Person:Henry Collins (3)

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Henry Collins
b.Cal 1606
  • HHenry CollinsCal 1606 - 1686/87
  • WAnn UnknownCal 1605 - 1691
m. Bef 1630
  1. Henry Collins1629 - 1722
  2. John Collins1631/32 - 1679
  3. Margery CollinsCal 1633 - Bef 1702
  4. Hannah CollinsAbt 1635 - 1681/82
  5. Mary CollinsAbt 1640 - 1681/82
  6. Riall Collins1644 - 1680/81
  7. Benjamin CollinsEst 1648 -
Facts and Events
Name[1] Henry Collins
Gender Male
Birth[1] Cal 1606
Marriage Bef 1630 Estimate based on date of birth of eldest known child.
to Ann Unknown
Emigration[1] 1635 On the Abigail.
Residence[1] 1635 Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Other[1] 9 Mar 1636/37 Admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay.
Will[1] 11 Feb 1686/87 Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Occupation[1] Starchmaker (in England).
Burial[1] 20 Feb 1686/87 Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Estate Inventory? 31 Mar 1687 Inventory presented. £474 10s., of which £406 was real estate.
Probate[1] 31 Mar 1687 Will proved.

"On the last of June 1635, 'Henry Collins,' aged 29, 'uxor Ann Collins,' aged 30, 'Henry Collins,' aged 5, 'Jo: Collins,' aged 3, and 'Margery Collins,' aged 2, were enrolled at London with certificates of conformity from the minister of Stepney for passage to New England on the Abigail |Hotten 97]. With the family were listed four servants: 'Josua Griffith,' aged 25, 'Hugh Alley,' aged 27, 'Mary Roote,' aged 15, and 'Jo|hn| Coke,' aged 27; and 'Geo[rge] Burdin,' aged 24 (who may or may not have been a servant) [Hotten 97]."[1]


The following from Newhall's History of Lynn, Mass."

Page 151--"Henry Collins was a starchmaker and lived in Essex street. He embarked in the Abigail, of London, 30th of June, 1635. In 1639 He was a member of the Salem Court. He was born in 1606, and was buried 20, Feb., 1687, at the age of 81. His wife, Ann, was born in 1605. His children were Henry, born 1630; John, born 1632; Margery, born 1633; and Joseph, born 1635, and his descendants remain."

Page 171--"1637--A town meeting was held this year in which Daniel Howe, Richard Walker and Henry Collins were chosen a committie to divide the lands, or as it was expressed in the records: 'To lay out ffarmes." The land was laid out in those parts of the town best adapted for cultivation, and the wood lands were reserved as common property, called the 'Town Common,' and was not divided until sixty-nine years afterwards."

In a list of names, about one hundred in number, recorded in the town records in the year 1638, which follows the above extract appears the following: "Henry Collins up-land and meadow 80 acres and ten." The ten acres was a separate allotment and was undoubtedly his village or town lot where he resided.

Other references to the name of Henry Collins in the public records of Lynn show that he was a man of importance in that community, was frequently called upon to perform duties of public trust and confidence and sometimes acted as an advocater in trials.

A. Chalkely Collins of Great Barrington, Mass., in a letter dated Aug. 16, 1900, says: "Henry Collins belonged to the Parish Stepney in the eastern part of the present city of London and worshipped in the old Parish Church at that place. This Parish Church of Stepney, dedicated to Saint Dunstan, is the oldest in East London, and one of the oldest in all London. Before Dunstan re-built the church in the tenth century there was a Saxon church there dedicated to all saints. The present church was built in the time of Edward IV, 1471-1483, a few relics of the previous church being preserved. According to the church records several of the children of Henry Collins were baptized in this church, among whom was his son, John, (our ancestor) at the age of eight days on January 22, 1631. Henry's place of abode is recorded in this record as Tatcliff Highway, and his business that of a starchmaker. His wife, Ann, died at Lynn, Mass., probably in 1690, as her will, dated 1690, was probated that year." (Don and Virgin

The Abigail (1635)
The Abigail sailed in the summer of 1635.
Sailed: summer 1635 from England under Master H. Hackwell
Arrived: late summer? 1635 at New England

Passengers:
~?? full list
Mathew Abdy - William Almy family - Wm Bassett - Ruth Bushell - Dennis Geere family - Tho Goade - Henry Bullocke family - Hugh Burt family - Jo. Emerson - William and John Fuller - Jo. Harbert - Edward White family - Geo. Hadborne family - Christopher Foster family - Joseph Flood family - Henry Collins family (servant Hugh Alley) - Wm Potter family - Edmond Freeman family - Philip Drinker family - Ralph Mason family - Ralph Sheppard family - Wm Tilly - Thomas Jones family - John Winthrop and wife

Resources: Founders of New England (NEHGR) and additional pages

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Henry Collins, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
    2:164-69.

    "ORIGIN: Stepney, Middlesex"
    "CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Lynn church prior to 9 March 1636/7 implied by freemanship.
    FREEMAN: 9 March 1636/7 [MBCR 1:373]. Took the 1678 oath of fidelity at Lynn (as 'Henry Collins, Sr.') [EQC 7:158]."
    "BIRTH: About 1606 (aged 29 in 1635 [Hotten 97]; deposed in November 1662 'aged about fifty-five years' [EQC 3:11])."

  2.   Vital Records of Lynn, Massachusetts.

    Collins, Henry Sr., grandfather of Henry 3d bur. Feb. 20, 1686/7.