Nathan Collins

Collins II

  (II) Nathan, son of Daniel Collins, was born May 31, 1683, at Enfield, and died in Brimfield, Massachusetts, August 8, 1767, aged eighty-five years.  He removed to Brimfield, formerly Springfield.  He deeded land at Enfield, January 24, 1704-5, to Jeremiah Lord.  He was then called of Springfield.  He and wife Anna deeded to John Prior his rights in the second division under the sixty acre grant to his father, March 16, 1714-5.  He deeded other land to Samuel Hathaway.  His brother Daniel, of Milford, Connecticut, a weaver by trade, quitclaimed his right to his father's estate October 22, 1729, to Nathan.  His sister Patience and husband James Killum quitclaimed their rights March 26, 1729.  He married (first) Anne ________; (second) Lydia Bliss, of Springfield, at Brimfield, November 1, 1732.  Children: I. Nathan, died October 12, 1765; married February 27, 1745, at Enfield, Phebe Weld.  2.  Nathaniel, mentioned below.  Probably other children, not mentioned in Brimfield records, however.