Genealogy Report: Descendants of John * Collins I
Descendants of John * Collins I
19.ELISHA6 COLLINS (JOSEPH5, JAMES4, WILLIAM3, JOHN *2, JOHN *1) was born November 30, 1759 in Halifax County, Virginia, and died Aft. 1840 in Lauderdale County, Mississippi.He married FRANCES MADISON April 21, 1783 in Halifax County, Virginia, daughter of ROGER MADISON and ELIZABETH TALIFERRO.She was born Abt. 1763 in Halifax County, Virginia, and died 1830 in Green County, Alabama.
Notes for ELISHA COLLINS:
Source W.F.T. Vol 2 Tree 1178;
ELISHA COLLINS - DECLARATION FOR A PENSION Claim # S. 10463
Declaration of Elisha Collins in order to obtain the benefit of the benefit of the act of congress passed the 7th June 1832.
The State of Alabama, Green County. On this 6th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eighteen hindred and thirty two, personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Thomas F. Moody, Judge of the County Court of said State and County now sitting, Elisha Collins, a resident of the County of Green, State of Alabama aforesaid. Aged seventy-three years the last day of this present month (November) who first being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7th of June, 1832. States that he has no record of his age but from a statement in his fathers family Bible, He was born the 30th day of November 1759, in the state of Virginia in the County of Halifax. He entered the service of the United States in the month of February 1778, as a volunteer under the command of Capt. Thomas Dillard, Thomas Hutchings, Lieutenant & Charles Hutchings, Ensign- and joined the com. for the Elenoys expedition (could this be Illinois?), in the County of Spotsylvania in the State of Virginia and was marched to Boonesborough in the State of Kentucky & arrived there about the middle of March 1778. He remained there until about the 5th day of June following when he marched under the command of said officers to the falls of the Ohio River, where he was attached to Capt. John Montgomery's company (afterwards a Colonel), on account of his former Captain (Dillard) resigning (being an older man). The detachment to which I (?) was attached was commanded by Colonel George Rogers Clark. (Afterwards a General in the service of the United States). The detachment he thinks on the 26th day of June 1778 decended the Ohio River to a point some distance below the mouth of the Tennesse River, from where we marched to Kaskaskie (now the State of Illinois). At which place we arrived on the 4th day of July 1778 & took possession of the place of the (which was then in the posssession of the British) and also made prisoners of the citizens who took the oath of allegiance & was released. Governor Rosebourough, a Frenchman, was also taken prisoner and was taken by Capt. John Montgomery, under whose command this applicant was, through the wilderness into the State of Virginia, in which was about the middle of October 1778, where Captain Montgomery discharged his company.In the month of May 1779, he volunteered and joined the service of the United States at Lexington in the State of Kentucky under the command of Col. John Bowman, in Capt. John Holders company. Hugh Ross Lieutenant & James Bunton Ensign, from wence the same month the detachment marched to the Shawnee town at old Chillecothe where we had an engagement with the Shawnee Indians, and had seven men killed on the ground & had one man by the name of John Denton brought off mortally wounded, who died the same morning after the engagement. There was only one Indian that he was certain of, who was killed by Lieutenant Ross. The detachment retreated about 15 miles when they were overtaken by the Indians, where we had one other engagement, lost one man and found one Indian dead on the ground, from whence we were marched back to Lexington where he joined the service and was discharged. Thinks that in this campaign he served 20 days. The next and last service performed by this desponant, as that about the 1st of August 1780 at Lexington in the State of Kentucky. he volunteered in Capt. Levi Todds company and was marched to the mouth of Licking River on the Ohio River, whose company was under the command of Col. Benjamin Logan, where we joined Gen. George Rogers Clark who commanded the expedition. From thence the detachment under the command of Gen Clark marched to Chillicothe where we found the Indian town deserted and on fire. Pursued thence to Pickaway Town where we found the Indians and had a pretty severe engagement. The Indians retreated. Lost about sixteen men & killed about the same number of the Indians. From thence we were marched back to Lexington - where he was discharged. Thinks he was about one month in the service in this last expedition. States that he never received from his commanding officer any other than a verbal discharge-as was the general practise on those volunteer expeditions-that he remained a citizen of Lexington until June 1882 when he returned to Virginia & married in 1783 & moved back to Kentucky in the year 1784 & remained a citizen thereof until the year 1819 when he moved to Greene County in the State of Alabama where he now lives. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension, or annunity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of the United States or of any State or Territory.-And states that he does not know of any person living in this State by whom he can prove his services, but there are several persons as yet alive in the State of Kentucky by whom he can prove his actual services as herein before stated. That he can prove his reputation for veracity by Soloman McAlpin, James Yates & James Monett, a clergyman, also their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution from to and _____the day and year just written.
HIS ELISHAX COLLINS MARK
Certificate # 22747 Issued December 18, 1833 Rate $30.00 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831 Act of June, 1832 Alabama Agency.
More About ELISHA COLLINS:
Burial: Green County, Alabama
Notes for FRANCES MADISON:
Source W.F.T. Vol 2 Tree 1178;
Frances Madison was a 2nd cousin of President James Madison. (The 4th President of the United States of America).
More About FRANCES MADISON:
Burial: Green County, Alabama
Children of ELISHA COLLINS and FRANCES MADISON are:
i. | SARAH7 COLLINS, b. February 26, 1784, Boones Station, Kentucky; d. Bet. 1785 - 1878. | ||
39. | ii. | RICHARD COLLINS, b. April 27, 1785, Kentucky; d. August 17, 1829, Greene County, Alabama. | |
40. | iii. | NATHANIEL MADISON COLLINS, b. April 23, 1787, Boones Station, Kentucky; d. January 17, 1860, Goss, Marion County, Mississippi. | |
41. | iv. | MEREDITH COLLINS, b. March 13, 1789, Boones Station, Kentucky; d. Bet. 1842 - 1881. | |
v. | GABRIEL COLLINS, b. March 08, 1791, <Kentucky>; d. Bet. 1792 - 1881. | ||
42. | vi. | STEPHEN COLLINS, b. March 17, 1793, Boones Station, Kentucky; d. March 23, 1857, Greene County, Alabama. | |
vii. | JOSEPH COLLINS, b. Abt. 1794, Kentucky; d. Bet. 1786 - 1886. | ||
viii. | JOHN COLLINS, b. November 02, 1796, Boones Station, Kentucky; d. Bet. 1797 - 1886. | ||
43. | ix. | ELIZABETH COLLINS, b. February 02, 1799, <Boones Station, Kentucky>; d. Bet. 1840 - 1894. | |
x. | TALIAFERRO COLLINS, b. June 22, 1801, Boones Station, Kentucky ?; d. Bet. 1802 - 1891. | ||
44. | xi. | JOSIAH COLLINS, b. December 19, 1803, <Boones Station, Kentucky>; d. April 12, 1893, Alabama. |
20.JOHN6 COLLINS IV (JOHN COLLINS5* III, THOMAS4COLLINS, WILLIAM3, JOHN *2, JOHN *1) was born Abt. 1723 in North Carolina, and died Aft. 1791 in Believed To Have Died in Georgia.He married UNKNOWN.
Notes for JOHN COLLINS IV:
Source is; "Biographical Directory Of The South Carolina Senate 1776 - 1985, Volume I, Abbott - Hill, by N. Louise Bailey, Mary L. Morgan and Carolyn R. Taylor. University Of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina. Pages 320 and 321.
"COLLINS, JOHN."
John Collins was living in Granville, South Carolina by 25 April 1765 when he received a grant for 200 acres at the mouth of Steel Creek. He subsequently obtained additional grants for 1,023 acres in Orangeburg District, including 400 acres on Lower Three Runs. The federal census of 1790 listed sixteen slaves as his property. Collins represented the District Between Savannah River and North Fork of the Edisto River in the First (1775) and second (1775 - 1776) Provincial Congress and in the First (1776), Third (1779 - 1780), Fourth (1782), and Fifth (1783 - 1784) General Assemblies; his service in the Fifth General Assembly followed a special election and qualification on 27 January 1784. In addition, he was a member of the Second General Assembly (1776 - 1778). His home district elected him to the South Carolina Senate for the Eighth General Assembly (1789 - 1790). As a delegate for the District Between Savannah River and North Fork of Edisto River, he voted at the state convention in favor of ratification of the federal Consttution (1788) and two years later attended the state constitutional convention (1790). John Collins also served his district as commissioner of elections (1788) and tax inquirer and collector (1779, 1784).
Eighth General AssemblyDistrict Between Savannah1789-1790
River and North Fork of
Edisto River
Sources quoated in this book were;
Andrea files, roll 11. # 190, pp. 19, 20. Biographical Directory of the House, 1: 155, 157, 167, 175, 180, 193: 3: 148-149. Census 1790, 101: A. O. Collins, Ole Man Mose and his Chillun (Houston, Tex. 1974), pp.388-89. Elliott, 4: 340. Grand Jury Lists, 1783. Journal of theConstitutional Convention 1790, 6. Journal of the Convention of S.C, 1788, 49. Petit Jury Lists, 1788. Reynolds & Faunt. Royal Grants, 12: 180; 22: 492. Sally, Orangeburg County, pp. 274, 275. SCHM. 7: 108; 34:202. SC Statutes, 4: 491, 632.State Grants, 8: 186, 204, 413; 17: 376.
Marriage Notes for JOHN COLLINS and UNKNOWN:
It is believed by this compiler that John "Jack" Collins and Moses Collins were the sons of this John Collins.
Children of JOHN COLLINS and UNKNOWN are:
45. | i. | JOHN "JACK"7 COLLINS, b. Bef. 1774, South Carolina; d. 1853, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. | |
ii. | MOSES COLLINS, b. October 21, 1785, South Carolina; d. March 14, 1858, New Albany, Mississippi; m. ELIZABETH ( MRS. HOUPT) SMITH, January 18, 1810, Augusta, Georgia. |
21.JOSEPH6 COLLINS (JOHN COLLINS5* III, THOMAS4COLLINS, WILLIAM3, JOHN *2, JOHN *1) was born Abt. 1727 in North Carolina, and died in <Georgia>.He married DORCUS ODOM Aft. 1782 in Orangeburg Precinct, South Carolina, daughter of CAPT. ** and TAMER POWELL.She was born in <Virginia>, and died Bef. 1801 in <South Carolina or Georgia>.
Notes for JOSEPH COLLINS:
Doweres:
The Heirs of Benjamin Odom deceased...Power of Attorney signed 6 Feb. 1804 to the following neighbors Gideon Haygood, Darling Peoples, Gasper Trotti, Lawrence Trotti, and George Lathan...To divide the land and other property of
Capt. Benjamon Odom
Division:
Thamer Odom...the widow to have one-third
Children
Joseph Collins the second husband of Dorcus and living in Georgia and two children Mary Collins or called Polly Collins to have one portion, Catherine Collins called Catey Collins to have one share or portion.
Joseph was one of the Executors of the will of his brother, James Collins "Elder" who died November 2, 1789 in Winton County, South Carolina.
Notes for DORCUS ODOM:
#1. The heirs of Benjamin Odom deceased... Power of Attorney signed 6 Feb. 1804 to the following neighbors.. Gideon Haygood, Darling Peoples, Gasper Trotti,Lawerence Trotti, and George Lathan.. To divide the land and other property of Capt. Benjamin Odom
Division:
Thamer Odom...the widow to have one-third
Children
Joseph Collins the second husband of Dorcus and living in Georgia and two children Mary Collins or called "Polly" Collins to have one portion, Catherine Collins called "Catey" Collins to have one share or portion.
Children of JOSEPH COLLINS and DORCUS ODOM are:
i. | MARY "POLLY"7 COLLINS, m. MCDANIEL. | ||
ii. | CATHERINE "CATEY" COLLINS. |
22.JAMES COLLINS6"ELDER" (JOHN COLLINS5* III, THOMAS4COLLINS, WILLIAM3, JOHN *2, JOHN *1) was born Abt. 1731 in Craven County, North Carolina, and died November 02, 1789 in Winton County, South Carolina.He married CATHERINE "CATY" OR "NANCY" CROOM Abt. 1762 in Winton County, South Carolina, daughter of MAJOR CROOM.She was born 1743 in Barnwell Co. South Carolinaa, and died Bet. April 02, 1788 - 1800 in Winton County South Carolina.
Notes for JAMES COLLINS "ELDER":
Nov. 1789: The Will of James Collins was proved in Court and Proved by the oath of Daniel Odom Jr., Daniel Odom, Ben Odom,and Levin Collins. (page 95 Winton/Barnwell Minutes of the County Court:
Nov. 1789: Levin Collins and James Collins Exor if the Last Will and Testament of James Collins took oath of an Executor. Order that letters of Testamentary Probate be recorded. (page 95)
Marh 4, 1790 Will of James Collins is recorded.
May 10, 1790: Appraisment and inventory of James Collins Estate by Daniel Odom, George Collins and Joseph Duning, being first duly sworn includes four negros (named) total. 541Lbs, *8 Shillings, 4 Pince, (page155)
Jan 24, 1791: State of North Carolina, Dobbs County. Major Croom of the County aforesaid, for natural love and affection to my granddaughter Mary Collins of Winton Co. South Carolina, negro Violete. Major Croom (seal) Witt: Thomas Uzzell, William Croom.
Jan. 24, 1791: Sworn in Dobbs County Court by Major Croom, that wench Tamar, and Violete, and her increase is his right and that he never gave it up before, but for the use and benefit of James Collins and Wife Cathy's children.
Will of James Collins- Barnwell District, S.C.
(As transcribed from the original, from Winton (Barnwell) County, South, Carolina; Book 1, Pages 77 and 78.)
In the Name of God Amen. I James Collins of Winton County being very Sick & Weak in Body but of perfect Mind & Memory thanks be giving to God. Calling into mind the Mortality of my Body & knowing that it is appointed for all Men once to Die do make & ordain this my last Will & testament that is to say,Principally & first of all, I give & recommend my Sould into the Hands of Almight, God that give it to me. I recommend to the Earth, to be decently buried in Christian Burial at the decretion of my Executors Nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the Might God & as Touching such Wordly Estate wherewith it has pleased God to Bless me in the Life I give demise & dispose of in the following Manner & Form. First I give and bequeath to James Collins my well beloved Eldist Son the Plantation of Tract of Land wereon I now live containing three hundred Acres together with the Messuages and Tenements belonging thereto & one, Negro Man named Bob freely to be posessd with... I likewise give & bequeath to well beloved daughter Elizabeth Toney one Negro, Woman named Tamar freely by her to be posesd with...I likewise give & bequeath to my well beloved Daughter Lydia Collins one Negro Girl named Pen & two feather Bedds by her freely to be posessd with... I likewise give and bequeath to my well beloved Son John Collins one Negro Man named Sam by him freely to be posessd with... I likewise Giv & bequeath to my well beloved Daughter Mary Collins one Negro Girl named Vile and one feather bed freely to be posessd with.. I likewise give & Bequeath to my well beloved Daughter Susannah Collins one Negro Girl named Millie & all-my stock of Neat Cattle freely by her to be posessd with... I likewise give & bequeath to my well beloved Son Daniel Collins one hundred & fifty Acres of Land purchased from Thom Morris & bounding by Lands of James Morris by him freely to be posessd with.. I likewise desire that if the Negroe Woman Tamar cares one- more child that shall belong to Daniel Collins by him freely to be possessd with.. I likewise give & bequeath to-my well beloved Son William Winwright Collins one Negro Girl named Phillis by him freely to be possessd with..I likewise comit all my hole Estate into the possession Leven Collins, James Collins & Joseph Collins my only and Soul Executors of this my last will & Testament and at the Term of Seven Years from the Date of these. Presents for each Child to receive their respective portions as above mantioned by them. James Collins (Seal)
Signd, Seald, Published
Pronounced & declard by the said James Collins as his last Will & Testament In the presents of each other have herhto Subscribed our Names
Daniel Odom, Ben Odom, Leven Collins
Notes for CATHERINE "CATY" OR "NANCY" CROOM:
She was also called,"Nancy" or "Caty".
Children of JAMES "ELDER" and CATHERINE CROOM are:
46. | i. | JAMES COLLINS7 SR., b. Abt. 1763, Johnston County, North Carolina; d. July 19, 1836, Greene, County Alabama. | |
47. | ii. | LYDIA COLLINS, b. Aft. 1764, Johnston County, North Carolina; d. May 15, 1859, Jasper County, Georgia. | |
48. | iii. | ELIZABETH COLLINS, b. Abt. 1766; d. Bet. 1794 - 1860. | |
49. | iv. | MAJOR CROOM COLLINS, b. 1768, Johnston County, North Carolina; d. Bef. 1846, Wilkerson County, Georgia. | |
50. | v. | MARY COLLINS, b. 1772; d. September 07, 1818. | |
51. | vi. | SUSANNAH COLLINS, b. Abt. 1775, Johnston County, North Carolina. | |
52. | vii. | WILLIAM WINWRIGHT COLLINS, b. 1778, Johnston County, North Carolina; d. January 08, 1838, Greene Co. Ala.. | |
53. | viii. | DANIEL COLLINS, b. Abt. 1781, Johnston County, North Carolina; d. March 20, 1843, Greene Co. Ala.. | |
ix. | JOHN COLLINS, b. Abt. 1782, Johnston County, North Carolina; d. Bet. 1805 - 1864; m. MARY LOVELESS, September 1795, Georgia. |
Notes for MARY LOVELESS: Mary's last name may have been spelled Lovelace. |
Marriage Notes for JOHN COLLINS and MARY LOVELESS: Georgia Genealogist Magizine State Records - Marriages page 148. John Collins married Mary Lovelace Sept., 1795 by Rev Moses Waddel (S. Car. and Georgia). No county given for marriage. ( Note by William "Bill" Dupree. 1805 Georgia Land Lottery, two Lovelace's in Columbia County and one in Tattnall County). |