Samuel (Perkins) (John,2 John1) was born in Ipswich, Mass., in 1655. He married in 1677 Hannah, daughter of Twifford and Hannah West. He was a cordwainer by trade. He served as a soldier in the Narragansett war, for which he received a portion of land at Voluntown, on the eastern border of Connecticut, which land afterward came into possession of his son Ebenezer, who settled upon it, and in 1735 sold it to John Wildes of Topsfield, Mass. His father gave him a deed of land in the town of Ipswich on which he had built a house in 1684; this land joined to land given to his brother Luke. In a deed to Luke, his father, Quartr John, says, "and that Saml Perkins shall not be disturbed in the possession I have given him, and that he hath built upon." Samuel Perkins died intestate in 1700. His widow, Hannah, was administratrix of his estate, and was also appointed guardian of his two minor children, John and Elizabeth.
