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Millicent Collins as portrayed by Barbara Blackburn
Millicent Collins (1772-1790) was an ancestor of the 1991 Collins Family having lived in the 18th century. Millicent was an heiress to a vast amount of estate in New York. She planned to vist her relatives out of the insistence of her cousin Joshua Collins. Millicent had not visited the family since she was twelve years old at a time when her cousin Joshua began pressuring his middle son Jeremiah Collins to woo and marry Millicent in a double ceremony with his eldest son Barnabas Collins and Josette Du'Pres. Millicent, however, was not to Jeremiah's liking as she had been ugly as a child when Jeremiah knew her. Her attitude was noted by nearly everyone when she first arrived. She even threatened to beat Collins servant Ben Loomis for not bringing in her mounds and mounds of luggage that she brought with her from New York.
Millicent's first night with her relatives seemed uneventful to her, and she complained much too often about the Collins estate. She was particularly disturbed about Jeremiah Collins’ attitude toward her, and believed he was trying to avoid her. Millicent, along with the rest of the family, was stunned when Jeremiah suddenly married Josette, Barnabas’ betrothèd; they were under a spell. Millicent broke into tears after finding out, and selfishly whined to the other family about her situation. Millicent's ways changed somewhat when Jeremiah died following complications from a duel wound. She nearly fainted when she saw his body. She later attend her cousin's funeral and was present when the fanatical witch hunter Reverend Trask and Millicent's equaly fanatical cousin,Abigail Collins had Governess Victoria Winters arrested on a series of charges of witchcraft.
Millicent became the children Daniel and Sarah's guardian during the following horrific nights at Collinwood. She sheiled them from the knowledge that the real witch Angelique had murdered Jeremiah- subsequetly making him her zombie slave- and Barnabas before dying herself. However, responsabilities did not change her attitude toward people of lesser rank than she was. She countinued to berate the Servants of Collinwood, especially Ben Loomis. When Joshua Collins annonced that his family would be moving to the newly built Collinwood Millicent wished to transfer her luggage from the old house to Collinwood but was told by Ben that not all of her belongings could be brought over in a single night. She employed Ben the following evening, to help load the luggage into a carriage.
While Ben loaded luggage, Millicent began arranging her packages and trunks. Busy, she glimpsed a shadowy figure from across the manor hall, mistaking it for Ben. It was in fact Barnabas- risen as a vampire by Angelique's curse. Millicent screamed, trying to fight Barnabas off but unwitingly became her vampire cousin's first victim. Ben discovered her fainted form were the family treated her loss of blood. While uncontious, Millicent delierously echoed Barnabas' name. Joshua had Millicent's attack concealed as fever. Despite the family's best efforts Millicent's condition worsened. That night, as Barnabas prepared to attack his sister-in-law Josette, Millicent stopped him sacrificing herself. The next day, the children discovered her dead body in the woods. She was interred in the Collins mausoleum that afternoon. Joshua had Millicent's death doctored in the Collins Family History Book claiming she died of her fever.