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Personal data William Collier 

• He was born about 1585 in St. Olave's Church, Southwark, London, England.Source 6

  Surrey
  Surrey
  Surrey

• Emigrated in the year 1633.Source 7
• Immigrated in the year 1633.Source 7
• Profession: Grocer England.Source 7
• (Alt. Birth) in the year 1560: London, London, England.Sources 2, 5
• (Alt. Birth) about 1585: Southwark, London, England.Source 7
• (Alt. Birth) in the year 1585: St. Olave's Church, Southwark, London, England.
• (Alt. Death) after May 29, 1670.Source 7
• (Alt. Death) in the year 1671: Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA.Sources 2, 5
• He died before July 5, 1671 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.Sources 6, 7
• Probate on July 5, 1671.Source 7
• A child of Abraham Collier and Sarah Voss
• This information was last updated on December 4, 2022.

Household of William Collier

He is married to Jane Clarke.

They got married on May 16, 1611 at St. Olave's Church, Southwark, London, England.Sources 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Child(ren):

1. Jane Collier  < 1612-????
2. Mary Collier  < 1612-1695 
3. Hannah Collier  < 1613-1625
4. Rebecca Collier  1615-1698
5. Sarah Collier  < 1616-1691 
6. John Collier  < 1617-1618
7. Elizabeth Ann Collier  1619-1670 
8. John Collier  1620-1625
9. Cathern Collier  ± 1621-1621
10. James Collier  < 1623-1624
11. William Collier  1625-1625
12. Martha Collier  < 1624-1625
13. Joseph Collier  ± 1625-1691
14. Lydia Collier  < 1626-1626
15. Elizabeth Collier  1616-1670 

Notes about William Collier

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WILLIAM COLLIER
ORIGIN: Southwark, Surrey
MIGRATION: 1633
FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth
REMOVES: Duxbury after 1639
OCCUPATION: Grocer (in England).

FREEMAN:
Admitted 1 January 1633/4 [PCR 1:4, 21].
In list of freemen, 7 March 1636/7 [PCR 1:52].
In Plymouth section of list of 1639 (where his name is crossed out and reentered in the Duxbury section) [PCR 8:173-74].
In Duxbury section of lists of 1658 and 29 May 1670 (where his name is crossed out and marked "deceased" [PCR 5:274, 8:198].

EDUCATION: His appointment to the committee to review the laws speaks of considerable education.

OFFICES:
Plymouth Colony Assistant, 1635-37, 1639-51, 1654-65[MA Civil List 37-39].
Plymouth Commissioner to United Colonies, 1643 [MA Civil List 28].
Committee to assess colony taxes [PCR 1:26].
Committee to lay out highways, for "Duxbery side," 1 October 1634 [PCR 1:31].
Committee to view farm land, 2 March 1635/6 [PCR 1:39].
Committee to set bounds for Scituate, 6 March 1637/8 [PCR 1:80].
Committee to view North Hill and set bounds, 4 February 1638/9 [PCR 1:112].
Committee to treat with Massachusetts Bay, 7 March 1642/3, 10 June 1650 [PCR 2:53, 159].
Council of War, 27 September 1642, 10 October 1643, 1 June 1658 [PCR 2:47, 64, 3:139].
Coroner, 2 June 1646 [PCR 2:101].
Committee to draw up the excise, 7 July 1646 [PCR 2:105].
Committee for the letting of trade, June 1649 [PCR 2:144].
Auditor, 3 July 1656 [PCR 3:104].
Committee to review the laws, 3 June 1657 [PCR 3:117].

ESTATE:
"Mr. Collier's men" assessed 18s. in Plymouth tax list of 25 March 1633 [PCR 1:11];
"Mr. Will[iam] Collier" assessed Ð2 5s. in list of 27 March 1634 [PCR 1:27].
In allocation of mowing ground on 1 July 1633, reference is made to ground "that Mr. Collier hath" [PCR 1:14].
On 5 July 1635, Mr. William Collier was granted a parcel of land in the woods called North Hill, with some "tussicke march ground" [PCR 1:35].
On 3 October 1662, "Mr. Collyare" complained that the records of his grant at the North Hill were lost and could not be found, and the court ordered that the land be viewed and the report of it be recorded [PCR 4:27, 39].
On 6 March 1649[/50] William "Colliar" made over his right to a ten acre parcel of upland in "Duxborrow" to "my kinsman William Clark" [PCR 12:182].
On 2 July 1667 the court agreed to a grant of thirty or forty acres of land for Mr. William Collyare's grandchild, "that grand child who is now servicable unto him" [PCR 4:159].
On 2 March 1668/9 the court granted him fifty acres in the tract of land at Namassakett [PCR 5:14].
On 5 July 1671 the court appointed Gov. Mr. Constant Southworth, Mr. Thomas Clarke, and "Benjamine Barlett," or any three of them to administer the estate of "Mr. William Collyare," deceased [PCR 5:68].
On 29 October 1671 the court ordered that "Daniell Cole" was to have all such particulars out of the estate of "William Collyare" that are extant [PCR 5:80].

BIRTH:
By about 1585 based on date of marriage.  At court 7 June 1659, "In regard that Mr. Collyare, by reason of age and much business on him, cannot attend the country's business at courts but with great difficulties, the Court have appointed the Treasurer to procure him a servant, and do allow him for that purpose the sum of Ð10" [PCR 3:166].

DEATH: After 29 May 1670 (in list of Duxbury freemen) and before 5 July 1671 (administration granted on estate).

MARRIAGE: St Olave, Southwark, Surrey, 16 May 1611, Jane Clark [TAG 49:215]; she died after 28 June 1666 when she consented to a deed made by her husband [PCLR 3:152].

CHILDREN (unless otherwise stated, from TAG 49:215):
i   MARY, bp. St.Olave, Southwark, 18 February 1611[/2]; m. Plymouth 1 April 1635 THOMAS PRENCE (as his second of four wives) [PCR 1:34].
ii   HANNAH, bp. St Olave

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[Sharen Neal.ged]

CONFLICT:  Imm. Ancestors states his as William COLLIER with no wife named

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