Col. Joseph Collins and Abigail "Indian Abby" Byram

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Husband Col. Joseph Collins ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 1762 - Maryland 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 3 Apr 1814 3
         Buried:  - Long Run, PA

       Marriage: 

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Wife Abigail "Indian Abby" Byram ^{1 3 4}

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           Born: 1765 or 1766 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 27 Nov 1851 - Murrysville, Westmoreland Co, PA 5
         Buried:  - Murrysville, Westmoreland Co, PA

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         Father: Edward Byram (1742-1824) 6 7
         Mother: 

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Children

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1 F Eliza Collins ³

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           Born: 1793 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 28 Mar 1883 3
         Buried: 

         Spouse: James Coe (1790-1856) 8
           Marr: 29 Oct 1812 8

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2 F Sarah Collins ³

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           Born: 1795 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: John Holmes (      -      ) 8

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3 M Joseph Collins, Jr. ³

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           Born: 1797 or 1799 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

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4 M James Collins ³

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           Born: 1797 or 1800 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: [Unk] Hindman (      -      ) 8
           Marr: 1817 8

         Spouse: Unknown (      -      )

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5 M William Swan Collins ³

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           Born: 23 Apr 1801 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 11 Jul 1842 or 1843 3
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Hannah Harvey (1804-1857) 9
           Marr: 21 Jun 1821 9

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6 F Abigail Collins ^{1 5}

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           Born: 11 Aug 1803 5
     Christened: 
           Died: 13 Jul 1886 5
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Squire William Greer (1802-1872) 10 11 12
           Marr: 11 May 1826 5

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7 F Jane Collins ³

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           Born: 10 Nov 1805 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 28 Jan 1892 3
         Buried: 

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8 F Phoebe Collins ^{3 6}

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           Born: 1807 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 1852 3
         Buried: 

         Spouse: James Donald (      -      ) 6

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General Notes: Husband - Col. Joseph Collins

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He came from the Eastern shore of Maryland, near Snow Hill where he was born, with an uncle to Washington County, Pennsylvania, and thence to Westmoreland. He was a member and Ruling Elder of the Presbyterian Church at Long Run in 1798. He served as Colonel of the Militia and is said to have established the_ first camp for Annual Drill at Clover Hill. He was an enlisted soldier in the War of 1812. Records show that "Joseph Collins was in service for six months, from May 5, 1813 to Nov. 5, 1813". The Captain of his Company was D. McCowan and the Colonel of the Regiment was Hill Rees. One of their marches was to Erie, PA.

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General Notes: Wife - Abigail "Indian Abby" Byram

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Abby Byram, when a girl of eight years, was captured with her father, by a band of Seneca Indians. This was April 7, 1779. The captives were fairly well treated by the Indians during the two years they were with them, but suffered much from cold, fatigue and hunger while in camp and on marches from place to place. One winter they were taken to Canada, and for a time they were in the power of Joseph Brant, the fiendish leader of the hostile Indians. Finally they were released and made their way back to New Jersey, the old home of the Byrams. Abby married Joseph Collins and they lived on the farm where she had been taken captive. After her husband's death and when her children had left home, she lived with her son William, and after his death with her son-in-law, Squire Greer, who had married her daughter Abigail. There she died, within a half mile of the place where she was captured, aged eighty-six years.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 361.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1187, 1354.

3 Eunice Byram Roberts, Byram-Crawford and Allied Familes Genealogy (Publisher Unknown), Pg 83.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1187, 1354.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1354.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1187.

7 Eunice Byram Roberts, Byram-Crawford and Allied Familes Genealogy (Publisher Unknown), Pg 43.

8 Eunice Byram Roberts, Byram-Crawford and Allied Familes Genealogy (Publisher Unknown), Pg 84.

9 Eunice Byram Roberts, Byram-Crawford and Allied Familes Genealogy (Publisher Unknown), Pg 85.

10 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 360.

11 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 95.

12 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1353.