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About General Oliver Collins
General Oliver Collins
Find A Grave Memorial ID # 63566849
General Oliver, youngest child of Jonathan and Agnes (Lynn) Collins, was born Aug. 25, 1762, in that part of Wallingford which is now Meriden, and went as a youth to Southwick, Mass., perhaps with his parents. There were others of his name in that town, one being a namesake who served as a revolutionary solider. The future genearl enliseted at Southwick at the age of seventeen years, in 1779, to serve in the Hampshire county regiment in the coninental army, and appears on the pay roll from Nov. 1, to Dec. 31, 1779.
In the descriptive list he is said to be five feet six inches in height and having light complexion. He also appears as matross in Captain Burbank's company, Colonel John Crane's (artillery) regiment, in same pay amount. He was also a private in the Second Company of Colonel Gideon Burt's regiment, which marched to retake Samuel Ely, who had been rescued from Springfield jail, June 12, 1782, and also to oppose rioters who assembled in Northampton, June 16, 1782, his service lasting seven days.
He returned to Wallingford for a wife, and was married Nov. 5, 1783, to Lois, daughter of Ebenezer Cowles, of Wallingford. She was born May 17, 1761, and died within ten years after marrirage. In 1789 he settled in what is now New Hartford, Oneida county, New York, then a part of Whitestown. He was elected collector of that town at the first meeting, July 7, 1789, and was re-elected the following year. His farm was near the middle settlement of New Hartford, where he died Aug. 14, 1838, almost seventy-six years old.
Soon after his settlement in Whitestown he was elected captain of the local militia company and he advanced by rapid promotions until he became brigadier-general. He was in command of the post at Sacketts Harbor in 1814, when a considerable number of his troops from Oneida county deserted on account of the wretched accomodations at the post.
On his return to his home he called a trial of the deserters by court martial and they were sentenced to be drummed out of town with their coats turned inside out and to lose all their back pay. A large number of people assembled with the intention of preventing the execution of the sentence upon their relatives and friends. General Collins had anticipated their intentions and procured the attendacne of a troop of regular soldiers from the post at Utica, and there was no interference with the military authorities. In politics General Collins was an unswerving Democrat.
He married (second) March 31, 1793, Betsey Wyman, of Whitestown; she died in about four years; he married (third) Dec. 27, 1797, Malinda Pierce, of Whitestown, who lived less than a year after; he married (fourth) Jan. 20, 1799, Keturah Kellogg.
Children of first wife were:
Ira, Ela and Lois. Betsey, daughter of the second wife, became the wife of John P. Converse of Cayuga.
Sarah, daughter of Oliver and Keturah, married James D. Doty, afterward a federal judge, governor and member of congress in Michigan.
Eliza married George D. Ruggles, of Lowville, N.Y.
Mary married Dr. Seth Adams of the same place.
Alexander Lynn was a judge in Wisconsin.
Catherine F., became the wife of Barlow Shackleford, of New Hartford, who was later a resident of Green Bay, Wisconsin; after his death she married General Julius White, of Chicago, Illinois.
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Oliver Collins settled it's believed in 1793 on a farm on the Whitesboro Road, a short distance from Middle Settlement, where he passed the remainder of his life he was quite prominent in local civil and military affairs and bore the title General. A native of Connecticut he served in the line of that State as sergeant during the Revolution. Soon after his settlement here he was commissioned captain of the militia company and subsequently rose step by step to the rank of general.
In this capacity he called out the militia under him and marched to Sackett's Harbor where he served in 1814. The militia under General Collins numbered nearly 3,000 of whom 2,500 were from Oneida and Herkimer counties. The service and quarters at Sackett's Harbor were very trying on the raw troops and many deserted.
After the close ofthe war and when General Collins returned he ordered a court martial for the deserters. In spite of determined opposition the court was held in Utica, and the offenders were ordered to have all their back pay stopped and be drummed out of camp as far as Deerfield Corners to the Rogue's march. The sentence was executed General Collins retired to his farm and there died August 15 1838
From the Daughters of the American Revolution site;
DAR# A024541
Service: Connecticut
Rank: Corporal
Birth: 8/21/1762 in Wallingford, Connecticut
Death: 8/14/1838 New Hartford, New York
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1783 Lois Cowls (1761-1793)
1793 Betsey Wyman (1775-1796)
1797 Malinda Pierce (1780-1798)
1799 Katurah Kellogg (1787-1856)
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General Oliver Collins's Timeline
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August 25, 1762
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Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut
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| 1784 |
August 9, 1784
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Meriden, New Haven, Connecticut
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February 14, 1786
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Meriden, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States
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1813
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August 14, 1838
Age 75
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New Hartford, Oneida County, New York, United States
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New Hartford, Oneida Co., New York
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