Ancestry of
Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz

1st President of Radcliff College

Mary Cushing Perkins

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• • Mother of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Handasyd Perkins 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Elliot   
  • Birth Date:
  • 25 May 1798 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 Oct 1880 
  • Death Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Thomas Graves Cary
  • Marriage Date:
  • 30 May 1820 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Cabot Cary (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  Caroline Gardiner Cary

  Mary Louisa Cary

• Sources for Mary Cushing Perkins

  • ¹ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No 3054, Membership application for Margaret Pelham (Curtis) Russell.
  • ² Massachusetts, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Case 38877, Will of father Thomas Handasyd Perkins, dated 13 FEB 1852, proved 13 FEB 1854.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Cambridge, Vol. 1, p. 904, Birth date from gravestone for Mary Perkins, Cary.
  • ⁴ Howard, Cecil Hampden Cutts, Materials for a Genealogy of the Sparhawk Family in New England, Salem: The Salem Press (1892), 46.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 497.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz", (accessed 06/02/2025).