Rev. Nathaniel Collins

1677 - 1756  (79 years)

• Name	Nathaniel Collins
  Prefix	Rev.
  Born	13 Jun 1677	Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Baptised	17 Jun 1677	Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut   [2]
  Died	31 Dec 1756	Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut   [2]
  Buried	Enfield Street Cemetery, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut   [2]
  Person ID	I17336	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of BJS
  Last Modified	20 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Rev. Nathaniel Collins,   b. 7 Mar 1642, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts ,   d. 28 Dec 1684, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut  (Age 42 years)
  Mother	Mary Whiting,   b. Bef 1643, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut ,   d. 25 Oct 1709, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut  (Age > 66 years)
  Married	3 Aug 1664	Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut   [1, 2, 4, 5]
  Family ID	F10654	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Alice Adams,   b. 3 Apr 1682, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts ,   d. 19 Feb 1735, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut  (Age 52 years)
  Married	7 Jan 1701	Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut   [2, 6, 7]
  Children	+ 1. Ann Collins,   b. 20 Dec 1702, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut ,   d. 18 Sep 1778, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut  (Age 75 years) + 2. Alice Collins,   b. 14 Mar 1716, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut
  Last Modified	7 Oct 2020
  Family ID	F10652	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  He graduated from Harvard in 1697 and was ordained the first pastor of the First Separatist Church (Church of Christ) in Enfield on 3 June 1699 where he served until 1724. He was town clerk in 1729–35.

  
  

• Sources

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