Additional information available.[4]

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Perkins, Eliphaz

Released 04 May 2004
Athens County, Ohio Records - Biographies

Eliphaz Perkins, son of John Perkins, a leading citizen of Norwich, Connecticut, was born at that place, August 25, 1753. Deprived of his father at an early age, he was nevertheless enabled, through the exertions of his mother, to obtain a liberal education. Soon after leaving college, Mr. Perkins married Lydia Fitch, daughter of Dr. Jabez Fitch, of Canterbury, Connecticut, and engaged for a time in the mercantile business in that town. Subsequently he engaged in the same business in New Haven; having, however, an inclination to professional pursuits, he finally entered on the study of medicine with his father-in-law, and this was his vocation during the rest of his life. The times being hard, and his family increasing, Dr. Perkins decided to remove to a new country, and, in the spring of 1789, leaving his family in Connecticut, he started for Marietta. On his arrival here he found a number of persons from Clarksburg, Virginia, engaged in laying out a road between that place and Marietta. At their urgent solicitation he returned with them to Clarksburg, where he practiced medicine for nearly two years. The Indian war began about this time, and Dr. Perkins witnessed some terrible scenes of border warfare. In one instance the savages killed and scalped a family near where the Doctor was passing the night. One member of the family, a girl about fourteen years old, was scalped and left for dead in the fence corner. Dr. Perkins found her the next morning, still alive, took her under his care, and with good treatment and an elastic constitution, she was finally restored to health.

In the autumn of 1790, Dr. Perkins returned to Connecticut and rejoined his family, whom he had not heard from, nor they from him, for nearly two years. During the next few years, he lived part of the time in Connecticut, and part of the time in Vermont, and practiced his profession. He finally decided to remove his family to the northwest, and they set out for Marietta on the third of June, 1799. He had at this time seven children, the eldest of whom, then a young lady of fifteen (afterwards Mrs. David Pratt, of Athens), kept a journal of their trip to Marietta, which is now before us. She says (See notes on daughter, Julia Perkins)

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[1]PERKINS-2.ged . Date of Import: Sep 4, 2004

[2]PERKINS-2.ged . Date of Import: Sep 4, 2004

[3]2910310.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005 See also galeroberts2-.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005 See also Gale Larochelle, galeroberts.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005 ABBR galeroberts.ged See also PERKINS-2.ged . Date of Import: Sep 4, 2004

[4]2910310.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005 See also

[5]2910310.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005

[6]2910310.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005 See also galeroberts2-.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005 See also Gale Larochelle, galeroberts.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005 ABBR galeroberts.ged See also PERKINS-2.ged . Date of Import: Sep 4, 2004

[7]2910310.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005 See also galeroberts2-.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005 See also Gale Larochelle, galeroberts.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005 ABBR galeroberts.ged See also PERKINS-2.ged . Date of Import: Sep 4, 2004

[8]2910310.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005 See also galeroberts2-.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005 See also Gale Larochelle, galeroberts.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005 ABBR galeroberts.ged See also 2910310.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005 See also galeroberts2-.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005 See also Gale Larochelle, galeroberts.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005 ABBR galeroberts.ged

[9]The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R) (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998). See also 2910310.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005 See also PERKINS-2.ged . Date of Import: Sep 4, 2004

[10]PERKINS-2.ged . Date of Import: Sep 4, 2004

[11]2910310.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005

[12]Gale Larochelle, galeroberts.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005 ABBR galeroberts.ged See also galeroberts2-.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005

[13]Gale Larochelle, galeroberts.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005 ABBR galeroberts.ged See also galeroberts2-.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005

[14]Gale Larochelle, galeroberts.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005 ABBR galeroberts.ged See also galeroberts2-.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005

[15]2910310.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005

[16]galeroberts2-.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005

[17]galeroberts2-.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005

[18]PRATT-1.ged . Date of Import: Sep 4, 2004 See also PERKINS-2.ged . Date of Import: Sep 4, 2004

[19]PRATT-1.ged . Date of Import: Sep 4, 2004 See also PERKINS-2.ged . Date of Import: Sep 4, 2004

[20]The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R) (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998). See also galeroberts2-.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005 See also Gale Larochelle, galeroberts.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005 ABBR galeroberts.ged See also 2910310.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005 See also PERKINS-2.ged . Date of Import: Sep 4, 2004

[21]PERKINS-2.ged . Date of Import: Sep 4, 2004

[22]PERKINS-2.ged . Date of Import: Sep 4, 2004

[23]Gale Larochelle, galeroberts.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005 ABBR galeroberts.ged See also galeroberts2-.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005

[24]PERKINS-2.ged . Date of Import: Sep 4, 2004

[25]galeroberts2-.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005

[26]galeroberts2-.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005

[27]galeroberts2-.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005

[28]galeroberts2-.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005

[29]PERKINS-2.ged . Date of Import: Sep 4, 2004

[30]PERKINS-2.ged . Date of Import: Sep 4, 2004

[31]galeroberts2-.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005

[32]galeroberts2-.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005

[33]PERKINS-2.ged . Date of Import: Sep 4, 2004

[34]PERKINS-2.ged . Date of Import: Sep 4, 2004

[35]galeroberts2-.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005

[36]galeroberts2-.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005

[37]PERKINS-2.ged . Date of Import: Sep 4, 2004

[38]PERKINS-2.ged . Date of Import: Sep 4, 2004

[39]galeroberts2-.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005

[40]galeroberts2-.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005

[41]galeroberts2-.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005

[42]The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R) (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998). See also galeroberts2-.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005 See also Gale Larochelle, galeroberts.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005 ABBR galeroberts.ged See also 2910310.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005 See also PERKINS-2.ged . Date of Import: Sep 4, 2004

[43]PERKINS-2.ged . Date of Import: Sep 4, 2004

[44]2910310.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005

[45]PERKINS-2.ged . Date of Import: Sep 4, 2004

[46]PERKINS-2.ged . Date of Import: Sep 4, 2004

[47]galeroberts2-.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005

[48]galeroberts2-.ged . Date of Import: Jun 23, 2005