Did William Collins Sr. die in the massacre of Anne Hutchinson?

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Anne Hutchinson and her daughter Anne (Hutchinson) Collins died in the Mohegan Indian raid of their home.  William Collins Sr. appears to have died the same month/year, but a text claims the one-year-old baby, William Collins Jr. survived because he was with his father during the massacre.
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in Genealogy Help by Steve Colwell G2G Rookie (270 points)
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https://www.nps.gov/sapa/planyourvisit/anne-hutchinson-in-massachusetts-bay.htm

Anne Marbury- Mrrg - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V526-KN1

https://historyofmassachusetts.org/anne-hutchinson/

https://www.biography.com/people/anne-hutchinson-9348085

https://www.redwoodlibrary.org/blog/lwhite/2016/09/15/arrival-anne-hutchinson

This next link to Historical Society in the area may have more info on Ann and the Children who died.  I would suggest shooting them an email. http://bronxhistoricalsociety.org/about/bronx-history/

I went thru Family Search and found only sameole same old on Findagrave that basically is spewing what is findable on most blogs, etc.  so its of no use, except that all the kids on it may help u to find the deaths on Family search thru each of their names.

Also locate the state Archives for state of New York. Articles say the deaths took place in New Amersterdam, so may have some luck if you search directly within the NY state Archives.
by Arora Anonymous G2G6 Pilot (167k points)
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There are detailed accounts of the massacre, but that's the problem.  Somebody made up what they couldn't possibly know.  Then other people (including Wikipedia sadly) reproduce their fiction as if it were known fact.

The hard part is to know where the known facts end and the making-up begins.

They were living under Dutch jurisdiction and presumably not attending any church.  We don't know the date of the massacre and we don't know the location.

Nobody is citing any primary sources, so it's not clear how we know Anne jr married a William Collins.  It's unlikely there'd be any record of the birth of a baby.

If there's a record of a William Collins having a son William in Connecticut, it's unlikely there'd be anything to say it was the same William Collins who married Anne Hutchinson.

It does look an awful lot like a story made up to supply a royal ancestry for the descendants of William Collins of Connecticut.

Wikipedia cites Anderson for the version that says Anne jr's husband was killed.  Add the pgm tag to the thread.
by Living Horace G2G6 Pilot (641k points)

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