- Title
- Somerset place and its restoration
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- Date
- August 01 1954
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- Creator
- ["Tarlton, William S."]
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- Place
- ["Washington County, North Carolina, United States","Creswell, Washington County, North Carolina, United States","North Carolina, United States"]
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Somerset place and its restoration
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His son, Josiah Collins II, when he had reached manhood, entered
into business with his father and actively cooperated with him in all
his various enterprises, whether of a private or public nature. He
too, not unlike his father, was a man of force and ability. He was
his father's tried, trusted and confidential companion and friend.
The union between the two was of the closest kind, the son respecting
his father's confidence with utmost consideration.
Josiah Collins II, in December 1803, married Ann Rebecca Daves,
a daughter of Major John Daves of New Bern, N. C. , a brave and gallant
officer of the American Revolutionary War. This marriage was a source
of great gratification to his father in his declining years. He lived
long enough to see a family of young grandchildren gathered around him.
Elizabeth Collins, the youngest daughter or child of Josiah Col¬
lins and who remained in England, married a lawyer by the name of
Cook and remained in England until her death. She resided at Hatch-
Beauchamp, near Taunton, a place given to her by her father, who also
provided legacies for her children as he did for all his grandchildren.
Hatch-Beauchamp is only a half mile from the ancestral home of the Col¬
lins family.
Ann Collins, who came to America with her father, married in
Edenton in 1788 Jacob Blount, son of Jacob Blount of Blount Hall, Pitt
County, N. C. , and died young leaving two small children, Ann Collins
Blount and Elizabeth Louise Blount. These two children being left
orphans at a very early age, were objects of special care and devotion
by their grandfather. Ann Collins Blount never married. She lived
with her grandfather and uncle at the home known as "Old Homestead."
She was an important member of the household and at the death of her
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