Elisha Perkins (1753 - 1830)

Born 1753 in Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Elizabeth (Scott) Perkins — married 1781 in Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 19 Apr 1830 at about age 77 in Barr Township, Daviess County, Indiana

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Biography

Burial

Burial Place: Perkins Cem., Barr Twp., Daviess County, Indiana

Occupation

Occupation: Farmer

Sources

• Source: S-379170184 Repository: #R-945409654 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. Page: Ancestry Family Trees Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=16055160&pid=702
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Notes

Note NI1In 1790 Elisha & Mary Elizabeth lived in Morgan District, Burke County, North Carolina with 3 sons, 1 daughter and 9 slaves. Later in 1790 they moved to Burke County, Kentucky. Elisha migrated to Daviess County, Indiana during the summer of 1816.

Land Grants= November 29, 1816, E 1/2 of NE Qtr., Section 8, TWSP 3 North, Range 6 West - 80 acres & March 3 1836, S 1/4 of NE 1/4, Section 8, TWSP 3 North - 40 acres.

Source of following: Dimple June Perkins

It has been said by William Perkins (1789) that Elisha migrated from England to the Virginia Colony during colonial Days. He purchased land on both sides of the Potomac River. His son Elisha was born at the home site on the Virginia side of the Potomac at the site of what is now Harpers Ferry, Va.

In a book Titled Warrants and Surveys of Northern Neck Virginia it states that Major John Carlyle of Fairfax county, Va. surveyed on May 10, 1753, 281 acres on the Potomac river adjoining land of Major Carlyle for Elisha Perkins.

In 1779, Virginia ceded much of the northern part of West District to Pennsylvania. It is believed that Elisha (1753) was actually born in Virginia at the home site.

Elisha committed suicide by hanging himself in his barn.