Lydia Perkins Bennett

• BIRTH 3 Jun 1632
• DEATH January 12, 1672 (aged 41) Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
• BURIAL Burial Details Unknown
• MEMORIAL ID 16475336 · View Source

Lydia Perkins Bennett is the daughter of John John Perkins I 1583–1654 and Judith Gater Perkins 1588–1654 who was born in 1632 in Boston, Suffolk County., MA and baptized at First Church in Boston, June 3, 1632. At the age of 19 she married Stephen Benett by about 1651 in Ipswich, Essex County, MA and together they had six known children. Lydia Perkins Bennett was Henry's 1st wife. She is named in the will of her father, John Perkins. Lydia died in Ipswich, Essex co., MA January 12, 1672 at 40 years old [2]. Henry remarried soon thereafter.

Her husband Henry Bennett was born about 1629 in England. He died after 3 Oct 1709. He married second Mary (Smith) (Call) Burr, the widow of Phillip Call and John Burr and the daughter of Richard Smith of Shropham, Norfolk. She died on 12 Jan 1707/8 in Ipswich.

Among other casualties of King Philip’s War was John Bennett, second eldest son of immigrant Henry Bennett of Ipswich, killed by Nipmuc at the Battle of Bloody Brook in South Deerfield. Old Robin’s family was connected to the Ipswich Bennetts as well as to the Perkins family. And the Bennetts and the Perkins were connected to each other, both through marriage and as neighbors. In 1651 the immigrant Henry Bennett married Lydia Perkins of Perkins Island. Lydia’s father was Jacob Perkins, a son of the John Perkins Jr. who 19 years earlier had received Old Robin’s warning that the Tarrantines were coming. Jacob’s son, Jacob Perkins Jr., who later served in King Philip’s War with Old Robin’s sons, was Lydia’s brother.

Her mother, Judith Gater was baptised on 19 Mar 1588/9 in Hillmorton, Warwickshire. [Ref] She married John Perkins on 8 Oct 1608 in Hillmorton. An Elizabeth Gater, who must have been Judith's relative, lived in Ipswich and was the subject of a 28 Apr 1669 court case. Elizabeth Gater deposed that while she was at [Judith's son-in-law] Henry Bennett's house, Elizabeth Lynkhorne came in and said that John Ring would put Elizabeth Gater in jail before Saturday night. She carried Elizabeth Lynkhorne out of the house and shut the door. Elizabeth Lynkhorne testified that she had gone to "her dame Bennet's [Judith's daughter Lydia Perkins's] house" and Elizabeth Gater threw her down on the stones, kicked her and knelt on her. After this, she went back inside and asked Goody Bennett and Benjamin Morgan to witness that Elizabeth Gater had beaten her although she had never struck Elizabeth Gater. Following the incident, Elizabeth Lynkhorne went to get a warrant and, while she was gone, John Ring showed up and said that Elizabeth Lynkhorne had been lying. Lydia Bennett, aged 36, also deposed and Benjamin Morgan testified that Elizabeth Gater had said that she would be the death of Elizabeth Lynkhorne. The court ordered Elizabeth Gater to go to jail for a week, but then changed the sentence to a fine, which was paid by Henry Bennett.

Parents
John Perkins I 1583–1654
Judith Gater Perkins 1588–1654

Spouse
Henry Bennett 1856–1857 (m. 1651)

Siblings
John Perkins II 1609–1686
Elizabeth Perkins Sargent 1611–1670
Mary Perkins Bradbury 1614–1700
Dea. Thomas Perkins 1616–1686
Sgt. Jacob Perkins 1624–1699

Children
Jacob Bennett 1651- 3/5/1685/6 m. Sarah ___
John Bennett 1655–1675
William Bennett 1657-aft 1685
Henry Bennett 1664- m. 1st Frances Burr, 2nd Margaret ___
Thomas Bennett ? -1700 m Elizabeth ____ abt 1692
Stephen Bennett ? - 7/1680

Descendant Details==[2]

1. Jacob Bennett was born about 1652. He deposed that he was about 25 in a 27 Nov 1676 court case and 33 in a case at the Jun 1685 Court. [Ref] He died on 5 Mar 1685/6. He married Sarah Unknown. His father gave him land on 1 Mar 1682/3, but he had little time to enjoy it. "Walking with his father a short distance from his house, he fell forward on the ice, groaned 'but spoke no word and was presently quite dead.'" He had five children.
2. John Bennett was born in 1655 and killed at Bloody Brook on 18 Sep 1675.
3. William Bennett 1 was born in 1657. He married Eleanor Foster.
4. Henry Bennett was born in 1664. [Ref] He deposed that he was 21 in a case at the Jun 1685 Court. He married first Frances Burr, the daughter of John and Mary (Smith) Burr on 20 May 1685. He married second Margaret Unknown. He had five children.
5. Thomas Bennett b. ? Married Elizabeth. He died 1700.
6. Stephen Bennet who died in Jul 1680
7. Benjamin Bennet who witnessed a deed in 1692 may have been sons as well.

References

1. Boston Church Records 277, corrected from 1631

2. http://www.treetreetree.org.uk/Bennett.htm#Henry “Henry Bennett”

3. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16475336/lydia-bennett

4. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2496/42521_b158320-00119?pid=6... The Great Migration begins NEHGR 19:165-69

5 . “The Story Behind the Story of Wigwam Hill” < link >

6. http://www.treetreetree.org.uk/Gater.htm#courtcase 28 Apr 1669 court case

7. Dow, George Francis, Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Essex Institute, 1911 - 1975. Online: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/Essex.

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9. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=clcaldwel...

10. http://kristinhall.org/fambly/Perkins/JohnPerkins2.html

11. https://minerdescent.com/2010/05/23/henry-bennett-i/ “Henry Bennett I” Posted on May 23, 2010 by markeminer

12. https://www.anamericanfamilyhistory.com/Towne%20Family/PerkinsThoma... “The Perkins family of Ipswich, Massachusetts” (©Roberta Tuller 2016)

13. https://ipswichbennett.com/wp-content/media/Bennett%20descendants%2... “Descendants of Henry Bennett and Lydia Perkins” (Prepared by Lee Bennett 5/12/2020)

14. https://historicipswich.org/2021/08/13/descendants-of-the-perkins-f... “Descendants of John and Judith Gator Perkins of Ipswich”] Ⓒ2023 Gordon Harris (Blog at WordPress.com.)

15. Boston Vital Statistics, 1630-1699, Boston Records Commissioners Reports (Rockwell and Churchill, Boston, 1883) Vol. 9, Page 1: Births and Baptisms. 1631, "Lidya daugr of John Perkins, 3 day 4 mo."

16. Early inhabitants of Ipswich, Mass. 1633-1700 by Hammatt, Abraham, 1780?-1854. cn (Publication date 1880). Page 43. < Archive.Org >

17. Perkins, Thomas Allen. Jacob Perkins of Wells, Maine and His Descendants 1583-1936 (Record Publishing Co., Haverhill, Mass., 1947)

18. Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633. Boston: NEHGS, 1996-2011. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010). < AmericanAncestors > Page 1432.

19. Bradbury, John M., "The Bennet Family of Ipswich," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1875) Vol. 29, pp. 165-169. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) < AmericanAncestors >

20. http://www.treetreetree.org.uk/Perkins.htm#Lydia “Lydia Perkins” “John M. Bradbury (in Bradbury, John M., "The Bennett Family of Ipswich," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 29, 1875) argues that Lydia, the daughter of John Perkins, married Henry Bennet. He notes that John Perkins mentions his daughter Lydia Bennet and suggests that she has children. Additional evidence is provided by a 28 Apr 1669 courtcase.

21. New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. < AmericanAncestors > Lydia PERKINS Marriage 1651 Location Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Original Text: BENNETT, Henry (1629-1707) & 1/wf Lydia [PERKINS] (1632-1672) (ae 36 in 1669); ca 1651; Ipswich {GDMNH 88, 655; Reg. 10:213, 14:120, 29:165+; Perkins (1947) 2; Salisbury Fam. 282; Chute cxcvii; Perkins (,1) 20; Paul Anc. 72; Williams (,6) 149; Bennett (18)

Additional Data

John Perkins died between 28 Mar 1654 (date of will) and 26 Sep 1654 (probate of will).[1] Ipswich vital records has his death as: "Perkins, John, _____, 1654, a. 64 y. P. R. 8." Transcribed will copied from "John Perkins of Ipswich" by G.A. Perkins (original at Essex County MA Probate File #21337:

also I doe give and bequeath to my daughter Lidia Bennitt one cow and one heyfer or steere to be equaly devided to her children in theyr increase or proffits after her decease;