Thomas Perkins (bef. 1628 - abt. 1699)

Born before 1628 in England [uncertain]

Descendants

Died about 1699 after about age 71 in Dover, New Hampshire [uncertain]

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Biography

John Adams and Thomas hayed for Capt. Waldron in 1665. In 1669 Thomas had a grant of a 3 1/2 acre house lot on Dover Neck, north of Isaac Stokes and was fighting with Stokes in that year.

In 1674, age 46, he told about a man behind T. Beard's barn selling liquor to an Indian.

In 1693 he deeded his house and orchard on the Fore River between the widows Canney and Willey to his son Nathaniel, reserving half the produce for himself.

In 1697 Frances had taken care of David Hamilton. Torrey’s states that Frances married Mark Giles in 1680, if this is true then the above deed to the property on the Fore River must have been executed by his son.^[1] The Dover vital records state that “Mark Giles Sen. married to Frances Perkins wid: Sep 2, 1700”… a date which makes more sense. The other thing that comes to mind is, was Frances the mother of Nathaniel? If Nathaniel was married in 1679 he was born probably c.1660 or earlier (his wife Hannah was born in 1662) and that would make Frances born c.1640. Also there seems to be quite a gap between the birth of Nathaniel and Thomas which makes me suspect that Frances was a second wife (she was also a lot younger than Thomas Sr. which would also go along with her being a second wife). Of course the other possibility is that Thomas and Frances had fertility issues or that they had several children who died young whose names are lost to history…

Sources

1. ↑ Torrey’s New England Marriages to 1700- Vol. I, p. 618

• Libby, Charles Thornton. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. Portland, ME, USA: The Southward Press, 1928. p 543

See Also:

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch, entry for this profile (PID FamilySearch Person: G6Q5-4WB); contributed by various users.