The Delahorne/Curtis Family History

Perkins · ◉ direct ancestor

♀Abigail Perkins

Born 1655, Hampton, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.

Abigail Perkins was the wife of John Folsom (1641–1715), a colonist of Exeter, in the Province of New HampshireW. She was the seventh great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her daughter Mercy Folsom.

On 10 November 1675 she married John Folsom, of Exeter. A genealogy of the Folsom family published in 1882 calls her a daughter of Abraham Perkins, of Hampton, and a genealogical dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, published between 1928 and 1939, gives her birth as 12 April 1655 and gives Abraham’s wife as Mary. The 1882 genealogy lists nine children born at Exeter, four sons and five daughters, the eldest of them Abigail, born on 23 December 1676; their daughter Mercy married James Dudley.

The same genealogy tells that when Hannah, the wife of her husband’s brother Nathaniel, slandered her, her husband complained before Commissioner Dalton and obtained a sentence that Hannah should “make acknowledgment at some public town-meeting”. Her husband’s will, made on 24 November 1715 and proved on 6 December 1715, left her the use of the house, barn, sawmill, marsh and pastures for her life and all his stock and movable goods as her own, and named her sole executrix. None of these books gives the date of her death.

Family time line

◉ Abigail Perkins 1655–
◉ John Folsom 1641–bef 1715
Married 10 Nov 1675
○ William Folsom 1701–1755
◉ Mercy Folsom
○ Abraham Folsom
○ John Folsom
○ Jonathan Folsom
○ Jeremiah Folsom
○ Abigail Folsom
○ Sarah Folsom
○ Lydia Folsom
○ Mary Folsom –bef 1715

Recorded events

EventWhenWhereEvidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read
from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so
not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet
Birth
'12, 2 mo. 1655' (2nd month = April, Old Style)
 12 Apr 1655 Hampton, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America on record

Sources

  • New Hampshire, Birth Records, Early to 1900 - Abigail Perkins, b. Hampton 12, 2 mo. 1655, father Abraham Perkins, mother Mary (1:1:FL5X-6LR) — Birth, about this person
  • Chapman, Jacob. A Genealogy of the Folsom Family: John Folsom and His Descendants, 1615-1882 (Concord, N.H., 1882) — about this person, family with John Folsom, Marriage (John Folsom)
  • Dean Dudley, History of the Dudley Family, vol. 1 (Wakefield, Mass., 1886) — family with John Folsom

Borders as they stood about 1650, from the historical-basemaps project, the Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (states and territories, 1783 on) and Natural Earth; the colonies and provinces are drawn along today's lines.

Line of descent

  1. Abraham Perkins
    1. Isaac Perkins 1571–1639
    2. Alice (surname unknown) 1575–1603
  2. Mary (surname unknown)
    1. Humphrey Wythe 1591–1639
      1. Benjamin Wise 1550–1602
      2. Emme Jannings 1568–1602
    2. Susan Pakeman 1597–
      1. Christopher Pakeman 1573–
      2. not yet known

Descendants

  1. William Folsom 1701–1755
    1. Lydia Folsom 1724–
      1. Joseph Lyford 1765–1847
        1. Susanna Lyford 1798–1875
  2. Mercy Folsom
    1. James Dudley 1715–1761
      1. Jonathan Dudley 1752–1776
      2. James Dudley
        1. David Dudley
        2. Jonathan Dudley
        3. James Dudley
        4. Sarah Dudley
        5. Deborah Dudley
      3. Eliphalet Dudley
      4. Stephen Dudley
        1. Eliphalet Dudley
      5. John Dudley –1810
        1. Hubbard Dudley 1782–
        2. John Dudley 1789–
        3. Abigail Dudley 1795–
        4. Deborah Dudley
      6. Hannah Dudley
        1. Sarah Thurston 1769–1814
    2. Abigail Dudley 1716–
    3. Samuel Dudley 1720–1797
      1. Daniel Dudley 1744–1811
        1. Mary Dudley 1777–
        2. Daniel Dudley 1779–
        3. Susanna Dudley 1781–
        4. Thomas Dudley 1783–1860
        5. Moses Dudley 1786–
        6. Samuel Dudley 1788–
        7. David Dudley 1790–
        8. Mehetabel Dudley 1793–1833
      2. Samuel Dudley 1747–1795
        1. Aaron Dudley 1782–1870
        2. Samuel Dudley
        3. Jonathan Dudley
        4. James Dudley
        5. Sarah Dudley
      3. Micajah Dudley 1751–1798
        1. John Dudley 1775–
        2. Samuel Dudley 1777–
        3. Susanna Dudley 1778–
        4. Mary Dudley 1780–1823
        5. Sibyl Dudley 1782–1808
        6. Thankful Dudley 1784–1835
        7. Micajah Dudley 1786–
        8. Lydia Dudley 1789–
        9. William Dudley 1790–
        10. Anstis Dudley 1792–
        11. David Dudley 1794–
      4. Jeremiah Dudley 1753–1838
        1. Mehetabel Dudley 1781–1870
        2. Jeremiah Dudley 1783–1807
        3. Polly Dudley 1786–1852 ⚭
        4. David Dudley 1788–
        5. Betsey Dudley 1790–1842
        6. Lois Dudley 1793–1850
        7. John Dudley 1795–1867
        8. Moses Dudley 1797–
        9. Thomas Jefferson Dudley 1800–
        10. Benjamin Franklin Dudley 1803–
      5. Moses Dudley 1755–
        1. Peter Dudley 1777–1819
        2. Moses Dudley 1778–1842
        3. Daniel Dudley 1782–1819
        4. John Dudley 1784–
        5. Apphia Dudley 1787–
        6. Sleeper Dudley 1789–
        7. Mehetabel Dudley 1791–
      6. Mary Dudley 1757–
        1. Dudley Haines 1763–1844
        2. Peter Haines 1766–1843
        3. Mary Haines 1768–
        4. Betsey Haines 1769–
        5. Daniel Haines 1779–
        6. Jonathan Haines 1782–
        7. Johanna Haines
        8. Sally Haines
        9. John Haines
      7. Eliphalet Dudley 1759–
        1. Jonathan Dudley –1814
        2. Gilman Dudley
        3. James Dudley
        4. John Dudley
        5. Joanna Dudley
        6. Mary Dudley
        7. Hannah Dudley
        8. Deborah Dudley
      8. James Dudley 1761–1805
        1. Elias Dudley 1789–
        2. Mary Dudley 1791–1815
        3. Edmund Dudley 1794–
        4. Sibyl Dudley
        5. James Dudley
        6. Pamelia Dudley
        7. John Dudley –1888
      9. Mehetabel Dudley
      10. Lydia Dudley
    4. John Dudley 1725–1805 ⚖
      1. Betsy Dudley 1750–
      2. John Dudley 1751–
      3. John Dudley 1754–1826
        1. John Dudley 1773–
        2. Caleb Dudley 1779–
        3. James Dudley 1782–1866
        4. Gilman Dudley 1788–1853 ⚭
        5. Eliza Dudley 1791–
      4. Elizabeth Dudley 1756–1832
      5. Susanna Dudley 1759–
      6. James Dudley 1761–1844
        1. Mary Dudley 1791–1835
        2. Elizabeth Dudley 1795–
        3. James Dudley 1799–1837
        4. John Dudley 1800–
        5. Moses Dudley 1803–
        6. Susanna Dudley 1806–
      7. Nathaniel Dudley 1763–1844 ⚭⚖
        1. Edmund Dudley 1784–
        2. Betsey Dudley 1786–
        3. Mary Dudley 1787–1791 ✧
        4. Nathaniel Dudley 1789–1790 ✧
        5. Anna Dudley 1790–
        6. Mary Dudley 1792–1793 ✧
        7. Areana Dudley 1793–1812
        8. Sarah Dudley 1795–1839
        9. John Gilman Dudley 1797–
        10. Nathaniel Dudley 1799–1869
        11. John Gilman Dudley 1806–
        12. William K. Dudley 1810– ⚭
        13. Miriam S. Dudley –1876 ⚭
      8. Moses Dudley 1766–1843
        1. Betsey Dudley 1788–
        2. John Dudley 1789–1873
        3. Gilman Dudley 1790–1835
        4. Moses Dudley 1792–1853
        5. James Dudley 1794–1867 ⚭
        6. Guilford Dudley 1795–1864
        7. Sally Dudley 1797–
        8. Franklin Dudley 1799–1870
        9. Nancy Dudley 1805–1884
        10. Elbridge Gerry Dudley 1811–1867
    5. Joseph Dudley 1728–1792
      1. Joseph Dudley 1750–1825
        1. Benjamin Dudley 1776–1864
        2. Hannah Dudley 1778–1835
        3. Deborah Dudley 1780–1815
        4. Susanna Dudley 1780–1806
        5. Mary Dudley 1783–1869
        6. Eunice Dudley 1787–1842
        7. Joseph Dudley 1790–
        8. Samuel Dudley 1796–1863 ⚭
        9. Stephen Dudley 1798–
      2. Elizabeth Dudley 1752–
      3. Benjamin Dudley 1753–1795
      4. Thomas Dudley 1766–1839
        1. Sally Dudley 1795–
        2. Mary Dudley 1797–1864
        3. Assenath Dudley 1799–1873
        4. John Dudley 1800–
        5. Thomas J. Dudley 1803–1835
        6. Susanna Dudley 1805–
        7. Esther Dudley 1807–1838
        8. Francis Dana Dudley 1809–1829
        9. David Moody Dudley 1811–
      5. Daniel Dudley 1768–1813
        1. Joseph Dudley 1794–1874
        2. Ann Dudley 1796–1853
        3. Susanna Dudley 1799–
        4. Benjamin Dudley 1802–1853
        5. Thomas Dudley 1804–1872
      6. Joanna Dudley
      7. Mary Dudley
      8. Hannah Dudley
      9. Susannah Dudley
    6. Joanna Dudley
    7. Mercy Dudley
    8. Sarah Dudley
  3. Abraham Folsom
    1. Daniel Folsom 1704–1795
      1. Abraham Folsom 1748–
        1. Asa Folsom 1782–1813
  4. John Folsom
  5. Jonathan Folsom
    1. Sarah Folsom 1727–1800
      1. Josiah Nelson 1758–1812
        1. Horatio G Nelson 1800–1831
  6. Jeremiah Folsom
    1. Jeremiah Folsom 1719–1802
      1. Levi Folsom 1753–1844
        1. Jeremiah Folsom 1780–1859
  7. Abigail Folsom
  8. Sarah Folsom
    1. Catherine Stevens 1707–1798
      1. Mary Sinclair 1728–1775
        1. Nathaniel Hilton 1764–1858
    2. Benjamin Stevens 1716–1791
      1. Abigail Stevens 1753–
        1. Abigail Rich 1780–1852
  9. Lydia Folsom
  10. Mary Folsom –bef 1715