This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Collins Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DaB.2ACE/4109 Message Board Post: Searching for Joseph Collins, a Revolutionary War soldier. According to a letter from the War Department, he was living in Buck's County at the time of his enlistment in 1780. Joseph Collins served in the Pennsylvania militia and was in the battles of Ashley Hills (where he was wounded), South Carolina and Yorktown. He may have come from Cumberland County originally.