Meredith Collins

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name
Meredith Collins
aka
[Mendaby Collens, Meredy Collins, Meriday Collins, Meridith Collins, Marridah Collins]
sex
male
access
public
summary
Revolutionary militiaman who, by the family's record, enlisted at sixteen in 1776. After years on the Russell County, Virginia, tax rolls he settled on Shelby Creek in Floyd County, Kentucky, later Pike County, where he bored for salt water; in 1838 the court called him a "poor man." Probably the father, with his second wife Polly Holloway, of Jesse Collins.
born
date
c. 1760
place
Virginia
basis
compiled
confidence
probable
sources
[article-blackburn-1998-one-more-mountain-to-cross, index-dar-grs-meredith-collins, census-1810-floyd-county-meredith-collins, book-kegley-1982-early-adventurers-vol2]
note
Worked back from the family record that he enlisted at sixteen in 1776. The DAR gives "circa 1760." Of militia age by 1783; 45 or over in 1810.
died
date
1841
place
Pike County, Kentucky
basis
compiled
confidence
probable
sources
[article-blackburn-1998-one-more-mountain-to-cross, deed-damron-to-collins-1816, deed-collins-to-newsom-1827, census-1830-pike-county-meredith-collins, court-records-pike-county-meredith-collins]
note
The year is from the family record; the DAR gives "post 1841." No death or estate record found. The other sources show him living on Shelby Creek, in Pike County from 1821, through 1829-30.
residences
date
1767
place
Grayson County, Virginia
basis
compiled
confidence
probable
sources
[article-blackburn-1998-one-more-mountain-to-cross]
note
About seven when the Collins families left the Flat River for Peach Bottom and Elk Creek on the upper New River (then Botetourt County); a John Collins was on Peach Bottom by 1767.
date
1783
place
Montgomery County, Virginia
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[book-kegley-1975-militia-montgomery-county, index-dar-grs-meredith-collins]
note
On Capt. James McDaniel's Montgomery County militia list and at the court martial of 23 April 1783.
date
1799
place
Russell County, Virginia
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[tax-list-1799-russell-county-va]
note
On the Russell County tax rolls from 1799 to 1809, before the move to Floyd County, Kentucky.
date
1810
place
Floyd County, Kentucky
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[census-1810-floyd-county-meredith-collins]
note
Head of household. Indexed under Harrison County; the neighbours place it in Floyd.
date
1820
place
Floyd County, Kentucky
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[census-1820-floyd-county-collins]
note
Head of household, as "Meridith Collins".
date
1830
place
Pike County, Kentucky
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[census-1830-pike-county-meredith-collins]
note
Head of household, as "Meredy Collins".
events
what
Marched on the Cherokee
date
1776
place
Kingsport, Tennessee
note
Enlisted at sixteen by the family's record in the Cherokee campaign of 1776; the Virginia army gathered at the Long Island of the Holston (Kingsport) before marching on the Overhill towns. The column he joined is not recorded.
what
Boring for salt water
date
1819
place
Shelbiana, Kentucky
note
On 6 Aug 1819 he agreed with William Tackitt to bore for salt water on his land on Shelby Creek (Floyd County Deed Book B).
father
id
john-collins-1736
basis
inferred
confidence
possible
sources
[article-blackburn-1998-one-more-mountain-to-cross, book-kegley-1975-militia-montgomery-county]
research
research/collins-reed/Meredith_Collins_Origin_Line_Addendum.md
note
Open between two of Thomas Collins's sons, John and Samuel; the book leans to John. No document names his father. His grandfather is Thomas either way.
alternatives
id
samuel-collins-1724
claimed_by
Heinegg's grouping of the New River Collins men under Samuel; the FamilySearch tree
confidence
possible
name
Samuel Collins (b. 1734) and Cicely Hall, son of a Thomas Collins of Hampshire, England
claimed_by
FamilySearch tree
confidence
disproven
note
The Hampshire graft can't be right on dates or records.
name
Lewis Collins of the Spotsylvania Collins family (Granville will 1783; Kershaw County, South Carolina)
claimed_by
FamilySearch tree
confidence
disproven
note
A separate, English-descended planter family. His will of 1783 names his children, and no Meredith (`will-lewis-collins-1783`).
spouses
id
polly-holloway-1780
married
date
c. 1799
basis
compiled
confidence
probable
sources
[application-dar-eula-conley-1971]
basis
compiled
confidence
probable
sources
[application-dar-eula-conley-1971, article-blackburn-1998-one-more-mountain-to-cross]
note
His second wife.
id
milly-johnson-fl1829
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[court-records-pike-county-meredith-collins]
note
His companion in later life; no marriage is recorded.

Enlisted at sixteen in 1776 with George, David and Lewis Collins, by the family's record; no record gives the place. On Capt. James McDaniel's Montgomery County militia list (undated, after 1777) as "Mendaby Collens," on the line beside "Lewies Collens," with David and George; that is the page the DAR accepted for his service (Patriot A024535). At the Montgomery court martial of 23 April 1783 he is among the men of McDaniel's company who had refused a tour, "under similar orders." No pension application has been found. The War of 1812 card for a Meredith Collins in a Tennessee regiment belongs to a namesake, and the Meredith Collins born 1789 at Boones Station, Kentucky, is another man.

On the Russell County, Virginia, tax rolls 1799-1809. In Floyd County, Kentucky, by 1810, his household of ten counted white; in 1820, beside his son Bradley, his household was entered entirely in the free colored and slave columns; in 1830, in Pike County, he was counted white again. Bought 50 acres on Shelby Creek from Richard Damron in 1816; bought 30 acres there on 29 January 1818 and agreed in 1819 with William Tackitt to bore for salt water; a Kentucky act of 1825 protected the ground "where William Tackett, Jesse Hamilton, and Meredith Collins are boring for Salt Water." His land fell in Pike County when it was formed in 1821. Petitioned for a road in 1826; sold land to Harrison Newsom in 1827; held three parcels on Shelby Creek in 1831. Exempted from county tax in January 1829. In March 1829 the Pike court summoned him with Milly Johnson, and George Collins and Martin Collins with their partners, to show cause why their children should not be bound out; in June it bound out his son by Milly Johnson, about eleven. In 1838 the court called him a "poor man" and appointed Richard P. Robinson his overseer; he accused his sons of stealing his land. Named on the bronze plaque the Pikeville Chapter DAR placed at the Pike County courthouse in 1929.

His first wife, married about 1782-85, is unnamed in every record; she was the mother of Bradley (b. 1787) and probably of a daughter, the female aged 16-25 in the 1810 household. His second wife, Polly Holloway, married about 1799, was the mother of Archibald, James, Jesse, William and Hiram. Edward "Ned," John W. and Reuben are named as his sons only on the Conley list [?]. George and Martin Collins, grouped with him in the 1829 court order, may be kin. Griffin Collins Sr. (c. 1773-1851) was a brother or cousin, not a son.

Open questions

  • His father: John or Samuel? The deciding record would be a Montgomery County tithable list of the late 1770s showing a teenage Meredith in someone's household.
  • His mother: possibly a daughter of Moses Riddle born about 1740, if she married John [?].
  • His first wife's name.
  • A death, will or estate record in Pike County, c. 1841.
  • Eula Conley's DAR application (562294) and its 25 supporting documents.
  1. ---
  2. name: Meredith Collins
  3. aka: [Mendaby Collens, Meredy Collins, Meriday Collins, Meridith Collins, Marridah Collins]
  4. sex: male
  5. access: public
  6. summary: >-
  7. Revolutionary militiaman who, by the family's record, enlisted at sixteen in 1776. After years
  8. on the Russell County, Virginia, tax rolls he settled on Shelby Creek in Floyd County, Kentucky,
  9. later Pike County, where he bored for salt water; in 1838 the court called him a "poor man."
  10. Probably the father, with his second wife Polly Holloway, of Jesse Collins.
  11. born:
  12. date: c. 1760
  13. place: Virginia
  14. basis: compiled
  15. confidence: probable
  16. sources: [article-blackburn-1998-one-more-mountain-to-cross, index-dar-grs-meredith-collins, census-1810-floyd-county-meredith-collins, book-kegley-1982-early-adventurers-vol2]
  17. note: Worked back from the family record that he enlisted at sixteen in 1776. The DAR gives "circa 1760." Of militia age by 1783; 45 or over in 1810.
  18. died:
  19. date: "1841"
  20. place: Pike County, Kentucky
  21. basis: compiled
  22. confidence: probable
  23. sources: [article-blackburn-1998-one-more-mountain-to-cross, deed-damron-to-collins-1816, deed-collins-to-newsom-1827, census-1830-pike-county-meredith-collins, court-records-pike-county-meredith-collins]
  24. note: The year is from the family record; the DAR gives "post 1841." No death or estate record found. The other sources show him living on Shelby Creek, in Pike County from 1821, through 1829-30.
  25. residences:
  26. - date: "1767"
  27. place: Grayson County, Virginia
  28. basis: compiled
  29. confidence: probable
  30. sources: [article-blackburn-1998-one-more-mountain-to-cross]
  31. note: "About seven when the Collins families left the Flat River for Peach Bottom and Elk Creek on the upper New River (then Botetourt County); a John Collins was on Peach Bottom by 1767."
  32. - date: "1783"
  33. place: Montgomery County, Virginia
  34. basis: documented
  35. confidence: probable
  36. sources: [book-kegley-1975-militia-montgomery-county, index-dar-grs-meredith-collins]
  37. note: "On Capt. James McDaniel's Montgomery County militia list and at the court martial of 23 April 1783."
  38. - date: "1799"
  39. place: Russell County, Virginia
  40. basis: documented
  41. confidence: proven
  42. sources: [tax-list-1799-russell-county-va]
  43. note: "On the Russell County tax rolls from 1799 to 1809, before the move to Floyd County, Kentucky."
  44. - date: "1810"
  45. place: Floyd County, Kentucky
  46. basis: documented
  47. confidence: probable
  48. sources: [census-1810-floyd-county-meredith-collins]
  49. note: Head of household. Indexed under Harrison County; the neighbours place it in Floyd.
  50. - date: "1820"
  51. place: Floyd County, Kentucky
  52. basis: documented
  53. confidence: proven
  54. sources: [census-1820-floyd-county-collins]
  55. note: Head of household, as "Meridith Collins".
  56. - date: "1830"
  57. place: Pike County, Kentucky
  58. basis: documented
  59. confidence: proven
  60. sources: [census-1830-pike-county-meredith-collins]
  61. note: Head of household, as "Meredy Collins".
  62. events:
  63. - what: Marched on the Cherokee
  64. date: "1776"
  65. place: Kingsport, Tennessee
  66. note: "Enlisted at sixteen by the family's record in the Cherokee campaign of 1776; the Virginia army gathered at the Long Island of the Holston (Kingsport) before marching on the Overhill towns. The column he joined is not recorded."
  67. - what: Boring for salt water
  68. date: "1819"
  69. place: Shelbiana, Kentucky
  70. note: "On 6 Aug 1819 he agreed with William Tackitt to bore for salt water on his land on Shelby Creek (Floyd County Deed Book B)."
  71. father:
  72. id: john-collins-1736
  73. basis: inferred
  74. confidence: possible
  75. sources: [article-blackburn-1998-one-more-mountain-to-cross, book-kegley-1975-militia-montgomery-county]
  76. research: research/collins-reed/Meredith_Collins_Origin_Line_Addendum.md
  77. note: Open between two of Thomas Collins's sons, John and Samuel; the book leans to John. No document names his father. His grandfather is Thomas either way.
  78. alternatives:
  79. - id: samuel-collins-1724
  80. claimed_by: Heinegg's grouping of the New River Collins men under Samuel; the FamilySearch tree
  81. confidence: possible
  82. - name: Samuel Collins (b. 1734) and Cicely Hall, son of a Thomas Collins of Hampshire, England
  83. claimed_by: FamilySearch tree
  84. confidence: disproven
  85. note: The Hampshire graft can't be right on dates or records.
  86. - name: Lewis Collins of the Spotsylvania Collins family (Granville will 1783; Kershaw County, South Carolina)
  87. claimed_by: FamilySearch tree
  88. confidence: disproven
  89. note: A separate, English-descended planter family. His will of 1783 names his children, and no Meredith (`will-lewis-collins-1783`).
  90. spouses:
  91. - id: polly-holloway-1780
  92. married:
  93. date: c. 1799
  94. basis: compiled
  95. confidence: probable
  96. sources: [application-dar-eula-conley-1971]
  97. basis: compiled
  98. confidence: probable
  99. sources: [application-dar-eula-conley-1971, article-blackburn-1998-one-more-mountain-to-cross]
  100. note: His second wife.
  101. - id: milly-johnson-fl1829
  102. basis: documented
  103. confidence: probable
  104. sources: [court-records-pike-county-meredith-collins]
  105. note: His companion in later life; no marriage is recorded.
  106. ---
  108. Enlisted at sixteen in 1776 with George, David and Lewis Collins, by the family's record;
  109. no record gives the place. On Capt. James McDaniel's Montgomery County militia list
  110. (undated, after 1777) as "Mendaby Collens," on the line beside "Lewies Collens," with
  111. David and George; that is the page the DAR accepted for his service (Patriot A024535).
  112. At the Montgomery court martial of 23 April 1783 he is among the men of McDaniel's
  113. company who had refused a tour, "under similar orders." No pension application has been
  114. found. The War of 1812 card for a Meredith Collins in a Tennessee regiment belongs to a
  115. namesake, and the Meredith Collins born 1789 at Boones Station, Kentucky, is another man.
  117. On the Russell County, Virginia, tax rolls 1799-1809. In Floyd County, Kentucky, by
  118. 1810, his household of ten counted white; in 1820, beside his son Bradley, his household
  119. was entered entirely in the free colored and slave columns; in 1830, in Pike County, he
  120. was counted white again. Bought 50 acres on Shelby Creek from Richard Damron in 1816;
  121. bought 30 acres there on 29 January 1818 and agreed in 1819 with William Tackitt to bore
  122. for salt water; a Kentucky act of 1825 protected the ground "where William Tackett, Jesse
  123. Hamilton, and Meredith Collins are boring for Salt Water." His land fell in Pike County
  124. when it was formed in 1821. Petitioned for a road in 1826; sold land to Harrison Newsom
  125. in 1827; held three parcels on Shelby Creek in 1831. Exempted from county tax in January
  126. 1829. In March 1829 the Pike court summoned him with Milly Johnson, and George Collins
  127. and Martin Collins with their partners, to show cause why their children should not be
  128. bound out; in June it bound out his son by Milly Johnson, about eleven. In 1838 the court
  129. called him a "poor man" and appointed Richard P. Robinson his overseer; he accused his
  130. sons of stealing his land. Named on the bronze plaque the Pikeville Chapter DAR placed at
  131. the Pike County courthouse in 1929.
  133. His first wife, married about 1782-85, is unnamed in every record; she was the mother of
  134. Bradley (b. 1787) and probably of a daughter, the female aged 16-25 in the 1810 household.
  135. His second wife, Polly Holloway, married about 1799, was the mother of Archibald, James,
  136. Jesse, William and Hiram. Edward "Ned," John W. and Reuben are named as his sons only on
  137. the Conley list [?]. George and Martin Collins, grouped with him in the 1829 court order,
  138. may be kin. Griffin Collins Sr. (c. 1773-1851) was a brother or cousin, not a son.
  140. ## Open questions
  142. - **His father: John or Samuel?** The deciding record would be a Montgomery County
  143. tithable list of the late 1770s showing a teenage Meredith in someone's household.
  144. - His mother: possibly a daughter of Moses Riddle born about 1740, if she married
  145. John [?].
  146. - His first wife's name.
  147. - A death, will or estate record in Pike County, c. 1841.
  148. - Eula Conley's DAR application (562294) and its 25 supporting documents.
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