned below ; William Hayden, born Oc- tober 10, 1893, is in school.
(XIX) David Fessenden, elder of the two sons of David P. and Margaret W. ( Fessen- den) Perkins, was born in Portland, July 27, 1885. Hle attended the public schools of Port- land. At the age of fourteen he had drama- tized "A Gentleman from Gascony" and had written an original play, "A Merry Highway- man," which he produced with his own com- pany May 1, 1900, at City Hall, Portland. In the fall of 1900 he went on the professional stage, making his début with Eduard Walde- mann in Shakespearian repertoire. In 1901 he was with Shipman Brothers' production of "A Cavalier of France." Subsequent engage- ments were with Grand Opera House Stock, New Orleans, Louisiana, and various compa- nies playing the eastern and middle western states. From April to August, 1903, he was the dramatic editor of the Portland Daily Press and Sunday Times. On October 15, 1906, he opened a vaudeville starring tour in his own playlet "Friendship" at the Portland
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Theater, playing to packed houses and con- cluded October 21, one of the largest weeks in the history of the theater. This playlet he played in all the principal cities of the country from St. John, N. B., Boston, New York, Chicago to Victoria, British Columbia, south including Seattle, Portland, Oregon, San Fran- cisco, Los Angeles and east by way of Salt Lake, Denver, Leavenworth and Kansas City. He is the author of several plays, "The Honor of Cassel." "The Long Ago," "The Greater Bond," "A Gentleman Adventurer," and "The Waywardness of Denise." In 1908 he fin- ished a novel, "A Master of Fence," published in Munsey's Scrap Book, July, 1908. In the year of 1908 he played in New York theaters and with stock company in Jefferson Theater, Portland, and the summer theater at Cape Elizabeth, Maine. In 1908 he had played rôles in two hundred and sixty-five different plays. David F. Perkins was married in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, March 3, 1907, to Catherine Sunbury, who was born in a suburb of Budapest, Hungary, March 7, 1888, daughter of Anthony Walter and Rosa ( Par- sincha) Sunbury, of (Shamrock) Paxinos, Pennsylvania. They have one child, Dorothy Margaret, born January 9, 1908, at (Sham- rock) Paxinos, Pennsylvania. The above sketch is gleanings from manuscript of "The Perkins Family in England and America," by David Page Perkins, member of the Maine Genealogical Society.
The Perkins family is an an- PERKINS cient one in England. The first of the name of whom there is record, and from whom the family is descended, is "Peter Morley Esq., alias Per- kins," who lived in the time of Richard II and was an officer in the household, or steward of the court of Sir Hugo Despencer, about 1300. The name is spelled variously Peerkins, Par- kins, Perkings and Perkins. Several of the name lived in the neighborhood of Newent, county Gloucester, England, and the immi- grant John is said to have come from that part of England.
(I) John Perkins, immigrant ancestor, was born in 1590, probably in Newent, county Gloucester, England. He sailed from Bristol, December 1, 1630, in the ship "Lion," Will- iam Pierce, master, with his wife and five children. He was in the company with Rev. Roger Williams, and after a stormy voyage of sixty-seven days they landed at Boston, February 6, 1631. He settled first in Boston and was admitted a freeman May 18, 1631.
He was one of a committee of four to settle the bounds between Roxbury and Dorchester, November 7, 1632. He removed in 1633 to Ipswich, and had several grants of land. His house was near the river, at the entrance to Jeffries neck, on what is now East street. He was deputy to the general court in 1636 and on the grand jury in 1648-52. His will was dated March 28, 1654. He married Judith
Children : 1. John, born 1614, men- tioned below. 2. Thomas, 1616, died May 7. 1686. 3. Elizabeth, 1618, died 1700. 4. Mary, 1620, died 1700. 5. Jacob, 1624, died Janu- ary 29, 1700. 6. Lydia, 1632, died about 1672; baptized at First Church in Boston June 3, 1632.
(II) John (2), son of John Perkins (I), was born in England in 1614 and came to New England with his parents. He had a grant of land in Ipswich in 1634 and other grants, and owned an island called Hog Island. He married, about 1635, Elizabeth The following is from a paper by Rev. Thomas Cobbet : "About 5 or 6 years after (an in- tended attack upon "Nahumkeick" by the In- dians), in the first planting of Ipswich (as a credible man informs me, namely Quarter- master Perkins), the Tarratines or Easterly Indians had a design to cut them off at the first, when they had but 20 or 30 men, old and young belonging to the place (and that instant most of the men had gone into the bay about their occasions, not hearing thereof). It was thus one Robin, a friendly Indian, came to this John Perkins, then a young man, then living in a little hut upon his father's island on this side of Jeofrye's Neck, and told him that on such a Thursday morning, early, there would come four Indians to draw him to go down the Hill to the water side, to truck with them, which if he did, he and all neare him would be cut off: for there were 40 burchen canoues, would lie out of sight, in the brow of the Hill, full of Armed Indians for that purpose : of this he forthwith acquaints Mr. John Winthrop, who then lived there, in a howse near the water, who advised him if such Indians came, to carry it ruggedly to- ward them, and threaten to shoot them if they would not be gone, and when their backs were turned to strike up the drum he had with him beside his two muskets, and then discharge them ; that those 6 or 8 young men, who were in the marshes hard by a mowing, haveing theyr guns each of them ready charged, by them, might take the Alarme and the Indians would perceive theyr plot was discovered and haste away to sea againe : which was accord-
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ingly so acted and tooke like effect: for he told me that presently after he discovered 40 such canowes sheare off from under the Hill and make as fast as they could to sea. And no doubt many godly hearts were lifted up to heaven for deliverance, both in that de- liverance at Salem and this at Ipswich."
John Perkins opened the first ordinary or inn in Ipswich, and was chosen quartermaster of the military. He was one of several to sign a petition February 16, 1681-82, to resist the claims of Mason to a title to lands about Gloucester. He was engaged in the coast fisheries, and used a part of what is Little Neck for curing his fish as early as 1645. He gave his sons farms and made provision for his wife before his death. He died December 14, 1686, and his wife, September 27, 1684. Children: 1. John, born 1636, died 1659; married Lydia - 2. Abraham, 1640, died April 27, 1722; married Hannah Beam- sley. 3. Jacob, 1646, mentioned below. 4. Luke, 1649, married (first) Elizabeth Jaques ; (second) Sarah 5. Isaac, 1650, died 1726; married Hannah Knight. 6. Nathaniel, 1652, married Judith . 7. Samuel, 1655, died 1700; married Hannah West. 8. Thomas. 9. Saralı. 10. Mary, married John Gamage.
(III) Jacob, son of John Perkins (2), was born in Ipswich in 1646 and died in 1719. He was called corporal, and sometimes mentioned as "Jacob Perkins the Maltster." His father gave him the use of a farm of a hundred acres in Chebacco parish, being half a farm which he bought of William Wittred in 1661. This farm Jacob relinquished to his father for one on Sagamore Hill, upon which he resided the remainder of his life. The location of his house is still, or was lately, to be seen. He and his brother Abraham acted as attorney for their father during the latter part of his life. His will was dated December 13, 1718, and proved December 14, 1719, and his sons Jacob and John were executors. He married ( first) in 1667 Sarah Wainwright, who died Febru- ary 3, 1688. He married (second) in 1688- 89, Sarah, born March 19, 1659, daughter of Robert and Mary Kinsman. Children of first wife: I. John, born January 31, 1668, died young. 2. Phillis, November 28, 1670, mar- ried, November 20, 1685, Thomas Emerson. 3. Francis, December 18, 1672, died before 1719. 4. Westly, March 13, 1674, died be- fore 1697. 5. Sarah, May 18, 1677, married John Leighton. 6. Mehitable, July 12, 1681, married, November 20, 1704, Jacob Burn- ham. 7. Mary, August 2, 1685, married Jona- than Burnham. 8. Elizabeth, May 8, 1687.
Children of second wife: 9. Jacob, January 3, 1690, married (first) Elizabeth Kinsman, (second) December 6, 1733, Mary Dresser. 10. Eunice, March 14, 1691. II. John, Octo- ber 17, 1693, mentioned below. 12. Robert, October 21, 1695, married Elizabeth Douton. 13. Westly, December 3, 1697, married Abi- gail Rindge. 14. Joseph, October 9, 1699, married Elizabeth Fellows. 15. Jeremiah, December 1, 1701, married Joanna Smith.
(IV) John (3), son of Jacob Perkins, was born at Sagamore Hill, Ipswich, October 17, 1693. He was a farmer and resided on Saga- more Hill. He married Elizabeth, born May 8, 1695, daughter of Zerubbabel and Grace (Symonds) Endicott, of Boxford. Her father was grandson of John Endicott, Governor of the Massachusetts Colony. Children : 1. Sarah, baptized February 8, 1718. 2. Eliza- beth, June II, 1721. 3. John, October 13, 1723, died March 5, 1735. 4. Eunice, April 10, 1726, died March 31, 1736. 5. Robert, August 25, 1728, mentioned below. 6. Han- nah, April 12, 1730. 7. Zerubbabel, February 13, 1731, died March 19, 1735. S. Anna, February 10, 1733. 9. Mary, October 26, 1735. 10. Eunice, October 14, 1739.
(V) Captain Robert, son of John (3) Per- kins, was born in Ipswich and baptized August 25, 1728. He was a soldier in the revolution, lieutenant in Captain Moses Jewett's company, Colonel John Baker's regiment, April 19, 1775, and marched to Medford on the alarm. He was a captain of a troop of horse from Essex county in 1776; also captain of the light horse volunteers of the third Essex county regi- ment in 1777, in the department of the north, guarding Lieutenant-General Burgoyne's army at Prospect Hill. He was a farmer, and July 19, 1753, bought of Abraham Tilton "a cer- tain mesunge consisting of half a house, half a barn and half a well, situated upon Meet- ing-house Hill, Ipswich." He owned other lands in Ipswich. He died intestate May 22, 1797, and his estate was found to be insolvent, and was divided pro rata among his creditors, reserving for the widow her third. He mar- ried (first) July 19, 1753, intentions published April 6, 1753, Elizabeth, daughter of James Brown, of Ipswich, storekeeper. She died December 4, 1763, and he married (second) Sarah , who survived him. Children : 1. John, baptized April 7, 1754, died young. 2. Elizabeth, baptized June 1, 1755, married December 3, 1779, Joseph Brown, of Haver- hill. 3. James, removed to Damariscotta, Maine ; married Sally Tarbell. 4. Sarah. 5. Joseph, died before 1797. 6. John, baptized
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September 26, 1761. 7. Robert, baptized May 17, 1763, mentioned below.
(VI) Deacon Robert (2), son of Captain Robert (1) Perkins, was born in Ipswich and settled early in Woolwich, Maine. He was deacon of the church at Woolwich. Children : Captain Joseph, mentioned below. Samuel. Joanne, married Nathaniel Thwing. Rebecca, married Charles Fairservice; in February, 1860, he was living in Alna, Maine. Mary, or Polly, married Ralph Curtis. Betsey, married Meyers Reed.
(VII) Captain Josephi, son of Deacon Rob- ert (2) Perkins, was born in Woolwich, Maine, in 1795. He was captain of the local militia company in 1828 and afterward a citi- zen of prominence. He married, February 22, 1821, Rachel Mathews, of Warren, Maine, born January, 1794, died 1875. Children : I. Child died in infancy. 2. Mary Ann, born 1825, died 1879. 3. John Wakefield, 1826, died January 25, 1886. 4. Frederick C., Au- gust 26. 1828, mentioned below.
(VIII) Frederick C., son of Captain Joseph Perkins, was born at Woolwich. Maine, and died in Farmington, April 1, 1891. He was educated in the common and high schools, and taught school in Anson, Belgrade and other towns of the vicinity. He began his business carcer as elerk in the drug store of Jolın W. Perkins at Farmington, but after a short time went to sea. For a number of years he went to the Grand Banks in the fish- ing-vessels. He had a general store at New Sharon, Maine, for a time. He went to Aus- tralia in 1853, and was in that country for six years and a half, following his trade as carpenter and in business as a builder and contractor. He also had a business as hay and grain dealer. When he returned to his native land he engaged in raising sheep and wool. He invested extensively in real estate in the village of Farmington and also in farm- ing lands in the vicinity, as well as Portland and Lewiston, Maine. In politics Mr. Per- kins was a Republican. He held various town offices, including that of selectman and repre- sentative to the state legislature in 1871-2. He was in the governor's council in 1875 in Governor Nelson Dingley's administration. He was a trustee of the old academy and served on the building committee of the first normal school, the appropriation for which was secured from the legislature largely through his efforts. He secured the charter from the state for the Wendall Institute and May School for Girls, both college and preparatory
departments, and also for the Willows Fe- male School of Farmington. He was the prime mover in securing the present high school building in Farmington and was a member of the building committee. Mr. Per- kins was generous in his contributions to char- ity and benevolence, and helped to support both Congregational and Baptist churches. He was a member of the Baptist church, and served on its finance committee and as super- intendent of its Sunday-school a number of years. He lent his aid and co-operation in every good work within his reach, and was one of the most useful citizens of the town. He was past worthy chief templar of the Good Templars of the town, and always a strong supporter of temperance and the en- foreement of the liquor law. His character was strong, his ability exceptional, his in- tegrity absolute. He married, February 9, 1860, in New Sharon (by Rev. Jonathan Adams), Mary Hawthorne Higgins, born in Stark, Somerset county, January 21, 1835. Their only child was Arthur W., mentioned below. The father of Mrs. Perkins, Isaac Cole Higgins, was born in Cape Cod, Massa- chusetts, August 28, 1804, died January 12, 1886, son of Richard Higgins, who came from Orleans or vicinity to Leeds, Maine, and wife Lydia (Cahoon) Higgins. Both the father and grandfather of Richard Higgins were soldiers in the revolution, the grandfather holding a commission. Nancy (Smith) Hig- gins, mother of Mrs. Perkins, was born in Woolwich, November 19, 1802, died Novem- ber 18, 1862, daughter of Thomas and Mary Ellis ( Hooper) Smith, and a nieee of Robert Hooper, of Massachusetts, known in his day as "King" Hooper.
(IX) Arthur Wellesley, son of Frederick C. Perkins, was born in Farmington, De- cember 18, 1860, and received his education there. He prepared for college under the tuition of Professors Burnham and Abbott, and entered Bowdoin College, from which he was graduated in 1887. He taught school and was private tutor for students while reading law in the office of J. C. Holman, of Far- mington, and later in the offices of Siinonds & Libby, of Portland. But he had to abandon the study of law on account of the illness and death of his father. He succeeded to his father's property, and is occupied in the care and improvement of his real estate and in conducting the homestead farm. Mr. Perkins is a Republican in politics. He is an attendant of the Congregational and Baptist churchies,
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treasurer of the latter society and superin- tendent of the Sunday-school. He is a mem- ber of the college fraternity, Alpha Delta Phi, of Bowdoin.
PERKINS The line herein traced begins in New Hampshire, almost with the beginning of perma- nent settlements within the present state. It has furnished to New Hampshire many worthy and useful citizens, and many descend- ants of the immigrant, Abraham, are promi- nent citizens of other states. The English an- cestry of this family is supposed to be the same as that of Isaac, the two probably being brothers.
(I) Abraham Perkins, the founder of this line, was found in New England almost simul- taneously with William Perkins, of Ipswich and Topsfield, Massachusetts. Abraham Per- kins was born about 1613, and was admitted freeman at Hampton, 1640. In the preceding January he received from the town a grant of eighty acres of land. and in 1646 he was the possessor of three shares in the commons. He seemed to have been a man of intelligence and business capacity, and was often employed to transact both public and private affairs in the town. His handwriting, as preserved, re- sembles more nearly the modern writing than most of the ancient manuscripts. He was town marshal in 1654. He seems to have remained through life where he first settled, and died suddenly August 31, 1683, aged seventy years. His wife, Mary ( Wise) Perkins, survived him more than twenty-two years, and died May 29. 1706, at the age of eighty-eight years. Chil- dren: Mary, Abraham, Luke, Humphrey (died young ), Timothy (died young), James, Jonathan, David, Abigail. Timothy, Sarah and Humphrey. It has been claimed that the eldest son was the first white child born in Hampton. There was one other who was baptized earlier, but it is not certain whether or not he was born there. Isaac Perkins is supposed to have been a brother of Abraham, but nothing in the records appears to verify it. Both appear about the same time in Hampton, and the house lots assigned to them adjoined each other, each containing five acres. Isaac's house was nearly on the site of the present Baptist parsonage, and he lived there for more than ten years. In June, 1652, he pur- chased of Rev. Timothy Dalton for fifty pounds a farm lying next to the Salisbury line, in what is now Seabrook, and he removed thither soon after. He died in November. 1685. His wife's name was Susannah and
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