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Richard Perkins I
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Our first known ancestor is Richard Perkins I, and the first records we find for him are land transactions. In 1683 Richard purchased 100 acres "in the woods above the head of Swan Creek". On Dec 15, 1683 he purchased a 100 acre tract called Perkinson at the head of Mosquito creek bounded by tracts called The Grove, Mascalls Humor and Beaver Neck. In 1694 he took up a tract of land on Swan Creek called Paradise, containing 490 acres. On Aug 28, 1697 Richard I and William Lofton jointly purchased a 100 acre tract they called Brotherly Love, on the south side of the Susquehanna River, near what is now Susquehanna State Park. Several transactions are found concerning a tract of land called Eightrupp or Atrop or Airtop, which was surveyed 29 December 1664 for
Thomas Griffith, who gave it to Henry Hazlewood. The executors of the latter sold it to Richard Perkins I and William Lofton. In 1700, 468 of the 500 acres were in possession of Richard Perkins, the remaining 32, in possession of
Daniel Johnson.
We know Richard Perkins I died between April 4, 1704, when he was named as executor in the will of Thomas Gish and February 1706, when his widow
published her intent to remarry. According to Baltimore County Families
1659-1759 page 500 an administrative bond was posted 16 April 1706 by his widow Mary Perkins with William Perkins and John Mills, to settle his estate. On May 18th, 1706 his goods and chattell were inventoried by Thomas Brown and Henry Wright, with the appraised value of 67 pounds, 14 schillings, 6 pence, plus 5,128 pounds of tobacco. |
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