PART FIFTY-TWO

The England to Baltimore Line

Updated November 2011

This family line provides the details for two families that eventually ended up in the United States of America, and in particular, the states of Maryland and Ohio. The first of these is the line of Stephen Collett who now lives in Norway and who attended the Collett Reunion in Oslo in 2009, and the second is the line of Margaret Drody Thompson of Pinopolis in South Carolina who coincidentally made contact almost immediately after the reunion in Oslo.

Stephen’s line is depicted by the names in capital letters, while Margaret’s line is included in Appendix One since it has not yet been positively linked to this early London family.

What is of particular interest in this branch of the Collett family is that the coat of arms of Peter Collett (Ref. 52E10) of Chelsfield in Kent and Thomas Collett of (Ref. 52H2) is the same coat of arms that was granted to Sir Henry Colet (1435-1505) who was the Lord Mayor of London in 1486 and again in 1495 who features in Part 18 – The Suffolk Line (Ref. 18C5). It would therefore be logical that this line has its origins within Part 18 although, to date, the link to that family has not yet been found.

52C1	Very little is known about the COLLETT who starts this family line, even down to his christian name. It would appear that he lived in the Southwark district of London where he probably raised his family.
	During his life he was credited with the reform of The Poor Clares, the nuns of the sisterhood of the Order of St Clare which was founded by Saint Clare and Saint Francis of Assisi on Palm Sunday in the year 1212. (The sisterhood is still in existence today in over seventy-six countries across the world.)
	It was while he was at Southwark that he died, following which he was buried in the churchyard of All Hallows Church in Barking.
	It is understood that he was married to Miss Bulley around 1480 and that the marriage produced at least five children for the couple, these being Humphrey, Thomas, Roger and two daughters. However, the order of the birth of the children has not yet been determined.
	Sadly at this time, it is only the son Humphrey of whom anything further is known. Depending on whether Humphrey was the oldest child or the youngest child, it is likely that his unnamed father was born around 1460.
	52D1	HUMPHREY COLLETT	Date of birth unknown; circa 1490
	52D2	Thomas Collett	Date of birth unknown
	52D3	Roger Collett	Date of birth unknown
	52D4	John Collett	Date of birth unknown
	52D5	a Collett daughter	Date of birth unknown
	52D6	a Collett daughter	Date of birth unknown
52D1	HUMPHREY COLLETT was very likely born in the Southwark district of London and around 1490. He was later referred to as ‘of Southwark, and Banstead in Surrey’ and it is known that he married Joan Hut around 1512-1514, while his son Thomas was believed to have been born during the following year.
	He was a Member of Parliament for Southwark and a citizen and a bowyer of London, a maker of bows. The records show he served for two terms, the first from 1511 to 1512, and the second around 1553 which was just a few years before he died.
	The age difference between his eldest son Thomas and his youngest child is forty years which probably indicates that Humphrey was married twice with the first and possibly second son coming from the first marriage, and the remainder of his children coming from a second marriage in the early 1530s. The actual order of the birth of the four middle children is not known.
	Humphrey died in 1558 and his Will was proved at Canterbury on 4^th October 1558. His wife Joan survived him by around twenty years and her Will was also proved at Canterbury in 1579. During his life Humphrey owned property and two well-known taverns in the White Hart Court and Gracious Street district of Southwark. The two taverns were The George Inn and The White Hart Inn.
	White Hart Court and Gracious Street (formerly Grace’s Street) backed onto one another. It is also worth noting here, that Anne Carter (formerly Mrs Collett) who died in 1647 mentioned The Barrel & Oyster Inn on Gracious Street in her Will. This was passed to her daughter Hannah Lanier nee Collett and, although seventy years later, it is possible that the two families were connected. See Appendix One.
	From a reference made in the 1589 publication by Stow, ‘The George Inn in Southwark was owned by Humfrey Collett, the Member of Parliament for Southwark in 1553’, up until settlement of his estate in 1558. Prior to 1554 the coaching inn was known as St George and the sign outside showed the saint sitting on his horse, having slain the dragon, dates back to medieval times.
	Of the two taverns owned by Humphrey Collett during the reign of King Edward VI, it was The George Inn that was passed to his eldest son Thomas Collett at the time of his death, together with the family mansion and other property on the east side of the High Street in Southwark.
	The George Inn at this time had a sitting tenant by the name of Nicholas Marten, who was the current hosteller who continued to run the establishment for many years thereafter.
	In the Will of Humphrey Collett, he specifically requested that he be buried in the new churchyard at St Saviours Church alongside the body of his uncle Thomas Bulley, the brother of his mother.
	52E1	THOMAS COLLETT	Born circa 1515
	52E2	Robert Collett	Possible date of birth around 1518
	52E3	Humphrey Collett	Born in 1535
	52E4	John Collett	Date of birth likely to be in 1535 - 1548
	52E5	Stephen Collett	Date of birth likely to be in 1535 - 1548
	52E6	Margery Collett	Date of birth likely to be in 1535 - 1548
	52E7	Nicholas Collett	Date of birth likely to be in 1535 - 1548
	52E8	Agnes Collett	Born circa 1548
	52E9	Joan Collett	Born circa 1551
	52E10	Peter Collett	Born circa 1553
	52E11	Mercy Collett	Born circa 1555
52D4	John Collett, whose date of birth in not known, was the brother of Humphrey Collett, the Member of Parliament for Southwark. The only other known fact about him is that he married Susan.
52E1	THOMAS COLLETT was the son of Humphrey Collett and Joan Hut. He married Agnes Heath the daughter of John and Helen Heath of London and Kings Lynn. Agnes was born at Limpsfield in Surrey around 1515, which may also be around the time when Thomas was born.
	Thomas Collett was a citizen and merchant tailor of London and Kings Lynn and he died around 1570, his Will being proved at Canterbury in 1571.
	52F1	Thomas Collett	Date of birth unknown
	52F2	JOHN COLLETT	Date of birth unknown; circa 1540 (?)
	52F3	Joan Collett	Date of birth unknown
	52F4	Jane Collett	Date of birth unknown
	52F5	Mercy Collett	Date of birth unknown
52E2	Robert Collett was the son of Humphrey Collett and Joan Hut and he was married to Rhoda Cox. Robert was a citizen and a bowyer of London and Bourn in Cambridgeshire.
	Robert Collett died before the end of the sixteenth century and his estate was administered by his widow with effect from February 1599. Rhoda only survived her husband by a few short years as her own Will was proved at Canterbury in 1604.
52E3	Humphrey Collett was born in London in 1535 and was the son of Humphrey Collett and Joan Hut. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts at Oxford University and was a bowyer of Southwark. He was married and his daughter was born in 1558. The child was only a few years old when Humphrey Collett died and his Will was proved at Canterbury in 1566.
52E4	John Collett was the son of Humphrey Collett and Joan Hut. He married Hester and the marriage produced two children for the couple. He was a merchant tailor in London and had a connection with the church of St James Garlickhythe on Garlick Hill in the City of London.
	It would appear that he died during the first few years of the seventeenth century and his Will was proved at Canterbury in 1607. The records show that he was Sir John Collett, a merchant of London.
	52F6	John Collett	Date of birth unknown
	52F7	Agnes Collett	Date of birth unknown
	52F8	Anthony Collett	Date of birth unknown
52E5	Stephen Collett was another son of Humphrey Collett and Joan Hut. He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree at Oxford and was a fishmonger of London and a merchant adventurer. His marriage to Joan apparently produced one known children for the couple who died in 1626.
	It was also in 1626 that the Will of Stephen Collett was proved at Canterbury. His widow Joan survived him by around five years and her Will was proved at Canterbury in 1631.
	52F9	a Collett child	Date of birth unknown; died in 1626
52E6	Margery Collett was another daughter of Humphrey Collett and Joan Hut, and she married John Piggeon with whom she had issue.
52E7	Nicholas Collett the son of Humphrey Collett and Joan Hut and he attended Oxford University where he obtained a Master of Arts degree and was later a barrister of the Inner Temple of Great Hadham in Hertfordshire which today is known as Much Hadham and is to the west of Bishop’s Stortford.
	Nicholas married Elizabeth and their marriage produced six known children. Nicholas died around the early 1620s and his Will was proved at Canterbury in 1623.
	52F10	Nicholas Collett	Date of birth unknown
	52F11	Thomas Collett	Date of birth unknown
	52F12	John Collett	Date of birth unknown
	52F13	Peter Collett	Date of birth unknown
	52F14	Mary Collett	Date of birth unknown
	52F15	Petronella Collett	Date of birth unknown
52E8	Agnes Collett was possibly the eldest daughter of Humphrey Collett and Joan Hut, and she married Mr Curtis (Curtys). It seems very likely that she was the Agnes Collett who was baptised at St Michael’s Church in Cornhill in the City of London on 07.08.1548, where her sister Joan was also baptised three years later.
	Cornhill is also not far from Garlick Hill where there was a connection to her older brother John Collett (above).
52E9	Joan Collett was the eldest daughter of Humphrey Collett and Joan Hut, and she was baptised at St Michael’s Church in Cornhill in the City of London on 25.12.1551. She later married William Slyvewright (Slywright) by whom she had issue.
52E10	Peter Collett was very likely the youngest son of Humphrey Collett and Joan Hut since it would appear that he was baptised in London in 1553. It was around 1584 when he was in his mid-twenties that he married Joan Nethercliffe with whom he had two daughters.
	Peter was a citizen, a merchant, and an alderman of London, and was later of Chelsfield in Kent. He died in 1607 and his Will was proved at Canterbury in 1608. At some time in his life he had a connection with the village of Sellindge which lies in Kent midway between Ashford and Folkestone.
	As stated at the start of this family line, Peter Collett of Chelsfield used the same coat of arms as that granted to Sir Henry Colet of Wendover and London (Ref. 18C5). It was also used by the eldest son of John Collett (1578-1659) of Little Gidding (below) and can be found on a brass plate within St John’s Church at Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire.
	52F16	Hester Collett	Born after 1585
	52F17	Sarah Collett	Born after 1585
52E11	Mercy Collett was the daughter of Humphrey Collett and Joan Hut and she married (1) Francis Bodley who was citizen of London and a fishmonger of St Botolphs Billingsgate and Streatham in Surrey. Francis was born at Streatham in 1555, the son of William Bodley and Beatrix (Beatrice) Sadler.
	The only known son of Mercy Collett and Francis Bodley became Sir John Bodley of Streatham. He was married to Jane Evelin, the daughter of Thomas Evelin of Thames Ditton in Surrey, and died around 1623.
	Following the premature death of her first husband, Mercy married (2) Thomas Friend with whom she had a further three children. These were Judith who was born in 1599, Mercy who married Mr Frobisher, and Anne.
	The date of Judith’s birth may be an indicator that Mercy was born between 1550 and 1560, making her a younger sister of Humphrey Collett (above) who was born in London in 1535, and this would coincide with the date of birth of her first husband
52F2	JOHN COLLETT was very likely born at Southwark and around 1540, the son of Thomas Collett and Agnes Heath. As with his father, very little is so far known about him except that he was married to Susan Cheney and together they had a son who was also named John and who was born at Little Gidding.
	52G1	JOHN COLLETT	Born in 1578
52F3	Joan Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was the daughter of Thomas Collett and Agnes Heath, and she married Christopher Haward.
52F5	Mercy Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was the daughter of Thomas Collett and Agnes Heath, and she married Mr Patterson.
52F6	John Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was the son of John Collett and he married Mary Hamer. John was a citizen and a salter of London and his wife died without issue and her Will was proved at Canterbury in 1615.
	John Collett died around twenty years later and his Will was proved at Canterbury in 1636. As with his father.
52F7	Agnes Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was the daughter of John Collett and she married Peter Cole.
52F8	Anthony Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was the son of Sir John Collett, merchant of London and his wife Hester. The only information so far discovered regarding Anthony, is that he married Hester, was known as Sir Anthony Collett of London, and that he and his wife both died in 1637.
52F12	John Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was the son of John and Elizabeth Collett is known to have married Ann.
52F14	Mary Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Collett and she died around 1617 when her Will was proved at Canterbury in 1617.
52F16	Hester Collett was born after her parents Peter Collett and Joan Nethercliffe were married in 1584. Hester married Sir Anthony Aucher of Bishopsbourne (just south of Canterbury) in Kent, who held the office of Sheriff of Kent.
	Their marriage produced two children for Hester and Anthony; a son Anthony Aucher who was born in 1614, and a daughter Collett Aucher who was born on 17.10.1618.
	Sadly four years after, both Hester and Sir Anthony had died in 1637 their son Anthony was knighted at Whitehall on 4^th July 1641. He was a politician and a cavalier in the English Civil War.
	Two years after receiving his knighthood he was imprisoned in Winchester House for nine months following his involvement in the anti-parliamentarian Petition of Kent. In 1660 and 1661 he was the Member of Parliament for Canterbury, and on 4^th July 1664 he was made Baronet of Bishopsbourne.
	Anthony Aucher (the younger) was married twice, the first time in 1635 to Elizabeth Hatton, the daughter of Sir Robert Hatton, who died in 1648, and the second time to Elizabeth Hewytt, the daughter of Robert Hewytt, whom he wed on 13.10.1681 at St Bride’s Church in Fleet Street in London.
	By his first wife he had six sons and one daughter who all died during his life, and a further two sons and two daughters by his second wife. Sir Anthony Aucher, First Baronet, died on 31.05.1692 and was buried at Bishopsbourne in Kent. His widow Elizabeth then married Thomas Hart.
	He was succeeded by his eldest surviving son Anthony Aucher (the third) who took over the baronetcy to become the Second Baronet. He was born in 1685 and was baptised in march 1694. It was his younger brother, who was born in 1687, who later became Sir Hewett Aucher the Third Baronet.
52F17	Sarah Collett was born after her parents Peter Collett and Joan Nethercliffe were married in 1584. She later married Sir Peter Heyman who was a Member of Parliament in 1625.
	On 5^th July 1639 Sir Peter Heyman of Canterbury transferred property to his brother Robert Heyman of London under the terms of a ten year lease. The property is question was referred to as West Hall, alias Stonehouse, and lands in West Thurrock. Interestingly at that time, Peter’s wife was named as Mary Heyman, which may indicate that she was his second wife, Sarah having already died by then.
52G1	JOHN COLLETT was born in 1578 in the village of Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire, just inside the county boundary from Northamptonshire. The book published in 1929 and entitled ‘Genealogy of the Descendents of John Collett of Little Gidding’ by John Dunlap Collett, states that he was a French Huguenot of Bourn in Cambridgeshire, and of London, where he was a merchant. In 1600 he married Susanna Ferrar who was born at Bourn in 1580, the daughter of Nicholas Ferrar and Mary Woodnoth.
	Susanna Ferrar was baptised on 20.05.1582 at St Gabriel Fen near St Pauls in London, and it seems very likely that her marriage to John Collett also took place in London since the Ferrars were a well-established family in London at that time.
	Susanna’s father was a London merchant who was an early member of the Virginia Company, the group which established the American colony in 1607. In 1622 Susanna’s brother the deacon Nicholas Ferrar who was born on 22.02.1592 and who had attended Clare College in Cambridge, succeeded his elder brother John as the company’s Deputy, becoming responsible for its day-to-day administration.
	By 1624 the company was dissolved and this, coupled with the fact that during the following year there was an outbreak of the plague in London, prompted Nicholas and the Ferrar family that they should renounce worldliness by leaving London and devoting themselves to a life of godliness in the heart of England.
	Susanna’s and Nicholas’ widowed mother Mary Ferrar (nee Woodnoth) purchased the manor at Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire which had been uninhabited for sixty years. Upon arrival in the village Mary discovered that the church was being used as a barn and immediately set about organising it to be cleaned and restored, and this before turning her attention to carrying out much needed work on the manor house.
	At the start of their married life together John Collett and his young wife Susanna Ferrar lived in London where their first ten children were born. It was around 1614 that the family left London when John purchased Bourn Manor near Caldecote to the west of Cambridge to become a farmer.
	It was at Bourn Manor that the couple’s last five children were born. The family was still living there in 1625 when they received the call for help from Susanna’s her elderly mother Mary Ferrar to move the twenty miles north to Little Gidding to assist with the restoration work.
	As a result of this, the manor house at Little Gidding was home to around forty people ranging from babies to Mary Ferrar who was in her seventies. The Ferrar/Collett family then set up a school for their children and their friend’s children, although not for the local village children who were offered prayer book from which to learn the psalms.
	One wing of the manor house became an almshouse for four elderly and infirm women, while a dispensary was also set up in the house to provide broth and medicines to the local people. Nicholas Ferrar was responsible for the formation of the first Anglican community in Little Gidding following the religious changes of the English Reformation. He was a man of property and was much travelled in Italy. It seems very likely that it was his money that was used to purchase the manor at Little Gidding.
	Nicholas Ferrar died on 02.12.1637 on the day after Advent Sunday at one o’clock in the morning, the hour at which he had always risen to begin his prayers. He was buried in the table tomb outside the front door of the church, leaving space for his brother John Ferrar to be buried closer to the church door. The anniversary of the Feast of Nicholas Ferrar is commemorated every year on 4^th December.
	In 1642 King Charles I visited the Ferrar family at Little Gidding and returned two years later to seek refuge during the English Civil War. Since Huntingdonshire was largely a parliamentarian county, the Ferrars and the Colletts, being Royalists, left Little Gidding for the safety of Holland later that same year, from where they returned two years later in 1646.
	It was also on 2^nd May 1646 that King Charles sought refuge with John Ferrar during his secret journey north to Scotland. However, fearing that the King would not be safe at the manor house in Little Gidding, John took him to a safer bolt hole at nearby Coppingford Lodge.
	It was eventually the influenza epidemic in 1657 that killed John Ferrar and his sister Susanna Collett. It would appear from some IGI records that most of the couple’s fifteen children were born in London, although the later ones were born at Bourn Manor, where they were also baptised.
	Susanna Collett nee Ferrar died at Little Gidding on 9^th October 1657 and was survived by her husband John Collett who died there on 29^th March 1659. Both of them were buried in the churchyard of St John’s Church at Little Gidding. The original version of this family line had the year of John passing as 1650, which may have been a simple error in transcription.
	The manor house remained in the family until the mid eighteenth century when it was sold, there being no male heir to take on the property. Sadly during the early nineteenth century the building was completely demolished.
	Historical note: At Little Gidding Church there is a silver flagon on which are written the words ‘Elizabeth Kestian, given to me by my dear cousin John Collett. I desire it to be given to my dear cousin Dr John Mapletoft’. Hester Collett (52H12) married Francis Kestian, and Susanna Collett (52H8) married the Reverend Joshua Mapletoft who was the son of (Dr) John Mapletoft.
	52H1	Mary Collett	Born in 1600
	52H2	Thomas Collett	Born in 1601
	52H3	Richard Collett	Born in 1602
	52H4	Hannah Collett	Born in 1603
	52H5	JOHN COLLETT	Born in 1604
	52H6	Ferrar Collett	Born in 1606
	52H7	Nicholas Collett	Born in 1607
	52H8	Susanna Collett	Date of birth unknown, possibly 1609
	52H9	Elizabeth Collett	Date of birth unknown, possibly 1611
	52H10	Edward Collett	Born in 1613
	52H11	Joyce Collett	Born in 1614
	52H12	Hester Collett	Born in 1616
	52H13	Margaret Collett	Born in 1618
	52H14	James Collett	Born in 1620
	52H15	Judith Collett	Born in 1622
52H1	Mary Collett was born in London in 1600, the first child of John Collett and Susanna Ferrar. Although not proved, it is likely that Mary Collett, the daughter of John Collett, was baptised at St Botolph’s Church in Bishopsgate in London on 26.08.1601.
	The first thirteen years of her life were spent in London and around 1614 her father purchased Bourn Manor near Cambridge. Just over ten years later the Collett family moved to the village of Little Gidding, where Mary’s father had been born.
	It would appear that Mary remained unmarried all her life, and that shortly after moving to Little Gidding she set up a religious book bindery with her sister Hannah Rebecca (below). Mary was still living in Little Gidding when she died in 1680. One of the books that she bound and embroidered has since been identified as being put together in 1669.
	Such was the acknowledged quality of the work of the two Collett sisters that, during a visit to the manor house in Little Gidding by King Charles I in 1642, he was presented with a beautiful work-case complete with drawers, as a memento of his visit.
	The King also desired to be given a handbook of Scripture Harmonies produced by the sisters, together with a second copy for his son Princes Charles. It is reputed that the King studied the scriptures contained therein for an hour every day.
	Mary’s great grandmother had previously purchased land and dilapidated buildings at Little Gidding where her son Nicholas Ferrar (Mary’s grandfather) later established a devotional community. This happened in 1624 when Mary Collett was 24, and was around the time that Mary and her sister became book binders.
	The proceeds from the sales of their books helped to support the devotional community founded by her grandfather. It was therefore this work that established Mary Collett as a prominent figure in the world of the Anglican faith, and hence the reason why she is commemorated in one of the windows in the Chapel of St John at the church of St Mary the Virgin in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, which is part of the Diocese of Peterborough that also includes Little Gidding.
	Of Mary Collett, the poet Richard Crawshaw wrote that she was “The gentlest, kindest, most tender-hearted and liberal handed-soul, I think this day alive”. T S Eliot later wrote about the Little Gidding community by saying “That you are not here to verify, instruct yourself, or inform curiosity or carry report. You are here to kneel where prayer has been valid”.
52H2	Thomas Collett was born in London in 1601 the eldest son of John Collett and Susanna Ferrar. When he was in his early teenage years his family left London when they moved to Bourn Manor near Cambridge, before moving to Little Gidding in 1625.
	While his family was living at Bourn Manor, Thomas entered Clare College in Cambridge at Easter in 1616. The records show that he matriculated as a pensioner which meant he became of member of the university as a commoner. That is a student who was not a scholar, and as such his parents would have paid for the tuition and the commons (this being his food).
	It was in the academic year 1619 to 1620 that Thomas received his Bachelor of Arts degree. Five years later Thomas’ family made the permanent move to Little Gidding, and three years after that Thomas Collett of Highgate married Martha Sherington in July 1628. She was the daughter of John Sherington.
	He was a barrister of the Middle Temple and during his life Thomas owned property at Highgate in London. He died in 1675 and his Will was proved in London that same year. Ten years earlier in 1665, barrister Thomas Collett was granted coat of arms in the Herald’s Visitation of Middlesex, the same coat of arms granted to Sir Henry Colet (Ref. 18C5).
	At the time of his death in 1675, there was recorded in London a Thomas Collett who was Lord Chief Justice, and it seems more than likely that this was Thomas Collett of London and Little Gidding.
	52I1	Martha Collett	Born in 1631
	52I2	John Collett	Born in 1633
52H3	Richard Collett was born in London in 1602 but he and his family later moved first to Bourn Manor in Caldecote, before settling in Little Gidding. Richard married Elizabeth but the marriage produced no children for the couple. Like his brother Thomas Collett (above) Richard Collett was also a barrister of the Middle Temple. He married (1) Ann Haines but it is not clear if this took place in England or America.
	It is understood that Richard was the first member of the family to leave England for Virginia in America, which he did in 1646, when he was followed in 1650 by his brother John (below). After about ten years in Virginia, during which time Richard married (2) Elizabeth, he moved to Baltimore in Maryland around the mid 1660s to be nearer to his brother John.
	The secretary to Governor Stone of Maryland at that time was Nathaniel Utie [Utye] who married the widow of Lawrence Ward. Mrs Mary Ward was formerly Mary Mapletoft the daughter of Richard’s sister Susanna Collett (below) and her husband Joshua Mapletoft. Tragically Mary Utie was murdered in 1663, when she was stabbed by one of her negro slaves at her home on Spesutio Island in Baltimore.
	It was a few years after Richard moved to Baltimore where he was prominent lawyer until his death in 1668. In July 1654, and following the creation of Calvert County in Maryland, Richard Collett was appointed High Sheriff of that county. It was there that on 8^th August 1665 a deed of land, was drawn up between the brothers Richard and John Collett (below) and John Hawkins. And it was also in Baltimore less than three years later that Richard Collett died on 28^th April 1668.
52H4	Hannah Collett was born in London in 1603, the daughter of John Collett and Susanna Ferrar. In her later life it would appear that she was referred to as Anna.
	It was as Anna that she and her sister Mary (above) established a religious book bindery in the village of Little Gidding where her father had been born and to where the family moved after living for around ten years at Bourn Manor near Cambridge. It also seems unlikely that Anna ever married and that she lived all of her adult life at Little Gidding with her unmarried sister Mary Collett.
	However, one earlier conclusion was that in March 1628 at St Margaret’s Church in Lee in Kent, Hannah Collett married the court musician Clement Lanier (1591-1661) but this has been disproved by the Will of her mother Anne Carter, a widow of London, who died in 1647. The Will was signed on 31^st March 1647 and was proved at Greenwich on 27^th September 1647 by Clement Lanier and his wife Hannah, ‘the daughter of the deceased’. For further information on this line, see Appendix One.
52H5	JOHN COLLETT was born in London in 1604 and when he was around ten years old his family left London to live at Bourn Manor near Cambridge where his father John Collett was a farmer. It is reputed that, like his brother Thomas (above), John Collett junior was a Fellow of Clare College in Cambridge
	However, although the University records confirm that only one John Collett did attend Clare College, the date of his attendance does not sit comfortably with this John in that it was around 1649 by which time this John was married with children. It is there more likely that he was John Collett who was baptised in 1633, the son of the aforesaid Thomas Collett (above) who was married in 1628.
	In 1625 John’s parents left Bourn Manor and settled in the village of Little Gidding where his father John had been born. Many years later in 1639 when he was in his early thirties, John married the much younger Ann Goldsmith who was born in 1614, the daughter of George and Elizabeth Goldsmith. It is likely that their first three children were all born at Little Gidding.
	Eleven years later, during the English Civil War, John and Ann and their three children at that time, left England when they sailed to America in 1650, together with Ann’s parents. The family initially settled for a few years in Virginia before finally ending up at Baltimore in Maryland where the couple’s fourth child was born. John Collett served for four years as the High Sheriff of Baltimore, commencing on 9^th April 1662 until 1666, following which he was elected to the office of County Clerk which he held until his death three years later.
	John Collett died at Baltimore on 29^th November 1669, where he was also buried, when his youngest son was only fourteen years old. The witnesses to the signing of his Will were his brother-in-law John Goldsmith, and son-in-law George Goldsmith the husband of John’s daughter Mary Collett.
	In his Will of 1669, which was proved on 29^th October 1670, John Collett named his sons Samuel Collett, John Collett, and George Collett, the two older brothers being named as his executors, and in which he bequeathed many acres of land to members of his family. Also included was an estate of land near Gun Powder River, together with houses, orchards, a feather bed, furniture, and one thousand pounds of tobacco. Another beneficiary under the terms of the Will was his brother-in-law John Goldsmith.
	In the years between 1658 and 1668 deed records show a great many tracts of land deeded to John Collett in Maryland at Colingham, Black Island, Collett’s point, and Beaver Neck. In addition to these there were other transfers, such as joining his brother Richard (above) in a deed to John Hawkins in August 1665. In may be significant that a tract of land noted on a map dated 1673 for the Chesapeake Bay area, to the west of Baltimore, was referred to as Collett’s Neck.
	52I3	SAMUEL COLLETT	Born in 1640 in England
	52I4	John Collett	Born in 1642 in England
	52I5	Mary Collett	Born in 1645 in England
	52I6	George Collett	Born in 1655 in Baltimore
52H6	Ferrar Collett was probably born in 1606, although one unlikely record has been found that suggests he was born in 1596 when his mother Susanna Ferrar would have only been fifteen. There is a chance that through a transcribing error the year of his birth could have been 1599, but this would indicate that Susanna was seventeen when she conceived the child.
	Ferrar attended Peterhouse College in Cambridge from 16^th May 1636, where his college records confirm that he was the son of John Collett of Little Gidding, and that his mother was Susanna Ferrar. He matriculated in 1636 and it was during the year 1639-1640 that he received his Bachelor of Arts degree, which was followed in 1643 by his Masters Degree. He became a Fellow of the university from 1643 to 1646, but was then ejected for some reason.
	During 1661 he became incorporated at Oxford, although it was at Lincoln that same year that he was ordained a priest on 25^th April 1661, when he became the Reverend Ferrar Collett, Rector of Little Gidding. He left Little Gidding two years later when he settled in Hamerton, one mile south of Little Gidding, where he lived until his death in 1679.
52H7	Nicholas Collett was born in London in 1607. When he was around eight years old his family left London and took up residence at Bourn Manor in Caldecote near Cambridge. Ten years later the family moved again, this time to Little Gidding.
	Nicholas married Jane Smith in 1636 and the marriage produced a total of nine children for the couple, all of whom were baptised at the Church of St Mary Woolnoth in the City of London.
	Nicholas Collett, who was a goldsmith in London, died in 1684.
	52I7	Suzanna Collett	Baptised on 12.11.1637; infant death
	52I8	Mary Collett	Baptised on 16.01.1639; died in 1680
	52I9	John Collett	Baptised on 10.06.1641
	52I10	Susanna Collett	Baptised on 12.06.1642
	52I11	Martha Collett	Baptised on 19.07.1646; infant death
	52I12	Nicholas Collett	Baptised on 03.07.1648
	52I13	Susan Collett	Baptised on 09.08.1649
	52I14	Martha Collett	Baptised on 12.10.1654
	52I15	Thomas Collett	Baptised on 15.03.1656
52H8	Susanna Collett, whose actual date of birth is not known, was possibly born in London around 1609. What is known is that upon leaving London when Susanna was around five years old, her family initially lived at Bourn Manor until she was sixteen, before finally settling in Little Gidding.
	In 1630 Susanna married (1) the Reverend Joshua Mapletoft, the son of the Reverend John Mapletoft who was also the brother of Solomon Mapletoft who married Susanna’s youngest sister Judith Collett (below). Joshua was born at Margaretting near Chelmsford in Essex in 1605, and died in 1635.
	The marriage produced a son, John Mapletoft, who was born at Margaretting on 15.07.1631 and who died at Westminster on 10.11.1685, and a daughter Mary Mapletoft who was born in August 1629, who went on to marry a (1) Lawrence Ward, the couple settling in Nansemond County, Virginia in 1655. Sometime later Mary married (2) Nathaniel Utie of Spesutia Island, who was the secretary to the State Governor of Maryland. Tragically in 1663 Mary Utie was murdered by one of her negro slaves.
	It therefore seems highly likely that Mary Mapletoft, perhaps as Mary Ward (or Lawrence) travelled to North America to be reunited with her two uncles Richard and John Collet (above) and her aunt Elizabeth Collett (below) who had sailed thee in 1650.
	Susanna Collett and Joshua Mapletoft also had three other child, Anna, Peter, and Samuel who was born in 1632 who died that same year. Following the death of her first husband Joshua Mapletoft in 1635, Susanna Collett then married (2) Jonas [James] Chedley. Susanna Chedley nee Collett died at Little Gidding on 31.10.1657, just twenty-two days after her mother Susanna Collett nee Ferrar passed away.
	While she was still married to Joshua Mapletoft, Susanna asked her husband to say prayers at Little Gidding for her brother Edward Collett (below) when he sailed from Gravesend to the East Indies. Susanna and Joshua also had two other children in addition to John and Mary, and these were Anne Mapletoft and Peter Mapletoft.
	Susanna’s son John Mapletoft was educated at Westminster during the English Civil War, after which he attended Trinity College in Cambridge. Although destined to following his father into the church, the unrest of the war resulted in him taking up medicine and becoming a successful physician, often travelling to Italy. From 1676 to 1679 he held the office of Physics Professor at Gresham College.
	Following this John Mapletoft retired to Hemel Hempstead where he received Holy Orders and in 1682 he was made Curate of Braybrooke in Northamptonshire where he became a devoted and successful parish priest. Three years later he was appointed to the charge of St Lawrence Jewry in London which he held until 1710. He died in 1721 aged ninety, and was buried in the churchyard of St Lawrence.
52H9	Elizabeth Collett, whose actual date of birth is not known, was very likely born in London around 1611. She was possibly around three or four years old when her parents moved out of London and made their home at Bourn Manor where the family lived until 1625, after which they moved to Little Gidding.
	Elizabeth Collett married (1) Benjamin Woodnoth who was a relative of her maternal grandmother, with whom she had a son Arthur Woodnoth. Following the death of her first husband Elizabeth married (2) John Goldsmith who was very likely her brother-in-law, his sister Ann Goldsmith having married Elizabeth’s brother John Collett (above).
	This second marriage may indicate that Elizabeth and John Goldsmith lived in Baltimore close to Elizabeth’s brother John Collett and his family, since John Goldsmith and his brother George were witnesses to the signing of the Will of John Collett of Baltimore.
	Elizabeth and John Goldsmith had a daughter Mary Goldsmith who was the beneficiary under the terms of the 1673 Will of Elizabeth’s nephew John Collett (Ref. 52I4). This document confirmed that John’s cousin Mary Goldsmith was the daughter of John Goldsmith of Baltimore.
	All of this happened twenty-two years after Elizabeth Goldsmith nee Collett had died in 1651.
52H10	Edward Collett was born in 1613 and was possibly the last child of John Collett and Susanna Ferrar to be born in London. Either at the end of 1613, or very early in 1614, Edward’s family moved away from London when they lived the next ten years at Bourn Manor near Cambridge.
	He would have been twelve years old when his family swapped Bourn Manor with the manor house in Little Gidding. Later in his life he became a goldsmith in London and went into partnership with his nephew, Arthur Woodnoth a member of his grandmother’s family on his mother’s side.
	Even later in his life, Edward sailed from Gravesend to the East Indies at which time his sister Susanna asked her husband the Reverend Joshua Mapletoft, to say prayers for him and for deliverance from calamity by fire.
	Some records indicate that Edward may have been married twice, the first time to Joanna (Johanna) Thomas.
52H11	Joyce Collett may or may not have been born in London, but was baptised on 16.03.1614 at Bourn after he father had taken over Bourn Manor. After ten years at Bourn Manor Joyce’s family moved the twenty miles north to settle in Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire.
	It was also in Huntingdonshire that Joyce Collett married the Reverend Edward Wallis of Sawtry, to the east of Little Gidding, with whom she had four children Catherine, Virginia, Thomas, and Benjamin. Edward was born in 1610 and died in 1687 and was followed by Joyce who died five years later in 1692.
52H12	Hester Collett was born at Bourn Manor in 1616, the daughter of John Collett and Susanna Ferrar. The only other known information about Hester is that around 1635 she married Francis Kestian and presented him with three children before he died in 1646. These were Elizabeth Kestian (1637-1716), Francis Kestian (1638-1666), and Thomas Kestian.
52H13	Margaret Collett was born at Bourn Manor in 1618, the daughter of John Collett and Susanna Ferrar. The only other known facts relating to Margaret are that she married (1) John Ramsey around 1636, and this was followed by a second marriage to (2) Thomas Posthumus Leggett who died in 1666.
52H14	James Collett was born at Bourn Manor in 1620, the son of John Collett and Susanna Ferrar, and he followed in his brothers footsteps, Thomas and Richard (above) by becoming a barrister at the Middle Temple
	Although no positive proof has been found, it is possible that James became Sir James Collett who, in 1709, was listed as one of the worthies helping nearly 8,000 men, women and children refuges come to England from Palantine where thousands of villages, towns and cities had been burnt to the ground. The operation was generally referred to as ‘The German Exodus to England in 1709’.
	What is known it that he later travelled to America, where he settled the Virginia Colony.
52H15	Judith Collett was born at Bourn Manor in 1622 and was baptised on 02.03.1623, the youngest child of John Collett and Susanna Ferrar. At the age of two years her family left Bourn Manor and moved to Little Gidding.
	Judith Collett eventually married the Reverend Solomon Mapletoft who was her brother-in-law, he being the brother of Joshua Mapletoft who had married Judith’s older sister Susanna Collett (above).
	The marriage produced two daughters for the couple, Margaret and Mary, and both Mary and her mother Judith are understood to have died around 1659. This happened two years after Judith was made a widow by the death of her husband in 1657.
52I2	John Collett was born before 1633 and was the son of Thomas Collett and Martha Sherington who were married in the summer of 1628. It was in 1633 that John was baptised at the church of All Hallows-on-the-Wall (just south of Liverpool Street Station) in London.
	With his father being a wealthy barrister of the Middle Temple who owned property in London, it was not unexpected that John followed in his father’s footsteps by attending Clare College in Cambridge. The University records show that he was accepted as a Fellow Commoner on 5^th June 1649.
	This description of John Collett indicated that he was a rich undergraduate, often a nobleman, who dined at High Table with the Fellows, that is, that he took his Commons (meals) with the Fellows.
	Around 1680 when John was in his late forties married Elizabeth Glover with whom he had three children. John Collett was eighty years old when he died in 1713.
	52J1	Thomas Collett	Born after 1680; died 1685
	52J2	John Collett	Born after 1680; died 1687
	52J3	William Collett	Born after 1680; died 1690
52I3	SAMUEL COLLETT was born in England in 1640. He was the eldest son of John Collett and Ann Goldsmith who, when he was ten years old, left England and sailed to North America to settle at Baltimore in Maryland.
	On 12^th February 1667 Samuel Collett received the power of attorney from Thomas Powell. He was mentioned in two Wills, the first that of his father John, which was proved on 29^th October 1670, and then again in that of his brother-in-law Goldsmith, the husband of his sister Mary Collett (below). The only other known details relating to Samuel are that he was married to Catherine in 1672, that the marriage produced a son, and that Samuel Collett died in 1706, and very likely in Maryland. His wife Catherine was many years younger than Samuel, having been born in 1653.
	52J4	DAVID COLLETT	Born in 1673
52I4	John Collett was born in England in 1642, the son of John Collett and Ann Goldsmith. In 1650 John’s family sailed to America and made their home in Baltimore. John never married and when he died on 21^st June 1673 his property was bequeathed to his cousin Mary Goldsmith, the daughter of John Goldsmith of Baltimore and his wife Elizabeth Collett (Ref. 52H9). The making of the Will of John Collett was witnessed by George Goldsmith.
52I5	Mary Collett was born in England in 1645, the daughter of John Collett and Ann Goldsmith. Mary was just five years of age when she sailed across the Atlantic with her parents to a new life in Baltimore.
	It also seems highly likely that members of the Goldsmith family also made the crossing to America, since Mary Collett later married George Goldsmith. And it was George Goldsmith who was the witness at the signing of the Wills of both his wife Mary Collett, and his brother-in-law John Collett (above).
52I6	George Collett was born at Baltimore in 1655 and took place five years after his parents John Collett and Ann Goldsmith had sailed to Maryland from England. There is a reference to George Collett in the 1669 Will of his father, in which he was listed as being a minor. One later document, dated 13^th March 1685, was a deed for the purchase of 500 acres from John Holland.
52I14	Martha Collett was born on 01.10.1654 and was baptised eleven days later at the Church of St Mary Woolnoth in London on 12.10.1654, when her parents were confirmed as Nicholas and Jane Collett. When she was around twenty-five years old she married John Mawhood.
	The marriage produced five children, these being sons Nicholas Mawhood, Collet Mawhood, and daughters Agnes, Jane and Susanna.
	Twelve years after Martha was baptised there, the Church of St Mary Woolnoth, on the corner of Lombard Street and King William Street (near the Bank of England), was partially destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666 but was repaired by Sir Christopher Wren.
52J4	DAVID COLLETT was born at Baltimore in 1673 shortly after his father Samuel Collett married Catherine in 1672. David became a married man in 1700 and the marriage produced three children for him and his wife.
	On 13^th August 1723 David Collett leased land from Thomas Bladen of London through Benjamin Traskers in Baltimore, and the document listed the heirs of David Collett as Daniel Collett, Ruth Collett and Moses Collett.
	52K1	DANIEL COLLETT	Born in 1701 at Baltimore
	52K2	Ruth Collett	Born in 1703 at Baltimore
	52K3	Moses Collett	Born in 1705 at Baltimore
52K1	DANIEL COLLETT was born at Baltimore on 3^rd July 1701 and was the eldest son of David Collett. Daniel was married twice; the first time at Baltimore in 1724 to (1) Ruth, and the second time in 1749 when he married (2) Susanna McKinley or McKenly.
	His first wife Ruth died on 13^th February 1725, possibly during the birth of the couple’s only child, and it may have been later that same year or early in the following year that Daniel was re-married. That second marriage produced a further seven children for Daniel and Susanna, although the order in which they were born has not been established at this time.
	Daniel Collett died on 15^th June 1784 and was followed by his second wife Susanna who died in 1801. Her Will was proved on 11^th November 1801, in which she bequeathed 307 acres of land in Maryland to her two sons William and Stephen.
	52L1	MOSES COLLETT	Born in 1725
	52L2	Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1727
	52L3	Sampson Collett	Date of birth unknown
	52L4	Jemima Collett	Date of birth unknown
	52L5	Mary Collett	Date of birth unknown
	52L6	William Collett	Date of birth unknown
	52L7	Stephen Collett	Date of birth unknown
	52L8	Rachel Collett	Date of birth unknown
52L1	MOSES COLLETT was born at Baltimore in 1725, the only son of Daniel Collett and his first wife Ruth. Moses was nearly twenty years old on 12^th January 1745 when he married (1) Elizabeth Wyle who was born on 18.08.1725. This marriage lasted less than five years, during which time Elizabeth presented Moses with two children.
	Elizabeth died either during the birth of the second child or a little after that time, following which Moses married (2) Elizabeth Armstrong in 1750 with whom he had a further seven children. Moses Collett died just over thirty years later during June in 1783.
	However, other records found reveal that the mother of all of the children of Moses Collett was Elizabeth Wyle, so indicating that he was only married once. These same records also give the children’s place of birth as Kentucky, with Daniel and Sarah both being born at Clinton in Ohio.
	Therefore this section may require further amendment at a later date when more positive information is unearthed.
	What is known for certain is that Moses Collett died in 1802. Also ten years earlier he entered into a deed of land with Adam Burney which was signed on 19^th May 1792. From other documents it is known that he was the brother-in-law to John Stevenson whose wife was Esther Wyle, the sister of his own wife.
	52M1	Stephen Collett	Born in 1746
	52M2	Rachel Collett	Born in 1748
	52M3	Moses Collett	Born in 1750
	52M4	DANIEL COLLETT	Born in 1752
	52M5	Abraham Collett	Born in 1753
	52M6	Elizabeth Collett	Born in 1754
	52M7	John Collett	Born in 1760
	52M8	Isaac Collett	Born in 1762
	52M9	Aaron Collett	Born in 1763
	52M10	Sarah Collett	Born in 1765
52L2	Elizabeth Collett was born at Baltimore in 1727 the first child of Daniel Collett and Susanna McKinley. On 15^th December 1754 Elizabeth married Martin Murphy.
52L6	William Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was one of the children of Daniel Collett and his second wife Susanna McKenly. When his mother died in 1801 William and his younger brother Stephen (below) were named as the beneficiaries, inheriting 305 acres of land in Maryland.
52L7	Stephen Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was one of the children of Daniel Collett and his second wife Susanna McKenly. When his mother died in 1801 Stephen, together with his older brother William (above), inherited 305 acres of land in Maryland.
52L8	Rachel Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was the daughter of Daniel Collett and Susanna McKinley. While it is known that her older siblings were born at Baltimore, there is a chance that Rachel was born in 1743 at Wilmington, Newcastle in Delaware to the north east of Baltimore.
	Certainly it is known that this Rachel Collett married John Dutton at Wilmington on 16.11.1764. John Dutton was born in Delaware in 1735 and the couple’s daughter Prudence was born in 1765 and she died on 13.06.1827.
52M1	Stephen Collett was born at Baltimore on 4^th May 1746, the eldest son of Moses Collett and Elizabeth Wyle. However, the place of birth may have been Kentucky and not Baltimore.
	One source of information regarding Stephen states that he was killed by Indians while in Kentucky in November 1820, while another suggests he died in Maryland.
52M2	Rachel Collett was born at Baltimore on 15.12.1748, the eldest daughter of Moses Collett and Elizabeth Wyle. Rachel may have been married to (1) John Kilpatrick at Baltimore before she married (2) Josiah Sparks at Baltimore on 19.01.1773, and with whom she had nine children.
	Josiah Sparks was born at Baltimore in 1752 and was the son of Josiah Sparks and Penelope Brown. He lived a very long life and died on 19.01.1846 at the age of ninety-six while he was living at Monkton in Baltimore where he was buried.
	His wife Rachel had died twenty-eight years earlier when she passed away on 28.09.1818, and she too was buried at Monkton.
	Their nine children were all born at Baltimore and, in most cases, they were buried at Monkton. They were Elizabeth Sparks (1774 to 25.04.1860), Sarah Sparks (1780 to 14.05.1851), Ruth Sparks (1782 to 25.03.1858), Aaron Sparks (17.05.1787 to 31.05.1856), to Thomas Sparks (1790 -), Francis Sparks (11.05.1792 to 26.11.1867), Daniel Sparks (1793 to 1863), Matthew Sparks (1795 -), and Rachel Sparks (1797 -)
52M3	Moses Collett was born at Baltimore in 1750, the son of Moses Collett and Elizabeth Armstrong or Elizabeth Wyle. The Maryland census of 1790 includes Moses Collett with a large family, about which nothing is currently available. The only other known fact about Moses junior is that he died in Maryland in 1836.
52M4	DANIEL COLLETT was born at Baltimore on 10.02.1752, the son of Moses Collett and Elizabeth Armstrong, although another record shows he was the son of Moses Collett and Elizabeth Wyle (Wiley) born on the same day but at Clinton County in Ohio.
	Daniel Collett married Mary Haines at Jefferson or Berkeley in West Virginia on 28.02.1781, and he died at Chester Township in Clinton, Ohio on 28.06.1835 although, again, other records give the year as 1805 and 1825.
	Mary Haines was the daughter of Joshua Haines and Mercy Lupton and was born at Frederick in Virginia on 08.10.1753. Mary died at Clinton, Ohio on 18.09.1826.
	The marriage of Daniel and Mary produced at least one child for the couple, this being Jonathan, although it is more than likely that there were other children not yet identified.
	Daniel Collett was a devout Episcopalian who entered the Revolutionary army under Captain Wright of Martinsburg, Virginia. He served at Valley Forge, White plains, and at the defeat of General Gates. He also served when the Virginia volunteers were encamped in Pennsylvania, and also fought at the Battle of Monmouth.
	Daniel was known as ‘Revolutionary Dan’ for his service in the Virginia militia during the American War of Independence (1775-1783). The land to the west of the Appalachian Mountains won by the colonists, together with their colonial territories, was surveyed and portions of the land were used as late payment for militia services.
	In this way, Daniel Collett, then of Harper’s Ferry in Virginia, received land in the Ohio segment of the Virginia militia land, just north of Cincinnati, to which he added four thousand acres of forest land in Clinton County which he purchased in 1813. And it was during the following year that Daniel moved the family from a farm in Virginia to a log cabin in the woods of Chester Township known as ‘Hole in the Woods’.
	A portion of that same land, on a farm in Clinton County in Ohio, is still in the ownership of the family in 2009, this being Mckay Collett the cousin of Stephen Collett of Norway.
	Daniel resided in Virginia for forty years and for many years was a Justice of the Peace. He held court each month and, it was said, there was more dignity attending the justices’ court in those days than is seen today in the higher courts of Ohio.
	On one occasion, the judge of the court of Jefferson assessed a fine upon each of the justices of that county for neglect to provide suitable steps to the jail at Charleston. Daniel Collett paid his fine and then took the contract for erecting the stone steps which still today, grace the front of that historic edifice.
	52N1	JONATHAN COLLETT	Born on 25.04.1787
52M5	Abraham Collett may have been born during the last few weeks of 1752 or sometime during 1753. With one record stating that the year was 1752 there is another chance that he may have been the twin brother of Daniel Collett (above). Curiously though it is the name of Daniel Collett which does not appear listed as a family member in the 1929 publication ‘Genealogy of the Descendents of John Collett’.
	Within that document Abraham Collett is credited with having five children at the time of the Maryland census in 1790, the same year that Abraham Collett also died.
52M6	Elizabeth Collett was born on 18^th December 1754 at Baltimore. She was the daughter of Moses Collett and Elizabeth Wyle. She married John Teague at Baltimore and died at Fountain County in Indiana on 27^th February 1816, although another source states she died at Warren County in Indiana.
52M7	John Collett was born at Baltimore on 8^th November 1757, the son of Moses and Elizabeth Collett. Another record indicates that John, the son of Moses and Elizabeth Wyle, was born in 1760. This raises two options, was he baptised in 1760, or was he the second child in the family to be named John, the first presumably having died shortly after he was born.
	In 1782 John married Elizabeth Stevenson, the daughter of Robert and Anna Stevenson of Baltimore who was born at Newport around 1765. A later record has also been found of the marriage of John Collett and Elizabeth McDaniels that took place on 30.08.1790, but it is unclear as to who he was.
	Once married the couple initially settled in Baltimore, where their first two children were born, after which there were living at Huntingdon in Pennsylvania where their next four children were born, but where sadly the three of couple’s first four children died. By the time of the death of their fourth child, their daughter Elizabeth, the depleted family was living in Chillicothe in Ohio, where the last three children were born. The couple’s ninth and last child also died at Chillicothe, meaning only four of them survived.
	By the time the family moved to Huntingdon in 1786, the Collett family had bought land in Ohio and Terre Haute in Indiana, and it was at the latter that many of them were buried. A set of silver spoons engraved with the words ‘John Collett 1786’ are still held by his descendents. Land deeds drawn up on 15^th May 1786 confirm that John Collett purchased land at Huntingdon from John Foley. Other documents after that time show that John Collett was a supervisor at Springfield Township in 1796, and that it was during the following year that he removed his family from Huntingdon to Ross County in Northwest Territory, settling at Chillicothe on the banks of the Scioto River, where a township had only just been established in 1796. It was there in 1797 that he was appointed Land Surveyor for the Government.
	It was a year after the family had arrived at Chillicothe that John Collett purchased property there on 30^th June 1798 from Nathaniel Massie. Later that same year, on 13^th October, John and his wife Elizabeth paid $100 to Michael Blair for half of the lot on the north side of Main Street, plus half of the adjoining lot. Less than two years later they sold to John Hubbard a lot on Water Street in Chillcothe which they had purchased on 17^th June 1798. The amount paid was $700 and the date of the transaction was 4^th January 1800.
	During 1801 and 1802 John Collett was Township Trustee for Scioto Township and at the start of 1803, on 13^th January, John and Elizabeth sold a lot in Chillicothe to Adam Holler for $600. It was in the autumn of that year that Elizabeth, the wife of John Collett, died at Chillicothe and was buried in the old cemetery south of Main Street. It was also around that time that the couple’s youngest child Jessie died. The cemetery was later abandoned and the bodies were taken to a new site at Green Lawn Cemetery in Chillicothe. It was also during 1803 that the State of Ohio was accepted into the Union.
	All of the subsequent land deals made by John after the death of his wife, and there were a great many, were set out in the names of John Collett and his heirs. One very interesting one was dated 4^th November 1811 and referred to the sale of 100 acres land in Scioto Township to Robert Dunlap for $1,500. The Dunlap name would again be linked to the Collett family in 1861 when Stephen Stevenson Collett married Sarah Jane Dunlap.
	Shortly after selling the land to Robert Dunlap, John Collett left Chillicothe and Scioto when he moved to Franklinton in Franklin County, Ohio, although his son Josephus Collett remained at Chillicothe for a while and was made Sheriff of Ross County in Chillicothe during 1817, which he held until 1819. The business opportunities for a dealer in land were far greater in Franklinton, since that had been the headquarters for the army in the war of 1812, and hence was a much busier place than Chillicothe or Scioto.
	Also in 1812, John Collett and others were the first to purchase land across the Scioto River from Franklinton on the site of the newly formed town of Columbus, Ohio, to where John moved in 1813. One of the lots of land purchased by John on the west side of the High Street, between State Street and Chapel Street, was where John erected the first brick-built house in Columbus which, when completed, was conducted as a tavern [hotel] until 8^th September 1818 when it was sold to Robert Russell. It was then that John returned to Terre Haute, where he took up the post of Government Land Surveyor for Indiana.
	Six years later, in 1824, and upon the formation of Vermillion County, John left Terre Haute with his son Josephus and moved to Newport, Indiana, where he built the first tavern [hotel] in that town, which he managed with the help of his daughter Mary, who was known as Polly Collett.
	So far as has been determined to date, only John’s sons Josephus and Stephen, together with his daughter Mary, survived into adulthood. John Collett later went to live with his son Stephen at Eugene Township in Vermillion County where he died on 22^nd January 1834 and was buried at Terre Haute, south of Eugene and to the west of Indianapolis. Once again there is a conflict of information here, since one source states he died on 22^nd June 1834.
	52N2	Anna Collett	Born on 02.04.1783 at Baltimore
	52N3	William Collett	Born on 24.01.1785 at Baltimore
	52N4	Josephus Collett	Born on 24.02.1787
	52N5	David Collett	Born on 29.04.1789
	52N6	Stephen Stevenson Collett	Born on 26.12.1791
	52N7	Elizabeth Collett	Born on 22.07.1794
	52N8	Mary Collett	Born on 18.02.1797
	52N9	Emily Collett	Born on 13.08.1799
	52N10	Jessie Collett	Born on 02.01.1802
52M8	Isaac Collett was born on 14^th June 1762 and this may have been at Baltimore or Kentucky. He was the son of Moses Collett and Elizabeth Wyle. Like his brother Abraham, Isaac is believed to have died after the Maryland census in 1790 when he was listed as having five children. However, yet again there is other information which gives the date he died as being during September in 1773 when he was only eleven years old. So the question this raises is was the date 1773 actually a misinterpretation of 1793.
52M9	Aaron Collett was born in Kentucky on 11^th May 1763 and was the youngest son of Moses Collett and Elizabeth Wyle. It was originally stated here in error, that he was only twenty-two years old when he died on 16^th August 1785, although this has now been discounted. On 10^th December 1813 Aaron Collett of Baltimore purchased land in Maryland from John Rose, and it was twenty-two years later that he died there on 16^th August 1835.
52M10	Sarah Collett was born at Clinton County in Ohio on 30.09.1765, the last child of Moses Collett and Elizabeth Wyle. Sarah married Silas Ashby on 21.04.1789 at Stanford in Lincoln County in Kentucky and she died at Springfield near Wilmington 26.06.1824 and was buried in Friends Cemetery in Springfield.
	Silas Ashby was born at Stafford in Virginia on 17.06.1765, the son of Thomas Ashby and Mary Ann McCullough. The couple were only married for seventeen years when Silas died on 24.09.1806 – see comment below.
	The marriage produced two daughters for Sarah, although the year of birth of the second child appears to be almost three years after the death of Silas Ashby. This therefore brings into question the date of birth of the second child, since records seems to confirm Silas’ death as the more accurate.
	The couple’s two daughters were Anna Ashby who was born on 10.10.1792, and Sarah Ashby whose date of birth is thought to be 19.03.1809, whereas 1806 would correspondence more closely with the death of her father. Anna was born at Lincoln County in Kentucky, while Sarah was born at Greene County in Ohio and she died in October 1871.
52N1	JONATHAN COLLETT was born at Jefferson in Virginia on 25.04.1787, the son of Daniel Collett and Mary Haines. He married Sarah McKay at Warren in Ohio on 30.04.1823 with whom he had ten children. The family home was on land purchased by Daniel Collett in 1813 and was known as ‘Hole in the Woods’ and, it was there at Chester Township that most of the couple’s children were born.
	Sarah McKay was born at Warren County in Ohio on 11.11.1799, the daughter of Moses McKay and Abigail Shinn who had moved to Clinton County from Virginia in 1814.
	All twelve members of the family attended the local Baptist Church, and it was with the money obtained from working on the United States arsenal at Harper’s Ferry in Virginia that Jonathan Collett was able to buy a large tract of land.
	Jonathan Collett died at Clinton County in Ohio on 10.10 1855 but had been a widower for the previous three years, following the death of his wife Sarah at Clinton on 22.10.1852.
	This is the family line of Stephen Collett of Ohio and Norway, the precise details of which it is hoped will be provided in due course. Stephen attended the Collett Reunion in Oslo in August 2009 and it was during this event (see report on the website entitled ‘The Collett Reunion Norway 2009’) that the discussion took place regarding the preparation of this line of the Collett family.
	52O1	Ann Collett	Born on 14.03.1824
	52O2	Moses N Collett	Born on 07.06.1825
	52O3	BENJAMIN COLLETT	Born on 18.12.1826
	52O4	Francis Collett	Born on 17.05.1829
	52O5	Martha Collett	Born on 01.02.1831
	52O6	Aaron Collett	Born on 19.10.1832
	52O7	George Collett	Born on 21.12.1834
	52O8	William J Collett	Born on 30.06.1838
	52O9	Robert Collett	Born on 27.12.1840
	52O10	Azel Waters Collett	Born on 17.09.1842
52N2	Anna Collett was born at Baltimore on 2^nd April 1783, the first child of John Collett and Elizabeth Stevenson. Sadly she was barely ten years old when she died at Huntington in Pennsylvania on 23^rd June 1794, just five days before her brother William (below) also passed away. This would indicate that her family was suffering with a serious epidemic or illness at that time.
52N3	William Collett was born at Baltimore on 24^th January 1785, the eldest son of John Collett and Elizabeth Stevenson, although an alternative source lists the month as June. Tragically he died at Huntington in Pennsylvania on 28^th June 1794 when he was just nine years old, the third child in the family to die during that month, following the death of his sister Anna (above) and his brother David (below) who had died five months earlier that year.
52N4	Josephus Collett was born at Baltimore on 24^th February 1787, one of only three children of John and Elizabeth Collett to survive beyond childhood. From 1797 to 1812 he and his family lived at Chillicothe where his mother died in 1803. However, when his widowed father left Chillicothe in 1812 Josephus remained living, and in 1817 he was made Sheriff of Ross County in Chillicothe during 1817, a position he held until 1819.
	During the remainder of his life he was a master mason and he moved from Terre Haute to Eugene in 1824. Josephus Collett was reputed to have been married twice, the first time on 7^th May 1833 to (1) Eleanor Groendyke who died at Eugene, Indiana just over four months later, where she was buried on 22^nd September 1833, aged 22. Eleanor was younger sister of Sarah Groendyke who married Josephus’ brother Stephen Collett (below), and was born on 14^th February 1811.
	Josephus Collett may therefore have married again after the death of his first wife, although no record has so far been found. However, it is known that he was living at Eugene when he died on 21^st February 1872, where he was also buried.
52N5	David Collett was born at Baltimore on 29^th April 1789 and only survived for less than five years when he died at Huntingdon in Pennsylvania on 28^th January 1794, the same year that his sister Anna (above) and his brother William (above) both passed away.
52N6	Stephen Stevenson Collett was born at Huntingdon in Pennsylvania on 26^th December 1791, the youngest surviving son of John Collett and Elizabeth Stevenson. He was six years old when his parents left Pennsylvania and moved the family to Ohio. Under the terms of the 1803 Will of Peter Stevens, Stephen Collett the son of John Collett inherited land situated on Hill Street in Huntingdon, together with the silver watch of the said Peter Stevens. In his early working life Stephen Collett was a clerk. By 1818 Stephen was living at Vigo County in Indiana, where he remained until 1827 when he settled in Vermillion. During 1819 and 1820 he followed in his father’s footsteps by becoming a Government Land Surveyor. It was in February 1821 that he discovered Whitlock Springs which became the location for Crawfordsville. On 21^st May that same year he was elected as the County Surveyor for Parke County, Indiana.
	He was thirty years old when he married Sarah Groendyke at Terre Haute in Indiana on 8^th November 1821. Sarah was twelve years younger than Stephen, having been born at Farmer, Seneca County in New York State on 6^th July 1804, the daughter of John Groendyke and Lucretia Rappleye. Following their marriage in Terre Haute, it was there that the couple remained for a few years and there where their first two children were born. From 1822 to 1826 Stephen was a merchant in Terre Haute with William C Linton, and then with Chauncey Rose. Sometime later in his life he was the manager of a mercantile establishment at Circleville, Ohio.
	Between 1825 and 1827 the family moved to Eugene in Vermillion County where Stephen’s and Sarah’s remaining seven children were born. The move was perhaps the result of a need for the family to be living near to Stephen’s father, who died there in 1834. The records show that in 1826 it was Stephen Collett who helped to establish the town of Eugene, and that during the following year he entered into the merchandising business with his brother Josephus Collett. From 1833 to 1835 Stephen was a member of the House of Representatives for Vermillion County, after which he was the senator for Vermillion, Parke and Warren Counties from 1835 to 1836, and the senator for Vermillion and Parke Counties in 1843.
	Stephen and Josephus sold off their business in 1837 and retired to live on their respective estates in Eugene, where they lived until the end of their lives. During the life of their partnership the two brothers managed a general store and two large packing plants for hogs and cattle, shipping their produce to New Orleans via the Wabash, Ohio and Mississippi Rivers on boats that their owned.
	Stephen and Sarah were only married for twenty-two years when Stephen S Collett died at Browning’s Hotel in Indianapolis on 28^th December 1843, while the Senate was in session. Shortly after he was buried on the family’s farm at Eugene, from where his body was later taken to be buried at Terre Haute, where his father had been buried nine years earlier. Just over eight years later Stephen’s widow Sarah Collett on 2^nd March 1852 at the home farm in Eugene, but was buried with her husband at Terre Haute.
	Records indicate that a certain Mrs Collett built the first brick house at Columbus in 1842, and she may have been Sarah Collett the wife of Stephen Stevenson Collett.
	52O11	Emily Collett	Born on 12.12.1822
	52O12	Mary Collett	Born on 20.10.1824
	52O13	John Collett	Born on 06.01.1828
	52O14	Stephen Stevenson Collett	Born on 13.12.1829
	52O15	Josephus Collett	Born on 17.08.1831
	52O16	Ellen Collett	Born on 19.02.1833
	52O17	Sarah Collett	Born on 12.01.1835
	52O18	Jane Collett	Born on 10.12.1837
	52O19	Clara Collett	Born on 14.08.1840
52N7	Elizabeth Collett was born at Huntingdon in Pennsylvania on either 2^nd or 22^nd July 1794, where three of her siblings had recently died. However, further tragedy struck the family when thirty-two months after she was born, Elizabeth Collett died at Chillicothe in Ohio on 14^th March 1797.
52N8	Mary Collett was born at Chillicothe in Ohio on 18^th February 1797, one month before her sister Elizabeth (above) died there. She was more commonly known as Polly Collett. Mary was one of just two children of John Collett and Elizabeth Stevenson to be married.
	Mary married (1) Joseph Dillow in 1813 at Columbus, Ohio when she was just sixteen years old, the marriage resulting in the birth of a son Jack Dillow. However, the marriage was not a success and the couple were later separated or estranged. What is known is that in 1824 Mary moved to Newport in Indiana where her father had built the first tavern [hotel] in the town, which she then helped him to operate until his death ten years later.
	The records show that Mary was divorced from Joseph Dillow on 6^th September 1832, and that just over five years later she married (2) Thomad Huff on 18^th October 1837 at Columbus. The only other detail known about Mary, is that she died when she was living in Newport.
52N9	Emily Collett was born at Chillicothe on 13^th August 1799. The fact that she died at Terre Haute, where her father and her brother Stephen were buried, very likely indicates that she reached adulthood unlike many of her siblings.
52N10	Jessie Collett was born at Chillicothe on 2^nd January 1802, the last of the children born to John Collett and Elizabeth Stevenson. Her mother died when she was just one year old, and it was a little while later that Jessie also died at Chillicothe, from where her widowed father moved in 1812.
52O1	Ann Collett was born at Chester Township in Clinton County, Ohio on 14.03.1824, the first born child of Jonathan Collett and Sarah McKay of Hole in the Woods in Ohio. Ann married William McCune on 30.10.1849 and the marriage produced nine children for the couple. William was born at Wilmington on 01.11.1824.
	Their nine children were: Oscar born in 1851; twins Howard and Horace born in 1852; William born in 1856; twins Sally and Rachel born in 1858; Martha born in 1860; Mary born in 1862; and George who was born in 1864.
	On 17.06.1870 Ann was made a widow when her husband William either died or was killed. So by the time of the census in January 1880 Ann McCune was a widow of fifty-six. She was ‘keeping house’ while her three sons Howard 27, William 24, and George 16, managed the farm at Adams in Clinton County, Ohio. Also still living with Ann were two of her daughters, Martha 20 and Mary 18.
	Ann McCune nee Collett was still living in Ohio when she died on 05.03.1913.
52O2	Moses N Collett was born at Chester Township on 07.06.1825, the eldest son of Jonathan Collett and Sarah McKay. Moses was around twenty-nine years old when he married Mary Jane Smith at Clinton on 29.11.1854.