1George Thomas Little, Henry Sweetser Burrage and Albert Roscoe Stubbs, Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, Vol. 2, p. 514 (1909).
"(III) Jacob, son of John Perkins (2), was born in Ipswich in 1646 and died in 1719. He was called corporal, and sometimes mentioned as "Jacob Perkins the Maltster." His father gave him the use of a farm of a hundred acres in Chebacco parish, being half a farm which he bought of William Wittred in 1661.
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His will was dated December 13, 1718, and proved December 14, 1719, and his sons Jacob and John were executors. He married (first) in 1667 Sarah Wainwright, who died February 3, 1688. He married (second) in 1688-89, Sarah, born March 19, 1659, daughter of Robert and Mary Kinsman. Children of first wife: 1. John, born January 31, 1668, died young. 2. Phillis, November 28, 1670, married, November 20, 1685, Thomas Emerson. 3. Francis, December 18, 1672, died before 1719. 4. Westly, March 13, 1674, died before 1697. 5. Sarah, May 18, 1677, married John Leighton. 6. Mehitable, July 12, 1681, married, November 20, 1704, Jacob Burnham. 7. Mary, August 2, 1685. married Jonathan Burnham. 8. Elizabeth, May 8, 1687. Children of second wife: 9. Jacob, January 3, 1690, married (first) Rlizabeth Kinsman, (second) December 6, 1733, Mary Dresser. 10. Eunice, March 14, 1691. 11. John, October 17, 1693, mentioned below. 12. Robert, October 21, 1695, married Elizabeth Douton. 13. Westly, December 3, 1697, married Abigail Rindge. 14. Joseph, Ocober 9, 1699, married Elizabeth Fellows. 15. Jeremiah, December 1, 1701, married Joanna Smith.".