Collins, Job, 1752-1827

Job Collins was a Quaker Elder who lived in the Township of Evesham, New Jersey. He was born to Francis and Ann Collins on the 13th of the 6th month 1752. In 1774 he married Mary Collins (1753-1776), daughter of Jonathan and Hannah Haines; the couple had a daughter named Sarah together. In 1778, Collins remarried to Elizabeth Ballinger Mason (1755-1831), widow of John Mason; the couple had ten children together. Collins was a member of the Upper Evesham Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders since its establishment in 1794. He died February 28, 1827.