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War of 1812 - North Carolina (Various Collins')

Muster Rolls of Soldiers of the War of 1812

FIRST REGIMENT,  NINTH COMPANY,  DETACHED FROM THE WASHINGTON REGIMENT
JESSE COLLINS

SECOND REGIMENT, SIXTH COMPANY, DETACHED FROM THE WAYNE REGIMENT
GEORGE COLLINS

SECOND REGIMENT,  NINTH COMPANY, DETACHED FROM THE DUPLIN REGIMENT
DAVID COLLINS

THIRD REGIMENT, EIGHTH COMPANY, DETACHED FROM THE FRANKLIN REGIMENT
JESSE COLLINS
DAVID COLLINS

FOURTH REGIMENT, EIGHTH COMPANY,  DETACHED FROM THE ANSON REGIMENT
LEWIS COLLINS

FIFTH REGIMENT, FIRST COMPANY, DETACHED FROM THE FIRST ORANGE REGIMENT
BRADLEY COLLINS

FIFTH REGIMENT, NINTH COMPANY, DETACHED FROM THE GRANVILLE REGIMENT
WILLIAM COLLINS

SEVENTH REGIMENT, TENTH COMPANY, DETACHED FROM THE MONTGOMERY REGIMENT
ZACHARIAH COLLINS

EIGHTH REGIMENT, FIFTH COMPANY, DETACHED FROM THE ASHE REGIMENT
THOMAS COLLINS

FIRST REGIMENT, CURRITUCK COUNTY
ILES COLLINS

FIRST REGIMENT, CAMDEN COUNTY
MALACHI COLLINS
DEMPSEY COLLINS

FIRST REGIMENT, GATES COUNTY
THOMAS COLLINS

SECOND REGIMENT, CRAVEN COUNTY
JESSE COLLINS
SAMUEL COLLINS

THIRD REGIMENT, ONSLOW COUNTY
JOS. COLLINS JR

FOURTH REGIMENT, ORANGE COUNTY
BRADLEY COLLINS

FIFTH REGIMENT, STOKES COUNTY
EZEKIEL COLLINS

FIFTH REGIMENT, SURRY COUNTY, (FIRST REGIMENT?)
JOHN COLLINS

FIFTH REGIMENT, SURRY COUNTY, (SECOND REGIMENT)
JESSE COLLINS

SEVENTH REGIMENT, LINCOLN COUNTY, SECOND REGIMENT
SAMUEL COLLINS

SEVENTH REGIMENT, BURKE COUNTY, SECOND Company
JAMES COLLINS

Ancestors of Robert Leon Atkins - General Notes: Calloway Collins told the reporter Will Allen Dromgoole in the 1890 interview on Newman Ridge.  "The Collins and Gibsons were living as Indians in Virginia before they migrated to North Carolina." +  The Indian tribe was not named and has not been factually proven, but the important part, moving from Virginia to North Carolina has been proven by deeds from all these areas, beginning on the Pamunkey River in Louisa County, Virginia. Orange County, Virginia Order Book 3 record 1741-43 “Alexander Machartoon, John Bowling, Manincassa, Capt Tom, Isaac, Harry, blind tom, Foolish Jack, Charles Griffin, John Collins, Little Jack, Indians being bought before the court for stealing Hogs. , Ordered that their Guns be taken away from them till they are ready to depart of this county, they having declared their intentions to depart this colony within a week.”. On pages 309-312 of Court Record book the above named men individually put up security.4  + This party of Saponia ( Monasukapanough) Indians left that county and some of these may have been the same group that formed the settlement near Hillsborough, North Carolina in 1750. It appears from Granville and Orange County tax records that a John Collins arrived in the area about this time. John Collins lived on the Flat River for about 17 years then moved to the New River circa 1767. Land and court records reveal they settled land on Peach Bottom Creek. This area became Grayson County, Virginia in 1793. Tax records from Grayson County, Virginia reveals that Lewis and James Collins were likely sons of John Collins. “James Collins, John Bolin, and Mike Bolin Indians from Blackwater, Newman Ridge, were named by Sneedville attorney Lewis M. Jarvis in 1903, as quite full blooded who fought in the War of 1812-1814". 5 Another Indian family Moses and Mary , Ridley, Riddle are on these same Granville and Orange County, North Carolina tax lists, identified as mulattoes on the 1755 tax list in Orange County, North Carolina. Moses was closely associated with Charles Gibson, Thomas Gibson Sr & Jr, Thomas Collins and Joseph Collins. Several Collins, Bolling and others with related Melungeon names still live in this area today which is Person County, North Carolina.

http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?collins,james::nc::26587.html (deborah reynolds)

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nc/military/1835pens.txt (North Carolina USGenWeb Archives - Military - Pension Roll, 1835)

JAMES COLLINS, FRANKLIN COUNTY, PRIVATE
NORTH CAROLINA MILITIA
$30.00 ANNUAL ALLOWANCE
$90.00 AMOUNT RECEIVED
APRIL 27, 1833 PENSION STARTED
AGE 72

JAMES COLLINS, NEW HANOVER, PRIVATE
NORTH CAROLINA MILITIA
$30.00 ANNUAL ALLOWANCE
$90.00 AMOUNT RECEIVED
AUGUST 6, 1833 PENSION STARTED
AGE 77

JOHN COLLINS, JONES COUNTY, SERGEANT
NORTH CAROLINA CONT'L LINE
$96.00 ANNUAL ALLOWANCE
$986.32 AMOUNT RECEIVED
JUNE 24, 1822 PENSION STARTED
AGE 76
DIED JUNE 28, 1832

SAMUEL COLLINS, LINCOLN COUNTY, PRIVATE
MARYLAND MILITIA
$26.16 ANNUAL ALLOWANCE
$78.48 AMOUNT RECEIVED
MAY 20, 1834 PENSION STARTED

http://genealinks.com/cgi-bin/marriages.cgi

James Collins, Mary James Kirtley, 1 Mar 1763
Culpeper, VA USA  Jupep@aol.com

James Collins, Lucinda Nutt, May 1, 1834
Clermont, OH

James Collins, Lucy Burton, 26 Apr 1793
Orange, Va - dau. of Capt. M. Burton Jr.

James COLLINS, Betsey STEVENS, 23 Dec 1822
Northampton, VA USA

John Collins, Fanny Bazemore, 7 Oct 1787
Bertie, N.C.

John Collins, Amelia Church, 24 Jan 1790
Baltimore, Md
 

Virginia Library War of 1812 Roster

1 Collins, Armstrong
1 Collins, Charles S., Surgeon
1 Collins, David
1 Collins, Elisha, Sergt
2 Collins, George
6 Collins, James
3 Collins, John
1 Collins, John, En
1 Collins, John (of Geo.)
1 Collins, John (of John)

 

 

 

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