Hello, Have you found an Israel Perkins of West Springfield, Massachusetts during the 1830-60ths Am trying to find a connection between his family and my Chauncy Cummings/ son Israel Perkins Cummings born 1822 W>S>Mass. The widow Prudence DANKS Cummings, seemed to stay near them after her husbands death in 1830. At 03:01 PM 11/16/97 -0500, Paula P. Mortensen wrote: >Abraham Perkins was born in Hilmorton Parish, England in 1603. (Hillmorton >Parish Records) His father was Isaac, and mother Alice. Isaac, Jr. was half >bro. to Abraham, as the first Alice died, and Isaac married another Alice. >Last names are unknown, marriages are not in the Hillmorton Parish records. >He married Mary Wyeth, d/o Humphrey and Susan (Pakeman) Wyeth, ca 1638. >Their children were probably born in Hampton, NH, and that is probably >where they were married. > >John Perkins, Sr. of Ipswich, MA was born 23 December 1583 in Hillmorton >Parish. His parents were Henry Perkins and Elizabeth Sawbridge. (Hillmorton >Parish Records.) > >Henry f/o John and Isaac f/o Abraham and Isaac were brothers. Thus making >Abraham and Isaac cousins to John. > >Then the line goes Thomas and Alice (Kebble) Perkins, Henry Perkins, Thomas >and Alys/Alice (possibly de Astley) Perkins, William Perkins, Thomas >Perkins, William and Margaret (Collee) Perkins, John Perkins, Henry >Perkins, Peter Morley alias Perkins and Agnes (Taylor). > >John Perkins, Jr. did have a son Abraham, but not the Abraham of Hampton. > >I have more, but too much to post here. I am currently putting together a >book on six of the early Perkins colonists, and Abraham is one of them, so >I have done considerable research on these New England lines. > >Paula > > >