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Rev. Nathaniel Collins

Male 1642 - 1684  (42 years)


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  • Name Nathaniel Collins  [1, 2
    Prefix Rev. 
    Birth 7 Mar 1642  Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4
    Gender Male 
    Death 28 Dec 1684  Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [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 Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 86 years) 
    Mother Martha Baylie,   b. Abt 1609   d. 22 Mar 1700, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 91 years) 
    Marriage 20 Nov 1628  Framlingham, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Family ID F10656  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary Whiting,   b. Bef 1643, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Oct 1709, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 66 years) 
    Marriage 3 Aug 1664  Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5, 6, 7
    Children 
    +1. Rev. Nathaniel Collins,   b. 13 Jun 1677, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Dec 1756, Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
    Family ID F10654  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 20 Mar 2020 

  • 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.”

  • Sources 
    1. [S1738] Lineage from Gov. William Bradford down to Sybil Chapin, by Howard Hurtig Metcalfe.

    2. [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.

    3. [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.

    4. [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.

    5. [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.

    6. [S2254] Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut by Lucius Barnes Barbour. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977., date only.

    7. [S655] Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut by Frank Farnsworth Starr. Hartford, Connecticut, 1915., date only.