Cited on WorldConnect at [1]: (VI) Thomas Clap Perkins, son of Enoch, and the father of Charles E. Perkins, of Hartford, was born July 30, 1798, in Hartford, Conn. On Nov. 7, 1827, he married Mary Foot Beecher, daughter of Rev. Lyman Beecher, D. D. Thomas C. Perkins was graduated from Yale in 1818, taking the salutatory, and studied law with Hon. Seth P. Staples of New Haven . . "