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Note: [Br�derbund WFT Vol. 3, Ed. 1, Tree #0905, Date of Import: Sep 4, 1998] 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 �10" [PCR 3:166]. DEATH: After 29 May 1670 (in list of Duxbury freemen) and before 5 July 1671 (administration granted on estate). HISTORY: William was a London brewer. He came to Plymouth in 1633 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]. Was asst gov. 1634-37; 1639-51, 1654-65. Commissioner of New ENG Confederation 1643. Took liberal side in religious toleration 1646. @@ S&S: p.254: William Collier had been a financial contact adventurer' in London. p292: Allerton's private trade LL400 was invested in William Collier's brewery in London *at first mr. Sherley's name). p.322: Bradford's stepson, Constant Southworth and Asst Gov. Wm Collier, now the richest man in the colony, were tavern keepers, as was Isaac Robinson, son of Leyden pastor. p.328: 1643, meeting in Boston to discuss mutual defense alliances, Rep. Asst Gov's Ed Winslow and Wm Collier of the Old Colony. p.362: Toleration: "The major of the deputies..." p.374: 4 men of General Court; Capt. Thomas Willet, William Collier, TimHatherly and Capt. James Cudworth...a younger generation began to rise in the higher councils: Josiah Winslow, 2 Bradfords, William, in his early 30's and Lt. Thomas Southworth. p.390 Indian sachem, Alexander, taken to Asst Gov Collier's house in Duxbury...Alex died a few days later at Plymouth; Alexander's brother, Philip, succeeded him. kp.420: All told, 1,000 native Torries fled mass with Gen. Gage... p.438: Sarah Collier m. 1634 to Love Brewster and moved to Duxbury,MA. p.400: 15 Oct 1641 Articles of AGreement with Financial supporters from ENG--with the advice and consent of William Collier of Duxbury--final attempt to conclude accounts messed up by Isaac Allerton's agency between ENG and America. p.1715: Letter from Adventurers in ENG to Pilgrims 18 Dec 1624 from James Sherley, William Collier, Thos Fletcher and Robt Holland. p.391: letter from Sherley to Gov. Bradford 24 June 1633: loving friends, my last was sent in the 'Mary and John' by Mr. Wm. Collier, etc... p.437 re Constiturtion of the New ENG Confederation 19 May 1643. A meeting of the Commissioners fo rthe Confederation held Boston 7 Sept. townships approved ARticles...dated 29 Aug 1643 > Edw Winslow and Wm Collier to ratify and confirm..., we Commissioners for the Mass., Conn., and New Haven, do for our govts subscribe.. p.239 (Allerton's poor accounting called to task in London & Plymouth) "2. It is like, though Mr. Allerton might think not to wrong the Plantation in the main, yet his own gain and private ends leld him aside in these things. For it came to be known that in the first two or three years of his employment he had cleaned up LL400 and put it into a brewhouse of Mr. Collier's in London, at first under Sherley's name... p.312: 1641: Agreement with English partners: Mr. Sherley, being weary of this controversary and desirous of an end, ..writ to Mr. John Atwood and Mr. Wm Collier, two of the inhabitants of this place...and desired them to be a mean to bring this business to an end by advising and counseling the partners here (Plymouth)...to mutual agreement...they took this course because many scandals had been raised upon them... p.400-01: 18 May 1641: Articles of Agreement (betw Pilgrims and Adventurers) made and concluded 15 Oct 1641: James Sherley of London, gave power and authority to Mr. Atwood, with the advice and sonsent of Wm Collier of Duxbury... absolute end to said partnershisp... @@ Demos, p.175: In 1659 the General Court directed that an aide be found for William Collier, a longtime Assistant (Gov. of Plymouth). Collier was seventy five at the time and was throught to need help because of age and much busines. ref. Plymouth Colonial Records, III, 166. [Br�derbund WFT Vol. 11, Ed. 1, Tree #2649, Date of Import: Sep 7, 1998] REFERENCE: OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION by Gov. Wm Gradfordo. A LITTLE COMMONWEALTH by John Demos, 1970, p.1715. SAINTS & STRANGERS by Willison. \ Thought to be a brewer in London, was one of the Merchant Adventurers who financed the Mayflower company of Pilgrims. He and family came to Plymouth Colony in 1633 on the ship Mary and Jane. He was one of the first settlers of Duxbury, which was established in 1637. He was assistant governor for twenty-eight years and a member of the Provincial Congress in 1643. He was also one of a committee of two appointed by the Congress to sign the Articles of Confereration. He and Jane had at least twelve children, eight of whom died in ENG. They brought four daughters with them to America.
COMMENTS: John Hunt demonstrated that William "Collyer" was apprenticed to William Russell for eight years and was entered and sworn in the Grocers' Company of London 16 August 1609. John Arnold, dyer, and William Hurdman, pewterer, were sureties for William Collyer for two years beginning 15 August 1612. He became a partner in Southwark with "Mr. Monger" and was sworn a free brother of the Grocers' Company 3 March 1627/8 [TAG 42:120-21]. William Collier appears on the 1626 list of adventurers in Bradford's Letter Book [Bradford LB 26]. Bradford records that Mr. Allerton "in the first two or three years of his employment, he had cleared up �400 and put it into a brew-house of Mr. Collier's in London, at first under Mr. Sherley's name..." [Bradford 239]. Edward Winslow called "Mr. Collier" "my partner" in a 1643 letter to John Winthrop [WP 4:452]. Winslow also reported that "Mr. Collier [was]... absent to our grief" at the vote over liberty of conscience in Plymouth Colony in 1645 [WP 5:56].
William Collier was one of the merchants of London who aided the Pilgrims in coming to Plymouth, furnishing the money for their outfit. After the partnership between the Pilgrims and the Adventurers was terminated, he came over in 1633 in the "Mary and Jane" with one hundred and ninety-six passengers; with him came his four daughters: Sarah, who married Love Brewster; Reberea, married Job Cole; Mary, married Thomas Prence; Elizabeth, married Constant Southworth. There is no mention of his wife, so she probably died before he came over. It has been said that he was not content to share the profit of the enterprise of the Pilgrims without also sharing their hardships. He at once took a prominent position in the young colony. He was made freeman in 1633; in 1634 he was one of the tax assessors.
[Plymouth Colony: Its History and People 1620-1691, Part Three:Biographical Sketches Biographical Sketches Conant, Christopher] ? Collier married Jane Clark at St. Olave, Southwark, 16 May 1611, and he and his wife had four daughters with them in Plymouth Colony:Sarah, who married (1) Love Brewster and (2) Richard Parke ofCambridge; Rebecca, who married Job Cole; Mary, who married ThomasPrence; and Elizabeth, who married Constant Southworth. Robert S.Wakefield.
"More on the Children of William Collier," TAG 49:215 and 51:58, identified eight other children in ENG (at least four having diedyoung), and he showed that Collier had lived in St. Mary MagdalenParish, Bermondsey, Surrey, and St. Olave Parish, Southwark. In theSt. Olave register he was called a grocer. Bradford referred to a"brew-house of Mr. Colliers in London" (Ford 2:125).
On 2 December 1661 William Collier of Duxbury, gentleman, with the consent of Mrs. Jane Collier, sold all his house and land that he wasliving on in Duxbury to Benjamin Bartlett, who was not to enter intopossession until the death of both William and Jane Collier. Collierdied before 5 July 1671, when men were appointed to administer hisestate (PCR 5:68).
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