| William Louis Perkins is a tenth generation descendent of Isaac Perkins who, with his brother Abraham, was part of the Puritan immigration to New England in the 1630's. Both brothers married daughters of Humphrey Wise and were among the founding settlers of the New Hampshire colony. After Isaac Perkins death in 1685, his widow Susan and five of his children migrated to William Penn's new colony in search of cheap land and religious tolerance. His daughters Lydia and Rebecca had both married famous Quakers, Eliakim Wardell and Joseph Hussey. Lydia and Eliakim migrated to Northern New Jersey. Isaac's youngest sons Joseph and Ebenezer with their mother and sister Rebecca Hussey migrated to New Castle, Delaware. Jacob, Isaac's second eldest son, moved to Burlington Co. NJ. There his family became closely interwined with the VanScivers, Shreves, Fenimores and Adams. Although most of the large, extended family prospered as farmers throughout Burlington County, Isaac Perkins, Jr, Jacob's great-grandson, lost his farm to debters. His children moved to the cities of Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. in the late 1850's where they studied photography and started their own studios. Isaac and his wife Jane (VanSciver) followed their sons to Baltimore where they settled on a farm in Dundalk, MD. Their youngest son, Benjamin George Perkins, married Susan Katherine Boone of Dundalk and remained there after Isaac and Jane moved on to greener pastures. Susan Boone was descended from several old Maryland families (Turner, Fitz, Maybury). Her father, Stephen Boone is a bit of a mystery. Four generations of Benjamin and Susan's descendents have continued to reside in the Baltimore area. On his mother's side, William is a fourth generation descendent of Vigilio Perseghin, an Italian-Austrian immigrant. Born in 1850s in Northern Italy, Vigilio and his wife Maria Imbania Bombonato were caught up in the social and economic birthpangs of the modern Italian nation. Living the first half of their married lives in Trecenta in the province of Rovigo, the Perseghins raised five sons from whom all the Perseghins living in America are descended. After seeing their eldest son conscripted into the army and sent off to a disasterous colonial war in Eritrea, the Perseghins decided to migrate to America. Vigilio's family migrated to North Carolina in 1905 as part of an attempt by Hugh Mc Crae, a Wilmington, N.C. businessmen, to establish a network of European peasant farming colonies throughout the South. With his five sons, Vigilio settled in St. Helena, the colony for Northern Italians. Most of the family later migrated to Maryland where they settled in a section of Baltimore County also known as St. Helena. William is descended from Veronica, the daughter of Napoleon, Vigilio's third son. There are currently about 17,000 names in William Perkins' database. He has made a special study of those descendents of Isaac Perkins, who settled in New Jersey and Delaware. He is also trying to assemble a geneological record of all of Isaac Perkins' descendents. |
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Updated May 4, 2009 |
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William Louis Perkins 254 Bassett Ave New Castle, DE 19720 A-United States 302-322-8208 fhbp@msn.com |
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