When Elizabeth Collins was born on 4 August 1759, in Worcester, Maryland, United States, her father, Richard Hayter, was 19 and her mother, Elizabeth Collins, was 18. She married John McCabe Jr in September 1773, in Delaware, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She died in 1860, in Saint Martin, Bailiwick of Jersey, at the age of 101.