Nathaniel COLLINS
1709 - 1787 (78 years)1. Nathaniel COLLINS was born 17 Aug 1709, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (son of Nathaniel COLLINS, Jr. and Alice ADAMS); died 5 Dec 1787, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
2. Nathaniel COLLINS, Jr. was born 13 Jun 1677, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States (son of Reverend Nathaniel COLLINS and Mary WHITING); died 31 Dec 1756, Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Notes:
!Collens, Clarence Lyman. Collins memorial. c1959. US/CAN 929.273
C692cc. p. 161
Gives his birth date as 18 June 1667.
The Colonial Clergy and the Colonial Churches of New England ( 974 K3wf) gives his birth date as 13 June 1677.Nathaniel married Alice ADAMS. [Group Sheet]
3. Alice ADAMS Children:
- 1. Nathaniel COLLINS was born 17 Aug 1709, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; died 5 Dec 1787, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
Generation: 3
4. Reverend Nathaniel COLLINS was born 7/07 Mar 1641/1642, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States (son of Deacon Edward COLLINS and Martha BAYLIE); died 28 Dec 1684, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States. Notes:
!Source: "Register of Pedigrees & Services of Ancestors", The Society of
Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut. Hartford, CT, 1941. p 242.
!Nathaniel Collins graduated from Harvard in 1660.
!Collens, Clarence Lyman. Collins memorial. c1959. US/CAN 929.273
C692cc. p. chart, 160-161
!Nathaniel and Mary had eight children.Nathaniel married Mary WHITING. Mary (daughter of William WHITING, Major and Susannah) was born Abt 1640, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; died 25 Oct 1709, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States. [Group Sheet]
5. Mary WHITING was born Abt 1640, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (daughter of William WHITING, Major and Susannah); died 25 Oct 1709, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States. Notes:
!Source: "Register of Pedigrees & Services of Ancestors", The Society of
Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut. Hartford, CT, 1941. p 242.
!Source: "Maternal ancestry of Charles Whiting MacNair", by Hannah
Crawford.
!married 3 Aug. 1664 to Rev. Nathaniel Collins. (Savage, v. I, p. 434)
!might have died in 1717.
!Source: Goodwn, Nathaniel, "Genealogical Notes : Contributions to the
Family History of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and
Massachusetts.
!Had at least one child, a daughter named Abigail Collins.Children:
- Abigail COLLINS was born 31 Jul 1681, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States; died 6 Feb 1758, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
- John COLLINS was born 31 Jan 1668, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States; died Aft Dec 1707.
- 2. Nathaniel COLLINS, Jr. was born 13 Jun 1677, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States; died 31 Dec 1756, Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
Generation: 4
8. Deacon Edward COLLINS was born Abt 1603, of Framlingham, Suffolk, England; was christened 25 Mar 1603, Bramford, Suffolk, England (son of John COLLINS and Mandlene TRELHERN); died 9 Apr 1689, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Notes:
!Roberts, Gary Boyd. Ancestors of American Presidents.
!Says he died in Charlestown, Mass.
!Ancestral File, ver 416F, checked Sept. 1996. Gives marriage
information, and death day and month.
!Collens, Clarence Lyman. Collins memorial. c1959. US/CAN 929.273
C692cc. p. 141-142
!Goodwin, Nathaniel. Genealogical Notes, or, Contributions to the family
history of some of the first settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts.
pub. 1987. p. 330-1 lists 7 children.Edward married Martha BAYLIE. Martha (daughter of Francis Balie BAYLIE) was born 1609, of Framlingham, Suffolk, England; died 22/22 Mar 1699/1700, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet]
9. Martha BAYLIE was born 1609, of Framlingham, Suffolk, England (daughter of Francis Balie BAYLIE); died 22/22 Mar 1699/1700, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Notes:
!Roberts, Gary Boyd. Ancestors of American Presidents.
!Ancestral File, ver 416F, checked Sept. 1996, gives surname, birth as
abt. 1607, birth place, death date and place.Children:
- Sybil COLLINS was born Abt 1638, , , England; died 3 Jun 1672, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
- 4. Reverend Nathaniel COLLINS was born 7/07 Mar 1641/1642, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died 28 Dec 1684, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States.
- Daniel COLLINS was born Abt 1629, , , England.
- Reverend John COLLINS was born Abt 1633, , , England; died 3 Dec 1687, London, London, England.
- Ensign Samuel COLLINS was born Abt 1635, , , England; died 10 Jan 1695, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States.
- Martha COLLINS was born Sep 1639, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died Aug 1674, Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States.
- Abigail COLLINS was born 20 Sep 1644, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died 1/01 Feb 1673/1674, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.
- Edward COLLINS was born Jun 1646, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; was christened Jun 1646, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
10. William WHITING, Major was born , , Suffolk, England; died Jul 1647, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Notes:
!Source: "Register of Pedigrees & Services of Ancestors", The Society of
Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut. Hartford, CT, 1941. p 75.
!William Whiting was one of the Founders of the City of Hartford, CT. His
name is enscribed on the North side of the Founders monument, 8th from
the top. He was assigned an original (1640) tract of land bordering the
South Meadow. The lot number is illegible on the copy I possess but under
his name is the appelation "Merchant". D. McArthur (Source used
"Geneology of the Descendants of Thomas Lord" by Kenneth Lord, New
York, 1946, SLC Fam Hist Library 929.273 L884LKa)
!"Maternal ancestry of Charles Whiting MacNair", by Hannah Crawford.
!"Suffolk Emigrants", by Joseph Hunter. (Massachusetts Historical
Collections, series III, vol. X, p. 171.
!"Dictionary of Early N.E. Settlers" , by Savage
!Goodwin, Nathaniel. Genealogical Notes, or, Contributions to the family
history of some of the first settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts.
pub. 1987
!in Hartford, Conn. as early as 1632.
!Came from Suffolk in the vicinity of Boxford. (Joseph Hunter, "Suffolk
Emigrants"
!see my Whiting file.
!also information from family group record by Beth Richmond.
!The will of William Whiting is in Trumgull's colonial Records of
Connecticut, v. 1, p. 493. Check this.
!Waterfield, Peter Whiting. Whiting genealogy. Says William came from
Boxford, Suffolk, England in 1633. His line worked their way up the
Conn. Valley into Springfield, Holyoke and Western Mass.
Hinman, R.R. A Catalogue of the names of the first Puritan settlers of
the Colony of Connecticut... c1968, p. 97 lists many of the positions he
held and things he did in Hartford. Lists his children. Does NOT list a
child born after his death. Joseph was probably the child another source
lists as being born after his death because Joseph was provided for by a
codicil.
William had a sister, Wiggins, who had children.William married Susannah. Susannah was born Abt 1612; died 8 Jul 1673, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States; was buried 8 Jul 1673, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States. [Group Sheet]
11. Susannah was born Abt 1612; died 8 Jul 1673, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States; was buried 8 Jul 1673, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Notes:
!Source: "Register of Pedigrees & Services of Ancestors", The Society of
Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut. Hartford, CT, 1941. p 75.
!Source: "Maternal ancestry of Charles Whiting MacNair", by Hannah
MacNair.
!Her last name might be Wiggin.
!Her first name might be Mary.
!Married (2) in 1650, Samuel Fitch of Hartford, (d. 1659) by whom she
had two sons.
!Married (3) Alexander Bryant (Bryan) of Milford.
!Might have died in Middletown, Middlesex, Conn.
!Goodwin, Nathaniel. Genealogical Notes, or, Contributions to the family
history of some of the first settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts.
pub. 1987
!Goodwin said Susannnah died at Middletown, at the house of her
daughter, Mrs. Collins and was buried there July 8, 1673.
!Barbour, Lucius B. Families of early Hartford, Connecticut. pub. 1977.
US/CAN 974.63 D2b, p. 246
!Barbour gives Susannah's sons by Samuel Fitch as Samuel and Thomas.
! I guessed the date of her birth. Her 2nd child was born in 1635. If her
first was born in 1633, and she was 20 when she married, her birthdate
would be about 1612.Children:
- William WHITING was born Bef 1635, , , England; died 1699, London, London, England.
- Sarah WHITING was born 1637, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; died 1704.
- Samuel WHITING was born Abt 1636, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; died Aft 1647.
- Joseph WHITING was born 2 Oct 1645, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; died 8 Oct 1717, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
- John WHITING, Reverend was born 1635, London, , England; died 8 Sep 1689, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
- 5. Mary WHITING was born Abt 1640, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; died 25 Oct 1709, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States.
- WHITING was born Aft Jul 1647, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.