Rev. Nathaniel Collins1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18
#1458, b. 7 March 1641/42, d. 28 December 1684
Father | Deacon Edward Collins b. 25 Mar 1603, d. 9 Apr 1689 |
Mother | Martha Baylie b. 20 Feb 1609/10, d. 22 Mar 1699/0 |
Spouse | Mary Whiting b. c 1643, d. 25 Oct 1709 |
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Rev. Nathaniel Collins was born in Cambridge, Middlesex, Mass, on 7 March 1641/42.19,20,21 He married in Middletown, Middlesex, Conn, 3 August 1664, Mary Whiting, daughter of William Whiting and Susanna (?).22,23 He died in Middletown, Middlesex, Conn, on 28 December 1684.22,24Other Events
Nathaniel graduated from Harvard, class of 1660.25 Nathaniel and his family moved from Cambridge to Middletown, Middlesex, Conn., in 1664.26 Rev. Nathaniel Collins and his brother Samuel became Freemen at Hartford, Hartford, Conn., on 9 May 1667.27 Rev. Nathaniel Collins was ordained minister of the First Church of Christ, Congregational, in Middletown, Middlesex, Conn., on 4 November 1668. He succeeded Rev. Samuel Stow.28 Rev. Nathaniel Collins' estate was inventoried for probate in Middletown, Middlesex, Conn on December 1684.6,29 On 24 October 1688, four years after he died, Rev. Nathaniel Collins was succeeded by Rev. Noadiah Russell, at the First Church of Christ, Congregational, Middletown. Note that both Rev. Nathaniel Collins and his brother Samuel Collins had daughters named Abigail, Martha, Mary, and Sybil. They were all born, baptized, and most were married in Middletown over approximately the same time period. Some accounts attribute a given husband to the wrong family. Nathaniel's sister Sibyl married his wife's brother John Whiting.Citations
- James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 4 vols. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1860-1862), 1:436.
- Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, 3 vols. (Boston: NEHGS, 2011), 1:358.
- Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana; or, The Ecclesiastical History of New England, 1620-1698 2 Vols., (Hartford: Silas Andrus & Son, (1702) 1853), 2:140 [Book 4, Chapter 8].
- John Farmer, A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England (Lancaster, Mass: Carter, Andrews, & Co., 1829), 066.
- John Langdon Sibley, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, 3 vols. (Cambridge: University Press: Welsh, Bigelow & Co., 1873-1885), 2:058-060.
- Charles Williams Manwaring, A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, 3 vols. (Hartford: RS Peck & Company, 1904-1906), 1:292.
- Jack L. White & D. Jolene White, The Bramford-Earls Colne Connection (Baltimore: Otter Bay Books, 2012), 147, 205.
- Charles Collard Adams, Middletown Upper Houses (New York: The Grafton Press, 1908), 17-21.
- Royal R. Hinman, A Catalog of the Names of the Early Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut (Hartford: Press of Case, Tiffany and Company, 1852), 668.
- Nathaniel Goodwin, Genealogical Notes, or Contributions to the Family History of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts (Hartford: F. A. Brown, 1856), 343.
- William F.J. Boardman, The Ancestry of William Francis Joseph Boardman (Hartford: The Author, 1906), 242.
- H Franklin Andrews, The Hamlin Family, A Genealogy of Capt. Giles Hamlin of Middletown, Connecticut, 1654-1900 (Exira, Iowa: The Author, 1900), 025.
- Cornelia Bartow Williams, Ancestry of Lawrence Williams (Chicago: The Author, 1915), 222-3.
- Lillian Lounsberry (Miner) Selleck, One Branch of the Miner Family, with Extensive Notes (New Haven: Donald Lines Jacobus, 1928), 091, 196.
- Dwight Brainerd and Donald Lines Jacobus, Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd (Montreal: The Author, 1948, Reprinted by Higginson Book Company, Salem, Mass), 095.
- Samuel Willard Bridges, Bridges Genealogy, including Britton, DeNike (Boston: George H Ellis, 1960), 031-2.
- Winifred Lovering Holman, "English Connections of Dea. Edward Collins of Cambridge, Mass," NEHG Register 89 (1935):150.
- Paula Higgins, "In-Depth First Settler Profile: Nathaniel Collins (1664) / Mary (Whiting) Collins", Society of Middletown First Settlers Descendants (2009).
- Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, 2 vols. (Boston: Wright & Potter, 1914-15), 1:150.
- Stephen Paschall Sharples, Records of the Church of Christ at Cambridge in New England, 1632-1830, (Boston: Lben Putnam, 1906), 003.
- William Newell, A Discourse on the Church-Gathering in 1636, (Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1846), 53.
- Donald Lines Jacobus, "Middletown (Conn.) Vital Records in Land Records, Volume 1," The American Genealogist 12 (1935-36):155-170, 210-222; 13 (1936-37):032-045, at 12:164.
- Barbour Collection, citing Vital Records of Middletown, LR1:13.
- Records of First Church of Christ, Congregational, Middletown, Connecticut, 1668-1870 (n.p.: n.pub.), 36.
- Sibley, Harvard Grads, 2:058.
- Middletown Land Records, Vols. 1 & 2, 1654-1742, 1:7, 42, LDS Microfilm #4792.
- J. Hammond Trumbull, Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 15 vols. (Hartford: F. A. Brown, 1852), 2:60.
- Records of First Church, Middletown, 04.
- Hartford Probate District Packets, 1641-1880 (Hartford: Connecticut State Library, unknown publish date), Microfilm Reel #494.