Bethany and its hills; . s. Perkins wasa superior cook, but her doughnuts were a specialty. She saidshe fried two bushels a week, making over one hundred bushelsa year. The) were round as an orange, and never too sliort. ortoo long, or too sweet or too scnu. Probably it being such aconvenient article of food for a lunch on the road addc ?? •widespread reputation. Passing the old toll-gate, gone long ago. was the home <<f^Tajor Lounsbury. .son of Elias and Mary ( Perkins) \ho Iniilt the old red house near we cannot learn. citherIerkins or Lounsbury. ] 46 BETHANY AND
Bethany and its hills; . s. Perkins wasa superior cook, but her doughnuts were a specialty. She saidshe fried two bushels a week, making over one hundred bushelsa year. The) were round as an orange, and never too sliort. ortoo long, or too sweet or too scnu. Probably it being such aconvenient article of food for a lunch on the road addc ?? •widespread reputation. Passing the old toll-gate, gone long ago. was the home <<f^Tajor Lounsbury. .son of Elias and Mary ( Perkins) \ho Iniilt the old red house near we cannot learn. citherIerkins or Lounsbury. ] 46 BETHANY AND ITS Archibald Aljner Perkins married a daughter of Ephraimliotchkiss of Cheshire. Their chikh-en were : EHzabeth, Hul-dah, Sarah, Polly, Ephraim and IJenjamin. Elizabeth marriedBurton Sperry. Huldah and Sarah were teachers in the Lan-casterian School in Xew Haven. Huldah married Rev. , Coni^regational; Sarah married (jcorge Durrie, portraitpainter in Xew Haven. Polly married IJenjamin Bronson of. AKCHUIALO AHNER an old .\inbrotype. Xew Haven, whose daughter Amelia married Henry Johnson,son of Dr. Johnson of Seymour. He kept a popular grocerystore on State street. Esquire Abner Perkins, as he was called, had a tannery nearhis house seventy years ago and occu]:)ied the old red houseopposite as a leather store and shoe shop. He was a veryenterprising citizen. The next house north was the home of Israel Perkins, son ofEdward, 1)()rn December 30, 1767, who married Alilly Judd,
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