Rev. John Collins1,2,3,4,5

#1467, b. 26 January 1631/32, d. 3 December 1687
FatherDeacon Edward Collins b. 25 Mar 1603, d. 9 Apr 1689
MotherMartha Baylie b. 20 Feb 1609/10, d. 22 Mar 1699/0

Spouse

Margaret (?) b. c 1635
Children

BMDB

     Rev. John Collins was baptized in Framlingham, Suffolk, England, on 26 January 1631/32.6 He married Margaret (?) circa 1670 at England. He died in London, England, on 3 December 1687.7,8,9

Other Events

     John and his family emigrated from England to Cambridge, Middlesex, Mass, in 1639.10 John graduated from Harvard, class of 1649.11 John returned to England from Cambridge in 1653.4,12 While living in Scotland in 1658, John was visited by his brother Samuel.12,13

Time Line

Baptism1632, Framlingham, Suffolk, England6
Emigration1639, Cambridge, Middlesex, MassDeacon Edward Collins10
Graduation1649, Harvard, Cambridge, Middlesex, Mass11
Move-to1653, England4,12
Marriagec 1670, EnglandMargaret (?)
Birth of Sonc 1673, EnglandJohn Collins
Birth of Sonc 1675, EnglandEdward Collins
Death1687, London, England7,8,9
ChartsDescendants of John Collins
Male Descendants of John Collins
Deacon's Descendants
Edward + 1G
Edward + 2G
Edward + 3G
Edward + 4G
Edward + 5G
Edward (9)
John (18)

Flags

Y-DNA Male
John

Citations

  1. James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 4 vols. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1860-1862), 1:435.
  2. Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana; or, The Ecclesiastical History of New England, 1620-1698 2 Vols., (Hartford: Silas Andrus & Son, (1702) 1853), 2:139 [Book 4, Chapter 8].
  3. John Langdon Sibley, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, 3 vols. (Cambridge: University Press: Welsh, Bigelow & Co., 1873-1885), 1:186-191.
  4. Susan Hardman Moore, Abandoning America: Life Stories from early New England (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England (also Rochester, NY): The Boydell Press, 2013), 082.
  5. Jack L. White & D. Jolene White, The Bramford-Earls Colne Connection (Baltimore: Otter Bay Books, 2012), 145, 201.
  6. White & White, Connection, 201.
  7. Sibley, Harvard Grads, 1:189.
  8. Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana, 2:140 [Book 4, Chapter 8].
  9. M. Halsey Thomas, The Diary of Samuel Sewall, 1674-1729, 2 vols. (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1973), 1:159.
  10. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Directory (Boston: NEHGS, 2015), 074.
  11. Sibley, Harvard Grads, 1:186.
  12. Stephen Paschall Sharples, Records of the Church of Christ at Cambridge in New England, 1632-1830, (Boston: Lben Putnam, 1906), 003.
  13. William Newell, A Discourse on the Church-Gathering in 1636, (Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1846), 53.