Sarah (Bangs) Collins (1687 - 1759)

Born 2 Aug 1687 in Eastham, Barnstable County, Plymouth Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Benjamin Collins — married 8 Jan 1707 in Truro, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 2 Apr 1759 at age 71 in Truro, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Sarah Bangs was born in August 1689 in Eastham, Barnstable County, (then) Plymouth Colony, the daughter of Jonathan Bangs^[1] and Mary Mayo.^[2] Sarah married on 08 January 1707 in Truro, Barnstable County, (then) Province of Massachusetts Bay, to Benjamin Collins.^[3] Sarah Collins died in Truro on 2 April 1759 in her 73rd year.^[3]

Children born Truro:^[4]

1. Ruth, b. 8 July 1708
2. Richard, b. 4 Feb 1710
3. Lydia, b. 30 Sep 1712
4. Benjamin, b. 11 May 1713
5. Jonathan, b. 31 Mar 1715
6. Hannah, b. 25 Jul 1720
7. Mary, b. May 1722
8. Joseph, b. 29 Feb 1724
9. Sarah, b. 18 Oct 1724
10. Sylvanus, b. 8 Jul 1727

Sources

1. ↑ Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts Births, marriages, deaths, 1649-ca.1840; intentions of marriage, 1700-ca.1905 Vol. 1, part 2, p. 15
2. ↑ Stanley Newcomb Collins Jr., "Joseph Collins of Eastham and Three Generations of his Descendants," NEHGR Vol. 151 (Jan. 1997):14. (Gives incorrect year of birth (1687), as compared to Eastham VRs.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Stanley Newcomb Collins Jr., "Joseph Collins of Eastham and Three Generations of his Descendants," NEHGR Vol. 151 (Jan. 1997):14, citing North Truro Church Records; Dean Dudley, History and Genealogy of the Bangs Family in America (Montrose, MA, 1896) 26.
4. ↑ Truro, Massachusetts, Town records, 1709-1783, p. 28

• Ancestry Family Trees (private tree)
• Dyer, John. Inscriptions From Gravestones in the Old North Cemetery, Truro, Mass. (Advocate Press, Provincetown, Mass., 1897) Page 9