John Robinson and Nancy Collins

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: [unknown]

This page was created to consolidate information on what appears to be more than one John and Nancy (of Mississippi and of Georgia).

The Claiborne County, Mississippi Robinsons:

• John Robinson (abt.1773-1808)
• Ann (Collins) Robinson (1777-1831)

The Georgia Robersons:

• John Roberson (c1787-aft. 1850), married in 1808 to
• Nancy Collans

Roberson and Robinson seem to be almost interchangeable in various public records.^[1]

"The Nancy Collins (also spelled often Collans in GA) in Putnam could be the daughter of several other Collins men who are in early GA--for instance a James Collins who marries an Anne Headspeth on 2 Aug, 1780 in Richmond GA. But since the Nancy Collins who married John Roberson in Putnam County is dead by 1821, probably in Walton Co GA, (John Roberson then remarries to Selah Pike) and the Nancy Collins who married this John III from Maryland is said to have died in 1831 in MS, near Robinson Springs, they are just not the same person. Also, the John Roberson of the Putnam Co GA marriage says, in 1850, that he was born around 1790, quite a bit younger than the John Robinson III born, according to MS descendants, in 1773. Also the pattern of migration, though similar to a point, is different in the final settlement. The Maryland Robinsons go to Mississippi in the early 1800s, very early for settlement in MS. The SC and GA John Roberson/Robinson goes from Fayette, GA to AL in about 1837, and though perhaps he later has a sojourn in MS, as some in the family say, no one seems to be sure, and a good guess is that they are getting the Maryland-SC-GA-to-Mississippi Robinsons mixed up with the SC-to-GA-AL Roberson/Robertson/Robinsons."^[1]

"Nancy" was a diminutive of "Ann",^[2] and she was known as Nancy Collins.^[3]

Ref tags from Collins-3213'

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Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} From Bell research?
2. ↑ Behind the Name website: Nancy (accessed 8 September 2021).
3. ↑ See The Order of the First Families of Mississippi: 1699-1817. Notes made by Mary Collins Landin. Author's family look back from Mississippi settlement 1811-1812, to trace a Collins marriage of daughter Nancy Ann in 1796 in Richmond Co GA to a John Robinson.
4. ↑ Information from the Moses Family Bible, posted here (accessed 8 September 2021).
5. ↑ Henning, Elma & Merle Rummel, The Toney Family History, Gateway Press, 1979, pg 478
6. ↑ Hatcher Families Genealogy Association, online tree. Entry for Ann Collins (accessed 8 August 2020), implies Family Bible as source - the following information is on the entry for her father, Moses Collins: Mississippi Cemetery and Bible Records, Volume XVI, Mississippi Genealogical Society, 1976. Moses Collins Bible:
   

   Original owner - Moses & Hannah Willis Collins
   

   Address - Marion County, (now Walthall Co.) Mississippi
   

   Present owner [1976] - S. D. Collins, Jackson, Mississippi
   

   Bible published by - Alexander Kincaid His Majesty's Printer, Edinburgh (1769)

7. ↑ Moses Collins, DAR Patriot Ancestor #A024536.
8. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #119268657 for Nancy Ann Collins (accessed 10 August 2020: no images; no sources).
9. ↑ "The Order of the First Families of Mississippi: 1699-1817", Moses Collins (accessed 8 August 2020): Daughter "Nancy Ann (1777-1831, m. John Robinson III, d. Robinson Springs, Madison County)".
10. ↑ The Family of Moses, Sr. and his wife Hannah (Willis) Collins (accessed 8 August 2020). Statement at bottom of biography:
    

    " Much of the information provided herein was supplied by the late Seaborn D. Collins of Jackson, MS. Cousin Dee, as he was known, was in possession of the old Moses Collins Bible from whence came many of the birth, marriage and death dates of this Collins family. This Bible was printed in 1769."

11. ↑ Listed by Jan Bell in this GenForum post, citing a bible record:
    • 4. John Robinson III b. 12 Sept 1773 m. Nancy Collins d/o Moses Collins of Richmond Co, GA--they married in Putnam Co, GA and later moved to Mississippi. Nancy is buried at Robinsons' Springs in Miss.
12. ↑ John Robinson Jr, DAR Patriot Ancestor #A097563 (accessed 8 September 2021).

• Henning, Elma & Merle Rummel, The Toney Family History, Gateway Press, 1979, pg 478.
• Find a Grave, Hinds Co MS for Hannah Willis Collins, wife of Moses Collins of Orangeburg, SC. Hannah Willis Collins dates are 1754-1833.
• Appendix to Memory Aldridge Lester's 1957 book, Alldredge-Aldridge-Bracken-Nesmith Families And Their Kin. Appendix by Robert Newton Aldridge Jr., The Aldridge Family: England to America. Online courtesy of Hathi Trust. See also WikiTree's source page for Memory's book.
• Genealogy forum 9 September 2000 post by Jan Bell: https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/robinson/6478/
• John Robinson Jr, DAR Patriot Ancestor #A097563 (mentioned in Jan Bell's post as son of John and Lucy (Fell) Robinson; accessed 8 September 2021).
• Boards discussions, online, of Ancestry.com about John Robinson (Roberson) and Nancy Collins. Many mistakes here, but discussions led by Darlene Worrell, a descendant of John Robinson born c1787, are in right direction. [Source/comment from Marianne Muse - links not included.]
• FamilySearch Person ID LH19-ZCK has a Nancy Collins born 31 January 1777, died 1831, daughter of Moses and Hannah (Willis) Collins and married to John [Roberson] - in 1808 with children marrying in Alabama and Georgia. And Person ID LY6W-P78 for John has him as son of John Robinson and Mary Raymond, but dying in Putnam, Georgia in 1845. So... a blending of information from both couples. The only source for Nancy is the 1808 marriage. As of 8 September 2021, John's PID had 20 sources, including the 1808 marriage, an 1821 marriage to "Selah" Pike in Walton, Georgia, and the 1850 census for Talledega, AL that has John Robinson (born c1787 in SC) and Cely Robinson (born c1805 in SC) and ten others, ages 4 to 21, with the five youngest (4 to 12) born in Alabama and the others (13-21) born in Georgia.
• "Georgia Marriages, 1808-1967", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWQN-NMT : 11 January 2020), John Roborson, 1808.
• "Georgia Marriages, 1808-1967", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWCT-J5H : 11 January 2020), John Robinson, 1821.
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH54-XNW : 19 December 2020), John Robinson, Talladega, Talladega, Alabama, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.). Image, accessed 8 September 2021.

Dupes?

• Henning, Elma & Merle Rummel, The Toney Family History, Gateway Press, 1979, pg 478.
• Find a Grave, Hinds Co MS for Hannah Willis Collins, wife of Moses Collins of Orangeburg, SC. Hannah Willis Collins dates are 1754-1833.
• Appendix to Memory Aldridge Lester's 1957 book, Alldredge-Aldridge-Bracken-Nesmith Families And Their Kin. Appendix by Robert Newton Aldridge Jr., The Aldridge Family: England to America. Online courtesy of Hathi Trust. See also WikiTree's source page for Memory's book.
• Genealogy forum 9 September 2000 post by Jan Bell: https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/robinson/6478/
• John Robinson Jr, DAR Patriot Ancestor #A097563 (mentioned in Jan Bell's post as son of John and Lucy (Fell) Robinson; accessed 8 September 2021).
• Boards discussions, online, of Ancestry.com about John Robinson (Roberson) and Nancy Collins. Many mistakes here, but discussions led by Darlene Worrell, a descendant of John Robinson born c1787, are in right direction. [Source/comment from Marianne Muse - links not included.]
• FamilySearch Person ID LH19-ZCK has a Nancy Collins born 31 January 1777, died 1831, daughter of Moses and Hannah (Willis) Collins and married to John [Roberson] - in 1808 with children marrying in Alabama and Georgia. And Person ID LY6W-P78 for John has him as son of John Robinson and Mary Raymond, but dying in Putnam, Georgia in 1845. So... a blending of information from both couples. The only source for Nancy is the 1808 marriage. As of 8 September 2021, John's PID had 20 sources, including the 1808 marriage, an 1821 marriage to "Selah" Pike in Walton, Georgia, and the 1850 census for Talledega, AL that has John Robinson (born c1787 in SC) and Cely Robinson (born c1805 in SC) and ten others, ages 4 to 21, with the five youngest (4 to 12) born in Alabama and the others (13-21) born in Georgia.
• "Georgia Marriages, 1808-1967", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWQN-NMT : 11 January 2020), John Roborson, 1808.
• "Georgia Marriages, 1808-1967", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWCT-J5H : 11 January 2020), John Robinson, 1821.
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH54-XNW : 19 December 2020), John Robinson, Talladega, Talladega, Alabama, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.). Image, accessed 8 September 2021.

• Genealogy forum 9 September 2000 post by Jan Bell: https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/robinson/6478/
• John Robinson Jr, DAR Patriot Ancestor #A097563 (mentioned in Jan Bell's post as son of John and Lucy (Fell) Robinson; accessed 8 September 2021).