Richard Collins M.D. (1725 - 1808)

Born 1 May 1725 in County Tyrone, Ireland

Husband of Sarah (Griffith) Collins — married 27 Aug 1759 in Burlington, New Jersey

Descendants

Died 17 Jun 1808 at age 83 in Galloway Township, Gloucester, New Jersey, United States

Biography

• Dr Richard Collins
• BIRTH 1 May 1725
• DEATH 17 June 1808 (aged 83)
• BURIAL :Collins Cemetery, Smithville, Atlantic County, New Jersey, USA
• MEMORIAL ID 6567938

Marriages per DAR Record

1. X X
2. SARAH GRIFFITHS (1735 PA-1801) m. 27 August 1759 Burlington, NJ. Sarah is the daughter of John Griffith 1711-1737 & Ann Jones 1711-1750.

Children

1. Ann Collins 1760-1843 m. Edward Doughty
2. Mathew Collins 1764-1851 m. Judith Smith
3. Alice Collins 1766-1833 m. Abel Scull
4. Levi Collins 1772-1813 m. Asenath Lake
5. John Collins 1773-1845

Dr. Richard Collins M.D. performed Patriotic Service in New Jersey in the American Revolution.

Richard Collins M.D. is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A024546.

'NOTE NOTE' a change in the DAR record now only shows that he paid the supply tax as at review May 2024.

Daughters of the American Revolution information:

• COLLINS, RICHARD
• Ancestor #: A024546
• Service: NEW JERSEY
• Rank(s): PRIVATE
• Birth: 5-1-1725 IRELAND
• Death: 6-17-1808 GALLOWAY TWP GLOUCESTER CO NEW JERSEY
• Service Source: STRYKER, REG OF OFFICERS & MEN OF NJ IN THE REV, P 170
• Service Description: 1) CONTINENTAL LINE
• RESIDENCE: 1) City: COLLINS MILLS - County: GLOUCESTER CO - State: NEW JERSEY
• SPOUSE (1): XX Unknown: SPOUSE (2): SARAH GRIFFITHS:
• Child daughter: ALICE COLLINS, [Spouse #] Spouse: [1] ABEL SCULL
• Child son: LEVI COLLINS, [Spouse #] Spouse: [1] ASENATH LAKE
• Child son: MATTHEW COLLINS, [Spouse #] Spouse: [1] JUDITH SMITH
• Child daughter: ANN COLLINS, [Spouse #] Spouse: [1] EDWARD DOUGHTY

[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044044469229&view=2up&seq=79&q1=%22Richard%20Collins%22 The Irish Contribution to America's Independence, by Thomas Hobbs Maginniss, Jr., Philadelphia, The Doire Publishing Company, pp. 73-74, c1913]

A large number of Irish Quakers settled in New Jersey, but a still larger number of Irish of other denominations came to that colony just before the Revolution, and the lists of New Jersey officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary War contain an abundance of Irish names. By reason of the fact that Catholic Churches were scarce and practice of the Catholic religion prohibited, many Irish Catholics or their children drifted away from the Church. The following excerpts from the biography of Richard Collins, printed in Heston's "Annals of Eyren Haven and Atlantic City," illustrate a typical case:

"In 1765, one year before the organization of the State Medical Society, Richard Collins, a native of Ireland, settled in that part of old Gloucester which afterwards became Atlantic County. Dr. Collins was the first physician resident in the county. He was a Roman Catholic, but settling among Quakers, he eventually adopted their mode of speech and dress. Speaking of his three sons by his second marriage, he once said: 'I have raised one Methodist, one Quaker, and one Universalist.' He died a Methodist in 1808."

Sources

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6567938/richard-collins
• https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/93V6-S9B/richard-collins-1725-1808