When Sarah Collins was born on 7 January 1751, in Hampton Falls, Rockingham, New Hampshire, British Colonial America, her father, Tristram Collins, was 40 and her mother, Judith Fowler, was 38. She married Hezekiah Purington about 1772, in Hampton Falls, Rockingham, New Hampshire, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 26 January 1833, in Henniker, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 82.
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English: variant of Colin , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish and Manx: shortened Anglicized from Ó Coileáin, compare Cullen , or in Man or west Ulster shortened from Mac Coileáin, compare McQuillan and McCallion . The genitival -s is a local addition to Collin and variants after the surname was Anglicized.
Americanized form of French Colin or Collin and also Collette .
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