[39925] The unverified Herring Family Tree in Ancestry.com in 2015 offers: "Daniel Bentley was born in 1758 in Richmond County, Virginia. He had four sons and four daughters with Rebecca Edison. He died on February 1, 1845, in Madison County, Kentucky, having lived a long life of 87 years. . . . Rebecca Edison was born in 1760. . . . She died in 1822 at the age of 62."
_John PERKINS _______+ | (1583 - 1654) m 1608 _Jacob PERKINS _________________|_Judith GATOR _______ | (1624 - 1700) m 1648 _Jacob PERKINS ______| | (1662 - 1705) m 1684| | | _Matthew WHIPPLE ____+ | | | (.... - 1647) m 1622 | |_Elizabeth (Lovell or) WHIPPLE _|_Ann HAWKINS ________ | (1629 - 1686) m 1648 (1600 - 1643) _Jacob PERKINS ______| | (1685 - 1770) m 1717| | | _____________________ | | | | | _John SPARKS ___________________|_____________________ | | | | |_Elizabeth SPARKS ___| | (.... - 1692) m 1684| | | _Walter ROPER _______+ | | | (1614 - 1680) | |_Mary ROPER ____________________|_____________________ | (1641 - 1712) _Sparks PERKINS _____| | (1721 - 1789) m 1743| | | _Edmund LITTLEFIELD _+ | | | m 1614 | | _John LITTLEFIELD ______________|_Annis AUSTIN _______ | | | (.... - 1697) m 1645 (1586 - 1676) | | _Josiah LITTLEFIELD _| | | | (1662 - 1713) m 1687| | | | | _____________________ | | | | | | | | |_Patience WAKEFIELD ____________|_____________________ | | | (1630 - 1674) m 1645 | |_Anna LITTLEFIELD ___| | (1702 - ....) m 1717| | | _John MASTERS _______ | | | (1581 - 1639) | | _Nathaniel MASTERS _____________|_____________________ | | | (1630 - 1708) m 1654 | |_Lydia MASTERS ______| | (1666 - 1707) m 1687| | | _____________________ | | | | |_Ruth PICKWORTH ________________|_____________________ | (1638 - 1716) m 1654 | |--Sparks PERKINS | (1753 - 1823) | _____________________ | | | ________________________________|_____________________ | | | _____________________| | | | | | | _____________________ | | | | | | |________________________________|_____________________ | | | _____________________| | | | | | | _____________________ | | | | | | | ________________________________|_____________________ | | | | | | |_____________________| | | | | | | _____________________ | | | | | | |________________________________|_____________________ | | |_Phoebe SAWYER ______| m 1743 | | _____________________ | | | ________________________________|_____________________ | | | _____________________| | | | | | | _____________________ | | | | | | |________________________________|_____________________ | | |_____________________| | | _____________________ | | | ________________________________|_____________________ | | |_____________________| | | _____________________ | | |________________________________|_____________________
[24861] "On 21 July 1813 at York, York County, Maine, Sparks married Abigail Grant, the widow of Alexander Grant. Abigail deid 29 December 1832 in York, Maine." - http://www.theroyfamily.com/gen/roy/p337.htm. He served in the War for Independence as guard at Penobscot - see "Majorbidwaduce..." by Ellenore W. Doudiet (Castine: Castine Scientific Society, 1978), p. 90. "Before the Mast," Vol. 3, # 20 18 March 2000 in "The Ellsworth American" [file copy at Wilson Museum, Castine, ME] by Mark E. Honey states "He settled in Penobscot, on the western side of Northern Bay, near Charles Hutchins. He married first to Tabitha Stover on Sept. 12, 1774. ... His second marriage was to Abigail Grant, widow of Alexander Grant, on July 21, 1813." See typescript pamphlet "The Perkins Family in Castine, Brooksville and Penobscot, ME," Grace Lymburner (1948) in the Boston (MA) Public Library.
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LDS Church's Ancestral File - not verified.
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LDS Church's Ancestral File - not verified.