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1898 - Address delivered by Dr. S. C. Beane at the Collins family gathering (excerpts)
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When in 1638 - ten years after the Puritans landed in Salem, this new settlement on the north of the Merrimac river was made, known first as Colchester, then as Salisbury - the latter name being for the English town from which its first minister and other settlers came -
Twenty-two years after the first settlement [was] about the time our ancestor Benjamin Collins must have come from Old England to Salisbury in New England -
I regret to say that thus far no one has been able to ascertain the parentage and ancestry of Benjamin Collins. It is well settled, however, that he was an Englishman, and as some believe, from Yorkshire. There is a beautiful tradition, unverified, but worthy to at least to the mythic poetry of the family, that our Benjamin Collins was a shepherd boy, and while tending sheep, luckily found beneath a pasture stone a sum of money, which no owner appearing, he used for defraying his expenses to New England. The name Collins in England has for some centuries been an honorable one.
The English Collinses who came to Amercia about the time of Benjamin, settling at Salem, Lynn, Cambridge, Cape Ann, Cape Cod, and Connecticut, were all families of mark. The name in England, is varied in orthography, being sometimes Collines, sometimes Collings and sometimes Collenes, while Collinwood is supposed to be the same name with a local suffix. The surname borne by our first ancestor of Salisbury must of itself have been a passport to this choice of settlement of English families on the Merrimac River.
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