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Sybil COLLINS

Sybil COLLINS

Female 1637 - 1672  (~ 34 years)


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  • Name Sybil COLLINS  [1
    Birth Nov 1637  Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Christening 3 Apr 1638  Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    FamilySearch ID LYS5-KZS 
    Death 4 Jun 1672  Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Burial 6 Jun 1672  Ancient Burying Ground, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Find-A-Grave 22 Jan 2015  [2
    Find a Grave Memorial 141667699. 
    Person ID I594786187  Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
    Last Modified 2 Jan 2025 

    Father Edward COLLINS,   b. 25 Mar 1603, Bramford, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Apr 1689, Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years) 
    Mother Martha BAYLIE,   b. 20 Feb 1609, Framlingham, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Mar 1699, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 90 years) 
    Marriage 20 Nov 1628  Framlingham, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Family ID F536734393  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family John WHITING,   b. Oct 1635, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Sep 1689, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 53 years) 
    Marriage Jun 1654  Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Children 
     1. Sybil WHITING,   b. 1655, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1705, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 50 years)
     2. John WHITING,   b. 1657, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1688 (Age 30 years)
     3. William WHITING,   b. 19 Feb 1659, Salem, Essex, Ma Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Oct 1733, Newport, Newport County, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years)
     4. Martha WHITING,   b. Apr 1662, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Nov 1740, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 78 years)
     5. Sarah WHITING,   b. 1664, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Dec 1734, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years)
     6. Abigail WHITING,   b. Abt 1666, Branford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 May 1733, Branford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 67 years)
     7. Rev Samuel WHITING,   b. 22 Apr 1670, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Sep 1725, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 55 years)
    Family ID F536734383  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Jan 2025 

  • Notes 
    • Sybil Collins (1637-1672) was the daughter of Deacon Edward Collins and Martha Baylie Collins and married Rev John Whiting in June 1654 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Together they had the following children Sybil abt 1655, John abt 1657, William abt 1659 (our direct ancestor), Martha abt 1661, Sarah abt 1663, Abigail abt 1665, and Samuel 22 Apr 1670.
      Sybil Collins Whiting's elder brother, Samuel Collins, is buried in the Riverside Cemetery (aka MacDonough Cemeter) in Middletown, CT. The gravestone bears the following inscription:
      Here Lets The Body of Mr. Samuel Collins
      Who died the 10 January 1696
      Being in the 60th Year of his age.
      Sybil's other siblings were:
      John Collins - 1633 / 1687
      Martha Collins - 1639 Married Rev Joshua Moody
      Nathaniel Collins - 1642 / 1684 Married Mary Whiting, daughter of William Whiting of Hartford, CT
      Abigail - 1644 Married John Willitt
      First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts by Nathaniel Goodwin - Hartford / 1856, p331.
      Second Congressional Church records - Hartford
      Frank Farnsworth Starr, Vol 2, p379
      Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd by Dwight Brainerd - Montreal, Canada, 1948
      Ancestry of Charles Whiting MacNair - Boston, 1912
      Inscription - see above
      No tombstone remains. The earliest stones from the cemetery were taken and used for foundations for homes in Hartford.
      Our 7x great grandmother. from Find a Grave

  • Sources 
    1. [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 2 Jan 2025), entry for Abigail WHITING, person ID KH2D-8P6. (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 2 Jan 2025), entry for Sybil Collins, person ID LYS5-KZS. (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 2 Jan 2025), entry for Edward Collins, person ID LTB1-VV8. (Reliability: 3).