Joseph Collins

a former slave freed under terms of the Treaty of Paris after the Revolution

BIRCHTOWN COLLINS NAME

1. COLLINS, HANNA
2. COLLINS, JACOB
3. COLLINS, JOSEPH
4. COLLINS, MARY
5. COLLINS, NANCY
6. COLLINS, SALLEY

no indication of relationship

listing : SHIP: Mars in the Book of Negroes

Ship Mars bound for St. John's Grayson
Joseph Collins, 30, stout fellow. Dr. VanBuren of Hackensack, New Jersey, claimant, (John Buskirk). Formerly slave to John Kipp, New York Island, sold by Kipp to Dr. VanBuren, Hackensack, New Jersey, whom he left four years past.

Notes:

1. Dr. Van Buren is almost certainly either Dr. James Van Beuren, Loyalist; or his brother Dr. Beekman van Beuren, patriot doctor. Both lived in Hackensack. Dr. James went to Annapolis Royal/Clementsport and then back to the US