When Samuel Collins was born on 19 May 1659, in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, John Collins, was 28 and his mother, Abigail Johnson, was 27. He married Hannah Collins in 1682, in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1659. He died on 19 May 1730, in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 71, and was buried in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
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In 1692, the Salem Witch Trials began when Betty Parris fell sick with an unknown illness. Her cousin Abigail William claimed that she was being made sick because of witchcraft. As other strange events began to happen more of the young ladies in the town started accussing more people. These people mainly consisted of people the young ladies did not like. By the time the hysteria ended over 200 people were accussed of being witches. Nineteen men and women were found guilty and hung.
The Crowninshield-Bentley house was built in 1727 by ship captain John Caspar Crowninshield. His family occupied the house for generations until it was taken over by Revend Bentley.
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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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