Timothy Perkins Sr. (1715 - 1768)

Born 16 Jan 1715 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Susanna (Washburn) Perkins — married 18 Mar 1736 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Husband of Zipporah (Washburn) Perkins — married 7 Oct 1753 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 15 Mar 1768 at age 53 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

In 1729, Timothy between the age of 14 and 21, made the choice of Mr. Thomas Perkins of Bridgewater to be his guardian.^[1]

Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts

• From John A. Maltby Genealogies:^[2]

Susanna Washburn, third daughter of Samuel (Jr.) and Abigail (Leonard) Washburn, married Timothy Perkins, son of Nathan and Martha (Leonard) Perkins,^[3] on 18 Mar. 1735/6 in Bridgewater.^[4] He was born on 16 Jan. 1714/15 in Bridgewater,^[5] a grandson of David and Elizabeth (Brown) Perkins,^[6] and of Solomon and Mary Leonard (Jr.), of Bridgewater.^[7]

Timothy Perkins and Susanna Washburn had children, order uncertain:^[8]

• 1183 i Nathaniel Perkins, born say ca. 1738, married Mary Alger, daughter of Joseph and Naomi (Hayward) Alger (Jr.),[224] on 16 Mar. 1775 in Bridgewater,[225] and they lived in Easton and Bridgewater, MA. (To be continued in Washburn Sixth Generation.)

• 1184 ii (Unnamed son), died on 7 Feb. 1746 in Bridgewater.[226]

• 1185 iii Patience Perkins, born ca. 1745-50,[227] married (1164) Isaiah6 Washburn, her first cousin, son of (408) Samuel5 and Mary (___) Washburn (3rd), of Stafford, CT, and Ashfield, MA, on 3 Sept. 1772 in Ashfield.[228] He was born on 11 Dec. 1750 in Stafford, CT,[229] a grandson of (122) Samuel4 and Abigail3 (Leonard) Washburn (Jr.), of Bridgewater,[230] MA, and Stafford, CT, and they moved to Georgia, Franklin Co., VT. (To be continued in Washburn Sixth Generation.)

• Timothy Perkins (Jr.), born on 13 Aug. 1748 in Ashfield, MA, married Elizabeth Stocking, of Ashfield, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Shepard) Stocking, on 25 Nov. 1779 in Ashfield, MA.

• v (Possibly others)

Susanna (Washburn) Perkins died on 20 July 1753 in Bridgewater,^[9] and Timothy Perkins remarried to Zipporah Washburn, daughter of William and Experience (Mann) Washburn,^[10][11] on 7 Oct 1753 in Bridgewater.^[12] She was born on 17 Aug. 1721 in Bridgewater.^[13]

They were living in Ashfield, Hampshire Co., MA, in the 1790 federal census,^[14] but he probably died in Hampshire Co., MA, before the 1800 federal census.^[15]

Parents/Birth

Timothy Perkins, son of Nathan Perkins and Martha Leonard, was born 16 Jan 1715.^[16]

Marriage 1

Timothy married Susanna Washburn on 18 Mar 1736.^[16] in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts. They had children:

• Timothy Perkins
• Rebecca Perkins
• Susanna Perkins
• Freelove Perkins
• Nathaniel Perkins
• Patience Perkins
• Mercy Perkins

Residence 1751

Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts

Marriage 2

Timothy married Zipporah Washburn on 7 Oct 1753 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts. They had children:

• Eliah Perkins
• Abiezer Perkins

Death

Date: 15 MAR 1768

Place: Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts

He may have been the Timothy Perkins, of Plymouth, Mariner, who died intestate in 1796 in Plymouth, MA, and Ichabod Morton, Jr., of Plymouth, was granted administration of his estate on 21 Sept. 1796.^[17]

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G97D-FH1B : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1724-1731 and 1838-1842 vol 5-5T > image 318 of 596; State Archives, Boston.
2. ↑ John A. Maltby Genealogies - Susanna Washburn
3. ↑ Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 265, who calls Martha “daughter perhaps of Solomon Leonard;” Wakefield, Robert S., Sherman, Robert Moody, and Vincent, Verle Delano, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume Fifteen: Family of James Chilton, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA, 1997, [hereinafter MF5G: Chilton], pp. 24, 67. Martha (Leonard) Perkins married, as her second husband, to Isaac Hayward on 15 May 1728 in Bridgewater, and on 24 Aug. 1739 Isaac Hayward, husbandman, and his wife Martha transferred all their rights to lands of “our father Solomon Leonard” late of Bridgewater, deceased, to Solomon Perkins, of Bridgewater.
4. ↑ Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 293.
5. ↑ Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 259.
6. ↑ MF5G: Chilton, p. 67-68. The will of David Perkins, dated 21 Jan. 1735/6, mentioned grandsons Nathan, James, Timothy and Solomon, “my son Nathan’s children,” among others, taken from Plymouth County Probate, Vol. 7, p. 246.
7. ↑ MF5G: Chilton, p. 24.
8. ↑ Son Nathaniel is from Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 266. His birth was not recorded in the Bridgewater Vital Records.
9. ↑ Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 535, from a private record of deaths kept by Oliver Alden, of Bridgewater, “wife of Timothy Perkins.”
10. ↑ Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 324.
11. ↑ Mitchell, History of Bridgewater, p. 265, 266.
12. ↑ Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 2, p. 392.
13. ↑ Bridgewater VRs, Vol. 1, p. 337.
14. ↑ Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: Massachusetts, Bountiful, Utah, 1993, p. 101, Ashfield Town, Hampshire County, the Timothy Perkins household had 1 free white male aged 16 or older and 1 free white female.
15. ↑ The one Timothy Perkins household in Ashfield in the 1800 federal census appears to be that of his son, Timothy Perkins (Jr.)
16. ↑ ^{16.0 16.1} 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. Image copy at Internet Archive: 2016.
17. ↑ Plymouth Co. Probate Docket #15663, Vol. 34, p. 85.

See also:

• Mayflower Families Through Five Generations Vol. 15 p. 68

• John A. Maltby Genealogies - William Washburn # 374

• Godfrey Memorial Library, comp. Title: American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 1999; Repository: #R1

• Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011; Repository: #R1

• Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp Title: Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005; Repository: #R1

• Jackson, Ron V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp. Title: Massachusetts Census, 1790-1890 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 1999; Repository: #R1

Acknowledgments

• 124-DeCoursey.ged on 14 September 2010.
• Thank you to Jonathon Dale Walter Myers for creating WikiTree profile Perkins-3712 through the import of WARNER James 1828.ged on Sep 13, 2013.