Samuell Collins (1580 - 1657)

Born 19 Dec 1580 in Bramford, Suffolk, England

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Died 2 May 1657 at age 76 in St. Michael's Church, Braintree, Essex, England

Biography

Samuel Collins was born about 1580.

He passed in 1657

Notes

• Samuell Collins, Deacon, and Vicar of Braintree, Essex, England. He has at least 2 other offspring.
• 1599-1600: Graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, Essex, England.
• 29-09-1601: Ordained Deacon at Norwich, Norfolk, England, aged 25yrs.
• 15-02-1610: Instituted to Braintree; Became Vicar of Braintree. (VoB: 1611-57).
• Curate of Ash Bocking, Suffolk.
• Close friend of Bishop Laud, Thomas Hooker, John Beadle; Dr. Arthur Duck.
• Mark Mott: My cousin Collyns, Minister of Braintree: Mark Mott of Braintree, Essex, gentleman, in his Will: 01-05-1636 Proved: 07-05-1638: Mentions "my cousin Collins minister of Braintree" and Mark Mott's son the Rev. Mark Mott, D.D., Rector of Rayne Parva (Braintree).
• Will 1631-02-21: Thomas Hobbes of Gray's Inn.
• Company of Twenty-Four.
• Laud's informer.
• A sermon preached at the funerals of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ in the work of the Gospel, Mr. Samuel Collins, Pastor of the Church of Christ at Braintree in Essex, who exchanged this life for immortality in the 77th year of his age, in the 46 year of his ministry there, in the year of our Lord, 1657' preached by Matthew Newcomen.
• Some of these Braintree registers started very late, and hence it is more than likely the Rev. Samuel Collins could have married secondly, and very close to the family of Mark Mott, or thereabouts.
• See Daniell Collins, Merchant of Broad Street, London.

Sources

• Venn, Cambridge Alumni: Collins Samuel

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/L7G4-TK2

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to Bart Simon