Richard Perkins

Richard Perkins enlisted on 5 May 1775, in Captain Philip Hubbard's Company of Colonel James Scammon's Regiment. Scammon's Regiment of Maine men was at Bunker Hill on 17 June following, but on account of a misunderstanding of orders, was not in the battle on that day.

Perkins was a Revolutionary pensioner late in his life. He married at Lebanon, Maine in 1779 to Mrs. Abigail (Garland) Cook, widow of David Cook of Lebanon, and daughter of Dodovah Garland of Lebanon. Richard resided for a time on the farm, then removed to Rochester, New Hampshire on 11 March 1783...then later to Jefferson, New Hampshire, where he died about 1832.

Source: "Soldiers of the American Revolution, of Lebanon, Maine"; by George Walter Chamberlain, B.S.; Weymouth, Mass.; Weymouth & Braintree Publishing Co.; 1897; pp 36-37.