Timothy Collins (1699 - 1777)

Born 13 Apr 1699 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Hyde) Collins — married 16 Jan 1723 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 7 Feb 1777 at age 77 in Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Graduated Yale 1718

"He had the foresight to purchase large tracts of Land. Better known as Litchfield's first pastor of the Congregational Society (June 19, 1723 to Nov. 15, 1752), Collins was a Justice of the Peace, Lister, Selectman, Surgeon and Cornwall's first Proprietor's Clerk." (My Country)

Name

Timothy Collins

Residence

Lebanon, New London, Connecticut (Barbour Collection)

Marriage

Elizabeth Hyde, 16 Jan 1723 Lebanon, New London, Connecticut (Barbour Collection)

Research Notes

While he is a patriot ancestor in the DAR GRS (https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A024569 link here), it seems that the act that qualified him as aiding the cause of the Revolution, serving as magistrate, cannot be documented past 1771; in order for service to make your ancestor eligible to be a DAR Patriot Ancestor, said service has to have occurred between 19 April 1775 and 26 Nov 1783 (https://www.dar.org/national-society/accepted-revolutionary-war-service reference).

Sources

• Guilford (Conn.) Vital Records, The American Genealogist (Barrington, RI, 1938) Vol. 15, Page 185.
• Colonial Collegians: Biographies of Those Who Attended American Colleges before the War for Independence (subscription). CD-ROM. Boston, Mass.: Massachusetts Historical Society : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Vol. Yale page 101
• Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College (Holt, 1885) Vol.1, Page 182, Page 523
• Woodruff, George C., A Genealogical Register of the Inhabitants of the Town of Litchfield, Connecticut, (The Case Lockwood & Brainard Company, Hartford, Conn., 1845) Page 61
• Guertin, Iris, Rose. Connecticut Soldiers, French and Indian War, 1755-62, (Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, CT, USA, 1903-1905) Page 92: Timothy Collins, Location: Litchfield, Comments: Appointed Physician and Surgeon, March 1756.
• The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - White, Lorraine Cook, ed. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1994-2002) Vol. Litchfield, Page 112

Name: Mrs. Elizabeth Hide

Marriage: 16 Jan 1722 Litchfield, Connecticut

Residence: Lebanon

Spouse: Rev. Timothy Collins

• My Country (My Country Society, Litchfield, Conn., Winter, 1994) Vol. 28, No. 1, Page 24.
• Olding, Jr., Herbert H., Old Guilford Births and Deaths, Connecticut Nutmegger (Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Glastonbury, Connecticut, 1977) Vol. 10, Page 163.
• Proceedings of the North and South Consociations of Litchfield County, CT. (Case, Tiffany & Co., Hartford, 1852) Page 70-71.