Mayflower-Thomas of Hingham, MA line
Confirmation of Mayflower Descendancy-- March 4, 2000
I am still in somewhat of a retrenching and filing mode, but thought this might be of interest and possible usefulness:
When I started family research on the early generations, I found the first indicationof a Collier - Mayflower connection in Mayflower Families through 5 Generations, Vol 2, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1978, pages 86 - 89, (later confirmed in Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume 15, Chilton, More, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1997,pagination not noted) giving the marriage of Bridget Southworth to Thomas Collier, and her connections back to James, Susanna and Mary Chilton.That information is as I have given it to you, and as it is posted in the various Outline Family Tree charts on the homepage.
At the Fitchburg Library,I recently reconfirmed the lineage in another reference, which goes one generation further:
Mayflower Index, Vols. I & II, W. A. McAuslan, as revised by Lewis E. Neff, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1960.
Page 149 -- (Individual #)# 6,925James Chilton (no reference to parents)
Page 149 -- # 6, 926 Mary Chilton, m. John Winslow Parents # 6,925
Page 832 -- # 38,768 Mary Winslow, m. Edward Gray Parents # 6,926
Page 334-- # 15,546 Desire Gray, m. Nathaniel Southworth Parents # 38,768
Page 689 -- # 32,120 Edward Southworth, m. Bridget Bosworth Parents # 15,546
Page 689 -- # 32,106 Bridget Southworth, m. Thomas Collier Parents # 32,120
Page 177-- # 8,208 Collier, Bridget, m. Aaron Pratt Parents # 32,106
Obviously, a lot of names are not included, even down to the generation of Bridget Collier (6th from Mary Chilton, or 7th from James Chilton).I have seen the names of Bridget Collier and Aaron Pratt in other lists of descendants -- in the DAR lists, I believe, as Aaron served in the Revolution, in Capt. Obadiah Beal's Cohasset company, with his brother-in-law, Bosworth Collier.Someone from their family has been active in providing the family lineage to these authenticating organizations.
With Bridget Collier being a "proven" Mayflower descendant, we can safely expand that proof to the other children of Thomas and Bridget Southworth Collier:
Jane "Coller," d. of Thomas and "Brigget," born in Hull, Mass., Nov. 27, 1734 (Hull Vital Records, page 15), although I assume she died young, as I have found no further record of her.
And all the rest of the children, born in Scituate, Mass., to be found in the Scituate VRs, pages 90 and 91:
Thomas Collier, b. April 17, 1736, m. Jemima Pope of Dorcheste(?), Mass., December 10, 1767.
Gershom Collier, b. April 30, 1738, m. Abigail Nash of Scituate, Nov. 2, 1783.
Bridget Collier, b. May 9, 1740, m. Aaron Pratt of Hingham/Cohasset, April 6, 1758.
William Collier, b. May 11, 1742, d. Dec. 22, 1790 in Hull.No record of marriage found yet.
Jane Collier, b. April 9, 1744, m. John House of Hanover, Mass., April 7, 1770. (Moved to Chesterfield, MA).
Mary Collier, b. April 2, 1746, m. Lazarus Bowker of Scituate, after Nov. 12, 1768.
Ephraim Bosworth Collier, b. June 13, 1748, m. Ann House (sister of John) of Hanover, Jan. 31, 1771.
Wade Collier
Trumbull County, Ohio and Lunenburg, Mass.