Background
John Collins was born in England, but brought up in New England, where his father Edward became a deacon of the congregational church at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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He graduated at Harvard College in 1649, and became a fellow there.
Career
In 1653 he returned to Britain, as a preacher in Scotland. In 1659 Collins was acting as chaplain to General George Monck, whom he accompanied from Scotland to London. Collins held no preferment at the date of the Uniformity Acting 1662, but is included by Edmund Calamy among the "silenced ministers".
He was also one of the Pinners" Hall lecturers.
He died on 3 December 1687. Collins"s son Thomas (educated at Utrecht) was elected copastor at Lime Street in 1697.
