Surname Saturday ~ COLLINS of Salem, Massachusetts

Statement signed by Christian (Collins) Bray by her mark 1690

COLLINS / COLLINGS/  COLLYNGS

Francis Collins, my 9^th great grandfather, is of unknown birth and origins.  He was a carpenter, and had a house lot near the neck in Salem, Massachusetts in 1658.   When he died in 1689 his will left his estate to his wife, Hannah, for life, and then it passed to his son, John.  This land was near Shallop Cove, which was hereafter known as Collins Cove, even today.

Baker’s Island is off the coast of Salem.  In 1670 Francis Collins was given the right to build a house on the island for himself and his son (John?).  In return they protected the island from trespassers illegally cutting wood without the approval of the Salem selectmen.

In 1686 Francis Collins petitioned the town of Salem for a license to sell beer and cider.  He had been a long time resident, but was now “deaf and palsied”.  The selectmen granted his request in June 1687 “provided he sold by the quart”. 

Francis Collins wrote his will on 14 January 1688/9, and it was proven on 26 November 1689.  Among his probate papers was the acknowledgement seen above.  It was written by my 8^th great grandmother, Christian (Collins) Bray, daughter of Francis Collins.  In this statement she acknowledges receipt of her legacy (ten pounds) from her brother, John Collins, the executor of their father’s will.

Know all men by these persons that I Christian Bray

Of Salem in ye County of Essex Widdow and of

The daughter of ffrancis Collins of Salem Late Decd.

Have received of my Brother John Collins Adm.

De bonis non or the said estate ten pounds money in

Full for a Legacy being ?? by the said ffrancis

Collins who ye said Christian Bray and those for

I the sd. Christian Bray do ?? for myself, my

Heirs, ex. & dom. Acquitt exon excute ??

This Jono. Collins aforsd. From any farther or other

Payment account or Reckoning to ye said Estate

Or any waist Referring those unto as witnessed

My hand & seal affixed ye 28^th day of November 1790

                                                                                    her

Signed Sealed & Delivered                 Christian     CB            Bray

In presence of us                                                mark & seal

Benja. Smith

Elizabeth Gerrish

A map of Salem showing Collins Cove

My COLLINS genealogy:

Generation 1:  Francis Collins, born in England, died 1689 in Salem, Massachusetts; married about 1653 to Hannah Cockerill, daughter of William Cockerill.  She died after 1707 in Salem.  Nine children.

Generation 2:  Christian Collins, born April 1665; married on 5 November 1685 in Salem to Robert Bray, son of Robert Bray and Thomasine UKNOWN.  Five children.

Generation 3:  Priscilla Bray m. Jonathan Webb

Generation 4: Mary Webb m. Joseph Cloutman

Generation 5:  Joseph Cloutman m. Hannah Becket

Generation 6:  Mary Cloutman m. Abijah Hitchings

Generation 7: Abijah Hitchings m. Eliza Ann Treadwell

Generation 8:  Abijah Franklin Hitchings m. Hannah Eliza Lewis

Generation 9:  Arthur Treadwell Hitchings m. Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

Generation 10:  Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ COLLINS of Salem, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 29, 2017, (http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/04/surname-saturday-collins-of-salem.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ BRAY of Salem, Massachusetts

BRAY

There were two BRAY families living in Essex County at the same time period in the early 1600s.  I don't think they are related at all.  The first BRAY family I wrote about lived in Gloucester, descendants of the immigrant Thomas Bray (1614 – 1691), probably from Wales.  You can read about this BRAY family at this link: https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/08/surname-saturday-bray-of-gloucester.html  

Robert Bray is my other 9^th great grandfather.  He lived on “The Neck” in Salem, Massachusetts near the land owned by my WEBB, BECKET, HILLIARD, and CLOUTMAN ancestors.  I don’t know his origins, or even the maiden name of his wife, Thomasin.  According to the History of Salem, by Perley, he was the captain of a ketch, which was lost at sea in 1692 with all onboard. 

His son, Robert Bray, Jr., is my 8^th great grandfather.  He married Christian Collins in 1685.  Robert’s sister, Priscilla, married David Hilliard in 1689.  David Hilliard is the brother of my 9^th great grandmother, Elizabeth (Hilliard) Peters (b. 1658).  Robert Bray, Jr. was also a master mariner, and he lived near the Salem Common.

My 7^th great grandmother, Priscilla Bray, married Jonathan Webb in 1714. He was “cordwainer” (shoemaker), a deacon of the East Society parish church, and they lived on the corner of Derby and Hardy Streets.   In 1720, 1721 and 1722 Jonathan Webb was listed as the master of the sloop Eagle.  Priscilla and Jonathan Webb were ancestors of Nathaniel Hawthorne, too.

For more information:

The Driver Family: A Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Robert and Phebe Driver of Lynn, Mass. by Harriet Ruth Waters Cooke, 1889, see page 251 for a sketch of Robert Bray, Senior, page 252 for Robert Bray, Jr, and page 475 for Priscilla Bray and Jonathan Webb. 

“Descendants of Robert Bray of Salem”, The Essex Antiquarian, Volume XI, 1907, page 105.  

My BRAY genealogy:

Generation 1:  Robert Bray, died 1692; married Thomasine Unknown.  Four children.

Generation 2: Robert Bray, died after 1692; married on 5 November 1685 in Salem to Christian Collins, daughter of Francis Collins and Hannah Cockerill.  Five children. 

Generation 3: Priscilla Bray, born 11 March 1690 in Salem, died after 4 February 1767; married on 23 March 1714 in Salem to Jonathan Webb, son of John Webb and Susannah Cunliffe.  He was born about 1690 and died before 1765. Nine children. 

Generation 4: Mary Webb m. Joseph Cloutman

Generation 5: Joseph Cloutman m. Hannah Becket

Generation 6:  Mary Cloutman m. Abijah Hitchings

Generation 7:  Abijah Hitchings m. Eliza Ann Treadwell

Generation 8:  Abijah Franklin Hitchings m. Hannah Eliza Lewis
Generation 9:  Arthur Treadwell Hitchings m. Florence Etta Hoogerzeil
Generation 10:  Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ Bray of Salem, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 22, 2017, (http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/04/surname-saturday-bray-of-salem.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ WEBB of Salem

Salem, 1700

WEBB

Jonathan Webb (1690 – 1765), my 7^th great grandfather, is another brickwall ancestor.  There are many possible WEBB families in the area from whom he might descend.  Several online trees have him as the son of John Webb and Susannah Cunliffe of Northampton, Massachusetts, which is very far from Salem, Massachusetts where Jonathan lived and died.  There were several possible Webbs right in Salem including a John Webb who bought land in 1669.  But now his ancestry is a mystery.

Jonathan Webb was a “coaster”, which meant he sailed fishing small boats up and down the coast of Massachusetts and New England.  He owned a house at the corner of Derby and Hardy Streets in Salem.  I find this amazing because the family continued to live in this neighborhood until my great grandfather was born!  He was also a deacon at the East Society church, where Rev. William Bentley would have his famous diary a few generations later.  The East Society church stood on Essex Street. 

His daughter, Mary (1724 – 1790), is my 6^th great grandmother.  She married Joseph Cloutman and they lived on Webb Street, named after her father’s land.  Webb Street is still in existence in Salem,  at the end of Essex Street, near Collins Cove.   There are several streets in this area named after my ancestors- Webb, Boardman, Becket,  Lemon, and Beadle Lane which is now called Pleasant Street in Salem.

My sources for this information on Jonathan Webb come from The Essex Antiquarian, Volume 23, page 71 (property information), The Essex County Registry of Deeds, book 115, leaf 76, and the book The Driver Family: A genealogical memoir of the descendants of Robert and Phebe Driver of Lynn, Mass. , by Harriet Ruth (Waters) Cooke, 1889 (which is also available online at archive.org and at Google Book search).

My WEBB genealogy:

Generation 1:   Jonathan Webb, born about 1690, died before 1765; married on 23 March 1714 in Salem, Massachusetts to Priscilla Bray, daughter of Robert Bray and Christian Collins.  She was born 11 March 1690 in Salem and died after 4 Feb 1767.  Nine children.

Generation 2:  Mary Webb, born 17 December 1724 in Salem, died 21 March 1790 in Salem; married on 16 June 1747 in Salem to Joseph Cloutman, son of Joseph Cloutman and Mary Peters. He was born about 1720.  Four children.

Generation 3:  Joseph Cloutman m. Hannah Becket

Generation 4:  Mary Cloutman m. Abijah Hitchings

Generation 5:  Abijah Hitchings m. Eliza Ann Treadwell

Generation 6:  Abijah Franklin Hitchings m. Hannah Eliza Lewis

Generation 7:  Arthur Treadwell Hitchings m. Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

Generation 8:  Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ WEBB of Salem", Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 8, 2017, (http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/03/surname-saturday-webb-of-salem.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ INGALLS of Lynn, Massachusetts

Edmund Ingalls was born in Lincolnshire, England and settled at Lynn, Massachusetts at a place known as Ingalls Pond.  He arrived in the company of Governor John Endicott in 1629 with his brother, Francis Ingalls.  He died when a bridge broke over the Saugus River in 1648, and he fell with his horse into the water and was drowned.  The General Court paid one hundred pounds to his children for their loss.  Their petition read “The humble petition of Robert Ingalls with the rest of his brethren and sisters, being eight in number, humbly showeth, that whereas your poor petitioners father hath been deprived of life by the insufficiency of Lynne Bridge, so called, to the great impoverishing of your poor petitioners mother and themselves, and there being a Court order that any person so dying through such insufficiency of any bridge in the countrye, that there should be an hundred pounds forfeit to the next heir, may it therefore please this honorable Court to take your poore petitioners case into consideration.”

Edmund Ingalls is the 8^th great grandfather of children’s book author Laura Ingalls Wilder, who wrote the Little House series. A good source for information on this family is Ingalls Genealogy by Dr. Charles Burleigh, 1903, and also Ingalls Genealogy by Dr. Walter Renton Ingalls, 1933.   I descend from two of Edmund Ingalls sons, Robert and Samuel, and from his daughter Elizabeth.  I think this is the only ancestor I have from whom I descend from three siblings. 

The last will and testament of Edmund Ingalls:

I, Edmund Ingalls of Lynn, being of perfect memory commit my soul unto God, my body to the grave and difpose of my earthly goods in this wife.

Firftly, I make my wife Ann Ingalls, sole executor, leaving my houfe and houfelot, togather with my stock of cattle and corn, to her, Likewife I leave Katherine Shipper with my wife.

Item, I bequeath to Robert my sonne & heir four pound to be payd in two years time by my wife, either in cattle or corn Likewife I bequeath to him or to his heirs, my houfe & houfelot after the deceafe of my wife.

Likewife I bequeath to Elizabeth my daughter, twenty shillings to be payd by my wife in a Heifer calf in two years time after my deceafe.

Likewife to my daughter Faith, wife to Andrew Allen, I bequeath two yearling calves, and inform my wife to pay him forty shillings debt in a years time after my deceafe.

Likewife to my sonne John, I bequeath the houfe & ground that was Jeremy fitts, lying by the meeting houfe, only out of it the sd John is to pay within four years, four pounds to my sonne Samuel, and the ground to be his security, further I leave with said John, that three Acres of land he had in England fully to pofsefs and enjoy.

Likewife, I give to Sarah, my daughter, wife of William Bitnar my two ewes.

Likewise, to Henry my sonne, I give the Houfe that I bought of Goodman West, and six Acres of ground, lying by it, and three Acres of Marsh ground lying at Rumley Marsh, and this the sd Henry shall pofsefs in two years after my deceafe, Only out of this the sd Henry shall pay to my sonne Samuel, four pounds within two years after he enters upon it.

Likewife I bequeath to Samuel my sonne, eight pounds to be difcharged as above, in the premifes.

Laftly, I leave with Mary the Heifer calf that she enjoyed and leave her to my wife for future dowry.

Finally, I appoint Francis Ingalls, my brother & Francis Dane, my sonne in law, overfeers of my will, and order that thofe things that have no particular exemption in the will mentioned, be taken away after my deceafe and entreat my overfeers to be helpful to my wife in ordering her matters.

His

EDMUND X INGALLS

Mark

Witness: William Morton, Francis Dane, Francis Ingols

Proved 14:9:1648 by Francis Ingalls, and 27:4:1649 by William Morton.

Essex Co. Quarterly Court Files, vol. 1, leaf 103

My Ingalls genealogy:

Generation 1: Edmund Ingalls, son of Robert Ingalls and Elizabeth Unknown,  born 17 June 1586 in Skirbeck, Lincolnshire, England, died 16 September 1648 in Lynn, Massachusetts; married about 1618 in England to Ann Tripp.  She was born about 1600 in Skirbeck,  and died about 1649 in Massachusetts.  Nine children and I descend from three: Elizabeth, Robert and Samuel Ingalls.

Lineage A:

Generation 2: Elizabeth Ingalls, baptized on 28 February 1619 in Skirbeck, Lincolnshire, England, died 9 June 1676 in Andover, Massachusetts;  married about 1639 to the Reverend Francis Dane, son of John Dane and Frances Bowyer.  He was born 20 November 1615 in Bishop Stortford, Hertfordshire, England and died 17 February 1697 in Andover.  

Generation 3: Hannah Dane m. William Goodhue
Generation 4: Bethiah Goodhue m. Benjamin Marshall
Generation 5: Elizabeth Marshall m. David Burnham
Generation 6: Amos Burnham m. Sarah Giddings
Generation 7: Judith Burnham m. Joseph Allen
Generation 8: Joseph Allen m. Orpha Andrews
Generation 9: Joseph Gilman Allen m. Sarah Burnham Mears
Generation 10: Joseph Elmer Allen m. Carrie Maude Batchelder
Generation 11: Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

Lineage B:

Generation 2: Robert Ingalls, born about 1621 in England, died 3 January 1698 in Lynn; married about 1646 to Sarah Harker, daughter of William Harker and Elizabeth Unknown.  She was born abut 1625 and died 8 April 1696. Eight children.

Generation 3: Nathaniel Ingalls, born about 1660 in Lynn, died about 1736; married to Anne Collins, daughter of Joseph Collins and Sarah Hires.  Ten children.

Generation 4: Hannah Ingalls, born about 1713, died before 15 April 1798; married June 1735 in Lynn to Daniel Hitchings, son of Daniel Hitchings and Susannah Townsend.  He was born 19 October 1709 in Lynn, and died 25 April 1760 in Lynn. Twelve children.

Generation 5: Abijah Hitchings m. Mary Gardner

Generation 6: Abijah Hitchings m. Mary Cloutman

Generation 7: Abijah Hitchings m. Eliza Ann Treadwell

Generation 8: Abijah Franklin Hitchings m. Hannah Eliza Lewis

Generation 9: Arthur Treadwell Hitchings m. Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

Generation 10: Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

Lineage C:

Generation 2: Samuel Ingalls, born about 1632 in England, died 30 August 1717 in Ipswich, Massachusetts; married 9 December 1656 in Ipswich to Ruth Eaton, daughter of John Eaton and Ann Crossman.  She was baptized 12 February 1637 in Hatton, Warwickshire, England and died before 1716 in Massachusetts. Nine chlldren.

Generation 3: Joseph Ingalls, born 23 December 1666 in Ipswich, died 1724 in Gloucester, Massachusetts; married 3 January 1704 in Ipswich to Sarah Thompson, daughter of Alexander Thompson and Deliverance Haggett.  She was born about 1671 in Ipswich.  Five children.

Generation 4: Mary Ingalls, born 1716 in Gloucester, died 27 December 1796 in Chebacco Parish, Ipswich, Massachusetts; married 12 January 1738 in the Chebacco Parish Church, Ipswich to William Allen, son of Joseph Allen and Catherine Leach. He was born 21 May 1711 in Manchester, died 10 June 1785 in Chebacco Parish.  Nine children.

Generation 5: Isaac Allen m. Abigail Burnham

Generation 6: Joseph Allen m. Judith Burnham

Generation 7: Joseph Allen m. Orpha Andrews

Generation 8: Joseph Gilman Allen m. Sarah Burnham Mears

Generation 9: Joseph Elmer Allen m. Carrie Maude Batchelder

Generation 10: Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)

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