Mary
Gerrish
formerly [surname unknown] aka Smith, Perkins
Born about [location unknown]
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Ebenezer Smith
— married
before 1720 (to about 1720) in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts
Wife of
Matthew Perkins Jr
— married
14 Jan 1721 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts
Wife of
James Gerrish
— married
12 Dec 1740 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, British America
Descendants 
Mother of
Esther (Perkins) Lord, Ruth (Perkins) Dodge, Matthew Perkins III, John Perkins, Brewer Perkins, Stephen Perkins, Abraham Perkins and Stephen Perkins
Died after
after about age 50
in Berwick, York County, Colony of Maine [uncertain]
[uncertain]Profile last modified
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Biography
Mary was the widow of Ebenezer Smith when she married Matthew Perkins in 1721. [1]
Mary married Matthew Perkins on Jan 14, 1720-1 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts.[2] He passed away in 1737.[3]
After Matthew Perkins died, Mary married James Gerrish of Berwick, Maine on 12 Dec 1740 in Ipswich.[4] They moved to Berwick and she died there.[5]
Sources
- ↑ The Family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Mass: Complete in Three Parts" By George Augustus Perkins - Part 3, page 16
- ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCC9-62K : accessed 13 October 2015), Matthew Perkins and Mary Smith, 14 Jan 1720; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 0547505 IT 1.
- ↑ The Family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Mass: Complete in Three Parts" By George Augustus Perkins - Part 3, page 16
- ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCCS-N2N : accessed 13 October 2015), James Gerrish and Mary Perkins, 12 Dec 1740; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 0547505 IT 1.
- ↑ The Family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Mass: Complete in Three Parts" By George Augustus Perkins - Part 3, page 17
- George A. Perkins, The Family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Massachusetts: Complete in Three Parts (Salem, Massachusetts: Geo. A. Perkins, 1889), page 16-17
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Categories: Ipswich, Massachusetts | Berwick, Maine
But there is no mention of the first husband here, which was clearly stated in Perkins. And since there could be another Matthew Perkins and, this just doesn't seem like enough to go on, so I would like to hold off until and when something more concrete can be found that verifies this Mary as Mary Brewer daughter of John and his second wife Martha.
edited by Bobby Bothmann Jr.