John Perkins

(probably December 1583 - circa August 1654)
John Perkins|b. probably December 1583\nd. ca Aug 1654|p1302.htm|Henry Perkins|b. s 1555|p2172.htm|Elizabeth Sawbridge|b. s 1560|p2173.htm|||||||||||||

10-greats-grandfather of Darrell Allen Martin.
John was born in Hillmorton Parish, Warwickshire, England, probably December 1583.1 He was the son of Henry Perkins and Elizabeth Sawbridge. He was baptized in St. John the Baptist Church in Hillmorton Parish, Warks., Eng., on 23 December 1583.2 He married Judith Gater in Hillmorton Parish, Warks., Eng., on 9 October 1608.3 John immigrated in Massachusetts in 1631. on the first trip of the Lyon.4 He resided in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, in 1631. This was his first residence in the New World. John died circa August 1654 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts.5
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Pedigree of Darrell Allen Martin

Children of John Perkins and Judith Gater

Cited documentation

  1. [S100] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 3 vols. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), vol III, pg. 1432, from his baptism; but his death record gives him as age 64 in 1654 and so b. 1590, in error.
  2. [S100] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, vol III, pg. 1432, "Birth: Baptized Hillmorton, Warwickshire, 23 December 1583, son of Henry and Elizabeth (Sawbridge) Perkins" quoting Walter Godwin Davis' "Ancestry of Dudley Wildes" pg. 87.
  3. [S100] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, vol III, pg. 1432, "Marriage: Hillmorton 8 October 1608 Judith Gater."
  4. [S100] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, vol. III, pg. 1431.
  5. [S100] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, vol III, pg. 1432, "Death: Ipswich '1654 aged sixty four years' between 28 March 1654 (date of will) and 26 September 1654 (probate of will)."
 
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