William Collier

Abt 1583 - 1671  (~ 87 years)

• Name	William Collier  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt 1583  [3]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Abt 1585  [4]
  Death	Between 29 May 1670 and 5 Jul 1671	Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [3, 4, 5]
  Person ID	I16322	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of GFS, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	29 Mar 2023

  
  

  Family	Jane Yates,   b. Bef 5 Feb 1587   d. Aft 28 Jun 1666, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Age > 79 years)
  Marriage	16 May 1611	St. Olave, Southwark, Surrey, England   [4]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Collier,   b. Bef 18 Feb 1612   d. Bef 1644 (Age < 31 years) + 2. Sarah Collier,   b. Bef 30 Apr 1616   d. 26 Apr 1691, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Age > 74 years) + 3. Elizabeth Collier,   b. Bef 9 Mar 1619   d. Aft 10 Feb 1679 (Age > 60 years)
  Family ID	F10213	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Jan 2019

  
  

• Notes

  His English place of origin is unknown, although he is known to have become a member of the Grocer's Company of London on 3 Mar 1628. Emigrated in 1633 on the Mary and John. "William Collier [...] came to Plymouth in 1633 as one of the few London-based Merchant Adventurers, a colony investment group, to settle in New England. He was often elected as an Assistant Governor in the thirty-some years between 1634/5 and 1665. He was on the side of the government leaders in the historic 1645 dispute with liberal religious leader William Vassall. During his long life involved in public service, he served on the Council of War and served at times as a commissioner of the United Colonies, a New England colonies military alliance primarily for defense against Indian attack." [Wikipedia]

  
  

• Sources

  [S633] Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume 24, The Descendants of Elder William Brewster, Part 1, Generations 1 through 4 by Barbara Lambert Merrick. Edited by Scott Andrew Bartley. Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2014. [S4249] The Mayflower Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth, 1620 by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2020. [S6862] William E. Cole, "Jane Clarke: A Strong Woman: The English Origins of William Collier's Wife." Mayflower Descendant 69:45, Winter 2021. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S1528] Moore and Allied Families: The Ancestry of William Henry Moore by L. Effingham de Forest and Anne Lawrence de Forest. The de Forest Publishing Company: New York, 1938.