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In the summer of 1685, Jane Long gave birth to a daughter, christened Elizabeth in St. Philip’s church in the southeast of Barbados. The father was not then named, but on December 4, Jane travelled west to Bridgetown, accompanied by Peter Perkins, to be married by Rev. James Faucett, minister of St. Michael’s. They returned to St. Philip’s, and conceived a son, Thomas, baptized on March 11, 1688. By 1692, they had moved to London, where Thomas was either rebaptized at St. Giles, Cripplegate, or they had lost their son and given another the same name. In 1698, the Quaker community in Southwark reported that a Peter Perkins, aged about 44, living in Allhallows, Barking, who had been working as a sugar broker, had died on October 29, probably from a fever. He was buried in the Park Quaker burial ground.1
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Barber, S. (2014). Connection. In: The Disputatious Caribbean. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137480019_4
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