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Rev. Nathaniel Collins
1642 - 1684 (42 years)-
Name Nathaniel Collins [1, 2] Prefix Rev. Birth 7 Mar 1642 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts [3, 4] Gender Male Death 28 Dec 1684 Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut [3, 4] Siblings 1 sibling Person ID I17338 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of BJS Last Modified 18 Aug 2022
Father Deacon Edward Collins, b. Bef 25 Mar 1603 d. 9 Apr 1689, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets (Age > 86 years) Mother Martha Baylie, b. Abt 1609 d. 22 Mar 1700, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets (Age ~ 91 years) Marriage 20 Nov 1628 Framlingham, Suffolk, England [4] Family ID F10656 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Mary Whiting, b. Bef 1643, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut d. 25 Oct 1709, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut (Age > 66 years) Marriage 3 Aug 1664 Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut [4, 5, 6, 7] Children + 1. Rev. Nathaniel Collins, b. 13 Jun 1677, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut d. 31 Dec 1756, Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut (Age 79 years) Family ID F10654 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 20 Mar 2020
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Notes - Graduated from Harvard in 1660; ordained pastor of the church at Middletown, Connecticut 4 Nov 1668. Of him, Cotton Mather wrote (in Magnalia Christi Americana), “There were more wounds given, by his death, to the Colony of Connecticut in our New England, than the body of Caesar received when he fell wounded in the senate house.”
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Sources - [S1738] Lineage from Gov. William Bradford down to Sybil Chapin, by Howard Hurtig Metcalfe.
- [S2252] Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume 22, William Bradford by Robert S. Wakefield and Ann Smith Lainhart. Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2004.
- [S1737] Biographical Dictionary of Massachusetts: Biographies and Autobiographies of the Leading Men in the State, Volume 5, by Samuel Atkins Eliot. Boston: Massachusetts Biographical Society, 1914.
- [S3854] James Wade Ferris Collins, "The Family and American Descendants of Deacon Edward Collins of Cambridge, Medford, and Charlestown, Massachusetts." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 174:52, Winter 2020; 174:258, Summer 2020.
- [S1737] Biographical Dictionary of Massachusetts: Biographies and Autobiographies of the Leading Men in the State, Volume 5, by Samuel Atkins Eliot. Boston: Massachusetts Biographical Society, 1914., date only.
- [S2254] Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut by Lucius Barnes Barbour. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977., date only.
- [S655] Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut by Frank Farnsworth Starr. Hartford, Connecticut, 1915., date only.
- [S1738] Lineage from Gov. William Bradford down to Sybil Chapin, by Howard Hurtig Metcalfe.