Past and present of Washtenaw County, Michigan . ed at Harvard Col-lege in 1660, and was ordained to the ministry atMiddletown. Connecticut, November 6, 1668. Heacted as pastor of the church there and died inMiddletown, December 28, 1684. His wife diedOctober 4, 1709. Cotton Mather in his quaintstyle said, At whose death, there was morewounds given to the whole colony of Connecticutin our New England, than the body of Caesardid receive when he fell wounded in the senatehouse. I would have made an essay to have la-mented the fate of this, our Collins in verse, wereit not for two reasons. (Distr
Past and present of Washtenaw County, Michigan . ed at Harvard Col-lege in 1660, and was ordained to the ministry atMiddletown. Connecticut, November 6, 1668. Heacted as pastor of the church there and died inMiddletown, December 28, 1684. His wife diedOctober 4, 1709. Cotton Mather in his quaintstyle said, At whose death, there was morewounds given to the whole colony of Connecticutin our New England, than the body of Caesardid receive when he fell wounded in the senatehouse. I would have made an essay to have la-mented the fate of this, our Collins in verse, wereit not for two reasons. (Distrusts his mean fac-ulties, etc.) Nevertheless his merits were suchthat his life must be written, or at least so muchof it as this, that he merited highly to have hislife written. But our history of him is to beabridged into the brief account; that the churchof Middletown, upon the Connecticut river, wasthe golden candlestick from whence this excel-lent person illuminated more than the whole col-ony ; and that the qualities of exemplar piety, ex-. ^/kcoxo^ S<r€£v^^ Ti/X^U^^Q PAST AND PRESENT OF WASHTENAW COUNTY. 165 traordinary ingenuity, obliging affability, joinedwith the accomplishments of an extraordinarypreacher, did render him truly excellent. He leftan estate of L679-1-9. The children of Rev. Nathaniel and Alary(Whiting) Collins were as follows: Mary, bornMay II, 1666, was married to John Hamilton inJanuary, 1684. John, born January 31, Mary, daughter of Culunel Dixwell,(alias James Davids), one of the judges ofCharles First of England, renowned as the regi-cides. December 24, 1707. Susanna, born No-vember 26, 1669, was married to William Hamlin,May 26, 1692, and died February 24, 1722. Sybilwas born August 20, 1672. Martha, born Decem-ber 26, 1673, was married to William Harris, Jan-uary 8, 1690. Rev, Nathaniel Collins was bornJune 13, 1677. Abigail, born July 13, 1682, wasmarried July 9, 1702, to Sergeant William , who was born April 16, 168
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