General Notes

Baptism: 23 DEC 1583 Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England
Immigration: 1631
Settled in "Ipswitch, Massachusetts" Misc AFT 5 FEB 1631 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts
Sailed from England in the ship "Lion" with wife Judith Gater and daughter Elizabeth. Misc 11 DEC 1630 England
Arrived in Nantasket and next day anchored before Boston Misc 5 FEB 1631 New England
Freeman Misc 18  May 1631

ORIGIN: Hillmorton, Warwickshire
MIGRATION: 1631 on first trip of the "Lyon"
FIRST RESIDENCE: Boston
REMOVES: Ipswich 1633
Church MaineMBERSHIP: "John Perkins and Judith his wife" were admitted to Boston church as members #107 and #108 (this would be in early 1631) [ BChR 14].
FREEMassachusettsN: 18 May 1631 [ MBCR 1:366].
EDUCATION: He made his mark to his will.
OFFICES: Deputy to General Court for Ipswich, 25 May 1636 [ MBCR 1:174]. Committee to set the bounds of Roxbury and Dorchester, 7 November 1632 [ MBCR 1:102].
   Essex grand jury, 28 [December] 1641, 26 September 1648, 28 September 1652 [ EQC 1:37, 145, 260].
   On 26 March 1650 "John Perkins Sr., being above sixty years old, is freed from ordinary training" [ EQC 1:187].
ESTATE: He had Ipswich land grants: forty acres in 1634, three acres of upland; ten acres of meadow; an island at More's Point; ten acres where "he hath built a house"; six acres of meadow; six acres of upland in 1635, and forty acres at Chebacco in 1636, and six acres of plowland in 1639 [ Dudley Wildes Anc 88].
   On 10 December 1644 "John Perkins of Ipswich in America" and Thomas Perkins exchanged land in Ipswich [ ILR 3:1, 4:268].
   In his will, dated 28 March 1654 and proved 26 September 1654, "John Perkines the Elder of Ipswich being at this time sick and weak in body" bequeathed to "my eldest son John Perkines a foal ... also ... to my son John's two sons John and Abraham to each of them one of my yearling heifers"; to "my son Thomas Perkines one cow and one heifer also ... to his son John Perkines one ewe"; to "my daughter Elizabeth Sarjeant one cow and a heifer to be to her and her children after her decease"; to "my daughter Mary Bradbery one cow and one heifer or a young steer ... to her & to her children"; to "my daughter Lidia Bennitt one cow and one heifer or steer ... to her children"; to "my grandchild Thomas Bradbery one ewe"; to "my son Jacob Perkines my dwelling house together with all the outhousing and all my lands ... according to a former covenant, after the decease of my wife"; residue "to my dear wife Judeth Perkines" sole executrix, "as also to dispose of some of the increase to children of my son Thomas and of my three daughters" at her discretion [ EPR 1:190-91].
   The inventory of John Perkins was undated but totalled Ð250 5s., including real estate valued at Ð132: "the dwelling house and barn with out housing," Ð40 60s. [sic]; "land about the house about eight acres," Ð12; "more land unbroke up about fourteen acres," Ð21; "a parcel of marsh about six acres," Ð12; "a parcel of upland and marsh being much broken about twenty acres," Ð20; "twelve acres of improved land," Ð24 [ EPR 1:191].
BIRTH: Baptized Hillmorton, Warwickshire, 23 December 1583, son of Henry and Elizabeth (Sawbridge) Perkins [ Dudley Wildes Anc 87].
DEATH: Ipswich "1654 aged sixty four years" between 28 March 1654 (date of will) and 26 September 1654 (probate of will).
Marraige: Hillmorton 8 October 1608 Judith Gater, baptized Hillmorton 19 March 1588/9, daughter of Michael Gater [ Dudley Wildes Anc 87].

ASSOCIATIONS: Walter Goodwin Davis discusses the possibility that Isaac Perkins of Ipswich was a close relative [ Dudley Wildes Anc 89].
COMMaineNTS: On 3 April 1632 a Court of Assistants ordered "that no person whatsoever shall shoot at fowl upon Pullen Poynte or Noddle's Ileland, but that the said places shall be reserved for John Perkins to take fowl with nets" [ MBCR 1:94].
   In the 1 April 1633 list of men authorized by the court to begin the settlement of Ipswich, the eighth name is "William Perkins" [ MBCR 1:103], which must be an error for this John Perkins, inasmuch as WILLIAM PERKINS was at Roxbury at this time, and would not move to Essex County for nearly two decades more.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1959 Walter Goodwin Davis published the English origin of John Perkins and his wife, and pushed the Perkins ancestry back to 1475 [ Dudley Wildes Anc 81-90].[349362.ged]

REFN11466
!NOTE: Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines; ; Milwaukee: privately
printed, 1943; Vol. 1, p. 484; ; John Perkins said to have come from
Hillmorton, co. Warwick with his wife, Judith and their children John,
Eliza beth, Mary, Thomas and Jacob came to New England in the famous 'Lyon' with
its more famous master, William Peirce sailing from Bristol on December 1,
1630, and arriving at Boston on February 5, 1630-1....
It is rather interesting to n ote that when Mr. William B. Weeden was writing
his 'Economic and Social Histo ry of New England,' of all the families resident
there in the mid-seventeenth century he chose the family and inventory of John
Perkins as a symbol of the s imple but 'typical household economy.'
!CHRISTENING: Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Dudley Wildes, 1759-1820; ;
; ; , Family History Library, Salt La ke City
!DEATH: Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines; ; Milwaukee:p rivately
printed, 1943; Vol. 1, p. 485; ; The will of John was proved on Septe mber 27,
1654, so his death had occurred at Ipswich between March 28 and Septe mber 27
when he was sixty fourt to seventy-one years old.
!MARRIAGE:Walter Go odwin Davis, The Ancestry of Dudley Wildes, 1759-1820; ; ;
; , Family History Library, Salt Lake City