Person:Mary Collins (192)

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Mary Collins
b.Abt 25 May 1765 Belmont Hall, Kent, Delaware
d.27 Dec 1795 Barkers Landing?, , Delaware
Parents and Siblings
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  1. Sarah Collins
  2. Elizabeth Collins - 1796
  3. Mary CollinsAbt 1765 - 1795
  4. William CollinsAbt 1774 - Abt 1821
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  • W.  Mary CollinsAbt 1765 - 1795
  1. Maria Barker
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Name Mary Collins
Gender Female
Birth? Abt 25 May 1765 Belmont Hall, Kent, Delaware
Marriage to Unknown
Death? 27 Dec 1795 Barkers Landing?, , Delaware
Burial? Barkers Landing?, , Delaware

birth parents: Thomas Collins and Sarah Unknown

DEATH: Information on birth and death is taken from: _Delaware a Guide to the First State_ compiled and written by the Federal Writers DEATH: Projct of the WPA for the State of Delaware. DEATH: According to the book the inscription on the tombstone reads: "In memory of Mary Barker, wife of Joseph Barker and eldest DEATH: daughter of His excellency, Thomas Collins, Esquire, late Governor (sic) of the State of Delaware, who departed this life the DEATH: 27th of December, 1795 aged 30 years, 7 months and 2 days. Her death was occaisioned by taking Peruvian bark, adulterated by DEATH: litharge, which was purchased at an apothecary in Wilmington." DEATH: Peruvian bark was a treatment for malaria and litharge is lead monoxide.

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