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George W. Collins (Boyle County, Kentucky, tin and copper smith)

b. 1805?

Boyle County, Kentucky, tin and copper smith. Pennsylvania native. Married to Harriet Collins. Father of George W. Collins, Jr. Tinsmith in Boyle County, Kentucky, in 1850. Employed James B. Polk as a tinsmith in Boyle County in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Boyle County in 1850. Tin- and coppersmith in Boyle County in 1860.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, District 2, p. 352A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, District 2, p. 578.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, p. 891.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, Danville, p. 164A.

Citation

Collins, George W.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211359 (November 12, 2026).

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