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    Colonel Thomas Handasyd Perkins, also known as T. H. Perkins (December 15, 1764 – January 11, 1854), was an American merchant, slave trader, smuggler and...
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  • Thomas Perkins may refer to: Thomas Handasyd Perkins (1764–1854), American businessman and philanthropist Thomas Clap Perkins (1798–1870), American lawyer...
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  • (1645–1729), British Army officer James Handasyd Perkins (1876–1940), American banker Thomas Handasyd Perkins (1764–1854), American merchant Handasyde...
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  • Handasyd Peck, wife of the merchant James Perkins (1733–1773) and mother of the Boston Brahmin Thomas Handasyd Perkins. She managed the shipping and merchant...
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  • education for the blind in Europe. The school is named in honor of Thomas Handasyd Perkins, one of the organization's incorporators. He was a Boston shipping...
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    firms unfamiliar with trade in the Far East. Boston Brahmin Thomas Handasyd Perkins of Perkins & Co., the dominant American presence in the Turkish opium...
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    the summer estate of the Cabot family, originally belonging to Thomas Handasyd Perkins; the present main mansion house was built in the 1850s to a plan...
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    Russell Sturgis (1750-1826), Elizabeth (née Perkins) Sturgis (a sister of merchant Thomas Handasyd Perkins), Walter Rutherfurd (1723–1804) and Catherine...
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    hoax: A dramatic jeu d'esprit, in three acts, published in 1819. Thomas Handasyd Perkins § Gloucester Sea Serpent Linnaean Society of New England § Sea...
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  • James Perkins, Jr., was a Boston philanthropist, benefactor of the Boston Athenæum, and co-founder with his younger brother Thomas Handasyd Perkins of the...
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  • his uncle, slave and opium trader Thomas Handasyd Perkins (1764–1854). Cushing was reportedly very fond of the Perkins family and very often brought them...
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    Thomas Handasyd Perkins, American slaver and merchant with a prominent port-wine stain on his cheek...
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  • noble–hearted Irishman", he married Margaret Elliot, sister of Thomas Handasyd Perkins (T.H. Perkins), in October 1783. Magee lived in Roxbury, today part of...
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    and Temple Place (beginning in 1856), in the former mansion of Thomas Handasyd Perkins. At first, only people who lived in Boston or Charlestown were...
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne Perkins Family Thomas Handasyd Perkins (1764–1854), merchant, pioneer of the China trade, philanthropist Charles Perkins (1823–1886), art...
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  • Thomas Handasyd Perkins (1764–1854), American businessman and philanthropist Tom Perkins, American businessman, founder/principal of Kleiner Perkins Tony...
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    1826: The Granite Railway in Massachusetts was incorporated by Thomas Handasyd Perkins and Gridley Bryant. Construction began on April 1, and operations...
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    interested group of men met for breakfast at the home of Colonel Thomas Handasyd Perkins, including William Tudor, Daniel Webster, Professor George Ticknor...
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    Lonely Planet. 2007. p. 101. ISBN 9781741798456. Cary, Thomas Greaves. Memoir of Thomas Handasyd Perkins. Boston, Little, Brown and company, 1856. p. 17. Pdf...
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    who built summer homes, and its most famous summer resident was Thomas Handasyd Perkins. The town was named for him when it was incorporated in the mid-19th...
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    Cabot Jr. and Elizabeth Cabot (née Perkins). His father, Samuel Cabot Jr. and his grandfather, Thomas Handasyd Perkins, were two of the wealthiest men in...
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    grandfather, Thomas Handasyd Perkins, on Pearl Street in Boston, Massachusetts. Her parents were Mary Ann Cushing Perkins Cary and Thomas Graves Cary (who...
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    Forbes, lawyer and diplomat, and his maternal uncle was merchant Thomas Handasyd Perkins. Among his cousins was the botanist Francis Blackwell Forbes. In...
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    lieutenant in Boston. Sturgis's brothers-in-law, James Perkins (1761-1822) and Thomas Handasyd Perkins (1765-1854), were notable China traders. In 1795 Sturgis...
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    Annie Stevens Perkins (1868–1946), writer Thomas Handasyd Perkins Haitian slave trader up to Slave Revolt, opium dealer, owned Perkins & Co. Samuel Phillips...
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    Square, built in 1847 for wealthy merchant and philanthropist Thomas Handasyd Perkins Jr., known as "Short-Arm Tom", who lived at 1 Joy Street. Among...
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  • James Perkins, senior partner in the China Trade shipping firms of James and Thomas Handasyd Perkins. His grandson, Edward Newton “Ned” Perkins, replaced...
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    in Easton, Massachusetts. In 1809, he worked with Thomas Handasyd Perkins, likely tied to Perkins's interest in the Monkton Iron Works in Vergennes, Vermont...
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    headquarters of the Salem Marine Society, acquired by sea captain Thomas Handasyd Perkins in 1838. It was damaged by fire twice mid-century, and in 1860...
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    Cabot Lowell George W. Lyman Paul Moody Daniel Pinckney Parker Thomas Handasyd Perkins Ignatius Sargent David Sears Charles Storer Storrow Israel Thorndike...
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