Benjamin Douglas Perkins

(1774-1810)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Perkins, Benjamin Douglas, 1774-1810 LBT ID: BePerki1810 VIAF ID: 60468049 LOC ID: n83218018	B/BAP: 1774-06-24 DIED: 1810-10-13
SOURCES: Blaine Whipple, 15 Generations of Whipples: Descendants of Matthew Whipple of Ipswich, Massachusetts (2007); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
The son of Elisha Perkins and Sarah Douglass; educated at Yale, he was a bookseller in New York City and advocate for his father's quack-medicinal “tractors.”
REFERENCES TO Benjamin Douglas Perkins: Robert Southey to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 4 August 1802 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 3: ¶ 3 ¶ 4 ¶ n1 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. IX. 1802-03 Found 1: ¶ n1