Daniel Collins family papers

This collection consists of a few letters, bills, and other miscellaneous papers concerning Daniel Collins (1739-1810?) and his son Daniel (1776-1849?), a ships' block maker. Pertaining to the elder Collins are two letters, one from his nephew Joseph Tufts, Jr., describing the death of Tufts' mother several weeks after giving birth (1801), the other from Collins to his son reporting on the health of the family (1802). There is one letter from the younger Collins to his second wife, Sophia Walker, written shortly after their marriage in 1812 from Washington, D.C., where Collins was seeking work in the navy yard, and two letters addressed to Collins by a friend, Thomas B. D'Wolf of Nova Scotia, reporting on old friends (1836).

Other papers pertaining to the younger Collins are his certificate of citizenship, receipts, a page from his commonplace book, and an insurance policy. Other items in the collection include anonymous printed and manuscript poems and texts and settings for a number of hymns, several pages from a log book of 1811, and an assortment of receipts, printed matter, and a facsimile of the memorial to the Colonial Assembly of Connecticut from the Connecticut Militia of 1775.

These papers were separated from the David Chittenden Collins Papers (Manuscript Group Number 886) in 1979. The provenance of the Daniel Collins Family Papers is unknown.