Notes: Birth date and death year come from the family Bible. His burial location has not been determined.
Barnard Collins was born Kingston, NH (per death record of daughter Sarah) 5 Feb 1776 (Bible), and died in 1839 (Bible). He was married at the Second Congregational Church of Marblehead, Mass. on 17 March 1805 to Hannah MARTIN, b. 12 Nov 1786, baptized in Marblehead 19 Nov 1786 (VR), died 19 Dec 1826 (Bi ble), (her death notice appeared in the Boston Traveler on the 26th of that month), the daughter of Josiah Martin and Hannah Stiles of Marblehead, Mass. Barnard was a cordwainer (shoemaker/ cobbler) and was of Marblehead at least until 1806, but was of Salem by 1809; the family Bible record strongly suggests that the third child, John B., was born in Marblehead in April 1809, so it was likely very soon after that the family moved to Salem, where they remained until at least the end of 1813. In 1812, Barnard ran the following ad in the Essex Register (Salem, MA) from 14 to 28 November: " BARNARD COLLINS Respectfully informs his friends and the public in general that he continues carrying on the Boot & Shoe Making Business In its various branches and most fashionable manner at his Shop in Union Street. Feeling grateful for past favours, he solicits a continuance. Ladies shoes of various kinds made at the shortest notice. N.B.--Wanted at the above business, two Journeymen--none but the best of Workmen need apply"
Barnard served briefly with the Massachusetts militia during the War of 1812. From 30 June to 18 July 1814 he was in Captain T. Oaks' Company, Lt Col J. White's Regiment undertaking service at Salem for military instruction only. From 14 to 24 September 1814 he was in Captain D. Flander's Company, Lt Col J. Waugh's Regiment in a militia raised at Cornville [Maine]. They were in camp at Waterville, awaiting orders, but apparently did not march (this from "Massachusetts Volunteer Militia in the War of 1812", pp 134-5, 306). Barnard lived with his family primarily in the Massachusetts towns of Marblehead, Salem, and Charlestown, but based on the family Bible record and the death record of daughter Sarah, they lived in Camden, Maine (in Lincoln Co. at the time?) in 1819 when Sarah was born, but they were back in Salem by 1820 when Barnard was enumerated on the federal census. The family appeared to have a strong connection with coastal Maine, as child #3, John B. Collins, lived, worked and was married in Portland, and child #5, Mary Ann was also married and lived there with her first husband. Also, there appears to be a connection between this family and the Fernald family of Kittery, Maine. Nothing definitive has been found concerning the provenance of Barnard. A Richard Collins of Kingston, NH, who died in Salem in 1792, aged 27, may have been a relative. Barnard and Hannah had the following children, with birth dates and places primarily from the family Bible:
* Hannah M., b. Marblehead 20 Nov 1805 (Bible), d. 25 Jan 1806 (Bible)
* Hannah Davis, b. Marblehead 10 Feb 1807 (Bible) and bapt. at the Second Congr. Church of Marblehead, MA 22 Mar 1807, d. Charlestown, Mass 30 Dec 1836, was married in Boston on 7 November 1828 (31 October per Bible) to John GAMMELL, b. Boston, Mass. 11 May 1797 (10 May per Bible record), d. Charlestown, Mass. 1 Oct 1863 (1865 per Bible record, aged 68, but this cannot be correct according to the death notice below), the son of John Gammell and Margaret Urann. After Hannah died in 1836, John was married in Charlestown, Mass. on 12 May 1838 to Susan Ware Mayhew Chapman. He had four children with Hannah, and three more with Susan. He appears on the 1850 census in Charlestown with wife Susan and five children. According to his death record, John was a milk dealer and died of heart disease. Under the column reading "Residence and place of death" the town of Lexington is given. This causes great confusion, because there was a contemporary John Gammell who lived in Lexington, but was married to Rhoda Robinson. The following obituary for John appeared in the Boston Recorder, vol. XLVIII, issue 41, p 163 (9 October 1863): "Mr. John Gammell, for many years the city missionary of the Winthrop Church in this city, died at his residence on the 1st. The funeral took place on Saturday afternoon and the services were held in the Winthrop Church. There was a very large attendance, as the deceased was well-known and highly esteemed. He was 66 years of age. Mr. Gammell had long acted as a carrier of the Boston Recorder, and we regret his loss as of a most excellent and exemplary man." John has a burial record in the Bunker Hill Cemetery ("New Burial Ground") in Charlestown, and Hannah is assumed to be buried there as well.
* John B., b. Marblehead 5 April 1809 (Bible), d. Somerville, Mass. 5 Feb 1882 fits nicely as the male aged 10 to 16 in the 1820 census under Barnard Collins, but his death record incorrectly says his father was John Collins. John B. was married in Portland, Maine on 2 May 1832 to Hannah HAY, b. North Reading, Mass. 14 May 1809, d. there 24 March 1877. John B. was in business with a Stillman Danforth, in a partnership simply called Collins & Danforth. The nature of the enterprise has not been learned, but they filed for bankruptcy in Portland in 1842, and notices appear in various Portland newspapers throughout that year. Collins' family continued to live in Maine until at least 1843, and this is where the first three children were born. By 1845 the family had moved to New Hampshire, and in 1850 they appeared on the census in Portsmouth, NH with six children. He was called a merchant. In 1860 the family was living in Dorchester, Mass. next door to the family of his sister Sarah (Collins) Clapp and her family. John was then called a tailor, and living with him and his wife were their four youngest living children. This would appear to be the "brother John" mentioned in the diary of Daniel F. Draper, being mentioned in the diary as late as Nov 1851, and often called J. B. Collins. Following his wife's death in 1877, John lived with his son John Pierpont Collins at 34 Moore Street in Somerville, where he died in 1882. Per their death certificates, Hannah was buried in Wakefield & John in Reading, however those town halls do not show which cemetery they were buried in. John B. is thought to be buried in the Laurel Hill Cemetery in Reading, and Hannah in the Old Burying Ground in Wakefield. John B. was not the John Collins living with wife Hannah in Grafton, NH in 1880. John B. and Hannah had seven children born from 1834 to 1849.
* Mehittable M., b. Salem 29 Feb 1812 (Bible)
* Mary Ann, b. Salem Sep 1814 (Bible), d. 19 July 1815 (Bible)
* Mary Ann Stiles, b. Salem 27 Jan 1817 (Draper Gen.; only the year 1817 is legible in the family Bible), m. (1) (int. 29 Aug 1840, Portland, ME) Alfred MERRILL, b. 1811, d. 12 Sep 1843, aged 32, son of Ozias Merrill and Esther Lunt. She m. (2) at the Winter Street Church in Boston, Mass. 1 May 1847 Daniel Fisher DRAPER, son of Martin Draper and Sally Fisher, with whom she had four children. Mary Ann was living in Boston in 1855 with her husband and three children, and in Boston in 1860 with family and eleven boarders. In 1870 the family lived in Jacksonville, Florida, and after her husband's death, Mary lived in Cambridge, Mass. in 1880 with her son William and daughter Ella. Alfred is buried in the Eastern Cemetery in Portland, ME; Mary Ann and Daniel are buried in the Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA.
* Sarah Ingraham, b. Camden, ME 24 Oct 1819 (calc from death age) or 1_ Nov 1819 (from Bible), baptized in Salem 5 Aug 1821, d. Hyde Park (then in Norfolk Co., but now in Boston), MA 19 Jun 1868 and m. 25 Dec 1848 (int Roxbury 8 Dec) Perir (or Perez) Christopher CLAPP (often called "P. C. Clapp"), b. Norton, Mass. 18 March 1822, d. West Bridgwater, Mass. 18 June 1902, the son of George Clapp and Esther Lincoln. In January 1848, before her marriage, Sarah was living in Boston when she came to visit her sister Mary (Collins) Draper. An entry in Daniel Draper's diary on 16 May 1848 reads "P C Clapp & Lady came here." An entry on 16 Aug 1848 reads "Sister Sarah Collins went away & Mr Clapp." The entry on 31 May 1849 reads "Mr Clapp and Sarah came to board with us at N Haven." Sarah appears on the 1855 census in Stoughton, Mass. with her husband and two children. In 1860 and 1865, the same family of parents and two children is living in Dorchester, Mass. In 1860 they were living next door to her brother, John B. Collins. The family soon after moved to Hyde Park, which was then in Norfolk Co., where Sarah died in 1868, and where her husband appears on the 1870 census with the two children. An entry on 26 June 1861 in the Draper diary reads "Sarah I Clapp died". This could possibly be a child of P. C. and Sarah, since the mother Sarah was living when she appeared on the 1865 Mass. census, and her death record gives the above 1868 death date. Sarah had two children, Henry B. and Carrie, and died of cancer at the age of 48. Her death record says her parents were Barnard and Hannah Collins, and that she is buried in Milton. By 1880 Clapp had moved to Kansas, and appeared on the census that year in Kinsley (Edwards County) with his son Henry. He was called a shoe maker and a widower. At some point in time Clapp returned to the East, and died in West Bridgwater, Mass. of paralysis, being buried in Brockton.
* Josiah Whitefield Martin, b. Salem 9 [July?] 1822 (Bible partly illegible), bapt 1 Sep 1822, d. 28 Aug 1825 (Bible)
* Thomas Miller, b. Charlestown, Mass. Aug 1824 (Bible), d. of hydrocephalus in Salem, MA 11 Jun 1825, aged 9 mos (VR; Bible gives same date). There is a record of a son, bapt. 12 Jun 1825. It seems unusual that they would have a son baptized the day after he died. There may have been an error in one of the dates.
* Josiah Thomas, b. Charlestown 25 Nov 1826 (Bible), d. Lowell, Mass. 15 Sep 1903, aged 76y 10m, and m. Lowell 20 March 1851 Annette D. WILLIARD, b. Montpelier, VT 20 March 1833 (b rec), living in 1903, daughter of Lorenzo and Orrissa Williard. In their marriage record, Josiah and Annette were both called of Lowell, he a cordwainer, aged 23, and she aged 18. In the 1850 census, Annette, aged 17, was living with her parents, older brother, younger sister, and a large number of other people in Lowell, Mass., her father and brother being called "operators" (in a mill?). In the same year, Josiah, aged 23, was a shoemaker living alone in Plaistow, NH. In 1865 he and Annette were living in Lowell (as in all subsequent censuses), he a shoemaker and she an operator (elevator?). In 1870 he was a trader, and she was keeping house; in 1880 he was a "huckster" and she was a dressmaker; and in 1900 he, aged 74, had no employment listed and she continued to be a dressmaker. They had had one child who was not living in 1900. Josiah died of nephritis at the Lowell City Hospital, and is buried in Plaistow, NH.
Barnard Collins was born Kingston, NH (per death record of daughter Sarah) 5 Feb 1776 (Bible), and died in 1839 (Bible). He was married at the Second Congregational Church of Marblehead, Mass. on 17 March 1805 to Hannah MARTIN, b. 12 Nov 1786, baptized in Marblehead 19 Nov 1786 (VR), died 19 Dec 1826 (Bi ble), (her death notice appeared in the Boston Traveler on the 26th of that month), the daughter of Josiah Martin and Hannah Stiles of Marblehead, Mass. Barnard was a cordwainer (shoemaker/ cobbler) and was of Marblehead at least until 1806, but was of Salem by 1809; the family Bible record strongly suggests that the third child, John B., was born in Marblehead in April 1809, so it was likely very soon after that the family moved to Salem, where they remained until at least the end of 1813. In 1812, Barnard ran the following ad in the Essex Register (Salem, MA) from 14 to 28 November: " BARNARD COLLINS Respectfully informs his friends and the public in general that he continues carrying on the Boot & Shoe Making Business In its various branches and most fashionable manner at his Shop in Union Street. Feeling grateful for past favours, he solicits a continuance. Ladies shoes of various kinds made at the shortest notice. N.B.--Wanted at the above business, two Journeymen--none but the best of Workmen need apply"
Barnard served briefly with the Massachusetts militia during the War of 1812. From 30 June to 18 July 1814 he was in Captain T. Oaks' Company, Lt Col J. White's Regiment undertaking service at Salem for military instruction only. From 14 to 24 September 1814 he was in Captain D. Flander's Company, Lt Col J. Waugh's Regiment in a militia raised at Cornville [Maine]. They were in camp at Waterville, awaiting orders, but apparently did not march (this from "Massachusetts Volunteer Militia in the War of 1812", pp 134-5, 306). Barnard lived with his family primarily in the Massachusetts towns of Marblehead, Salem, and Charlestown, but based on the family Bible record and the death record of daughter Sarah, they lived in Camden, Maine (in Lincoln Co. at the time?) in 1819 when Sarah was born, but they were back in Salem by 1820 when Barnard was enumerated on the federal census. The family appeared to have a strong connection with coastal Maine, as child #3, John B. Collins, lived, worked and was married in Portland, and child #5, Mary Ann was also married and lived there with her first husband. Also, there appears to be a connection between this family and the Fernald family of Kittery, Maine. Nothing definitive has been found concerning the provenance of Barnard. A Richard Collins of Kingston, NH, who died in Salem in 1792, aged 27, may have been a relative. Barnard and Hannah had the following children, with birth dates and places primarily from the family Bible:
* Hannah M., b. Marblehead 20 Nov 1805 (Bible), d. 25 Jan 1806 (Bible)
* Hannah Davis, b. Marblehead 10 Feb 1807 (Bible) and bapt. at the Second Congr. Church of Marblehead, MA 22 Mar 1807, d. Charlestown, Mass 30 Dec 1836, was married in Boston on 7 November 1828 (31 October per Bible) to John GAMMELL, b. Boston, Mass. 11 May 1797 (10 May per Bible record), d. Charlestown, Mass. 1 Oct 1863 (1865 per Bible record, aged 68, but this cannot be correct according to the death notice below), the son of John Gammell and Margaret Urann. After Hannah died in 1836, John was married in Charlestown, Mass. on 12 May 1838 to Susan Ware Mayhew Chapman. He had four children with Hannah, and three more with Susan. He appears on the 1850 census in Charlestown with wife Susan and five children. According to his death record, John was a milk dealer and died of heart disease. Under the column reading "Residence and place of death" the town of Lexington is given. This causes great confusion, because there was a contemporary John Gammell who lived in Lexington, but was married to Rhoda Robinson. The following obituary for John appeared in the Boston Recorder, vol. XLVIII, issue 41, p 163 (9 October 1863): "Mr. John Gammell, for many years the city missionary of the Winthrop Church in this city, died at his residence on the 1st. The funeral took place on Saturday afternoon and the services were held in the Winthrop Church. There was a very large attendance, as the deceased was well-known and highly esteemed. He was 66 years of age. Mr. Gammell had long acted as a carrier of the Boston Recorder, and we regret his loss as of a most excellent and exemplary man." John has a burial record in the Bunker Hill Cemetery ("New Burial Ground") in Charlestown, and Hannah is assumed to be buried there as well.
* John B., b. Marblehead 5 April 1809 (Bible), d. Somerville, Mass. 5 Feb 1882 fits nicely as the male aged 10 to 16 in the 1820 census under Barnard Collins, but his death record incorrectly says his father was John Collins. John B. was married in Portland, Maine on 2 May 1832 to Hannah HAY, b. North Reading, Mass. 14 May 1809, d. there 24 March 1877. John B. was in business with a Stillman Danforth, in a partnership simply called Collins & Danforth. The nature of the enterprise has not been learned, but they filed for bankruptcy in Portland in 1842, and notices appear in various Portland newspapers throughout that year. Collins' family continued to live in Maine until at least 1843, and this is where the first three children were born. By 1845 the family had moved to New Hampshire, and in 1850 they appeared on the census in Portsmouth, NH with six children. He was called a merchant. In 1860 the family was living in Dorchester, Mass. next door to the family of his sister Sarah (Collins) Clapp and her family. John was then called a tailor, and living with him and his wife were their four youngest living children. This would appear to be the "brother John" mentioned in the diary of Daniel F. Draper, being mentioned in the diary as late as Nov 1851, and often called J. B. Collins. Following his wife's death in 1877, John lived with his son John Pierpont Collins at 34 Moore Street in Somerville, where he died in 1882. Per their death certificates, Hannah was buried in Wakefield & John in Reading, however those town halls do not show which cemetery they were buried in. John B. is thought to be buried in the Laurel Hill Cemetery in Reading, and Hannah in the Old Burying Ground in Wakefield. John B. was not the John Collins living with wife Hannah in Grafton, NH in 1880. John B. and Hannah had seven children born from 1834 to 1849.
* Mehittable M., b. Salem 29 Feb 1812 (Bible)
* Mary Ann, b. Salem Sep 1814 (Bible), d. 19 July 1815 (Bible)
* Mary Ann Stiles, b. Salem 27 Jan 1817 (Draper Gen.; only the year 1817 is legible in the family Bible), m. (1) (int. 29 Aug 1840, Portland, ME) Alfred MERRILL, b. 1811, d. 12 Sep 1843, aged 32, son of Ozias Merrill and Esther Lunt. She m. (2) at the Winter Street Church in Boston, Mass. 1 May 1847 Daniel Fisher DRAPER, son of Martin Draper and Sally Fisher, with whom she had four children. Mary Ann was living in Boston in 1855 with her husband and three children, and in Boston in 1860 with family and eleven boarders. In 1870 the family lived in Jacksonville, Florida, and after her husband's death, Mary lived in Cambridge, Mass. in 1880 with her son William and daughter Ella. Alfred is buried in the Eastern Cemetery in Portland, ME; Mary Ann and Daniel are buried in the Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA.
* Sarah Ingraham, b. Camden, ME 24 Oct 1819 (calc from death age) or 1_ Nov 1819 (from Bible), baptized in Salem 5 Aug 1821, d. Hyde Park (then in Norfolk Co., but now in Boston), MA 19 Jun 1868 and m. 25 Dec 1848 (int Roxbury 8 Dec) Perir (or Perez) Christopher CLAPP (often called "P. C. Clapp"), b. Norton, Mass. 18 March 1822, d. West Bridgwater, Mass. 18 June 1902, the son of George Clapp and Esther Lincoln. In January 1848, before her marriage, Sarah was living in Boston when she came to visit her sister Mary (Collins) Draper. An entry in Daniel Draper's diary on 16 May 1848 reads "P C Clapp & Lady came here." An entry on 16 Aug 1848 reads "Sister Sarah Collins went away & Mr Clapp." The entry on 31 May 1849 reads "Mr Clapp and Sarah came to board with us at N Haven." Sarah appears on the 1855 census in Stoughton, Mass. with her husband and two children. In 1860 and 1865, the same family of parents and two children is living in Dorchester, Mass. In 1860 they were living next door to her brother, John B. Collins. The family soon after moved to Hyde Park, which was then in Norfolk Co., where Sarah died in 1868, and where her husband appears on the 1870 census with the two children. An entry on 26 June 1861 in the Draper diary reads "Sarah I Clapp died". This could possibly be a child of P. C. and Sarah, since the mother Sarah was living when she appeared on the 1865 Mass. census, and her death record gives the above 1868 death date. Sarah had two children, Henry B. and Carrie, and died of cancer at the age of 48. Her death record says her parents were Barnard and Hannah Collins, and that she is buried in Milton. By 1880 Clapp had moved to Kansas, and appeared on the census that year in Kinsley (Edwards County) with his son Henry. He was called a shoe maker and a widower. At some point in time Clapp returned to the East, and died in West Bridgwater, Mass. of paralysis, being buried in Brockton.
* Josiah Whitefield Martin, b. Salem 9 [July?] 1822 (Bible partly illegible), bapt 1 Sep 1822, d. 28 Aug 1825 (Bible)
* Thomas Miller, b. Charlestown, Mass. Aug 1824 (Bible), d. of hydrocephalus in Salem, MA 11 Jun 1825, aged 9 mos (VR; Bible gives same date). There is a record of a son, bapt. 12 Jun 1825. It seems unusual that they would have a son baptized the day after he died. There may have been an error in one of the dates.
* Josiah Thomas, b. Charlestown 25 Nov 1826 (Bible), d. Lowell, Mass. 15 Sep 1903, aged 76y 10m, and m. Lowell 20 March 1851 Annette D. WILLIARD, b. Montpelier, VT 20 March 1833 (b rec), living in 1903, daughter of Lorenzo and Orrissa Williard. In their marriage record, Josiah and Annette were both called of Lowell, he a cordwainer, aged 23, and she aged 18. In the 1850 census, Annette, aged 17, was living with her parents, older brother, younger sister, and a large number of other people in Lowell, Mass., her father and brother being called "operators" (in a mill?). In the same year, Josiah, aged 23, was a shoemaker living alone in Plaistow, NH. In 1865 he and Annette were living in Lowell (as in all subsequent censuses), he a shoemaker and she an operator (elevator?). In 1870 he was a trader, and she was keeping house; in 1880 he was a "huckster" and she was a dressmaker; and in 1900 he, aged 74, had no employment listed and she continued to be a dressmaker. They had had one child who was not living in 1900. Josiah died of nephritis at the Lowell City Hospital, and is buried in Plaistow, NH.
Notes: Birth date and death year come from the family Bible. His burial location has not been determined.
Barnard Collins was born Kingston, NH (per death record of daughter Sarah) 5 Feb 1776 (Bible), and died in 1839 (Bible). He was married at the Second Congregational Church of Marblehead, Mass. on 17 March 1805 to Hannah MARTIN, b. 12 Nov 1786, baptized in Marblehead 19 Nov 1786 (VR), died 19 Dec 1826 (Bi ble), (her death notice appeared in the Boston Traveler on the 26th of that month), the daughter of Josiah Martin and Hannah Stiles of Marblehead, Mass. Barnard was a cordwainer (shoemaker/ cobbler) and was of Marblehead at least until 1806, but was of Salem by 1809; the family Bible record strongly suggests that the third child, John B., was born in Marblehead in April 1809, so it was likely very soon after that the family moved to Salem, where they remained until at least the end of 1813. In 1812, Barnard ran the following ad in the Essex Register (Salem, MA) from 14 to 28 November: " BARNARD COLLINS Respectfully informs his friends and the public in general that he continues carrying on the Boot & Shoe Making Business In its various branches and most fashionable manner at his Shop in Union Street. Feeling grateful for past favours, he solicits a continuance. Ladies shoes of various kinds made at the shortest notice. N.B.--Wanted at the above business, two Journeymen--none but the best of Workmen need apply"
Barnard served briefly with the Massachusetts militia during the War of 1812. From 30 June to 18 July 1814 he was in Captain T. Oaks' Company, Lt Col J. White's Regiment undertaking service at Salem for military instruction only. From 14 to 24 September 1814 he was in Captain D. Flander's Company, Lt Col J. Waugh's Regiment in a militia raised at Cornville [Maine]. They were in camp at Waterville, awaiting orders, but apparently did not march (this from "Massachusetts Volunteer Militia in the War of 1812", pp 134-5, 306). Barnard lived with his family primarily in the Massachusetts towns of Marblehead, Salem, and Charlestown, but based on the family Bible record and the death record of daughter Sarah, they lived in Camden, Maine (in Lincoln Co. at the time?) in 1819 when Sarah was born, but they were back in Salem by 1820 when Barnard was enumerated on the federal census. The family appeared to have a strong connection with coastal Maine, as child #3, John B. Collins, lived, worked and was married in Portland, and child #5, Mary Ann was also married and lived there with her first husband. Also, there appears to be a connection between this family and the Fernald family of Kittery, Maine. Nothing definitive has been found concerning the provenance of Barnard. A Richard Collins of Kingston, NH, who died in Salem in 1792, aged 27, may have been a relative. Barnard and Hannah had the following children, with birth dates and places primarily from the family Bible:
* Hannah M., b. Marblehead 20 Nov 1805 (Bible), d. 25 Jan 1806 (Bible)
* Hannah Davis, b. Marblehead 10 Feb 1807 (Bible) and bapt. at the Second Congr. Church of Marblehead, MA 22 Mar 1807, d. Charlestown, Mass 30 Dec 1836, was married in Boston on 7 November 1828 (31 October per Bible) to John GAMMELL, b. Boston, Mass. 11 May 1797 (10 May per Bible record), d. Charlestown, Mass. 1 Oct 1863 (1865 per Bible record, aged 68, but this cannot be correct according to the death notice below), the son of John Gammell and Margaret Urann. After Hannah died in 1836, John was married in Charlestown, Mass. on 12 May 1838 to Susan Ware Mayhew Chapman. He had four children with Hannah, and three more with Susan. He appears on the 1850 census in Charlestown with wife Susan and five children. According to his death record, John was a milk dealer and died of heart disease. Under the column reading "Residence and place of death" the town of Lexington is given. This causes great confusion, because there was a contemporary John Gammell who lived in Lexington, but was married to Rhoda Robinson. The following obituary for John appeared in the Boston Recorder, vol. XLVIII, issue 41, p 163 (9 October 1863): "Mr. John Gammell, for many years the city missionary of the Winthrop Church in this city, died at his residence on the 1st. The funeral took place on Saturday afternoon and the services were held in the Winthrop Church. There was a very large attendance, as the deceased was well-known and highly esteemed. He was 66 years of age. Mr. Gammell had long acted as a carrier of the Boston Recorder, and we regret his loss as of a most excellent and exemplary man." John has a burial record in the Bunker Hill Cemetery ("New Burial Ground") in Charlestown, and Hannah is assumed to be buried there as well.
* John B., b. Marblehead 5 April 1809 (Bible), d. Somerville, Mass. 5 Feb 1882 fits nicely as the male aged 10 to 16 in the 1820 census under Barnard Collins, but his death record incorrectly says his father was John Collins. John B. was married in Portland, Maine on 2 May 1832 to Hannah HAY, b. North Reading, Mass. 14 May 1809, d. there 24 March 1877. John B. was in business with a Stillman Danforth, in a partnership simply called Collins & Danforth. The nature of the enterprise has not been learned, but they filed for bankruptcy in Portland in 1842, and notices appear in various Portland newspapers throughout that year. Collins' family continued to live in Maine until at least 1843, and this is where the first three children were born. By 1845 the family had moved to New Hampshire, and in 1850 they appeared on the census in Portsmouth, NH with six children. He was called a merchant. In 1860 the family was living in Dorchester, Mass. next door to the family of his sister Sarah (Collins) Clapp and her family. John was then called a tailor, and living with him and his wife were their four youngest living children. This would appear to be the "brother John" mentioned in the diary of Daniel F. Draper, being mentioned in the diary as late as Nov 1851, and often called J. B. Collins. Following his wife's death in 1877, John lived with his son John Pierpont Collins at 34 Moore Street in Somerville, where he died in 1882. Per their death certificates, Hannah was buried in Wakefield & John in Reading, however those town halls do not show which cemetery they were buried in. John B. is thought to be buried in the Laurel Hill Cemetery in Reading, and Hannah in the Old Burying Ground in Wakefield. John B. was not the John Collins living with wife Hannah in Grafton, NH in 1880. John B. and Hannah had seven children born from 1834 to 1849.
* Mehittable M., b. Salem 29 Feb 1812 (Bible)
* Mary Ann, b. Salem Sep 1814 (Bible), d. 19 July 1815 (Bible)
* Mary Ann Stiles, b. Salem 27 Jan 1817 (Draper Gen.; only the year 1817 is legible in the family Bible), m. (1) (int. 29 Aug 1840, Portland, ME) Alfred MERRILL, b. 1811, d. 12 Sep 1843, aged 32, son of Ozias Merrill and Esther Lunt. She m. (2) at the Winter Street Church in Boston, Mass. 1 May 1847 Daniel Fisher DRAPER, son of Martin Draper and Sally Fisher, with whom she had four children. Mary Ann was living in Boston in 1855 with her husband and three children, and in Boston in 1860 with family and eleven boarders. In 1870 the family lived in Jacksonville, Florida, and after her husband's death, Mary lived in Cambridge, Mass. in 1880 with her son William and daughter Ella. Alfred is buried in the Eastern Cemetery in Portland, ME; Mary Ann and Daniel are buried in the Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA.
* Sarah Ingraham, b. Camden, ME 24 Oct 1819 (calc from death age) or 1_ Nov 1819 (from Bible), baptized in Salem 5 Aug 1821, d. Hyde Park (then in Norfolk Co., but now in Boston), MA 19 Jun 1868 and m. 25 Dec 1848 (int Roxbury 8 Dec) Perir (or Perez) Christopher CLAPP (often called "P. C. Clapp"), b. Norton, Mass. 18 March 1822, d. West Bridgwater, Mass. 18 June 1902, the son of George Clapp and Esther Lincoln. In January 1848, before her marriage, Sarah was living in Boston when she came to visit her sister Mary (Collins) Draper. An entry in Daniel Draper's diary on 16 May 1848 reads "P C Clapp & Lady came here." An entry on 16 Aug 1848 reads "Sister Sarah Collins went away & Mr Clapp." The entry on 31 May 1849 reads "Mr Clapp and Sarah came to board with us at N Haven." Sarah appears on the 1855 census in Stoughton, Mass. with her husband and two children. In 1860 and 1865, the same family of parents and two children is living in Dorchester, Mass. In 1860 they were living next door to her brother, John B. Collins. The family soon after moved to Hyde Park, which was then in Norfolk Co., where Sarah died in 1868, and where her husband appears on the 1870 census with the two children. An entry on 26 June 1861 in the Draper diary reads "Sarah I Clapp died". This could possibly be a child of P. C. and Sarah, since the mother Sarah was living when she appeared on the 1865 Mass. census, and her death record gives the above 1868 death date. Sarah had two children, Henry B. and Carrie, and died of cancer at the age of 48. Her death record says her parents were Barnard and Hannah Collins, and that she is buried in Milton. By 1880 Clapp had moved to Kansas, and appeared on the census that year in Kinsley (Edwards County) with his son Henry. He was called a shoe maker and a widower. At some point in time Clapp returned to the East, and died in West Bridgwater, Mass. of paralysis, being buried in Brockton.
* Josiah Whitefield Martin, b. Salem 9 [July?] 1822 (Bible partly illegible), bapt 1 Sep 1822, d. 28 Aug 1825 (Bible)
* Thomas Miller, b. Charlestown, Mass. Aug 1824 (Bible), d. of hydrocephalus in Salem, MA 11 Jun 1825, aged 9 mos (VR; Bible gives same date). There is a record of a son, bapt. 12 Jun 1825. It seems unusual that they would have a son baptized the day after he died. There may have been an error in one of the dates.
* Josiah Thomas, b. Charlestown 25 Nov 1826 (Bible), d. Lowell, Mass. 15 Sep 1903, aged 76y 10m, and m. Lowell 20 March 1851 Annette D. WILLIARD, b. Montpelier, VT 20 March 1833 (b rec), living in 1903, daughter of Lorenzo and Orrissa Williard. In their marriage record, Josiah and Annette were both called of Lowell, he a cordwainer, aged 23, and she aged 18. In the 1850 census, Annette, aged 17, was living with her parents, older brother, younger sister, and a large number of other people in Lowell, Mass., her father and brother being called "operators" (in a mill?). In the same year, Josiah, aged 23, was a shoemaker living alone in Plaistow, NH. In 1865 he and Annette were living in Lowell (as in all subsequent censuses), he a shoemaker and she an operator (elevator?). In 1870 he was a trader, and she was keeping house; in 1880 he was a "huckster" and she was a dressmaker; and in 1900 he, aged 74, had no employment listed and she continued to be a dressmaker. They had had one child who was not living in 1900. Josiah died of nephritis at the Lowell City Hospital, and is buried in Plaistow, NH.
Barnard Collins was born Kingston, NH (per death record of daughter Sarah) 5 Feb 1776 (Bible), and died in 1839 (Bible). He was married at the Second Congregational Church of Marblehead, Mass. on 17 March 1805 to Hannah MARTIN, b. 12 Nov 1786, baptized in Marblehead 19 Nov 1786 (VR), died 19 Dec 1826 (Bi ble), (her death notice appeared in the Boston Traveler on the 26th of that month), the daughter of Josiah Martin and Hannah Stiles of Marblehead, Mass. Barnard was a cordwainer (shoemaker/ cobbler) and was of Marblehead at least until 1806, but was of Salem by 1809; the family Bible record strongly suggests that the third child, John B., was born in Marblehead in April 1809, so it was likely very soon after that the family moved to Salem, where they remained until at least the end of 1813. In 1812, Barnard ran the following ad in the Essex Register (Salem, MA) from 14 to 28 November: " BARNARD COLLINS Respectfully informs his friends and the public in general that he continues carrying on the Boot & Shoe Making Business In its various branches and most fashionable manner at his Shop in Union Street. Feeling grateful for past favours, he solicits a continuance. Ladies shoes of various kinds made at the shortest notice. N.B.--Wanted at the above business, two Journeymen--none but the best of Workmen need apply"
Barnard served briefly with the Massachusetts militia during the War of 1812. From 30 June to 18 July 1814 he was in Captain T. Oaks' Company, Lt Col J. White's Regiment undertaking service at Salem for military instruction only. From 14 to 24 September 1814 he was in Captain D. Flander's Company, Lt Col J. Waugh's Regiment in a militia raised at Cornville [Maine]. They were in camp at Waterville, awaiting orders, but apparently did not march (this from "Massachusetts Volunteer Militia in the War of 1812", pp 134-5, 306). Barnard lived with his family primarily in the Massachusetts towns of Marblehead, Salem, and Charlestown, but based on the family Bible record and the death record of daughter Sarah, they lived in Camden, Maine (in Lincoln Co. at the time?) in 1819 when Sarah was born, but they were back in Salem by 1820 when Barnard was enumerated on the federal census. The family appeared to have a strong connection with coastal Maine, as child #3, John B. Collins, lived, worked and was married in Portland, and child #5, Mary Ann was also married and lived there with her first husband. Also, there appears to be a connection between this family and the Fernald family of Kittery, Maine. Nothing definitive has been found concerning the provenance of Barnard. A Richard Collins of Kingston, NH, who died in Salem in 1792, aged 27, may have been a relative. Barnard and Hannah had the following children, with birth dates and places primarily from the family Bible:
* Hannah M., b. Marblehead 20 Nov 1805 (Bible), d. 25 Jan 1806 (Bible)
* Hannah Davis, b. Marblehead 10 Feb 1807 (Bible) and bapt. at the Second Congr. Church of Marblehead, MA 22 Mar 1807, d. Charlestown, Mass 30 Dec 1836, was married in Boston on 7 November 1828 (31 October per Bible) to John GAMMELL, b. Boston, Mass. 11 May 1797 (10 May per Bible record), d. Charlestown, Mass. 1 Oct 1863 (1865 per Bible record, aged 68, but this cannot be correct according to the death notice below), the son of John Gammell and Margaret Urann. After Hannah died in 1836, John was married in Charlestown, Mass. on 12 May 1838 to Susan Ware Mayhew Chapman. He had four children with Hannah, and three more with Susan. He appears on the 1850 census in Charlestown with wife Susan and five children. According to his death record, John was a milk dealer and died of heart disease. Under the column reading "Residence and place of death" the town of Lexington is given. This causes great confusion, because there was a contemporary John Gammell who lived in Lexington, but was married to Rhoda Robinson. The following obituary for John appeared in the Boston Recorder, vol. XLVIII, issue 41, p 163 (9 October 1863): "Mr. John Gammell, for many years the city missionary of the Winthrop Church in this city, died at his residence on the 1st. The funeral took place on Saturday afternoon and the services were held in the Winthrop Church. There was a very large attendance, as the deceased was well-known and highly esteemed. He was 66 years of age. Mr. Gammell had long acted as a carrier of the Boston Recorder, and we regret his loss as of a most excellent and exemplary man." John has a burial record in the Bunker Hill Cemetery ("New Burial Ground") in Charlestown, and Hannah is assumed to be buried there as well.
* John B., b. Marblehead 5 April 1809 (Bible), d. Somerville, Mass. 5 Feb 1882 fits nicely as the male aged 10 to 16 in the 1820 census under Barnard Collins, but his death record incorrectly says his father was John Collins. John B. was married in Portland, Maine on 2 May 1832 to Hannah HAY, b. North Reading, Mass. 14 May 1809, d. there 24 March 1877. John B. was in business with a Stillman Danforth, in a partnership simply called Collins & Danforth. The nature of the enterprise has not been learned, but they filed for bankruptcy in Portland in 1842, and notices appear in various Portland newspapers throughout that year. Collins' family continued to live in Maine until at least 1843, and this is where the first three children were born. By 1845 the family had moved to New Hampshire, and in 1850 they appeared on the census in Portsmouth, NH with six children. He was called a merchant. In 1860 the family was living in Dorchester, Mass. next door to the family of his sister Sarah (Collins) Clapp and her family. John was then called a tailor, and living with him and his wife were their four youngest living children. This would appear to be the "brother John" mentioned in the diary of Daniel F. Draper, being mentioned in the diary as late as Nov 1851, and often called J. B. Collins. Following his wife's death in 1877, John lived with his son John Pierpont Collins at 34 Moore Street in Somerville, where he died in 1882. Per their death certificates, Hannah was buried in Wakefield & John in Reading, however those town halls do not show which cemetery they were buried in. John B. is thought to be buried in the Laurel Hill Cemetery in Reading, and Hannah in the Old Burying Ground in Wakefield. John B. was not the John Collins living with wife Hannah in Grafton, NH in 1880. John B. and Hannah had seven children born from 1834 to 1849.
* Mehittable M., b. Salem 29 Feb 1812 (Bible)
* Mary Ann, b. Salem Sep 1814 (Bible), d. 19 July 1815 (Bible)
* Mary Ann Stiles, b. Salem 27 Jan 1817 (Draper Gen.; only the year 1817 is legible in the family Bible), m. (1) (int. 29 Aug 1840, Portland, ME) Alfred MERRILL, b. 1811, d. 12 Sep 1843, aged 32, son of Ozias Merrill and Esther Lunt. She m. (2) at the Winter Street Church in Boston, Mass. 1 May 1847 Daniel Fisher DRAPER, son of Martin Draper and Sally Fisher, with whom she had four children. Mary Ann was living in Boston in 1855 with her husband and three children, and in Boston in 1860 with family and eleven boarders. In 1870 the family lived in Jacksonville, Florida, and after her husband's death, Mary lived in Cambridge, Mass. in 1880 with her son William and daughter Ella. Alfred is buried in the Eastern Cemetery in Portland, ME; Mary Ann and Daniel are buried in the Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA.
* Sarah Ingraham, b. Camden, ME 24 Oct 1819 (calc from death age) or 1_ Nov 1819 (from Bible), baptized in Salem 5 Aug 1821, d. Hyde Park (then in Norfolk Co., but now in Boston), MA 19 Jun 1868 and m. 25 Dec 1848 (int Roxbury 8 Dec) Perir (or Perez) Christopher CLAPP (often called "P. C. Clapp"), b. Norton, Mass. 18 March 1822, d. West Bridgwater, Mass. 18 June 1902, the son of George Clapp and Esther Lincoln. In January 1848, before her marriage, Sarah was living in Boston when she came to visit her sister Mary (Collins) Draper. An entry in Daniel Draper's diary on 16 May 1848 reads "P C Clapp & Lady came here." An entry on 16 Aug 1848 reads "Sister Sarah Collins went away & Mr Clapp." The entry on 31 May 1849 reads "Mr Clapp and Sarah came to board with us at N Haven." Sarah appears on the 1855 census in Stoughton, Mass. with her husband and two children. In 1860 and 1865, the same family of parents and two children is living in Dorchester, Mass. In 1860 they were living next door to her brother, John B. Collins. The family soon after moved to Hyde Park, which was then in Norfolk Co., where Sarah died in 1868, and where her husband appears on the 1870 census with the two children. An entry on 26 June 1861 in the Draper diary reads "Sarah I Clapp died". This could possibly be a child of P. C. and Sarah, since the mother Sarah was living when she appeared on the 1865 Mass. census, and her death record gives the above 1868 death date. Sarah had two children, Henry B. and Carrie, and died of cancer at the age of 48. Her death record says her parents were Barnard and Hannah Collins, and that she is buried in Milton. By 1880 Clapp had moved to Kansas, and appeared on the census that year in Kinsley (Edwards County) with his son Henry. He was called a shoe maker and a widower. At some point in time Clapp returned to the East, and died in West Bridgwater, Mass. of paralysis, being buried in Brockton.
* Josiah Whitefield Martin, b. Salem 9 [July?] 1822 (Bible partly illegible), bapt 1 Sep 1822, d. 28 Aug 1825 (Bible)
* Thomas Miller, b. Charlestown, Mass. Aug 1824 (Bible), d. of hydrocephalus in Salem, MA 11 Jun 1825, aged 9 mos (VR; Bible gives same date). There is a record of a son, bapt. 12 Jun 1825. It seems unusual that they would have a son baptized the day after he died. There may have been an error in one of the dates.
* Josiah Thomas, b. Charlestown 25 Nov 1826 (Bible), d. Lowell, Mass. 15 Sep 1903, aged 76y 10m, and m. Lowell 20 March 1851 Annette D. WILLIARD, b. Montpelier, VT 20 March 1833 (b rec), living in 1903, daughter of Lorenzo and Orrissa Williard. In their marriage record, Josiah and Annette were both called of Lowell, he a cordwainer, aged 23, and she aged 18. In the 1850 census, Annette, aged 17, was living with her parents, older brother, younger sister, and a large number of other people in Lowell, Mass., her father and brother being called "operators" (in a mill?). In the same year, Josiah, aged 23, was a shoemaker living alone in Plaistow, NH. In 1865 he and Annette were living in Lowell (as in all subsequent censuses), he a shoemaker and she an operator (elevator?). In 1870 he was a trader, and she was keeping house; in 1880 he was a "huckster" and she was a dressmaker; and in 1900 he, aged 74, had no employment listed and she continued to be a dressmaker. They had had one child who was not living in 1900. Josiah died of nephritis at the Lowell City Hospital, and is buried in Plaistow, NH.
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