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Now Know Ye that I [tear]said Sr Wm Berkeley Royal Governor etc. give and grant unto James Collins foure hundred acres of Land Scituate Lying and being in ye upper parish of [tear]County of Nanzimond beginning at a marked white oake soe running fo[tear] Longth North and by west 320 pole to a marked red oake, and soe for broadth North East by North, soe 320 pole to a marked white oake, and soe againe for broadth South West by South 200 pole crofsing ye head of a small Run nere ye Land of Thomas Mayson to ye first mentioned marked tree, The said Land being of use [value?] of same James Collins by and for ye transportation of Eight persons etc.
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Was James the son of the 1640 William and father of the 1677 William?
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Were James and the second William brothers?We still don't know, but the 1664/65 James certainly lived on land which remained in the family until sold by our known ancestor.
I will offer evidence to show that James Collins, the Revolutionary soldier, was the son of the James Collins and his wife Esther who moved from Kingsale to North Carolina, that the elder James was the son of William Collins who died in 1767 or 1768, and that that William's father was a James Collins as well, a man most likely born in the 1680s or 1690s and probably a son or grandson of these early Collinses.I will offer evidence to show that James Collins, the Revolutionary soldier, was the son of the James Collins and his wife Esther who moved from Kingsale to North Carolina, that the elder James was the son of William Collins who died in 1767 or 1768, and that that William's father was a James Collins as well, a man most likely born in the 1680s or 1690s and probably a son or grandson of these early Collinses.
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Before we begin to look at the aftermath of the 1664/65 land grant to James Collins, it will help a bit to understand what the Kingsale Swamp area is like, and what the era in which the Collinses came there was like as well.
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The fact that James Collins II was born in Isle of Wight County and later lived in Nansemond County does not mean he lived in two widely separated places: he probably lived on two different parcels of the ancestral land, if not the same one.As we will see, the county line itself was often used in descriptions of the land's location.
Nor is the move to North Carolina particularly surprising, or the fact that the Collinses for a time in the late 18th century may have moved back and forth between both places.As we will see in the chapter on the elder James Collins, many other families from Kingsale settled in the same Sandy Creek area of North Carolina.
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The Sir William Berkeley who signed the 1664/65 grant to James Collins had been Governor of Virginia before Cromwell's Revolution and was restored after it.
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Since these rarely mention relationships, it is not possible to construct a genealogy as such, but it is clear that the Collinses we hear of -- James Collins, William Collins, and a "James Collins Senior" which implies a Junior of that name, are near, or directly on, the very same land that our own direct ancestors, also bearing the names William and James Collins, were living on in the middle of the following century.
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Since these rarely mention relationships, it is not possible to construct a genealogy as such, but it is clear that the Collinses we hear of -- James Collins, William Collins, and a "James Collins Senior" which implies a Junior of that name, are near, or directly on, the very same land that our own direct ancestors, also bearing the names William and James Collins, were living on in the middle of the following century.
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1. The 1664/65 land grant cited above and several other land grants involving or mentioning James Collins, while describing the land as near the head of the Southern Branch of the Nansemond River, actually refer to the same general area as the land later attributed to William Collins: the grant evidence to be presented shows that James' land, too, lay near Kingsale Swamp and the Beaverdam Swamp, near the Isle of Wight/Nansemond County line, and near some of the same neighbors, including a John Holland who may be the origin of the family name Holland among our Collinses.
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And the land sold by our ancestor James Collins in 1778, after he moved to North Carolina, was in precisely this same area, between Kingsale Swamp and Beaverdam Swamp, and no doubt included some of the same land.
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7. We can therefore with confidence say that James Collins who, with his wife Esther (whose name proves this is the same James Collins, as it appears in both Virginia and North Carolina records), moved to North Carolina (father of the Revolutionary soldier) was the son of William Collins of Kingsale, who in turn was the son of James Collins of that area.
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7. We can therefore with confidence say that James Collins who, with his wife Esther (whose name proves this is the same James Collins, as it appears in both Virginia and North Carolina records), moved to North Carolina (father of the Revolutionary soldier) was the son of William Collins of Kingsale, who in turn was the son of James Collins of that area.
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7. We can therefore with confidence say that James Collins who, with his wife Esther (whose name proves this is the same James Collins, as it appears in both Virginia and North Carolina records), moved to North Carolina (father of the Revolutionary soldier) was the son of William Collins of Kingsale, who in turn was the son of James Collins of that area.
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By paying to bring eight people over, James Collins managed to acquire not only 400 acres of land, but possibly also the indentured service of some or all of the people transported, though this was not always true and is not stated to be the case here.
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A grant on April 22, 1669 to Henry Gay of 400 acres in the area refers to the land as being adjacent to that of James Collins and Philip Dewell.(15)
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Our next mention of James Collins adds some further links.James Collins is again the subject of a grant for the transportation of four more persons.This patent was for 164 acres (the 50 acre rule does not seem to have been adhered to exactly) in the Upper Parish of "Nanzemond" County, "adjoining his land & land of Francis Wells" on 29 July 1671.(17) Now above we have seen Francis Wells and Thomas Mason both adjoined Edward Thelwell, while Thomas Mason, of course, had land "nere" that of Collins in 1664.
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That name will be almost as common in our family over the next few generations as James, though it seems to have died out before the move to Tennessee.
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Now, nothing we have seen so far suggests that James Collins of 1664/65 and later mentions is related to William Collins of these grants.
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Perhaps, though that James Collins must have still been alive.
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In the absence of other evidence we can only guess at the relationship between William Collins and James Collins.
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Though William Collins owned quite a bit of land and is mentioned often, James Collins has not disappeared from the record.
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Note that this James Collins' land appears to be on the Isle of Wight side of the line, though still along Kingsale Swamp.It is also one of the few mentions to clearly put James Collins' land in the Kingsale area, as well as William Collins' land, which is regularly described as being there.
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On May 2, 1705 we find a grant to James Collins (or Collings) for 164 acres in the Upper Parish of Nansemond County adjoining Francis Wells.
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In fact, that land granted to James Collins in 1671 (as adjoining his own land at the time) was re-granted to William Yardley on April 29, 1693, on the grounds that it was deserted (not built upon) by Collins.
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In fact, that land granted to James Collins in 1671 (as adjoining his own land at the time) was re-granted to William Yardley on April 29, 1693, on the grounds that it was deserted (not built upon) by Collins.
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Then, in the 1705 grant, it was re-granted to James Collins on the grounds that it was "deserted" by Yardley!(37) Remember that an earlier Collins grant adjoined Francis Wells as well.
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Irons later sold the land to Thomas Parker in 1679, presumably the same Parker mentioned above in the 1693 sale by James Collins to Jeremiah Exum. (38)
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The only Collins names appearing in this period in the southern parts of either Nansemond or Isle of Wight are James Collins and William Collins, though the "James Senior" makes it clear there probably were at least two men named James.
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The only Collins names appearing in this period in the southern parts of either Nansemond or Isle of Wight are James Collins and William Collins, though the "James Senior" makes it clear there probably were at least two men named James.
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In the Nansemond County section, we find two Collinses listed (none in Isle of Wight): not surprisingly, they are named James and William.
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