Surname Saturday -- PERKINS (England to colonial New England)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.

I am working in the 9th great-grandmothers by Ahnentafel number, and I am up to Ancestor #2149 who is Lydia PERKINS (1632-1672). [Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 9th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts.]

My ancestral line back through two generations in this PERKINS family line is:

1. Randall J. Seaver

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)

8. Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922)
9. Hattie Louise Hildreth (1857-1920)

16. Isaac Seaver (1823-1901)
17. Lucretia Townsend Smith (1827-1884)

32. Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825)
33. Abigail Gates (1797-1869)

66.  Nathan Gates (1767-1830)
67.  Abigail Knowlton (1774-1855)

134.  Jeremiah Knowlton (1745-1785)
135.  Abigail Peirce (1750-1775)

268.  Jeremiah Knowlton (1713-1752)
269.  Sarah Allen (1717-1796)

536.  Nathaniel Knowlton (1683-1760)
537.  Mary Bennett (1685-1717)

1074.  Henry Bennett (1664-1739)
1075.  Frances Burr (1669-1708)

2148.  Henry Bennett, born about 1629 in England; died after October 1707 in probably Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.  He married about 1651 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
2149.  Lydia Perkins, born before 03 June 1632 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; died about 1672 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of Henry Bennett and Lydia Perkins are:
*  Jacob Bennett (1651-1686), married about 1675 Sarah LNU.
*  John Bennett (1655-1675).
*  William Bennett (1657-????).
*  Henry Bennett (1664-1739), married Frances Burr (1669-1708).
*  Thomas Bennett (1667-1701), married 1692 Elizabeth LNU (1671-1731).

4298.  John Perkins, born before 23 September 1583 in Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England; died 23 September 1654 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 8596. Henry Perkins and 8597. Elizabeth Sawbridge.  He married 09 October 1608 in Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England.
4299.  Judith Gater, born before 19 March 1588 in Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England; died 1684 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.  She was the daughter of 8598. Michael Gater and 8599. Isabel Bayley.

Children of John Perkins and Judith Gater are:
*  John Perkins (1609-1686), married 1636 Elizabeth Eveleth (1616-1684).
*  Elizabeth Perkins (1611-1670), married 1636 William Sargent (1602-1674).
*  Mary Perkins (1611-1700), married 1636 Thomas Bradbury (1610-1695).
*  Anne Perkins (1617-1617).
*  Thomas Perkins (1622-1686), married 1643 Phebe Gould (1620-????).
*  Jacob Perkins (1624-1700), married (1) 1649 Elizabeth Whipple (1629-1686); (2) 1684 Damaris Dorman (1636-1716).
*  Lydia Perkins (1632-1672), married 1651 Henry Bennett (1629-1707).

Information about this Perkins family was obtained from:

*  Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Dudley Wildes 1759-1820 of Topsfield MA (Portland, Me. : Androensen Press, 1959), pages 165-182. 

*  Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Vol. III (Boston, Mass. : NEHGS, 1995), pgs. 1431-1433.  

*  George A. Perkins, The Family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Massachusetts (Salem, Mass. :  1882).

I have done no original research for this person.

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