An American Family History

St Dunstan's was an Anglican church located on St Dunstan's Hill between London Bridge and the Tower of London. The church was destroyed in the World War II.

Henry Collins and his wife, Ann, married about 1627 in Stepney Parish, London, Middlesex County, England. 

Their older children were born in England. Their births were registered at St. Dunstan’s Church.

Anne Collins was born in 1628. Henry Collins, Jr. was born on October 29, 1629. John Collins was born on January 14, 1631. Margery Collins Williams was born on November 6, 1633. 

The young family immigrated to America on the “Abigail” in 1635. Henry was 29, Anne was 30, Henry, Jr. was five, John was three and Margery was one when they made the voyage.  They came with four servants.

They settled in Lynn where they lived on Essex Street. In 1638 Henry received “upland and meadow, 80 acres, and ten” from the town of Lynn.

Hannah Collins Ingersoll was born in 1636. Benjamin Collins was born about 1638. Joseph Collins was born about 1640. Mary Collins Johnson was born about 1642.

Henry died in 1686 and Ann in 1691.

Further north near the corner of Fayette and Essex Streets, Henry Collins was situated. Henry Collins was a starch maker who came from Stepney, London, England, in 1635, accompanied by wife, children, and five servants (probably meaning his workmen). 

Collin’s Swamp, now Silver Lake, got its name from Henry Collins whose land stretched eastward from the road to Lynnfield and along what is now Essex Street, lying mainly to the north thereof. 
From The Ingalls Family in Europe and America, 1930, p. 40