General Notes

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In Hutton's Original List, p 97, and in Drake's Research, p 35, ap pears
the following:
"Vitio Junij, 1635. Aboard the Abigail...
Yeres
Starc hmaker, Henry Collins-------------------------29
VXOR Ann Collins------------- ----------------------------30
Children-- Henry Collins----------------------- ---------5
Jo Collins--------------------------------------3
Margery Collins ----------------------------2
Servants-- Joseph Griffith---------------------- --------25
Hugh Alley------------------------------------27
Mary Roote------- ----------------------------15
Jo. Coke--------------------------------------- -27
Geo. Burdin-----------------------------------24."
The following from New hall's History of Lynn, Massachusetts:
P 151: Henry Collins was a starchmaker and lived in Essex Street. He
embarked in the Abigail of London 30th of June 1635. In 1639 he was a
member of the Salem Court. He was born in 1606 and was buried 20 February
1687 at the age of 81. His wife Ann was born in 1605. His children were
Henry, born 1630; John, born 1632; Margery, born 1633 and Jose ph, born
1635, and his descendants
remain."
P 171: "A town meeting was held this year in which Daniel Howe, Richard
Walker and Henry Collins were chosen a committee to diviDe the lands, or
as it was expressed in the records: "To lay out farmes." The land was
laid out in those parts of the town best adapte d for cultivation, and the
woodlands were were reserved as common property ca lled the "Town Common"
and was not divided until 69 years afterward."
In a l ist of names, about one hundred in number, recorded in the town
records in th e year 1638, which follows the above extract, appears the
following: "Henry C ollins up-land and meadow 80 acres and ten." The ten
acres was a separate
al lotment and was undoubtedly his village or town lot where he resided.
Other re ferences to the name Henry Collins in the public records of Lynn
show that he was a man of importance in that community, was frequently
called upon
to pe rform duties of public trust and confidence and sometimes acted as a
n
advocato r in trials.
A. Chalkely Collins of Great Barrington, Massachusetts in a lette r dated
August 16, 1900, says: "Henry Collins belonged to the Parish Stepney in
the eastern part of the present city of London and worshipped in the Old
Parish Church at that place. This Parish Church of Stepney, dedicated to
Sai nt Dunstan, is the oldest in East London and one of the oldest in all
London. Before Dunstan rebuilt the the church in the tenth century, there
was a Saxo n church there dedicated to all saints. The present church was
built in the t ime of Edward IV, 1471-1483, a few relics of the previous
church being preser ved. According to the church records, several of the
children of Henry Collin s were baptized in this church, among whom was
his son John at the age of eig ht days on January 22, 1631. Henry's place
of aboDe is recorded in this recor d as Tatcliff Highway, and his business
was that of a starchmaker. His wife, Ann, died at Lynn, Massachusetts
probably in 1690, as her will dated 1690 was probated that year."
Henry Collins, born England about 1606 (per License to g o Beyond the Seas
dated 30 June 1635) died Lynn, Massachusetts 20 February 168 7 (Lynn Vital
Records), married in England to Ann, who was born about 1605 an d died
about 1690 in Lynn, Massachusetts. (A Genealogy of One Line of
Desce ndants of Thomas Brown of Lynn, Massachusetts by Edward Brown)