In a book titled "Follow The North Shore" by Joyce Weese Barr Lance in 1987, there is a brief biography of Asa Collins. It reads:
Asa Collins came to Point Peninsula, N.Y, in 1823, arriving among the early settlers of that time. He built a cabin a few hundred feet south of the Four Corners near a spring on a knoll not far back of the present Krause farmstead. His knowledge of guns that he had learned by being a gunsmith before he came here helped him to be a very good hunter and the best rifle shot in the community. Most of his needed money came from the use of his gun and traplines. Whenever local game was scarce he often made the trip to better hunting grounds in Canada. Dr. Alva Collins, a grandson of Asa, presumable learned the art of trapping from his father and his grandfather before him. He became a surgeon who located in Detroit, Michigan. When asked how he became so skilled as a surgeon he replied, "from skinning muskrats in northern New York".
Benjamin Collins, the father of Asa, and the first member of the Collin's family of which there was a record, sailed a ship during the Revolution, and lived in New Jersey. He had eleven children of which Asa was one.
Carleton Collins, was a grandson of Asa Collins. He married Martha Moore and bought a farm on the south shore of Point Peninsula, where his great-grandson Milford Collins Jr. now lives.
Lester, the son of Carleton, was both a farmer and commercial fisherman, and married Alice Rector. Lester used to tell about his father going to the woods and cutting down big oak trees and drawing them down to the shore. When spring came he would buy enough pine logs to float them, so he could then tow them to Sackets Harbor where they were sold.
Asa Collins came to Point Peninsula, N.Y, in 1823, arriving among the early settlers of that time. He built a cabin a few hundred feet south of the Four Corners near a spring on a knoll not far back of the present Krause farmstead. His knowledge of guns that he had learned by being a gunsmith before he came here helped him to be a very good hunter and the best rifle shot in the community. Most of his needed money came from the use of his gun and traplines. Whenever local game was scarce he often made the trip to better hunting grounds in Canada. Dr. Alva Collins, a grandson of Asa, presumable learned the art of trapping from his father and his grandfather before him. He became a surgeon who located in Detroit, Michigan. When asked how he became so skilled as a surgeon he replied, "from skinning muskrats in northern New York".
Benjamin Collins, the father of Asa, and the first member of the Collin's family of which there was a record, sailed a ship during the Revolution, and lived in New Jersey. He had eleven children of which Asa was one.
Carleton Collins, was a grandson of Asa Collins. He married Martha Moore and bought a farm on the south shore of Point Peninsula, where his great-grandson Milford Collins Jr. now lives.
Lester, the son of Carleton, was both a farmer and commercial fisherman, and married Alice Rector. Lester used to tell about his father going to the woods and cutting down big oak trees and drawing them down to the shore. When spring came he would buy enough pine logs to float them, so he could then tow them to Sackets Harbor where they were sold.
In a book titled "Follow The North Shore" by Joyce Weese Barr Lance in 1987, there is a brief biography of Asa Collins. It reads:
Asa Collins came to Point Peninsula, N.Y, in 1823, arriving among the early settlers of that time. He built a cabin a few hundred feet south of the Four Corners near a spring on a knoll not far back of the present Krause farmstead. His knowledge of guns that he had learned by being a gunsmith before he came here helped him to be a very good hunter and the best rifle shot in the community. Most of his needed money came from the use of his gun and traplines. Whenever local game was scarce he often made the trip to better hunting grounds in Canada. Dr. Alva Collins, a grandson of Asa, presumable learned the art of trapping from his father and his grandfather before him. He became a surgeon who located in Detroit, Michigan. When asked how he became so skilled as a surgeon he replied, "from skinning muskrats in northern New York".
Benjamin Collins, the father of Asa, and the first member of the Collin's family of which there was a record, sailed a ship during the Revolution, and lived in New Jersey. He had eleven children of which Asa was one.
Carleton Collins, was a grandson of Asa Collins. He married Martha Moore and bought a farm on the south shore of Point Peninsula, where his great-grandson Milford Collins Jr. now lives.
Lester, the son of Carleton, was both a farmer and commercial fisherman, and married Alice Rector. Lester used to tell about his father going to the woods and cutting down big oak trees and drawing them down to the shore. When spring came he would buy enough pine logs to float them, so he could then tow them to Sackets Harbor where they were sold.
Asa Collins came to Point Peninsula, N.Y, in 1823, arriving among the early settlers of that time. He built a cabin a few hundred feet south of the Four Corners near a spring on a knoll not far back of the present Krause farmstead. His knowledge of guns that he had learned by being a gunsmith before he came here helped him to be a very good hunter and the best rifle shot in the community. Most of his needed money came from the use of his gun and traplines. Whenever local game was scarce he often made the trip to better hunting grounds in Canada. Dr. Alva Collins, a grandson of Asa, presumable learned the art of trapping from his father and his grandfather before him. He became a surgeon who located in Detroit, Michigan. When asked how he became so skilled as a surgeon he replied, "from skinning muskrats in northern New York".
Benjamin Collins, the father of Asa, and the first member of the Collin's family of which there was a record, sailed a ship during the Revolution, and lived in New Jersey. He had eleven children of which Asa was one.
Carleton Collins, was a grandson of Asa Collins. He married Martha Moore and bought a farm on the south shore of Point Peninsula, where his great-grandson Milford Collins Jr. now lives.
Lester, the son of Carleton, was both a farmer and commercial fisherman, and married Alice Rector. Lester used to tell about his father going to the woods and cutting down big oak trees and drawing them down to the shore. When spring came he would buy enough pine logs to float them, so he could then tow them to Sackets Harbor where they were sold.
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