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Perkins Genealogy Notes

Misc. Notes

11/7/1850 The Augusta Chronicle

Marriages
Marriages		Date	Notes
EDWARD J. PERKINS	REBECCA H. WEEKS	1877	Jefferson County, Georgia Marriage Records
PHILLIP PERKINS	LOUISA ROGERS	1843	Jefferson County, Georgia Marriage Records
SIMON M. PERKINS	MARY T. CALHOUN	1868	Jefferson County, Georgia Marriage Records
Engagements

Wills/Misc.Estates/Deeds

Deaths

WILLIAM ALVIN PERKINS, died 6-24-1976, Waynesboro, Georgia; age 56; died in Burke County Hospital; native of Jefferson County, Ga; WWII Veteran; husband of DOROTHY BAILEY PERKINS; sons, JAMES T. PERKINS and WILLIAM L. MCNEELY, both of Waynesboro; he is the son of WILLIAM A. PERKINS, Waynesboro; brothers, RALPH M. PERKINS and CHARLES E. PERKINS. Interment in Burke Memorial Gardens.
DR. ARCHIBALD PERKINS, Died in Jasper County on 8/21/1826, after an illness of fifteen days. He was survived by wife and five children. The Southern Recorder, 9/12/1826
ARCHIBALD PERKINS, died 10/15/1840, age 94, in Green County at the residence of REV. ALBERT JERNIGAN. He was a native of Goochland County, Virginia; a Revolutionary War Soldier in the battle of Guilford in North Carolina and a member of Methodist Church over 50 years. The Southern Recorder, 11/3/1840

Military

ISAAC PERKINS, S41953, Craven County, North Carolina, application dated 6/9/1818; aged 51; enlisted as Private, ContI Line, North Carolina Regt. in 1777, Captain Silas Sears Stevenson's Company, marched to Valley Forge, Pa. where 10th Regt. was disbanded and deponent passed into 2d Regt., company of Capt. Clement Hall, northern campaign, marched to South Carolina taken prisoner in Charleston, escaped, returned to North Carolina where he served till peace in Militia of that State. Service exceeded 3 yrs. age 73 in 1829 and wife DEBORAH, age 66. ISAAC PERKINS died 5/23/1830.

JOHN PERKINS, R8111, Marion County, Georgia application dated 6/17/1854 of widow, NANCY PERKINS, appointed CHARLES C. TUCKER her attorney to prosecute her claim for pension. Stewart County, Georgia, 8/18/1837, JOHN PERKINS, 78 years old as of 8/19th past; he vollunteered Georgia State Troops as horseman 7/1778, COL. ELIJAH CLARKE ,Wilkes County Georgia pursue indians to the Cherokee purchase, now the n. e. co.'s of the State; was in general skirmishes; served till 10/1778. Vol. 1778 as Private Footman, Captain GREENBURY, COL. BENJAMIN FEW, marched to Richmond County, now Columbia County, then Burke County Court House, for 3 weeks guarding the jail occupied by tory prisoners. Here he had several skirmishes with the tories, served 1 month and returned home. Vol., Private Footman, 1779, CAPT. SAMUEL BECKAM with Georgia Troops 6/1779, to Savannah, Georgia was at seige in 1779; entered Georgia Troops under COL. BENJAMIN FEW in 1781; he does not remember when he entered or left the service; entered as Vol. Pvt. Footman, appointed SAMUEL ALEXANDER, 3/1782, 6 months, marched from Augusta, Georgia to Savannah, Georgia then Ebenezer; to Savannah, left 8/1782. Soldier was born 3/19/1759 North Carolina, lived in Richmond County Georgia when he enlisted but lived in Crawford County since now Stewart County.

JOHN PERKINS, W2640, Wayne County, Tennessee, application dated 1/15/1859, WILLIAM SINCLAIR'S affidavit, J. P., authorized to admr. FRANCES PERKINS, widow of JOHN PERKINS and a resident of said county, JOHN PERKINS, alias : HOMAS CARSON, Private applied to obtain bounty land. A lension was granted to husband, drawing $50 per annum at Nashville, Tennessee; lived in Hardin County, Tennessee; Husband died 6/16/1840.

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