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Brice Collins

Brice Collins[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18]

Male 1755 - 1817  (62 years)


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  • Name Brice Collins  [1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18] 
    Birth 1755  Lack Township, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 9] 
    Gender Male 
    Death 27 Dec 1817  Colerain Township, Belmont, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 9] 
    Burial 1818  Saint Clairsville Union Cemetery, Saint Clairsville, Belmont, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 9] 
    Person ID I312684222801  Oswald Genealogy
    Last Modified 15 Jun 2025 

    Father John Collins,   b. 11 Sep 1720, Juniata, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef. 06 Apr 1790, Lack Township, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years) 
    Relationship unknown 
    Mother Catherine Elizabeth Venables,   b. 1718, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Nov 1811, Lack Township, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 93 years) 
    Relationship unknown 
    Family ID F2250  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Anne Devillier,   b. 1756, Lack Township, Juniata, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Jun 1828, Belmont, Belmont, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years) 
    Marriage Abt. 1770  Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Ann Collins,   b. Abt. 1773, Lack Township, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 02 Jan 1811, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 38 years)
     2. Martha Ann Collins,   b. 1781, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1789, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 8 years)  [Father: unknown]
     3. Charles Collins,   b. 1783, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1839 (Age 56 years)
     4. David Collins,   b. 1787, Lack Twp, Juniata, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Aug 1849, Jefferson Township, Logan, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years)
    Family ID F2191  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 15 Jun 2025 

    Family 2 Martha,   b. Bef. 1765   d. 28 May 1828, Belmont, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years) 
    Children 
     1. John Collins,   b. 19 Nov 1781, Lack Township, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Aug 1849, Jefferson Township, Logan, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years)  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
     2. William Collins,   b. 1783, Lack Township, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bet. 21 Sep 1808–12 Dec 1817 (Age 34 years)  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
     3. Daniel Collins,   b. 1785, Lack Township, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 May 1862, Tuscarora Township, Juniata, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years)  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
     4. Ann Collins,   b. 1789, Lack Township, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
     5. Catharine Collins,   b. 1792, Lack Township, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Nov 1847, Franklin Township, Des Moines, Iowa, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 55 years)  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
     6. Sarah Collins,   b. 15 Aug 1794, Lack Township, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Oct 1851 (Age 57 years)  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
     7. Mary Collins,   b. 15 Sep 1797, Lack Township, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Sep 1834, Wheeling Township, Belmont, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 37 years)  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
    Family ID F2207  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 15 Jun 2025 

  • Notes 
    • Regarding "Possibility"
      Martha COLLINS died in 1828 in Belmont County. I'm assuming your date was a result of errant fingers? And I'm beginning to believe that we're going to have to wait until we can get information directly from the sources themselves before this quandary will be resolved. At least, there's that hope!

      Original temple work done in Nauvoo Temple (historic)
      When I first discovered that Brice COLLINS was my 4ggfather, I looked him up in the records at the time. Those indicated that he had been baptized in 1843 and endowed (both by proxy) on 24 January 1846. Kind of sad that those original dates have now been overwritten by more recent ordinances performed in his behalf. Maybe it was required?

      Possibility
      Although there are no sources for Martha Ann, she died in about 1889l. Ann was born about a year later. Is it possible that Martha/ Martha Ann was the only wife. When Martha Ann died, they named next daughter Ann.

      It seems like most if not all the children, were all the children of Brice and Martha/ Martha Ann. Just raising this as a possibility.

      1789/90 Father dies. Wills of Mifflin C
      1789/90 Father dies. Wills of Mifflin Co Pennsylvania (1789-1860) Vol 1, Will Book 1 #7. John Collins of Lack Twp, Cumberland Co, w.9/5/89 p 4/6/90. Wife Catherine, son Brice, daughter Margaret, wife of John McCeever, grandaughter Ann Collins, grandchildren John McCeever, Catherine McCeever. Exec. wife Catherine and son Brice. (530 B) 1790 Census Mifflin Co Pa p 151 1 m over 16 as head of house, 2 m under 16 and 4 females in house. Living next to Henry, Benjamin, Thomas and Sophia widow of ??? (530) 1800 Census Mifflin Co Pa p 470 1 m over 45 (b bef 1755); 3 m 10-16; 4 f under 10, 1 f 16-26 (could be daughter or young bride) (530) 1810 Census Lack Twp, Mifflin Co Pa p 49 1 m over 45; 1 m age 26-45; 2f 10-16; 2 f 16-26; 2 f over 45 (must have remarried and may have mother or other relative living with him.) (530) Only other Collins in Mifflin Co is Thomas on p 45 age over 45. 1815 Mother dies. Wills of Mifflin Co, Pa. 1789-1860 p 24 # 272. Catherine Collins of Lack Twp. Mifflin Co, Pennsylvania w. 9/21/1808 p 4/17/1815. son Brice, daughter Margaret McKever, grandsons, John, William, Daniel Collins, granddaughters, Sarah, Mary, Catherine Collins. Exec. grandson Daniel Collins. (530 B) 1818 Belmont Co, Ohio Brice deceased, land dispute in estate. Executor Samuel Coleman (husband of daughter, Sarah Collins Coleman) and David Scott. Belmont Co Ohio Before 1830 977.193 D2f (530 A) 1820 Census No Collins in Mifflin Co, Pennsylvania (530) 1842 Logan Co, Ohio Marriage Records Vol 1 p 212 Brice Collins md Hannah Pridemore on May 23, 1842. (530A) (grandson of this Brice?)


      Private PA Militia Revolutionary War Brice Collins

      !WILL (abstract): Vol. B, Belmont County
      !WILL (abstract): Vol. B, Belmont County, Ohio, p. 5--WIT: Samuel CONNELL and John COLEMAN, Junr.; extrs. David SCOTT and Samuel COLEMAN; appraisers: Richard JONES, John BAKER, Abraham (later Andrew) HENDERSON; signed 21 Mar 1818, Ezer ELLIS, Clerk, p.t. LW&T: Wife Martha; dau Ann HUNTER; son John COLLINS; gch of John William, Martha, and Brice COLLINS; son Daniel, gson of Daniel, Samuel Brice COLLINS; gson Brice COLLINS (no parent mentioned, and then under 21 and living with gparents); dau Sarah STARKEY; gdau Martha STARKEY; dau Catharine SCOTT; gson of Catharine, William SCOTT; dau Mary COLEMAN (presumably wife of Samuel); signed 12 Dec 1817, ack. 23 Mar 1818.

      LW&T (Verbatim copy follows): Will Book B, Belmont County, Ohio, p. 5 Letters Testamentary upon the Estate of Brice Collins deceased At a Court of Common Pleas begun and held at St. Clairsville in and for the County of Belmont, on the tenth day of March A.D. 1818, Before the Honorable Benjamin Tappan Esquire President and Edward Bryson, Joseph Anderson & John Wiley associate Judges of said Court The last Will and Testament of Brice Collins late of said County deceased, was produced into Court, by the Executors therein named & proved & established by the oaths of Samuel Connell & John Coleman Junior the subscribing Witnesses thereto, & ordered to be recorded. And the Court order that Letters Testamentary do issue to David Scott & Samuel Coleman, the Executors in the said last Will & Testament therein named-- And the Court do appoint Richard Jones, John Baker & Abraham Henderson appraisers to appraise the personal Estate of the said deceased. The State of Ohio-- Belmont County, SS I Ezer Ellis Clerk pro tempore, of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Belmont, to David Scott and Samuel Coleman the Executors named in the last Will and Testament of Brice Collins late of said County deceased & hereunto annexed. Whereas the said Brice Collins died leaving a last Will and Testament, wherein you the said David Scott & Sa muel Coleman are named Executors thereof, & the said last Will & Testament being duly proved & approved by the Court-- I Ezer Ellis Clerk as aforesaid do by these presents & by order of said Court commit unto you full power & authority over all and singular the Goods & Chattles Rights & Credits Monies & Effects of the said deceased, will & faithfully to dispose of the same according to the said last Will & Testament, -- As also to ask, gather, receive, & Recover every Debt & Credit whatsoever of thesaid deceased, which to him whilst he lived & at the time of his decease, did appertain-- And also to pay & discharge all & singular the Debts, dues & demands, which the said deceased at the time of his death (including his funeral expenses) stand bound to pay according to the Laws of this State-- So far as his Goods & Chattles, Rights & Credits, Monies & effects come to your hands will extend-- And for that purpose you are to call on each creditor of the deceased, by public advertisement, to exhibit to you their several lawful claims within one year from this date,-- You are also to make out a true & perfect Inventory of all & singular the Goods & Chattles, Rights & Credits, Monies & effects of the said deceased, & have the same appraised Richard Jones, John Baker & Andrew Henderson appraises appointed by the Court of Common Pleas, & exhibit the same into our said Court, at the next Term-- And you are also to return a true & perfect account of your Administration upon oath or affirmation within one year from this date-- In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at St. Clairsville the 23rd day of March Anno Domini 1818-- Ezer Ellis Clerk pro tempore Bt. Co. ____________________________________________________________________________ The last Will and Testament of Brice Collins deceased-- ___________________________________________________________________________ In the name of God Amen-- I Brice Collins of Colerain Township Belmont County and State of Ohio, being very weak in body, but of sound mind and memory, thanks be to God for the same, and calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, Do make this my last Will and Testament,-- And as to [touching] such worldly Estate wherewith it had pleased God to bless me in this life, I give, devise, & dispose of the same in the following manner, viz: First of all, I give and recommend my soul unto God who gave it, and my body to the Earth, to be buried in a Christian like manner, at the discretion of my Executors herein after named-- It is my will and I do order, that all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid out of my personal property-- then I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife, Martha, all the profits of my personal Estate, to be disposed of, at her death, as she thinks proper- providing she marries, she is to leave the property as she got it-- She is to have the profits arising from the real Estate, together with the Mansion house during her life, or widowhood, and at her decease, the Land is to be sold by my Executors hereafter named-- with a reserve of five acres of land out of the real property, and a cow out of the personal property-- Item, I give and bequeath unto my beloved daughter Ann Hunter the sum of one Dollar-- Item I give and bequeath unto my beloved Son John Collins the above cow reserved and five acres of land Beginning at a Corner on Barrs Run, and extending West, twenty poles on Richard Travis's line, and from the before mentioned corner, down said run untill the said complement of acres be made up, Also one hundred Dollars together with the Interest to be paid out of a Judgment, that stands against my son Daniel Collins on Esqr. Andersons Docket, and the said Executors is to make the said John Collins a good and sufficient Deed to him and his heirs for ever for the above mentioned five acres of Land-- The said John Collins is to have all my wearing apparel, immediately after my decease, and have possession of his land, as soon as he comes to it-- Item I give and bequeath to my three Grand Children of John Collins, vis. William Collins, Martha Collins and Brice Collins, fifty dollars each, to be paid after the decease of my beloved wife, -- Item, I give and bequeath to my beloved son Daniel Collins the Ballance of a Judgment against himself on Esqr. Andersons Docket, he paying Costs of said Judgment-- Item, I give and bequeath to my beloved Grand Son, Samuel Brice Colliins, son of Daniel Collins, Fifty dollars to be paid after the decease of my beloved wife,-- Item, I give and bequeath unto my beloved Grand son, Brice Collins now living with me, the sum of one hundred Dollars, and to be taught to read and write, also Arithmetick, as far as the five common Rules, if capable of being taught, provided he lives with his Grand Mother Martha Collins during her life, or the age of twenty one years-- Item, I give and bequeath to my beloved daughter Sarah Starkey, Sixty dollars worth of clothing suitable for herself to wear-- Item, I give and bequeath to my beloved Grand Daughter Martha Starkey, fifty dollars providing she lives to be the age of Eighteen years-- Item, I give and bequeath to my beloved daughter Catharine Scott, four hundred Dollars, and to her son William Scott, fifty dollars,-- Item I give and bequeath to my beloved daughter Mary Coleman, four hundred dollars and to her son Brice Collins Coleman, fifty dollars-- Item, it is my will, that within one year after the death or marriage of my beloved wife Martha Collins my real Estate shall be sold at public sale, and all the foregoing bequeathments except those granted to John Collins, be paid out of the same, and if there shall be any overplus, it is my will that it be divided in the following manner, that is, John Collins to receive the two parts, and the third to be equally divided between Catharine Scott and Mary Coleman-- And lastly of all, I do appoint David Scott and Samuel Coleman to be the Executors of my last Will and Testament, and I do hereby utterly revoke, disannull & dissolve all other former Wills, Testaments, Legacies and bequeathments, and confirm this and none other to be my last Will and Testament-- In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seall, this twelfth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventeen-- Brice Collins [Seal] Signed, Sealed, Published and declared by the above named Brice Collins to be his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who have hereunto subscribed our Names as Witnesses in the presence of the Testator Samuel Connell John Coleman Junior The State of Ohio-- Belmont County, SS I Ezer Ellis Clerk pro tempore of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Belmont, Do hereby certify, that the above is a true copy of the original last Will and Testament of Brice Collins late deceased, as proved and approved by the said Court, at March Term 1818 remaining of Record in my office. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at St. Clairsville the 23d day of March Anno Domini 1818 Ezer Ellis Clerk pro tempore Bt. Co.

      !In will left land to son, son suited ad
      !In will left land to son, son suited admin Samuel Coleman & David Scott of land trade. Land was at Barnes Run creek and intersection of Wheeling creeking in Colerain Twp, Belmont Co, OH. Will written on 12 Dec 1817 and probated on 10 March 1818 ...WILL...I BRICE COLLINS of Colerain twp, Belmont, Ohio...to wife MARTHA all profits of my personal estate except... to dau ANN HUNTER $1.00... to son JOHN COLLINS a cow and 5 acres...to 3 children of son JOHN... WILLIAM COLLINS, MARTHA COLLINS & BRICE COLLINS $50.00 each...to son DANIEL COLLINS the bal. of judgement against him. to DANIEL's son SAMUEL BRICE COLLINS $50.00 ...to my grandson BRICE COLLINS who is living with me $100.00...to dau SARAH STARKEY $60.00 worth of clothing...to G-dau MARTHA STARKEY $50.00...to dau CATHERINE SCOTT $400.00...to her son WILLIAM SCOTT $50.00..to dau MARY COLEMAN ...$400.00 and to her son BRICE COLLINS COLEMAN $50.00...after death of wife 2/3rd to son JOHN COLLINS 1/6th to dau CATHERINE SCOTT 1/6th to MARY COLEMAN... and DAVID SCOTT and SAMUEL COLEMAN to be exectors witness of signing of will were Samuel McConnell and John Coleman Jr.

      !In will left land to son, son suited ad
      !In will left land to son, son suited admin Samuel Coleman & David Scott of land trade. Land was at Barnes Run creek and intersection of Wheeling creeking in Colerain Twp, Belmont Co, OH. Will written on 12 Dec 1817 and probated on 10 March 1818

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