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Martha Collins (Baylie)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Framlingham, Suffolk, England
Death: March 22, 1699 (89-90)
Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Francis Baylie and Dorothy de Rossell
Wife of Dea. Edward Collins
Mother of Daniel Collins; Rev. John Collins; Sybil Whiting; Ens. Samuel Collins, of Framlingham & Middletown; Martha Moody and 4 others

Immigration: 1638 to Cambridge MA
Managed by: Private User
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About Martha Collins

Martha Baylie was baptized in Framlingham, Suffolk, England, on 20 February 1609/10.1, daughter of Francis Baylie. She died in Charlestown, Middlesex, Mass, on 22 March 1699/0.2,3

She married in Framlingham, Suffolk, England, 20 November 1628, Deacon Edward Collins, son of John Collins and Magdalen Trelhern.1

Martha and Deacon Edward Collins and their children emigrated from England to Cambridge, Middlesex, Mass, in 1639.4 Martha outlived all her children.

Children

  1. Daniel Collins b. 1629
  2. Rev. John Collins+ b. 26 Jan 1631/32, d. 3 Dec 1687
  3. Samuel Collins+ b. 2 Aug 1636, d. 10 Jan 1695/96
  4. Sibyl Collins+ b. 1638, d. 3 Jun 1672
  5. Martha Collins+ b. 6 Sep 1639, d. b 24 Aug 1674
  6. Rev. Nathaniel Collins+ b. 7 Mar 1641/42, d. 28 Dec 1684
  7. Abigail Collins+ b. 20 Sep 1644, d. 1 Feb 1673/74
  8. Edward Collins b. c 1646, d. a 1663/64

References

  1. Jack L. White & D. Jolene White, The Bramford-Earls Colne Connection (Baltimore: Otter Bay Books, 2012), 198.
  2. M. Halsey Thomas, The Diary of Samuel Sewall, 1674-1729, 2 vols. (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1973), 1:427.
  3. Alonzo Hall Quint, Editor, Journal of the Rev. John Pike of Dover, NH (Cambridge: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1876), 22.
  4. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Directory (Boston: NEHGS, 2015), 074.
  5. Stephen Paschall Sharples, Records of the Church of Christ at Cambridge in New England, 1632-1830, (Boston: Lben Putnam, 1906), 003; also based on dates and place of parents' marriage and siblings' baptisms.
  6. White & White, Connection, 201.
  7. White & White, Connection, 202.
  8. Sharples, Cambridge Church Records, 004;.
  9. William Newell, A Discourse on the Church-Gathering in 1636, (Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1846), 53; The date and place of her birth/baptism in England have not been found. Given the intervals between documented dates of birth of her siblings, she may have been born about 1634. Date is estimated based on baptismal dates of older siblings, and date of parents' emigration (1638).
  10. Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, 2 vols. (Boston: Wright & Potter, 1914-15), 1:150.
  11. Sharples, Cambridge Church Records, 003.
  12. Newell, Church Gathering, 53.
  13. Baldwin, Cambridge VR's, 1:151.
  14. Frank Farnsworth Starr, Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut, 2 vols. (Hartford: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1915), 2:373.
  15. Herbert Furman Seversmith, Colonial Families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut. 5 vols. (Washington, DC: The Author, 1939-1958), 2:653.
  16. Thomas Bellows Wyman, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, Mass., 1629-1818, 2 vols. (Boston: David Clapp and Son, 1879), 1:461.
  17. Roger D. Joslyn, Vital Records of Charlestown, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, 2 vols. (Boston: NEHGS, 1984, 1995), 1:140.
  18. Wyman, Genealogies of Charlestown, 1:231
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Martha Collins's Timeline

1609
February 20, 1609
Framlingham,,SUFF,ENGL
1609
Framlingham, Suffolk, England
1629
1629
England
1632
January 26, 1632
Framlingham, Suffolk, England
1634
1634
England
1636
August 2, 1636
Framlingham, Suffolk, England
1639
September 6, 1639
Cambridge, Massachusetts
1643
March 7, 1643
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
1644
September 20, 1644
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony