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Benjamin Collins (1687 - 1756)
Born 6 Feb 1687 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
ANCESTORS
Son of Joseph Collins and Ruth (Knowles) Collins
Brother of
Sarah Collins, John Collins, Lydia (Collins) Higgins, Joseph Collins, Hannah (Collins) Harding,
Jonathan Collins, Jane (Collins) Higgins and James Collins
Husband of Sarah (Bangs) Collins —
married 8 Jan 1707 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay
DESCENDANTS
Father of
Joseph Collins, Ruth (Collins) Rich, Richard Collins, Lydia (Collins) Rich, Benjamin Collins,
Jonathan Collins Jr., Hannah (Collins) Snow, Mary (Collins) Snow, Sarah Collins and Sylvanus Collins
Died 23 Dec 1756 in Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Profile manager: Brenda Duncan
Profile last modified 17 Jan 2019 | Created 1 Mar 2011
Biography
Benjamin Collins was born in Feb 6, 1687, the son of Joseph Collins and Ruby Knowles of Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts[1] [2]
On January 8 1707, he married Sarah Bangs, daughter of Jonathan Bangs and Mary Mayo of Sarah married on 08 January 1707 in Truro, Barnstable County, (then) Province of Massachusetts Bay, to Benjamin Collins.[3] [2], and their children included:
Ruth, born July 8, 1708, , who married Zacheus Rich son of Richard on May 5, 1727[2] Richard, born February 7, 1709, who married Sarah Lombard on January 25, 1732[2] Lydia, born September 30, 1712, who married John Rich son of Robert on March 5, 1729[2] Benjamin, born May 11, 1713, who married Jerusha Stevens in 1735[2] Jonathan, born March 31, 1715, who married Jane Lewis on January 29, 1735[2] Hannah, born June 25, 1720, who married Ambrose Snow December 29, 1742, and then married David Snow June 7, 1759[2] Mary, born May, 1722, who married Amasa Snow on Feb 19, 1740[2] Joseph, born February 29, 1723, who married Phebe Knowles on Feb 16, 1743[2] Sylvanus, born July 1727[2] Sarah (?)[2] Benjamin Bangs died in 1756[2]
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↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). see page 230 of Volume 3, Eastham and Orleans which reads "Benjamin Collens the son of Joseph Collens was born the sixth day of feburary one thousand six hundred eighty and seven" ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 Genealogical notes of Cape Cod families by Brownson, Lydia B.; Norton, Doris V.; Held, Grace V.; Publication date 1967; Publisher Lydia B. Brownson; Digitizing sponsor Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners; Contributor Sturgis Library; Volume 47 ((Thaxter to Twining), see page 211 for the family of Joseph son of Joseph born 1632, and page 190 for Benjamin and his family ↑ Stanley Newcomb Collins Jr., "Joseph Collins of Eastham and Three Generations of his Descendants," NEHGR Vol. 151 (Jan. 1997):14, citing North Truro Church Records; Dean Dudley, History and Genealogy of the Bangs Family in America (Montrose, MA, 1896) 26. See also:
Ancestry Family Trees Tree ID 4478194; person ID 909250136; : Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. Dyer, John. Inscriptions From Gravestones in the Old North Cemetery, Truro, Mass. (Advocate Press, Provincetown, Mass., 1897) Page 9
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Benjamin Collins's Timeline
| 1687 |
February 1, 1687
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Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
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| 1697 |
1697
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Scituate, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay
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| 1708 |
July 8, 1708
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Truro, Barnstable County, Province of Massachusetts, (Present USA)
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| 1712 |
September 30, 1712
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Truro, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1713 |
May 11, 1713
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Truro, Barnstable County, Province of Massachusetts, (Present USA)
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| 1715 |
March 31, 1715
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Truro, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1720 |
June 25, 1720
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Truro, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1722 |
May 1722
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Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay, New England
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| 1724 |
February 29, 1724
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Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
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