Mr. William Collier

d. 1671 · London, England → Plymouth MA → Duxbury MA

Died 1671

Children include Elizabeth

He was one of the merchant adventurers in England who financed the Plymouth plantation, and a wealthy merchant in his own right, and he is one of the very few of that company who crossed and stayed. He came early to Plymouth and moved soon to Duxbury, settling in the southeastern part of the town near Standish and Brewster, with land west of North Hill granted in 1635 and a tract called Billingsgate. His wolf trap is on the record by 1638.

He was employed in the government of the colony for most of his life, as Assistant and otherwise, and in 1660 was licensed to retail strong water to his neighbours in Duxbury, a licence the court gave only to the grave and sober and only on condition that none drink over much. In 1658 the court ordered a servant to him, because he cannot easily come to public business, being aged and having much private business.

His four daughters married Love Brewster, Job Cole, Governor Thomas Prence and Constant Southworth, which is as far into the front rank of that colony as four marriages can reach.

Children

Elizabeth Collier

Sources

Justin Winsor, History of the Town of Duxbury, Massachusetts, with Genealogical Registers (Boston, 1849), p. 248 · archive.org historyoftownofd00wins, leaf 257

Justin Winsor, History of the Town of Duxbury, Massachusetts (1849), the first settlers chapter and the COLLIER register

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