H E N R Y C O L L I N S
S T A R C H M A K E R
BORN ENGLAND 1606
W I F E : A N N
AND THEIR DESCENDANTS
HENRY COLLINS, STARCHMAKER, BORN IN ENGLAND IN 1606,
CAME FROM LONDON IN THE SHIP ABIGAIL JUNE 30, 1635, WITH HIS
WIFE, ANN, BORN 1605, FOUR CHILDREN AND FIVE SERVANTS, AND SETTLED
ON ESSEX STREET IN LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS, WHERE HE REMAINED UNTIL HIS
DECEASE, FEBRUARY 20, 1687, AGE 81 YEARS.
HENRY MARRIED ABOUT 1628, PROBABLY AT STEPNEY PARISH,
ANN,WHOSE LAST NAME IS PRESENTLY UNKNOWN. HER MAIDEN NAME MAY HAVE
BEEN RIALL, OR RYALL, OR ROYAL. HENRY AND ANN GAVE THE UNUSUAL NAME
OF RIALL TO A DAUGHTER WHO DIED AT AGE 37. ALSO ISAAC RYALL, A
CARPENTER OF DORCHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, MARRIED RUTH TOLMAN, DAUGHTER
OF THOMAS TOLMAN, AND TWO OF HENRY’S AND ANN’S CHILDREN MARRIED TOLMANS.
WILLIAM RYALL, OF SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN BORN
AT STEPNEY PARISH.
CHILDREN BORN IN ENGLAND:
HENRY, JR., BORN 1640
JOHN, BORN 1632
JOSEPH, BORN 1635. HE MAY HAVE BEEN BORN ABOARD THE ABIGAIL ON
THE VOYAGE TO AMERICA.
SERVANTS WHO CAME ABOARD THE ABIGAIL WITH HENRY:
JOSUA GRIFFITH AGE 25
HUGH ALLEY AGE 27
MARY ROOTE AGE 15
JO. COKE AGE 27
GEO. BURDIN AGE 24
“THE ABIGAIL”. RICHARD HACKWELL, MASTER, SAILED FROM PLYMOUTH,
ENGLAND ABOUT AUGUST 1, 1635, WITH 220 PERSONS AND MANY CATTLE. THE
SHIP ARRIVED AT BOSTON ABOUT OCTOBER 1, INFECTED WITH SMALLPOX.
A. CHALKLEY COLLINS OF GREAT BARRINGTON, MASS., IN A LETTER
DATED AUGUST 16, 1900, SAYS: “HENRY COLLINS BELONGED TO THE PARISH
OF STEPNEY IN THE EASTERN PART OF THE PRESENT CITY OF LONDON AND
WORSHIPED IN THE OLD PARISH CHURCH AT THAT PLACE. THIS PARISH CHURCH
OF STEPNEY, DEDICATED TO SAINT DUNSTAN IS THE OLDEST IN ALL LONDON.
BEFORE DUNSTAN RE-BUILT THE CHURCH IN THE TENTH CENTURY, THERE WAS A
SAXON CHURCH THERE DEDICATED TO ALL SAINTS. THE PRESENT CHURCH WAS
BUILT IN THE TIME OF EDWARD IV, 1471-1483, A FEW RELICS OF THE
PREVIOUS CHURCH BEING PRESERVED. ACCORDING TO THE CHURCH RECORDS,
SEVERAL OF THE CHILDREN OF HENRY COLLINS WERE BAPTIZED IN THIS CHURCH,
AMONG WHOM WAS HIS SON JOHN AT THE AGE OF EIGHT DAYS ON JANUARY 22,
1631. HENRY’S PLACE OF ABODE IS RECORDED IN THIS RECORD AS TATCLIFF
HIGHWAY IN LYNN, MASS, AND HIS BUSINESS THAT OF A STARCHMAKER. HIS
WIFE, ANN, DIED AT LYNN, MASS, PROBABLY IN 1690,AS HER WILL DATED
IN 1690 WAS PROBATED IN THAT YEAR.
I have approximately 3,000 linked descendants of Henry
Collins and his wife Ann. As far as I know, none of these descendants
migrated to Maryland, Virginia, Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee,
Alabama, Arkansas, Texas, or Oklahoma. Those who migrated into Southern
Mississippi after 1870 came from Louisiana. For more
information, e-mail me at
rubycollins@cox.net
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