Cornelius Collins and Mary Speer

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Husband Cornelius Collins ¹

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           Born: 
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           Died: 1778 - Lancaster Co, PA 1
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       Marriage: 

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Wife Mary Speer ¹

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           Born: 
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         Father: [Unk] Speer (      -      )
         Mother: 

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Children

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1 M David Collins ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - Lancaster Co, PA
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           Died: Bef 1889 - York Co, PA
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         Spouse: Dorcas Neel (      -Bef 1889) 1 2

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General Notes: Husband - Cornelius Collins

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This Collins family were originally French Huguenots, drifting from France to Scotland, then to Ireland, from whence they emigrated to America in 1640, locating in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

He purchased a farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in the year 1756, located three miles from Quarryville, and there resided until his death.

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Speer

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She was a half-sister of the wife of James Buchanan.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1010.

2 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 415.