Benjamin Collins (abt. 1782 - abt. 1869)

Born about 1782 in Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States

Ancestors

Died about 1869 at about age 87 in Point Coupe Parish, Louisiana

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Biography

Benjamin Collins b abt 1782 VA died bef 1870 Point Coupe LA m 27 Mar 1811 West Feliciana LA Caroline Matilda Johnson ch: Mary Eliazabeth Collins Charles Bartlett Collins John Hunter Collins Judith Ann Collins Henry Clay Collins

Sources

• Louisiana, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1728-1850

Name: Benjamin Collins Spouse: Caroline Johnson Marriage Date: 27 Mar 1811 Marriage County: West Feliciana Original data: Dodd, Jordan R, et. al.. Early American Marriages: Louisiana to 1850. Bountiful, UT, USA: Precision Indexing Publishers, 19xx.

1820 US Census Mississippi, Feliciana. LA Source Citation 1820 U S Census; Census Place: Mississippi, Feliciana, Louisiana; Page: 61; NARA Roll: M33_31; Image: 62

1830 US Census West Feliciana, LA Source Citation Year: 1830; Census Place: West Feliciana, Louisiana; Series: M19; Roll: 43; Page: 226; Family History Library Film: 0009686

1840 US Census Pointe Coupee, LA Source Citation Year: 1840; Census Place: Pointe Coupee, Louisiana; Roll: 130; Page: 184; Family History Library Film: 0009690

1850 US Census Pointe Coupee, LA Year: 1850; Census Place: Pointe Coupee, Louisiana; Roll: 239; Page: 6a

1860 US Census Pointe Coupee, LA Source Citation Year: 1860; Census Place: Pointe Coupee, Louisiana; Page: 809

Old Families of Louisiana By Stanley C. Arthur, Stanley Clisby Arthur, George Campbell Huchet de Kernion pg 171

"Caroline Matilda Johnson, third daughter of Isaac Johnson and Mary Routh, was born January 19, 1792, died January 3, 1838. She married, March 27, 1811, Benjamin Collins, a Virginian who became sheriff of the Felicianas. Their children were: (a) Mary Collins, who married Ebenezer Cooley, and had one son and six daughers; (b) Charles Bartlet Collins, who first married Miss Jane harbour, who died at seventeen March 8, 1840. His second wife was a Miss Taylor. Charles B Collins had five sons, all dying without issue, and one daugher, Mary Charlotte Collins, born in 1863 who married William Taylor and removed to Tallahassee, Florida; (c) John Hunter Collins, born March 24, 1819, died June 11, 1876, who married May Dashiell but left no family; (d) Annie Collins, who first married the Reverand Dean, an Episcopal minister, her second husband being a Mr. Bowie of Pointe Coupee Parish. She left two daughers and two sons; (e) Henry Clay Collins, born March 27, 1826, died November 20, 1841 , while attending college in Kentucky." https://books.google.com/books?