↑ Sparks, Caroline Massey. "Solving a Perkins Problem", in The Essex Genealogist (Massachusetts). (Lynnfield, Massachusetts: Essex Society of Genealogists) Vol. 16, p. 113.
In a manuscript call "Cataloge of Things Past" kept by John Swain, who married Mary Perkins, is recorded "December 5: 1737 then my mother Perkins died at my house".