SEVENTH GENERATION

96. Mahlon COLLINS was born in 1758 in , Sussex, New Jersey, USA. He died 1834 (estate settled) in , Lawrence, Indiana. Disowned from Chestnut Creek Preparative Meeting May 18 1799 for
allowing fiddling and dancing in his home. Later lived in Baywood, VA.
area, where he owned several plots of land. (Source: Grayson County
history, 1993).

Southwest Virginia Tax Assessments 1815
Malon (Malin, Mahlon) Collins (Collens), one farm on Meadow Creek
joining the lands of Joseph South, 380 acres having thereon one
dwelling house and barn and one tub grist mill, valued at $600.

Estate settled 1834. Jacob NOBLETT administrator. Wm. Connelly was reimbursed for "collecting and fetching out from Virginia," and for planks, nails and paint for Mahlon's coffin. -- See Old Estate Papers, Lawrence Co. Indiana, Box 2, Folio 28. He was married to Phoebe WEBSTER on 10 Oct 1776 in of , Hunterdon, New Jersey, USA.

97. Phoebe WEBSTER was born about 1755 in Prob. N.J. or Penn.. She died 1841 (Estate settlement). Estate settled 1841. Her son Isaac applied for reimbursement for "keeping her three years and 8 months, five months of which she was confined to bed." Children were:

48 i. John COLLINS.
ii. Josiah COLLINS was born in 1778 in , Sussex, New Jersey, USA.
iii. Mary (Polly) COLLINS was born in 1781 in , Sussex, New Jersey, USA.
iv. Levina COLLINS was born in 1783 in , Sussex, New Jersey, USA.
v. Randolph COLLINS was born in 1785 in , Sussex, New Jersey, USA.
vi. Deborah COLLINS was born in 1788 in , Sussex, New Jersey, USA.
vii. Anna COLLINS was born in 1792.