Nathaniel Collins (1664) / Mary (Whiting) Collins

Name: Nathaniel Collins (Rev.)

Birth: March 7, 1641/2, Cambridge, Mass. (NEHGSR)

Emigration: To Middletown 1664. (HMC)

Death: December 28, 1684, Middletown, Conn. (BCVR)

Occupation & Public Service: Minister, First Church of Christ, Middletown, Conn. (NEHGSR)

Marriage: m. Mary Whiting, August 3, 1664, Hartford, Conn. (b. abt. 1643, Hartford, Conn.; d. October 25, 1709, Middletown, Conn.) She was the daughter of William and Susannah Whiting of Hartford, Conn. (SAV)

Children: 8 children between 1666-1683. (BCVR)(NEHGSR) (See in-depth profile in Member Area for details.)

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The First Meeting House, Middletown, Conn. The engraving below by W.C. Butler was a fanciful illustration for David Field's Centennial Address published in 1853. In 1939 the image was used on the title page of The Log Cabin Myth by Harold R. Shurtleff. Surrounding the engraving are signatures of some of the first settlers as found on wills and deeds by Charles C. Adams in preparation of Middletown Upper Houses (1908).