PIRATE, TRAFFICKER, SLAVER AND OPIUM SMUGGLER

American Wealth

*Ralph Bennett Forbes, m. to Margaret Perkins
(sister of Colonel Thomas Handasyd Perkins)

THOMAS HANDASYD PERKINS

Son of Colonel Perkins, described in last year's brochure -"Old Shipping Days in Boston" -- and a partner of Baring Brothers in London.

COLONEL THOMAS HANDASYD PERKINS JR. 

a partner of Baring Brothers in London "Old Shipping Days in Boston".

State Street Trust Company, Boston Some Merchants and Sea Captains of Old Boston​

Slave trader Thomas Handasyd Perkins of Newburyport was one of the Boston Brahmins--as was Coolidge , Delano ( Roosevelt family ) and Alsop. The Perkins family had wide net of blood relatives like Opium runners Appletons, Endicots, Hoopers, Higginsons, Jacksons, Lowells, Lawrences, Phillipses, Saltonstalls,etc.  Family connections abound through Drug Runners. For example, Sutherlands ( cousin of Hongkong drug business chief Matheson), Barings  ( P&O opium shipping founders ) and Lehmans ( drug money laundering ) were cousins of drug running Rothschild.

CAREER CHANGE...FROM white SLAVER TO large scale DRUG PUSHER

AREN'T THERE BETTER WAYS TO MAKE MONEY?

T.H. Perkins had no interest in a college education. In 1779 he began working, and in 1785 when he turned 21 he became legally entitled to a small bequest that had been left to him by his grandfather Thomas Handasyd Peck, a Boston merchant who dealt largely in furs and hats. Until 1793 Perkins engaged in the slave trade at Cap-Haïtien Haiti.

In 1785, when China opened the port of Canton to foreign businesses, Perkins became one of the first Boston merchants to engage in the China trade. He sailed on the Astrea to Canton in 1789 with a cargo including ginseng, cheese, lard, wine, and iron. On the trip back it carried tea and silk cloth. In 1815 Perkins and his brother James opened a Mediterranean office to buy Turkish opium for resale in China.

 

rising through the ranks...as long as you have those family connections

Colonel Thomas Handasyd Perkins or T. H. Perkins (December 15, 1764 -January 11, 1854) As a young man he was a slave trader in Haiti, a Maritime Fur Trader, trading furs from the American Northwest to China, and then a major smuggler of Turkish opium into China. His parents were James Perkins and Elizabeth Peck.

When Colonel Perkins first went to China he was very young, and very homesick, and was much disappointed not to be received more cordially by John Perkins Cushing, the head of the firm of J. & T. H. Perkins, who happened to be very much occupied when he arrived. Young Perkins presented a letter of introduction from Mrs. Forbes, a sister of his father, which was met with a curt "There's your desk." Nothing was said for a long time, young Perkins in the mean time spending his time making lamp-lighters, when suddenly Mr. Cushing looked over at him and said, "Is your Aunt as fat as she used to be?" "Ten times fatter" was the reply, and the conversation again ended. This may have been the same aunt who asked one of the younger members of the family to put a pillow in the small of her back. The reply came, "You haven't any small to your back, Aunty." A friendship between Mr. Cushing and his young apprentice quickly began, and the two became lifelong friends.

it simply came down to making more money

Not many days after their first meeting Mr. Cushing asked the new arrival if he would take an armed boat and go up to Houqua's and get from him a hundred thousand dollars. Perkins got ready for the expedition and then waited around for further instructions, thinking he would need a letter of introduction to the comprador. Mr. Cushing said that this was very unnecessary, as all the business with Houqua was by word of mouth. The Chinaman promptly appeared when he knew an American had arrived to see him, and invited him ashore, saying in his pigeon English, " Hi ya, my welly glad sabe that son my olo flen, Mr. Perkins, my welly much chin chin you, askee come ashore, come ashore; as for dollar, can hab, yes, can hab leckly." While the money was being counted out, Houqua invited young Perkins to lunch with him and to attend an old Chinese play which Houqua said had been going on for several weeks. Finally the play was over, Houqua amusingly remarking that "the tide would not wait even for Confucius" and therefore the play must come to an end for the day. The dollars were taken back safely to Canton.

embracing his inner thug

Colonel Thomas Handasyd Perkins, Jr., son of Colonel Perkins, described in last year's pamphlet, was invariably known as "Short­-arm Tom" because his right arm was a trifle shorter than his left, a defect, however, which didn't prevent his "landing" it in the right place when occasion demanded. While he was in London there was no one skilful enough to box with him and so his friends recommended that he go to a curious old African sparrer, named Richmond, who had such long arms that he could button his breeches at the knee without stooping at all. During the first lesson Colonel Perkins was at first hit very hard, but later retaliated by fighting the African backwards until he was knocked into the window and would have gone completely through had not his antagonist and his friends pulled him back by the ankles. After he had extricated a few pieces of glass from his arms, he said with great respect for his amateur sparring partner: "Golly, Massa Major, how you do hit wid dat right of yours! Why, I radder be kicked by old Massa's black mule dan hab you hit me again like dat. No, by golly, I don't want any mo' of dat hitten here." It is interesting to record that Richmond was born at Richmond on Staten Island. He became a body-servant to General Earl Percy when the English took possession of Long Island during the Revolution, and later accompa­nied his master to England, where he served him for a number of years. He then took up prize-fighting and soon became a champion.

con man...right from the start

On another occasion a marquis had driven six horses through the streets of London and had been fined, as this was against the municipal regulations. Major Perkins declared that the offender hadn't known how to do it, and he promptly made bets with all the people in the room that he could drive his six-in-hand about the Park without being fined. The next morning the same party of men scrambled into their seats in the drag and the six-in-hand started on its way about London. In a short time a "bobby" ordered them to stop, remarking that it was contrary to the law to drive six horses about the streets of London. "I am aware of that," answered Colonel Perkins. "Then I must summon you," replied the officer. "I am Colonel Thomas H. Perkins of Park Lane," was the reply, "and I am not breaking that regulation. If you will take the trouble to inspect my off-wheeler you will perceive that he is a mule and I know of no regulation which prevents a gentleman from driving five horses and a mule to his drag if he pleases." None on the drag had noticed the mule, and when they did see it there was a shout of laughter from every one, with the exclamation, "You have won, Tom," and the "bobby" remarked, "Damned Yankee trick that," as Colonel Perkins touched up his horses and started for home.

filthy wealth and the lifestyle that comes with it on the basis of ruined lives

Colonel Perkins spent a good many years of his life in London, where he made many warm friends. He also acquired the reputation of being one of the best-dressed men of his day and of having the handsomest leg in London. While there he served on the staff of General Devereux for over two years. On one occasion the question of wearing knee-breeches or trousers was discussed, and those present decided to ask Major Perkins what his decision would be. His answer was that all men who had bad legs might come in trousers, and, as General Devereux expressed it, "trousers were very scarce that season at Almack's." 

drugging people....so he could race yachts!

When Colonel Perkins returned to America he purchased a house at Nahant which was owned at one time by General Charles J. Paine, the famous yachtsman. Perkins was always fond of the water and was an excellent hand in steering a small boat. Captain Dumaresq came back from Baltimore and described a very beautiful schooner which Perkins bought, and made a match with her against the "Sylph," which was to be sailed by John Perkins Cushing and Capt. R. B. Forbes. The race was to a buoy off the outer light in Boston Harbour, it being agreed that the first boat around should drive a boat-hook into the buoy and the next boat should take it out.  http://www.archive.org/stream/somemerch00stat/somemerch00stat_djvu.txt

SIMPSON'S PATENT DRY DOCK From a photograph Kindness of F. B. C. Bradlee
S. B. Hobart Superintendant Marginal Street, East Boston J. E. Simpson, Proprietor

SHOWING MARGINAL STREET, EAST BOSTON, 1854

The well-known ship "Southern Cross" owned by Baker & Morrell and built by Briggs Bros. of South Boston, is in the dock.

The Perkins-Dumaresq yacht, which was called the "Dream," rounded the buoy first, and the Colonel drove his boat-hook into it and succeeded in first reaching home. The boat-hook never was brought back, and for years afterwards, when Colonel Perkins met Captain Forbes on Temple Place or on the Common he used to yell: "Ben, ahoy! Where is my boat-hook?"

Colonel Perkins was born in his father's house on Pearl street and later attended school at Exeter Academy, where the master declared he was a very rare fellow because he had "a watch, a fowling piece and a Lexicon," a rare combination at that time.

He married Miss Jane Francis Dumaresq and they lived in Boston, first on Chauncy Street and then at 1 Winthrop Place. He became a partner in the firm of J. & T. H. Perkins, and was so successful that in 1834 he built a house of his own at 1 Joy Street, where he passed many years. To their house came many of the important people of this time; -- Harrison Gray Otis, Judge Story, Samuel Appleton, Thomas L. Winthrop, Daniel Webster, Nathaniel Amory, Major Joseph Russell, Mr. and Mrs. Everett, Augustus Thorndike, Francis Codman, Charles Hammond, J. P. Cushing, Thomas and Lothrop Motley, Louis Stackpole, Henry Cabot, Col. T. G. Carey, W. H. Gardiner, and others. His father's house in Temple Place was the rendezvous of all the important people of the day. Mention is often made of the wonderful Thanksgiving dinners there, which were attended by four generations, those present often numbering over sixty, and occupying two rooms for the dinner-table. Upon these occasions it was always customary after dinner for the youngest child to walk down the entire length of the table, and it is recorded that the last one to achieve this feat was a great-grand-daughter, now Mrs. F. C. Shattuck, who was then about five years old.

When Colonel Perkins realized that he was about to die he said to a friend of his: "I am about as good as Gus Thorndike, Jim Otis, or Charlie Hammond, and almost as good as Frank Codman. I shall go where they go, and that is where I wish to go." In a few weeks this fine gentleman died, in the year 1850.

American Ancestors

Geneology pirate smuggling geneology

Thomas Handasyd Perkins Papers 1783-1892 Guide to the Microfilm Edition

The PERKINS Family of Hillmorton, Warkwickshire, England, Ipswich, Essex, MA and Norwich, New London, CT Unofficial Family Tree Geneology

Thomas Handasyd Perkins (1764-1854)
was one of Boston's most successful Pirate Opium Smugglers in the U.S. whose family started secret fraternity Skull and Bones.

Southern Campaign Revolutionary War

HOW THIS OUTRAGEOUS DRUG SMUGGLING WAS JUSTIFIED & COVERED UP

PRETENDING YOU ARE SPREADING CHRISTIANITY WHEN YOU ARE ACTUALLY PUSHING DRUGS! 

Opium smugglers and slave traders were also part of an expansion of western ideas which included the notion of superiority over other cultures in the world summed up by this statement from:

IMPRESSIONS OF CHINA, THE PRESENT REVOLUTION: ITS PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS. BY CAPT. FISHBOURNE, COMMANDER OF TBI HERMES, ON HER LATE VISIT TO NANKIN.
SEELEY, JACKSON, AND HALLIDAY, FLEET STREET; AND B. SEELEY, HANOVER STREET. LONDON: MDCCCLV.

Missionaries of all the Protestant denominations, English, American, Dutch, Swedish, German, were in the habit of itinerating through the villages in Hong Kong and islands near. On the main land opposite Hong Kong, and in the vicinity of Macao and Canton, many Chinese also visited (from great distances) the hospitals, and received instruction. The same was practised at Amoy, Shanghae, Ningpo, and Fochow ; and in these places, no doubt, the practice in respect to the chapels, was pretty much the same as that at Amoy, where it used to be thrown open every day, and some one expounded to any people who chose to come. I have gone there several times, and have ob- served numbers coming and going, many apparently giving deep attention, and often asking questions. In this way a great number must have been partly instructed; but in addition to this, there have been large numbers of boys educated ; and it must be ob- served, that very many of the insurgents are young, and might very well have ; teen boys in the schools at Hong Kong, as some have stated they had been.

Several of the insurgent chiefs spoke of a personal knowledge of Lo-ho-sun, a medical missionary, and many of the soldiers stated that they had been in the schools at Hong Kong. Their scriptural knowledge also abundantly proves that they must have had, or many of them, Christian instructors ; nor does the tendency to mix up in their writings Chinese notions with Scrip- ture truths militate against the above position, since we see how extensively, and often how injuriously, the practice of mixing truth and error obtains amongst ourselves : how difficult it is even after the acquire- ment of a rigorous habit of thought, to throw off early associations and erroneous impressions.
The Chinese government, not perceiving the ten- dency of Christianity, perceiving only that it was not inimical to good order and government, and rather beg- ging the point that theirs was such, issued a proclama- tion sanctioning it, which, if it did not help to give it currency, removed much of the hostility that had been previously shown to those who circulated tracts, or those who received them. This was an amazing step, an enormous accession of power, to the party advo- cating the introduction of, or at least the acknowledg- ment of, the power and truth of western ideas.

In issuing this proclamation they saw not the re- sults that would necessarily flow from it. They saw not the incompatibility there was between the prin- ciples of Christianity and their whole government, or they would never have permitted its publication. This was probably the act of such men as Ke-in or Eeshen. The imperial court never relaxed in its hostility to change, and was frightened at the leaning towards it which it discovered in the English prepossessions of these men.

I am perfectly satisfied that the systematic hostility shewn by the people at Canton to western nations and western ideas did not proceed from themselves. Though a vain people, who might have felt their vanity hurt by our manifest superiority, this feeling would never have carried them the lengths they went, if they had not been encouraged by their superiors. It was an hostility originated and cultivated by the government for the support and better carrying out their exclusive and selfish policy.
They had long seen that their system was incom- patible with change — that every form, every custom was stereotyped, which, like the laws of the Medes and Persians, might not be changed ; and they saw that the introduction of western ideas necessitated change ; and change in their weak state meant revolu- tion — so in proportion as the government became weak, it resisted all change from without, and yet change was the only thing that could save them.

About the Hermes

ELOQUENT TEXT CLEARLY POINTING OUT THE HYPOCRISY 

Full text of "Ti-ping tien-kwoh; the history of the Ti-ping revolution"

Besides an account of my own personal adventures and practical experience during four years' military service and social intercourse with the Ti-pings, the following pages contain : — A complete history of the Revolution : its Christian, political, military, and social organization ; an accurate description of its extraordinary leader, Hung-sui-tshuen, and his principal chiefs ; the rise, progress, and present circumstances of the movement, together with its bearing and influence as well upon the welfare of the 360 million inhabitants of China, as on the general interests of Great Britain; with a thorough review of the policy of the British Government towards China ; including the intervention with and hostilities against the Ti-ping patriots, who, by accepting Cbristianity and abandoning idolatry, revolted against the Manchoo-Tartar Government.
viii PREFACE.
In writing this work I have been prompted by feelings of sympathy for a worthy, oppressed, and cruelly- Wronged people ; as well as by a desire to protest against the evil foreign policy which England, during the last few years^has pursued towards foreign Powers, especially in Asia. As a talented writer has just proved,*

" It is not once, nor yet twice, that the policy of the British Government has been ruinous to the best interests of the world. It is not once, nor yet twice, that British deeds have aroused the indignation and horror of 'highly civilized and half-civilized races.' Disregard of international law and of treaty law in Europe — deeds of piracy and spoliation in Asia — one vast system of wrong and violence have everywhere for years marked the dealings of the British Government with the weaker nations of the globe." Entertaining similar opinions to these, I have endeavoured to produce a complete history of the wonderful revolution in China, and an accurate narrative of the forcible intervention of the British Government against it. As this subject has never been properly placed before the people of England ; as it forms one of the last acts of interference with the internal affairs of another State which was undertaken by Lord Palmerston's Administration ; and as I have had peculiar opportunities of becoming acquainted as well with the Ti-pings as with the terrible effects of British intervention in this instance, — I feel it my duty to afford the fullest information to my countrymen, so as to assist them in forming a correct opinion on a question of such vast magnitude. *
" Intervention and Non-intervention," by A. G. Stapleton.

Some Recollections by Captain Charles Porter Low who took charge of the clipper shipe N.B. Palmer 1851. His brother was Edward Low. A.A. Low and Bro's gave the Samuel Russell over to Captain Limeburner.
Captain Baldwin commands a steamer "Brother Jonathan C. Adolphe Low is his cousin cousin

how was perkins punished for his drug pushing?...MORE MONEY,connections & power for his family

HOW WEALTH AND POWER STAYS IN THE FAMILY....HOW THE 1% ARE GUARANTEED NEVER TO LOSE THEIR WEALTH

Charles Elliott Perkins Jr.
Charles Elliott Perkins Jr. was born in Burlington in 1881, and was a classmate of President Franklin Roosevelt and a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University. He was President of the C.B. & Q. from 1918 to 1921, and a director until 1929; and a member of the executive board of the Southern Pacific Railroad. (Charles E. Perkins, Rail Official, Dies. New York Times, Jun. 20, 1943.) He was a trustee of FDR's National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in 1937. Charles Elliott Perkins (3d) died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his large ranch in Santa Ynez, Calif. (Charles Elliott Perkins, 47, Was Rancher in California. New York Times, Mar. 23, 1965.) He was an usher at the marriage of Eugene Van Rensselaer Thayer Jr. to Gladys Brooks. (Thayer-Brooks Wedding. New York Times, Sep. 4, 1903.)

Thomas Nelson Perkins (1870-1937)
"Colonel Thomas Handasyd Perkins of Boston, a brother of Thomas Nelson Perkins's great-grandfather, became the first President of America's first railroad, when he was made head of the Granite Railway, a crude tramway two and three-fourths miles long, which was built at Quincy, Mass., in 1826, to convey to the waterfront the granite blocks with which the Bunker Hill monument was built.

The present Mr. Perkins also has a connection with the railroad world in that John M. Forbes, a nephew of Colonel Perkins, had a prominent part in the building of the Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy, became its President and was succeeded in that office by his cousin, Charles E. Perkins. Thomas Nelson Perkins was born in Milton, Mass., in 1870. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1891 and from Harvard Law School three years later. He has been a member of the Massachusetts bar for thirty-five years. During the World War Mr. Perkins was made chief counsel to the War Industries Board, and later became Assistant to the Secretary of War for purchase and supply. When the Dawes plan was adopted at the London conference in 1924 Mr. Perkins was selected as an added member of the Reparations Commission with a vote on all matters pertaining to the Dawes plan. Through that post he was in the important position, during the period when the Dawes organization was getting started, of holding the vote which would have decided a tie among the other four nationals." He later resigned to become President of the Arbitral Tribunal of Interpretations, a post he held as of 1928, when he was elected Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Boston & Maine Railroad. He was also a Fellow of Harvard University, Chairman of the Commercial Radio International Committee, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Puget Sound Power and Light Company, Vice President and a director of the Railway and Light Securities Company, and a director of the Lee Higginson Trust Company, Merrimac Chemical Company, Flintkote Company and the Postum Company. (Perkins A Descendant of First Railway Head. New York Times, Mar. 11, 1928.) He was named an alternate to J.P. Morgan on the US Reparations Committee. (Perkins Sails For Paris. New York Times, Feb. 16, 1929.) He was acting president of the Boston & Maine when George Hannauer died. (T.N. Perkins Heads the Boston & Maine. New York Times, Nov. 6, 1929.) Perkins and W. Cameron Forbes [HC 1892], partner of J.M. Forbes & Co. and Governor General of the Philippines under President Taft, were elected directors of the Engineers Public Service Company. "Both men have been connected with the Puget Sound Power and Light Company, recently acquired by Engineers, for more than thirty years." (Utility Elects Two Directors. New York Times, Dec. 9, 1928.)

Thomas Nelson Perkins was best man for Nicholas Longworth of Cincinnati, who married President Theodore Roosevelt's daughter, Alice

 OF THE LIBRARY OF THE BOSTON ATHENJEUM. 1807-1871. PART V. BOSTON. 1882.

Phillips Academy (Andover)

List of Phillips Academy alumni

Clark Perkins on twitter

Letter To The Editor By Clark Perkins '14 and Junius Williams '14 Friday, March 1st, 2013

School Vote Stirs Debate on Girls as Leaders some of the young women — and men —   at the 235-year-old prep school feel that Andover, as it is commonly called, has yet to achieve true gender equality. Since 1973, only four girls have been elected, most recently in 2003. (The other top student position, that of editor in chief of the newspaper, has had nine girls and 33 boys.) The letter writers said this was an embarrassment, especially at a school considered so progressive. The paucity of girls in high-profile positions, they said, leaves younger students with few role models and discourages them from even trying for the top. But the broader concern involved age-old questions of whether men and women could ever achieve equality, the nature of sexism and the nature of a meritocracy, which Andover very much purports to be.

Class of 2014 Elects Lower Reps Clark Perkins ’14 and Junius Williams ’14 Thursday, October 13th, 2011​

Hunter Perkins, a 16-year-old student at the Groton School, killed himself with his late mother's gun in his father RIchard's Chantilly, Virginia, home three days after the school headmaster asked that he officially withdraw.