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Phoebe Towne (Perkins)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Topsfield, Massachusetts Bay, British America
Death: May 27, 1715 (70-71)
Topsfield, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Deacon Thomas Perkins and Phebe Perkins
Wife of Joseph Towne
Mother of Phebe Towne; Joanna Nichols; Mary Towne; Susanna Cummings; Joseph Towne, II and 4 others
Sister of Zaccheus Perkins; Martha Lamson; Mary Howlett; Elisha Perkins; Thomas Perkins, Jr. and 3 others

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Immediate Family

About Phoebe Towne

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Bay_Colony

https://www.anamericanfamilyhistory.com/Towne%20Family/TowneJoseph1... details her birth, marriage and children.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64228978/phebe-towne




https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~carrollrogers/family/ps27/ps27_099.htm

Person Sheet

Name Phebe PERKINS
Birth abt 1644, Topsfield Essex MA103,11260
Death aft 1680, Topsfield Essex MA Prob11261
Death Memo not mentioned in father’s will; husb Joseph is.
Father Dea. Thomas PERKINS (1622-1686)
Mother Phebe GOULD (1620-)
Spouses
1 Joseph TOWNE
Birth abt 1639, Salem Essex MA11256,10918,11257,1174
Birth Memo 74 years old at death
Death bef 10 Feb 1713, Topsfield Essex MA11258,11259
Father William TOWNE (<1599-~1672)
Mother Johanna BLESSING (~1595-~1682)
Marriage abt 1663, Topsfield Essex MA11262,444,11263,11264
Children Phebe (1666-1669)

	Joanna (1668-)
	Mary (1670-)
	Susannah (1671-)
	Joseph (1673-1757)
	Sarah (1675-1790)
	John (1678-1714)
	Martha (1680-)
	Joseph (1673-1757)

Notes Notes for Phebe PERKINS
dau of Deacon Thomas Perkins of Topsfield [NEHGR 21:15 The Towne Family]
Notes Notes for Joseph (Spouse 1)
Accompanied his father in removal from Salem to Topsfield. Freeman 1690; member of church at Topsfield NEHGR 21:15 Towne Family
Last Modified 18 Feb 2007 Created 27 Oct 2008 using Reunion for Macintosh


GEDCOM Note

} Alt death (from pre-merged dupe): 1680. Several sources [which?] give other death dates, including 1715.

Biography

Category:Topsfield, Massachusetts
]]Perkins-1|Phebe Perkins]] was born in 1644 in Topsfield, Essex County, Massachusetts<ref>Mary Rosenbach of the Isaac Cummings Family Association, Descendants of Isaac Cummings gedcom, posted by on June 11, 2004 on rootsweb.com</ref>, <ref>Claire Dietz, GEDCOM posted on Rootsweb 26 Mar 2001.</ref>She was the daughterof Thomas Perkins Sr and Phoebe Gold.

She married Joseph Towne about 1665 in Salem, Massachusetts..:"William Town (born in Yarmouth Eng.) and Joanna (Blessing his wife, in consideration of the natural affection which they bear their son Joseph and his contemplated marriage with Phebe, daughter of Thomas Perkins, convey to him two thirds of the house where they dwell, with Barn and out-houses, yard, garden &c. 1663<ref>Deeds of Essex County</ref> Some say she died in 1680.<ref>Mary Rosenbach of the Isaac Cummings Family Association, Descendants of Isaac Cummings gedcom, posted by on June 11, 2004 on rootsweb.com</ref>, <ref>Claire Dietz, GEDCOM posted on Rootsweb 26 Mar 2001.</ref>

Children

  1. Phebe, b. May 4, 1666; m. Newhall.
  2. Joanna, b. Jan. '22, 1668; m. Thos. Nichols. (They were living in Sutton, Mass., 1736.)
  3. Mary, b. March 27, 1670.
  4. Susanna, b. Dec. 24, 1671.
  5. Joseph, b. March 22, 1673.
  6. Sarah, b. Dec. 30, 1675; d. Nov. 1, 1760; " an aged woman."
  7. John, b. Feb. 20, 1678; m. 1st, Eliz. Read
  8. Martha, b. May 19, 1680; m. Isaac Larrabe of Salem

Contributors

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Sources

<references /> See also:* Walter Goodwin Davis, Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A reprinting in alphabetical order by surname of the sixteen multi-ancestor compedia, Introduction by Gary Boyd Roberts (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1996), Volume 3, Page 174

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Phoebe Towne's Timeline

1644
1644
Topsfield, Massachusetts Bay, British America
1666
May 4, 1666
Topsfield, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America
1668
January 22, 1668
Topsfield, Essex County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
1670
March 27, 1670
Topsfield, Essex County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
1671
December 24, 1671
Topsfield, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
1673
March 22, 1673
Topsfield, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America
1675
December 30, 1675
Topsfield, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America
1677
February 20, 1677
Topsfield, Essex County, Massachusetts, Colonial America