4109.Rev. William Perkins. Born on 25 Aug 1607 in All Hallows, Bread Street, London.16 William died in Topsfield, MA, on 21 May 1682; he was 74.16
From Chamberlain’s History of Weymouth:83
“Capt. William Perkins, the first schoolmaster of which there is any record, was voted £10 for six months schoohng, 10 Mar. 1651 (Weymouth Town Records.) He entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge, as a pensioner at Michaelmas Term, 1625; afterwards immigrated to Christ’s College from which he graduated, A.B., at lent term, 1627-28.
“He was son of William Perkins, a merchant tailor, of London, and was born 25 Aug. 1607, and came in the ship William and Francis, leaving London, 7 Mar. 1631-32. This ship arrived at Boston, 5 June, 1632. (Drake's, The Foumders of New England, 11.) He was made a freeman of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 3 Sept. 1634. He married at Roxbury, 30 Aug. 1636, Elizabeth Wootton, and removed to Weymouth in 1643, where he resided till 1652, when he removed to Gloucester, and in 1655 to Topsfield. He became the first munister of the latter place. He was deputy from Weymout in 1644 and Captain there in 1645. He died at Topsfield, 21 May, 1682, aged 75 years.
“The General Court entered the following record on 7 Oct. 1641: ‘Mr. Willi Perkins, for his fathers £50, is granted 400 acres of land.’ (Massachusetts Bay Colony Records, 1:338.) He was to ‘have power to end small causes at Waymoth,’ 29 May, 1644, and again, 14 May, 1645. (Ibid. 2: 73, 97.) He was a deputy at the General Court, 29 May, 1644, and was called ‘Lieut. Wm. Perkms’ (Ibid. 66) and ‘Capt.,’ 4 Nov. 1746 (Ibid. 184.).”
On 30 Aug 1636 when William was 29, he married Elizabeth Wooton in Roxbury, MA.16