John William Collins Jr. (abt. 1679 - abt. 1755)

Born about 28 Jun 1679 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Susanna (Daggett) Collins — married 13 Jan 1704 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died about 20 Dec 1755 at about age 76 in Charlestown, Kings, Rhode Island

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Biography

John was a Friend (Quaker)

Name: William "John" COLLINS , 14760 Birth28 Jun 1679, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Death20 Dec 1755, Charlestown, Washington, Rhode Island Death Memo“20th:10th month, 1755” Occupation: weaver Religion: Religious Society of Friends Father: John COLLINS , 14516 (<1631-~1679) Mother: Abigail JOHNSON , 14568 (ca1633->1681) Misc. Notes Born William, but after the death of his father in 1679 he was renamed John by his mother. He was then after known as John. His father had named his firstborn son John. That John died in infancy. He named a later son John. This John died in the ship wreck with his father, motivating his mother to rename him William. William was born the same year his father and older brother died at sea., p8

Probably born in Lynn, Massachusetts Colony. Moved to Westerly, Rhode Island Colony sometime before his daughters birth there in 1714, where he was a Friends preacher.

John Collins was one of six persons to purchase 3,000 acres of land on May 22, 1710 in what is now the northeastern part of the town of Hopkinton, Rhode Island. He was a Quaker.

1. Rebecca COLLINS
2. Hezekiah COLLINS
3. Sarah COLLINS
4. Jedediah COLLINS
5. Lydia COLLINS
6. John COLLINS
7. Ebenezer COLLINS
8. Benjamin COLLINS
9. Samuel COLLINS
10. Abigail COLLINS

Notables

This person is an ancestor of President Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.^[1]

John Collins was born in ~1679. His parents were John Collins (1631 - ~1679) and Abigail (Johnson) Farrar (~1634 - ~1726).^[2]

His siblings were...

1. Hannah Collins (1659 - 1704)
2. Samuel Collins (1659 - 1730)
3. Abigail (Collins) Townsend (1661 - 1693)
4. John Collins (1662 - 1679)
5. Joseph Collins (1664 - 1741)
6. Elizabeth (Collins) Bassett (1666 - 1690)
7. Benjamin Collins (1667 - 1747)
8. Mary (Collins) Hooper (1669 - 1726)
9. Daniel Collins (1671 - 1718)
10. Nathaniel Collins (1672 - 1732)
11. Hannah Collins (1674 - ~1755)
12. Sarah Collins (1675 - 1676)
13. Lois (Collins) Waters (1677 - 1715)
14. John Collins Jr. (~1679 - ~1755)

John married Susanna Daggert ( - ).

Their son was John Collins ( - 1778).

Sources

1. ↑ Roberts, Gary Boyd; Ancestors of American Presidents
2. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHLY-1QL : 15 January 2020), William Collens, 1679.

The Essex Genealogist. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.)

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Henry Collins of Lynn, continued, by Carolyn Martino and Marcia Lindberg, TEG Vol 11 (1991), page 26

Gorton, Adelos,. The Life and Times of Samuel Gorton : The Founders and the Founding of the Republic : a section of early United States history and a history of the colony of Providence and Rhode Island plantations in the Narragansett Indian country now the state of Rhode Island, 1592-1636-1677-1687 : with a genealogy of Samuel Gorton's descendants to the present time. Philadelphia: unknown, 1907; p. 181. = [ https://archive.org/stream/lifetimesofsamue00gort#page/180/mode/2up]

Roberts, Gary Boyd; Ancestors of American Presidents. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009. [1]

Collins. Descendants of John Collins, of Charlestown, Rhode Island (George Knapp., 1901)

Caroline Martino and Marcia Lindberg, "Henry Collins of Lynn and His Descendants", Part 1. The Essex Genealogist Vol. 10 No. 3 p. 145 (1990); Part 2. TEG Vol. 10 No. 4 p; 200 (1990); Part 3. TEG Vol. 11 No. 1 p? (1991); Part 5?. TEG Vol. 11 No. 3 p? (1991) (COLLINS X-5)