• General Notes

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  GIVN John
  SURN COLLINS
  AFN SKJ1-85
  DATE 10 Dec 1998
  TIME 11:01:55
  AUTH The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  TITL Ancestral File (TM)
  PUBL July 1996 (c), data as of 2 January 1996
  REPO @@R4@@
  The following is from the book titled " The Collins and TravisFamilies and their Allies"  b y Mary Nell Collins Landin  pp. 10
  John Collins of Maidstone was granted life rights as keeper of theGael of Maidstone, which h e passed on to his son John Jr. in his will."The right was  granted by King Charles 1st".   I t was a  position ofpower and influence.
  John Collins Jr. came to Virginia Colony in 1655,  twenty years afterhis son William.  He cam e after King Charles 1st. had been executed bysupporters of Parliment.  As an adherent of th e King, John jr. soughtsafety in Virginia, and was known as one of the group called Cavaliers .  The family heldpositions of importance and were prosperous land owners in Virginia.John Co llins Jr. came to Surry Co. VA, and soon after his arrival hemarried Elizabeth Caufield. so h is first wife, mother of William, musthave died before he left England.  Elizabeth was the da ughter ofWilliam and Dorcus Caufield, and William Caufield had sponsored John'spassage from E ngland.  Elizabeth had one brother, Captain RobertCaufield, who is listed as the only heir i n her parent's will.  When John Jr. died, his will recorded in Surry County listed only onech ild, William who had come to Virginia in 1635.

Details of John's family with Unknown (Collins)