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their children were: Lydia, Isaac, Jacob, Re- becca, Daniel. Caleb, Benjamin, Susannah, Anna Mary, Ebenezer and Joseph.
(Il) Luke (1), third child of Abraham and Mary ( Wise) Perkins, was born at Hampton, New Hampshire, about 1641. An indenture dated "4th Mo. 3rd day" 1654, recites that Luke Perkins, aged about "fortene," with the consent of his parents puts himself apprentice to Samuel Carter, shoemaker, both of Charles- town; John Green. the elder, Giles Fifield and Thomas Jones signed the papers. He died March 20, 1710. His son, Luke Perkins, of Ipswich, was appointed administrator of his estate March 12, 1713. His inventory gives the value of his house, sixty-two pounds, per- sonal property, seventeen pounds. March 9, 1663, he married Hannah, widow of Henry Cookery, and daughter of Robert and Eliza- beth Long. She was admitted to the First Church, March 29, 1668, and died November 16, 1715, and the same year Luke Perkins, of Plympton, as administer of the estates of his father and mother, sold the old homestead in Charlestown. Children: Henry, John (died young ), Luke (died young), all baptized Jan- uary 13, 1667; Luke, Elizabeth, John, Abra- ham, Hannah and Mary.
(III) Luke (2), fourth son of Luke (I) and Hannahı ( Long) (Cookery) Perkins, was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, March 18, 1667. o. s., baptized at the First Church there 19th 4mo., 1669-70, and lived successively at Marblehead, Beverly, Wenham, Ipswich ( 1704) and Plympton, where he moved about 1714. In each of the places where he lived he put on record the date of his marriage and the births of his children. He died at Plymp- ton, January 2. 1748, aged eighty-two. He was a blacksmith, and as an inducement for him to settle at Plympton to follow his trade a lot of eighteen acres of land in Rocky Run was deeded to him by William Churchill, Samuel Bradford and Isaac Cushman. No- vember 24, 1704, Luke and Martha (Conant) Perkins, formerly of Beverly, now of Ipswich, sold John Filmore a house and barn and about two acres of land on the road from Wenham to Beverly which was formerly Lot Conant's. His uncle, David Perkins, of Bridgewater, in consideration of love and good will for his well-beloved cousin (nephew) gave him all his lands in Abbington, to wit: one-third of the Solomon Leonard purchase. and two- thirds of the John Robbins purchase. He married, May 31, 1688, Martha, born August 15 and baptized October 12, 1664, at Beverly. daughter of Lot and Elizabeth (Walton) Co-
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nant. and granddaughter of Roger Conant, the immigrant, a distinguished pioneer of Massachusetts (See Conant I and II). She "took hold of God's Covenant there ( Beverly ) for herself and her children 30th day, 6th mo., 1691. She was dismissed from the church in Beverly to that of Plympton, October, 1716; she died January 2, 1754, aged almost ninety years. Children: John, Martha (died young), Hannah, Luke, Mark, Josiah, and Martha.
(IV) Josiah, third son of Luke (2) and Martha (Conant) Perkins, was baptized at Beverly, November 16, 1701, died October 15, 1789. He resided in Plympton and followed the useful and necessary calling of his father, blacksmithing. For fifty-five years he was a deacon of the church, and for forty years was town clerk, and kept the records well. He mar- ried (first) Deborah, daughter of Nehemiah Bennett, of Middleton ; she died May 19, 1751 ; he married ( second) Rebecca Parker, who is described by some as sister and by some as probably the widow of Rev. Jonathan Parker. She died childless July 30, 1785, aged eighty- . eight. Children of first marriage: Nathan, William, John, Martha, Joshua, Abner (died young ), Josiah, Luke, Abner, Deborah, Han- nah, Zephaniah and Isaac.
(V) Joshua, fourth son of Josiah and Deb- orah ( Bennett ) Perkins, was born in Plymp- ton, June 6, 1729. He married Hannah, daughter of George Sampson, and had: Gid- eon, Sarah, Deborah, Abigail, Joshua, Han- nah, Rebecca, Martha, Betty, Drusilla, Luke and Sampson.
(VI) Gideon, eldest son of Joshua and Hannah (Sampson) Perkins, was born in 1751, and resided in Carver. He married (first ) Desire Dunham, by whom he had eight children, and (second) Meribah Eaton, by whom he had five children: Seth, Hannah, Cornelius, George, Rebecca, Patience, Gideon, Sarah, Betty, Seabury, Sylvia, John C. and Josiah.
(VII) Cornelius, second son of Gideon and Desire (Dunham) Perkins, was born in Car- ver, Massachusetts, December 25. 1775, died in Paris, Maine, in 1858. He was among the early settlers of Paris, from which in 1803 he moved to Woodstock and settled on lot num- ber six of Smith's survey, in the east part of Woodstock, the grant to Gorham Academy. He was a useful citizen, and in town office for thirty or more years. He was the delegate from Woodstock to the convention which framed the constitution of Maine. After the death of his wife he returned to Paris, where he spent the remainder of his life. He mar-
ried (first) Experience, daughter of Samuel Battles, and (second) Mercy Barrows, of Middleboro, Massachusetts, who was born Jan- uary 8, 1775, and died in Weld, Maine. His ten children, the first three of whom were born in Paris and the others in Woodstock, were : Luther, Cornelius (died young), Gid- eon, Seth, Mercy, Desire, Daniel, Cyrus, Charles and Cornelius.
(\'llI) Rev. Gidcon, third son of Cornelius and Mercy ( Barrows) Perkins, was born in Paris, November 22 ( 20 on gravestone ), 1801, died in Lewiston, January 25, 1884. He was a Frce Baptist minister and resided in Wood- stock, Otisfield, Danville, Sabattis and Lewis- ton. He married, in Woodstock, January I, 1824, ( Polly) Mary Dunham, of Woodstock, who was born in Norway, November 2, 1799,. died in Lewiston, November 30, 1877. Chil- dren : John William, Emily, Joseph White, Charles Sumner and Sarah Ann.
(IX) John William, first son of Rev. Gid- eon and Polly (Dunham) Perkins, was born in Woodstock, August 15. 1827. died March 25, 1872. He and his brother, Joseph White, were well known and prosperous merchants in Lewiston. He married, in Auburn, Novem- ber 17, 1852, Martha McKenny, who was born in Limington, Maine, January 16, 1833, and died in Auburn, October 13, 1867, aged thirty- four years. She was the daughter of Henry and Ruth ( Parker) McKenny, of Limington. Children : Ardelia McKenny, William Blair and John Carroll, all born in Auburn. John William Perkins was prominent in the public life of Auburn, serving terms in the city gov- ernment and in the state legislature.
(X) John Carroll, second son of John W. and Martha (McKenny) Perkins, was born in Auburn, Maine, June 6, 1862, and was edu- cated in the common schools of Auburn and Lewiston, where he went to reside on the death of his father in 1872. He graduated at Nichols Latin school, Lewiston, 1878, and Bates College, 1882, receiving the degree of Master of Arts in 1885. He taught the West Lebanon Academy, 1882-83, and from 1883-86. was a teacher in the Roxbury Latin school in Boston. The following year he spent in Ger- many, matriculating at the universities of Berlin and Marburg. Returning to America, he entered the Harvard Divinity school, Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, and in 1891 received the school degree of Bachelor of Sacred The- ology and the university degree of Master of Arts. September 10, 1891, he was ordained and installed colleague pastor with the Rev. Thomas Hill, D. D., by the First Parish ( Uni-
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tarian ) of Portland, Maine, becoming the pastor at the death of Thomas Hill. In 1904 Bowdoin College gave him the honorary de- gree of Doctor of Divinity. He is a member of the Maine Historical Society, Mayflower Society, Sons of the American Revolution, Colonial Society of Massachusetts, vice-presi- dent of Portland Society of Natural History, vice-president of Portland Fraternity Club and secretary of the Maine Unitarian Conference. He married, in Boston, June 28, 1892, Edith Burnside, of Roxbury, Massachusetts, daugh- ter of Elias Tarbox and Emily Jose Milliken.
PERKINS This family is of Massachu- setts derivative, and the fore- fathers handed down some good blood to their posterity, which accounts for the high stand the present generation is taking in the affairs of the state. It is numer- ous all over Maine, especially along the line of the Grand Trunk railway and in the Ken- nebec valley.
(1) Jeremiah Perkins was born in Brooks- ville, Hancock county, Maine, in 1815 and died in 1885. Married Prudence Blodgett, and left the following children: Amos, George, William, Charles H., John, Prudence, Mary and Anna.
(II) Charles H., fourth son of Jeremiah and Prudence ( Blodgett) Perkins, was born in Brooksville, Maine, January 12, 1840. He was educated in the common schools, and went to sea when he was thirteen years of age, remaining in that occupation for twenty- five years. He commanded a vessel to the West Indies and to South America. Upon leaving the sea he engaged in agricultural pur- suits in Brooksville and became manager of the Grange Store in 1882. He was a Re- publican in politics, served on the board of selectmen, as tax collector, and represented his town in the legislature in 1880-81. He was made a Mason at Castine, later joining the lodge at Brooksville. Captain Perkins mar- ried. January 1, 1861, Ruth H. Grindle, born in Sedgwick, Maine, April 1, 1841. Children : I. May P., married Edgar L. Roberts, of Brooksville : one child, Prudence. 2. Cora A., died at twenty-nine years, unmarried. 3. Izetta B., died aged twenty-five, unmarried. 4. Charles N., see forward. 5. Emma F., died aged nineteen, unmarried. 6. DeForest H., district superintendent schools at Skowhegan, Maine; married Jennie Powers, of Dyer Brook: one child, Frederick. 7. Harvey L., of Eden, Mt. Desert Island, stone cutter by trade ; married and has three children. 8. Fred J.,
lives on old home farm at Brooksville; mar- ried Laura Tapley, of Brooksville; two chil- dren: Ruth and Henry. 9. Maurice W., of Benton, married and has two children; far- mer. 10. Alice E., principal grammar depart- ment Spelman Seminary, Atlanta, Georgia. Captain Perkins died June 1, 1907; his wife died in 1888.
(III) Professor Charles N., first son of Captain Charles H. and Ruth H. (Grindle) Perkins, was born in Brooksville, Maine, Octo- ber 16, 1868. He received his preliminary education in Brooksville and fitted for college at the East Maine Conference Seminary at Bucksport, graduating from Colby College in 1893. After graduation he was principal of the high school at Presque Isle and taught at North Brookfield and Warren, Massachusetts. He came to Brewer, Maine, in 1906, as princi- pal of the high school and superintendent of schools. In 1908 he was elected district super- intendent of schools, towns of Brewer and Veazie. He is one of the leading men in edu- cational affairs in Maine, highly esteemed in the community in which he lives, always ready to assist in forwarding all good causes. He is a Republican. Professor Perkins belongs to Quaboag Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Warren, Massachusetts, and is a member of the Baptist church in Brewer. He married, July 12, 1893, Lida Estella, daughter of Rev. Seth and Charlotte (Chase) Benson, of Paris, Maine. Children : 1. Margaret Ella, born in Presque Isle, Maine, December 4, 1896. 2. Herbert Armond, born in North Brookfield, Massachusetts, October 9, 1900. 3. Ruth Charlotte, in North Brookfield, Massa- chusetts, July 7, 1902. 4. Theodore Benson, in Warren, Massachusetts, September 6, 1905.
SEWALL The surname Sewell, Shewell or Showell is of ancient Eng- lish origin. As early as 1376 the coat-of-arms of John Sewall was affixed to a deed: Fretty, in chief a sea-whale. The other coat-of-arms, used by most of the Se- walls, was borne by John de Sewelle, who ac- companied Edward the Black Prince into Aquitaine; Sable, a chevron between three butterflies argent. In the arms used by the Sewalls of New England we find "gadbees," instead of "butterflies," and there is some mys- tery about the bees in this coat-of-arms; ac- cording to Colonel Chester, who investigated the subject, the coat-of-arms should be that containing the butterflies, if it can be proved that the Sewalls belong to the heraldic family. No family has been more prominent in New
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England history than the Sewalls. Whether the emigrant ancestor, Henry Sewall, who came to Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1635, was of gentle blood and entitled by descent to the arms-Sable, a chevron or between three bees argent, which his descendants used in colonial days, and which, with the bees re- placed by butterflies, adorned the shield of John de Sewalle, who attended Edward, the Black Prince, into Aquitaine in 1356-is a question discussed at some length in E. E. Salisbury's Family Memorials. Whatever way it may be decided, it is certain that his descendants soon won prominence in the new world. Three became chief justices of Massa- chusetts, another of the Province of Quebec, and two others were judges of the highest court in the commonwealth. In each genera- tion Sewalls have been among the foremost both in the learned professions and in political and business life. Furthermore, by marriage they have been connected with many of the leading families of the country. By female lines of descent, they can claim as kinsmen a host of distinguished Americans, from the poet Longfellow to President Cleveland. The most interesting, if not the most famous of the worthies who bore this surname before the revolution, was Chief Justice Samuel Se- wall, of witchcraft times, the "good and wise" of Whittier's lines, who had the courage to rebuke the faults of others and the still greater courage to confess his own. Here is the poet's portrait :
"His face with lines of firmness wrought, He wears the look of a man unbought, Who swears to his hurt and changes not; Yet, touched and softened nevertheless With the grace of Christian gentleness, The face that a child would climb to kiss ; True and tender and brave and just, That man might honor and woman trust."
His diary, printed in the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, is a living picture of early New England ways of thought, sentiment, society and manners. His letter to his son Samuel, dated April 21, 1720, and printed in the first volume of the New England Historical and Genealogical Re- corder, is the corner-stone of this family his- tory.
(I) William Shewall, or Sewall, the Eng- lish progenitor to whom the American lineage is traced, lived in Coventry. Warwickshire. He married, about 1540, Matilda Horne. Children: 1. William, mayor of Coventry in 1617, who married Anna Wagstaffe and left no male issue. 2. Henry, mentioned below.
(II) Henry ( I), son of William Sewall, was born in Coventry about 1544. He was a linen-
draper by occupation, a "prudent man who acquired a large estate." He served as alder- man of his city and was chosen its mayor in 1589 and 1606. He made his will September 1, 1624, describing himself as of St. Michael's parish in the city of Coventry, alderman. He bequeaths to his wife Margaret all his lands and tenements in the city and county; after her death certain of said lands and tenements to Henry, his eldest son: "and I doe be- queath and devise unto my sonne Henry upon trust and confidence and as he will answeare it before the Lord at the Day of Judgment that he do with all bumilitie, acknoeladge his former offences against his mother, before my overseers, in her content, and afterwards to continue obedient;" he gives certain other lands to Richard, the younger son, to his daughters Anne, wife of Anthony Power, and to youngest daughter, Margaret, wife of Abraham Randall; he also makes various charitable bequests to Coventry, and appoints his wife executrix. This will was proved April 8, 1628, and the testator was buried in the Drapers' Chapel of St. Michael's Church, famous for its spire and its architecture. Henry Sewall married Margaret, daughter of Alverey (or Avery) Gresbrooks, Gent. of Middleton, in the county of Warwick, and of his wife. Margaret Keene, of Sutton Cold- field. The latter was a great-niece of John Harmon, one of the earliest bishops of Exe- ter. Margaret Sewall made her will May 7, 1628, bequeathing lands, apparently held in her own right, in Wytherly, county Leicester, and at Ansley, county Warwick. She men- tions all the children, but cuts off the eldest son with twelve pence in money, saying : "And I do forgive unto Henry Sewall. my eldest son, his offences wherein and whereby he hath sundry times offended me, beseeching Al- mighty God to give him a heart to deal con- scionably with his brother and sisters, as he would be done unto." This seems to imply that he made the apology prescribed by his father and received the latter's bequest. Let- ters of administration were granted on her estate November 23, 1629, and she was buried beside her husband in St. Michael's. Their children : 1. Henry, baptized April 8, 1576. 2. Richard, married Mary Dugdale, sister of Sir William Dugdale, the historian, of War- wickshire. 3. Anne, married Anthony Power. 4. Margaret, married Abraham Randall.
(III) Henry (2), son of Henry (1) and Margaret Sewall, was baptized April 8. 1576. He married Anne Hunt and lived in Coventry, England. Of him his grandson, Chief Justice
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Sewall, writes: "Out of dislike to the English hierarchy, he sent over his only son to New England in the year 1634 with net cattel and provisions suitable for a new plantation. Mr. Cotton (Rev. John Cotton) would have had my father settle at Boston, but in regard of his cattel he chose to go to Newbury, whether my grandfather soon followed him." After living ten years in Newbury, he removed to Rowley, where he died in March, 1657. Dur- ing the latter part of his life he is said to have been slightly deranged. "This was probably the cause of his being two or three times pre- sented by the grand jury for various offences," and doubtless explains his earlier difficulties with his mother.
(IV) Henry (3), only son of Henry (2) and Anne Sewall, was born in 1614. At the age of twenty he was sent to New England in the ship "Elizabeth and Dorcas," with an outfit of servants and cattle. He spent the winter in Ipswich and in the spring of 1635 removed to Newbury. He was admitted a freeman May 17, 1637, and became a prominent citi- zen of Newbury. He married Jane, daughter of Stephen Dummer, March 25, 1646, and re- ceived from his father five hundred acres of land in Coventry as a wedding-gift. He and his wife returned to England with her par- ents in 1646-47, the climate not being agree- able to Stephen Dummer and his wife. The Sewalls dwelt a while at Warwick, and after- wards removed to Hampshire, and lived at Tamworth, Bishop Stoke and Badesly. Henry visited his father in New England once, and then returned to his family in old England. He made a third voyage to New England after the death of his father, to settle the estate, intending to return, bearing with him a letter from Richard Cromwell, the lord pro- tector, to the governor and magistrates of Massachusetts. In this paper Henry Sewall is described as the only son, and "minister of North Baddesly, County of Southampton, England, and he being personally knowne to us to be laborious and industrious in the work of the ministry, and very exemplary for his holy life and good conversation, we do ear- nestly desire that when he shall make his ad- dresses to you he may receive all lawful fa- vours and furtherance from you." (Crom- well's letter, dated March, 1658.) Notwith- standing the expectation to return, he lived the remainder of his days in New England, send- ing for his wife and children to join him in Newbury. Evidently the return of the Stuarts to power caused him to prefer the colony to the old country. Judge Sewall says: "I was
born at Bishop Stoke, March 28, 1652, baptized by Mr. Rashly in Stoke Church, May 4, 1652. Mr. Rashly first preached a sermon and then baptized me. After which an entertainment was made for him and many more. Some months after my father removed to Badesly, where my brother, John Sewall, was born, October 10, 1654. My father sent for my mother to come to him to New England. I remember being at Bishop Stoke and Badesly April 23, 1661, the day of the Coro- nation of K. Charles the 2d., the thunder and Lightening of it. Quickly after, my mother went to Winchester with 5 small children- Hannah, Samuel, John, Stephen and Jane- and John Nash and Mary Hobbs, her Serv- ants, there to be in readiness for the Pool Waggons. At this place her near relations, especially my very worthy and pious Uncle, Mr. Stephen Dummer, took leave with tears. Capt. Dummer of Swathling treated us with Raisons and Almonds. My mother lodged in Pumpyard, London, waiting for the going of the Ship the Prudent Mary, Capt. Isaac Woodfreem, Commander." Henry Sewall was deputy to the general court in 1661-63-68-70. He died May 16, 1700, aged eighty-six years. His widow died January 13, following, aged seventy-four years. Their children: 1. Han- nah, born at Tamworth, in Warwickshire, May 10, 1649, married, August 24, 1670, Jacob Toppan, of Newbury. 2. Samuel, chief justice of Massachusetts, March 22, 1652, at Bishop Stoke. 3. John, October 10, 1654, mentioned below. 4. Major Stephen, of Sa- lem, Massachusetts, August 19, 1657. 5. Jane, October 29, 1659, at Badesly, married Moses Gerrish. 6. Anne, September 3, 1662, at Newbury, married William Longfellow. 7. Mehitable, May 8, 1665, married William Moody. 8. Dorothy, October 29, 1668, mar- ried Ezekiel Northend and (second) Moses Bradstreet.
Through this marriage of Henry Sewall to Jane, daughter of Stephen and Alice (Archer) Dummer, his descendants are allied to Gov- ernor William Dummer, of Massachusetts, the founder of Dummer Academy and the bene- factor of Harvard College, and of his brother, Jeremiah Dummer, the distinguished scholar and political writer of the provincial period. They were grandchildren of her father's brother Richard. The English ancestor of his wife can be traced in an almost unbroken line to Henry de Domers, who was living in 1107. His son, Ralph de Dummers, married Agnes de la Penne, heiress of Penne, in the county of Somerset, afterwards known as Penne-
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Dummer, and still existing as Pendomer. Their great-grandson, Sir John de Dummer, living in 1268-1320, has an effigy still to be seen in Pendomer church, a magnificent ex- ample of its kind, cross-legged, and in a com- plete suit of ring-mail. The family estate of Dummer in Hampshire, on the death of Thomas de Dummer, passed through his only daughter, Ellen, who married Sir Nicholas Atte More, to their son Thomas, who assumed the name Dummer, and whose descendants in the direct male line ended in 1593 with a William Dummer, whose arms and memorial inscriptions are still to be seen of brass tablets in the Dummer church. Some heiress in col- lateral lines had meanwhile married a Pyldren, or Pyldryn, and Stephen Dummer, the father- in-law of Henry Sewall, was the great-grand- son of Matilda, wife of Richard Pyldren- Dummer, of Owslebury and Overton, in Hampshire, through her son John and grand- son Thomas, the latter of Bishop Stoke in that county. The English family continued to be prominent in Hampshire for several generations.
(V) John, son of Henry (3) Sewall, was born at Badesly, or Baddesley, Hampshire, England, October 10, 1654, and was baptized there by Mr. Cox, November 22, following. He became the ancestor of all the Sewalls of that province of Maine. He married, October 27, 1674, Hannah Fessenden, of Cambridge. He lived with his father at Newbury, and died, before his father, August 8, 1699. Children: 1. John, died without issue. 2. Henry. 3. Hannah, married Rev. Samuel Moody. of York, Maine. 4. Samuel, men- tioned below. 5. Nicholas, of York, married Mehitable Storer. 6. Thomas, died unmar- ried. 7. Stephen.
(VI) Samuel, son of John Sewall, was born about 1688 at Newbury. He settled about 1708 in York, Maine, where his sister was then living. He became an elder of the church and held various positions of trust. He died April 25, 1769. We quote from his epitaph : "For penetration, sound judgment, remarkable, given to hospitality. The widow and fatherless he relieved and protected. Vari- ous offices, civil, military and ecclesiastical he with honor and reputation sustained. Pious, exemplary and devout, on the 25th day of April. A. D. 1769, aged 81 years, he died." He married (first) Lydia Storer ; (second) Sarah ( Bachelder) Titcomb. Children of first wife : I. John, died young. 2. Dummer, died young. 3. Lydia. 4. Mercy. 5. Mary. 6. Hannah. Children of second wife: 7.
Major Samuel, inventor of "a method for sinking the piers of bridges over deep rivers." 8. Sarah. 9. Jane (twin with Sarah ). 10. Deacon John. 11. Joseph, mentioned else- where. 12. Moses, of York, Maine, died aged about eighty-three years. 13. Judge David, married Mary Parker, and ( second) Elizabeth Langdon. 14. Colonel Dummer, of Bath, Maine, mentioned below. 15. Henry, of Bath, married Mary Stinson and ( second) Sarah Henry.
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