----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Redden" <[email protected]> To: "John Kantzer" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 10:39 PM Subject: Re: [PERKINS] Lydia PERKINS > Lydia Perkins was the daughter of Isaac Perkins and his wife Susanna. > Susanna's last name is not believed to be wise but Isaac's brother Abraham > married Susanna Wise's sister Mary Wythe. > > I believe Abraham stayed in Plymouth whild Isaac moved north to Hampton, NH > where the family belonged to the Quaker faith. Lydia was persecuted for her > faith and she and her husband Eliakim Wardwell had tithe collecters take > nearly everything they owned for not paying tithes to the Hampton church. > Several of her friends were hung and otherwise persecuted. After loosing > nearly everything to the tithe collectors she recieved a summons to appear > at church. Since they had taken nearly everything from her except the > clothes on her back she obeyed the summons but before entering the sunday > service she removed all her clothes in protest so that they could even have > those. As punishment she was stripped to the waste and tied with her > breasts upon a splinterd post and severly whipped. Her brother in law was > later hung as a witch in Salem in 1692. > > Many of the descendants of Isaac Perkins moved to the Delaware Valley with > his widow to avoid further persecution. They settled throughout Delaware, > New Jersey and Maryland. I'm not sure if Lydia moved south or not. > > Paul Redden > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Kantzer" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 8:23 PM > Subject: [PERKINS] Lydia PERKINS > > > > Looking for information on Lydia PERKINS daughter of Isaac PERKINS and > > Susanna WISE, bn probably 1640s Massachusetts, New Hampshire or Delaware. > > Pat > > > > > > ==== PERKINS Mailing List ==== > > Don't forget to check out our Projects Page! Here you find projects going > on with Perkins List Members > > http://pages.prodigy.net/kathycorriher/EP/EP.htm > > A Place where a PERKINS connection might be behind the next e-mail > > > > > > ============================== > > Search more than 150 million free records at RootsWeb! > > http://searches.rootsweb.com/ > > > > > >