Born in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of Thomas Handasyd Perkins
and Sarah (Elliott) Perkins
Sister of
Sarah Elliot Perkins, Thomas Handasyd Perkins Jnr, Mary Anne Cushing (Perkins) Cary, Caroline (Perkins) Gardiner, George Cabot Perkins and Nancy Cushing (Perkins) Cary
Wife of
Samuel Cabot Jr.
— married
2 Nov 1812 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Descendants 
Mother of
Samuel Cabot III, Edward Clarke Cabot, James Elliot Cabot, Elizabeth Perkins (Cabot) Lee, Walter Channing Cabot and Louis Cabot
Died
at age 93
in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 3 Nov 2014
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Biography
Elizabeth "Eliza" Perkins was born at Boston, Massachusetts, in mid-March of 1791, a daughter of Thomas Handasyde Perkins and Sarah (Elliott) Perkins. She married Samuel Cabot at Boston on the 2nd of November, 1812.
Widowed in 1863, she survived Samuel by more than twenty years, dying at Brookline, Massachusetts, in early March of 1885, days short of her 94th birthday.
Sources
- Birth, parentage, marriage, and offspring: History and Genealogy of the Cabot family, 1475-1927, by L. Vernon Briggs, Boston, Mass. : C.E. Goodspeed & Co., 1927, p. 326; https://archive.org/details/historygenealogy00brig_2/page/370/mode/2up
- Birth, family members, death, and burial (with image of gravestone): Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59685874/eliza-cabot: accessed 30 March 2023), memorial page for Eliza Perkins Cabot (17 Mar 1791–2 Mar 1885), Find A Grave: Memorial #59685874, citing Walnut Hills Cemetery, Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by Nanny (contributor 47179467).
- Birth location (Boston MA; in death record of son): "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NWNV-MR9 : 13 December 2022), Elizabeth Perkins in entry for Walter Channing Cabot, 1904.
- Marriage to Samuel Cabot, 2 Nov. 1812 at Boston MA: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-K71V : 19 May 2022), Samuel Cabot and Elizabeth Perkins, 02 Nov 1812; citing Marriage, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004277237.
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