Luke Perkins (1695)

Born 17 Sep 1695 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Ruth (Cushman) Perkins — married 28 Jan 1717 in Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Descendants

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Biography

Luke Perkins, son of Luke Perkins and Martha Conant (granddaughter of Roger), was born at Beverly, Massachusetts on 17 Sep 1695^[1][2] and baptized there on 17 Nov 1695.^[3]

Luke married Ruth Cushman at Plympton, Massachusetts on 28 Jan 1717 and they had three children, all born at Plympton:^[4][5]

• Ignatius, b. 15 Jul 1720;
• Hannah, b. 27 May 1723, d.2 May 1802 m.Shaw;
• Mary, b. 28 Jun 1726;
• Luke, b.c. 1726.

On 3 May 1739 Luke and Ruth sold their residence in Plympton to Joseph Ransom.^[5] No further record, however references to possible court records can be found at Blogspot.com.

Sources

1. ↑ Porter, Hon. Joseph W. "An Account of Part of the Family of Abraham Perkins of Hampton, N.H., Who Lived in Plymouth County, Mass." in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 50 (Jan 1896): 34-40, at 37-38. Image copy at Internet Archive: 2016.
2. ↑ Vital Records of Beverly, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849, (Topsfield Historical Society, Topsfield, Mass., 1906) Vol. 1: Births. Online at Arcive.org, page 254: "Perkings, Luke, s. Luke and Martha, Sept. 17, 1695".
3. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", database with images, FamilySearch: 25 Sep 2017, Luke Perkins, son of Luke Perkins and Martha Conant, b. 17 Sep 1695, bp. 17 Nov 1695 in Beverly.
4. ↑ Cushman, Henry Wyles A Historical and Biographical Genealogy of the Cushmans (Cushman, Boston, 1855), p.131.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700-1880. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017). From "Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620". )Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1975-2015). Online at AmericanAncestors.org, Allerton, p.80.