Good morning again, As I am going over this Collins stuff, I have found some information sent to me by Michael Collins Dunn. It is a good research guide. In it there is some question about William Collins marrying Ann Wilds. Let me type it, and then if anyone can clear this up for me I would appreciate it. The William Collins from whom this family descend is the same one who married Ann Wilds in1675, which raises Questions about the accuracy of the Collins genealogy just cited. For their William Collins is said to have died in 1705, and their connection with him requires him to have lived that long. Ann Wilds, who was already the widow of Thomas Wilds when she married William Collins in 1675, subsequently married Alexander Murray in 1687, soon after the death of William Collins, who Obviouly had to have died before 1687 and is therefore not the man who died in 1705. Her will, at the age of 49 on 10 Feb 1700/1701 (Old Style: 1701 by our calendar) mentions her son John Collins, daughter Ann Collins, and daughter Martha and Mary Murray, the last two to live with their Uncle Robert King, suggesting that perhaps her Maiden name was King. Thus the William who married Ann Wilds was not the progenitor of the Collinses described in the book cited, since he died long befor their William Collins did, in King and Queen County in 1705.The Caroline County and Spotsylvania Co., Collinses cannot descend from the William who married Ann Wilds, though one will find many books which affirm that they do. Ref: The marriage of William Collins to Mrs. Ann Wilds, relict of Thomas Wilds, is in Isle of Wight Co. Will and Deed Book 2 (Rev.) p 35., see Blanche Adams Chapman, compiler, Isle of Wight County Marriages, 1628-1800, page 12. For William Collins' death, see Blanche Adams Chapman, Wills and Administrations of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, 1647-1800, appraisal cited on page 27 (p. 271 of orginal will book); fo Ann Wilds Collins marriage to Alexander Murray, see Will and Deed Book 2, p. 62, cited in Chapman, Marriages, p. 37. For Murray's death and Ann's nuncupative will, see Wills and Administrations p. 40 and 41. These show that the William Collins traced in the Collins and Travis families book, who died many yrs after this William collins, is not the one who married Ann Wilds. I would love some feed back on this. I would like to get this straight. Let me know. Sincerely, Lori