This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Collins, Massie Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VZB.2ACI/247 Message Board Post: I am looking for additional information about JOHN COLLINS, early Methodist minister in Ross County, Ohio. In 1818, John Mick and John Collins, two of the early ministers in the community, established a church organization in Bainbridge, Ross Co., Ohio. He had at least one daughter ALICE COLLINS, who was born about 1807 in Ohio, and died 1876 in Ross Co., Ohio. She married NATHANIEL MASSIE III February 13, 1828 in Ross Co., Ohio, son of NATHANIEL MASSIE, JR, and SUSAN EVERARD MEADE. I have been unable to locate JOHN COLLINS in the 1820 Ohio Census, although there are a number of men named Collins living in Ross and Highland Counties (Ohio). I have no information on the name of his wife. Nathaniel Massie, Jr., is considered the founder of Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, and is well documented. He and John Collins are fourth great-grandfathers.