Here Goes: COLLINS AND ALLIED DATA FROM CAMDEN DISTRICT, S.C. COMPILED BY LEONARDO ANDREA OF COLUMBIA, S.C. Collins...An Introduction...Leonardo Andrea Variant Spellings of Collins Colin Collin Collins Collings Cullin Cullins Cullings Culin There are also some other variants of the spelling of this surname...I have seen the recording clerk have it entered under K as Kollin---Kollins. Baptist-Collins 1670-1806 Taken from Miss Leah Townsend's Book "S.C. Baptists to 1806" Baptist named Collins Data from the History of S.C. Baptists up to 1806 by Miss Leah Townsend (She is an Episcopalian) Page 82 DEMPSEY COLLINS and THOMAS COLLINS with William Allen, Robert Hodges and William Rogers all sign a petition as shown in Association Minutes for 1794 for the Gapway Baptist Church in what is now Marion County, S.C. The Rev. David Owens who came from N.C. Page 47 EUHAW BAPTIST CHURCH in what is now Beaufort County had among its members THOMAS COLLINS and his wife ELIZABETH COLLINS who had in 1756 petitioned for land on the Savannah Creek...He came from the Pee Dee River section. Page 140 JAMES COLLINS and JOSEPH COLLINS were delegates to the Association from Buffalo Church in 1792 and 1793...This church is on the Broad River and along the Union-Spartanburg line near Thickety Creek.. Page 120-158-252-253-263-267-268-269 The Rev. DAVIS COLLINS and also at times as DAVIES COLLINS was appointed as chairman of the Rhode Island College fund and was at Stateburg, S.C. He served from 1793 to 1803 when he retired...From 1787 to 1804 he was the pastor of the Swift Creek Baptist Church along the edge of Sumter and Kershaw County..From 1794 to 1803 he was also pastor of the Catawba Baptist Church. DAVIES COLLINS was ordained in 1793 of the Sugar Hill Baptist Church in York County. He probably lived in N.C. He also served as pastor of the Flint Hill... (comment by Andrea..Two ministers were named DAVID COLLINS, one was the son of a Lewis Collins who signed his will 15 Jan 1806 in Kershaw County). Page 113-146-150-151-157-158 The Rev. LEWIS COLLINS was the preacher of the annual sermon at the meeting of the Charleston Association in 1803 and was a delegate from Kershaw County...In 1803 the Revs. John M. Roberts, LEWIS COLLINS, Solomon Thomas, John Catoe, Edward Pigg were named as a Committee for the Congress Baptist Church in Richland County and the High Hill Baptist Church in Sumter County...LEWIS COLLINS was for a long time the pastor of the Swift Creek Baptist Church...LEWIS COLLINS and his wife took 150 ares of land on Wateree Creek of Wateree River in 1763 and took 200 acres at the High Hills in Sumter County in 1770... The Rev. LEWIS COLLINS was a convert of the Rev. Joseph Reese in 1769 at the Congress and was likely working in Black River before 1770...In 1804 a report to the Charleston Association mentioned that Lewis Collins was Pastor of Swift Creek Church from 1170 to 1804 and in 1804 had a large number of new converts from the Great Revival. Page 172 The Rev. MATTHEW COLLINS was minister at the Edisto Church in 1790 (Orangeburg Co.). Page 141-203 MOSES COLLINS and his wife SUSANNAH COLLINS in 1770 were members of the Sandy River Baptist Church in Chester County, S.C....In what is now Bamberg County a MOSES COLLINS was in 1787 a delegate to the Association from Salkehatchie. RACHEL COLLINS was one of the original members of Fairforest Church in Union County. In 1760. These 13 Members came from the Broad River Meeting in Fairfield Co. Page 126 TOHMAS COLLINS gave 1 acre of land for Coosahatchie Church in Beaufort Co., in 1762. CATHERINE COLLINS JAMES COLLINS MARY COLLINS Mrs. Thamer Odom Will sg. 21 May 1808 Pr. 12 Jan 1809 File 3-14 Barnwell County, SC this abstract is from the original will...The WPA copy in S.C. Archives and in D.A.R. Library in Washington, are both in error...Andrea Thamer Odom...Widow and also as Tamer Odom Names in her will MARY COLLINS...Daughter JAMES COLLINS...Son in law and Ex. and husband of Mary CATHERINE COLLINS...Daughter LYDIA ODOM...Daughter SARAH O' BANNON...Daughter MARY COLLINS...Grand Daughter SARAH DURET...Grand Daughter MARY McDANIEL...Grand Daughter Witenesses George Odom Seybert Odom Mary Smith D.A.R. Membership for Mrs. Norman G. Preston. Mrs. Preston joined on the Service of Benjamin Odom who was a member of the Volunteer Company of Capt. James Jones of the S.C. Militia in 1776. Barnwell Deed Book D Page 434 Tamer Odom widow of Benjamin Odom...A deed to my daughter Lydia Odom dated 21 May 1808 for All my Dower Rights in the estate of my late husband, Benjamin Odom...Lydia is to care for me as long as I live...At her death this will go the the children of my daughter Mary and James Collins. Witnesses William Steed James Collins More in a minute, Lori