John Collins1,2,3,4,5
#2280, b. circa 1640, d. 1704
BMDB
John
Collins was born at
Boston, Suffolk, Mass, circa 1640.
5,4 He married at
Boston, Suffolk, Mass, circa 1662
Mary Trowbridge. John Collins married
Mary Stevens on 2 June 1669 at
Boston, Suffolk, Mass; This was the second marriage for both. Her first husband was Henry Kingsworth.
6 John Collins married
Dorcas Swain on 6 March 1699/0; This was her second marriage. Her first husband was John Taintor. He died at
Mass in 1704. John Collins was buried in 1704 at
Village Green Cemetery Guilford, New Haven, Conn.
7Citations
- James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 4 vols. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1860-1862), 1:435.
- Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, 3 vols. (Boston: NEHGS, 2011), 1:357.
- Ralph D. Smith, "Edward and John Collins and Their Descendants," NEHG Register 61 (1907):283-4.
- William Richard Cutter, New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial, 5 volumes (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co, 1913-1915), 4:1777.
- Mary Lovering Holman, Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his wife Frances Helen Miller, 2 vols. (Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1948), 1:215.
- Donald Lines Jacobus, "Guilford Vital Records in Town Records, Book A," The American Genealogist 13 (1936):088-098, 181-189, 242-245, at 94 [67].
- Find A Grave Memorial.
- A Report of the Record Commissioners Containing Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699 (Document 130) (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1883), 088.