Nicholson Research Report

Nicholson Research Report

Our Nicholson Line in America

By Mary Parsons Flegel

Introduction

In this paper, I have attempted to establish a connection between myself and the Nicholson family who immigrated to the colonies from England in 1675. In many cases, I did not find verifiable documentation for the vital statistics of the parents and children in each family, but chose to use the most prevalent information presented by a variety of people on a plethora of web sites. I realize that this is not good research, but my hope is that someone who reads this article will identify errors and provide me with documentation to prove or disprove the information. Please open up your records and compare the data as you read, jotting down any discrepancies that you find. I am quite anxious to meet some new cousins through this project, so please contact me after reading the following.

First Generation: Samuel Nicholson

Our Nicholson family first came to the American colonies in 1675 from England. All indications point to the fact that Samuel Nicholson was a well-to-do Englishman and member of the Society of Friends, [the Quakers]. Samuel and the other Friends were willing to take their chances in the wilderness of the new land in order to escape the religious persecution of their homeland. When the immigrants first arrived in the wilderness of Jersey, they had nothing to sustain themselves, but, because of their friendliness and acceptance toward the local Indian tribes, the Indians kept them supplied with corn and venison. The Friends attributed this good fortune to the help of the almighty (Bowden 401).

An interesting record has been kept of the arrival of the ship “Griffin” on which they sailed from Europe to the New World. “In 1675 John Fenwick, with his children, associates and servants, arrived off Cape May on board the little ship “Griffin.” Captain Griffith, master, and the ship and passengers proceeded along the Eastern shore of Delaware Bay and River for fifty miles and passed the Old Swedes’ fort, located at Elsburg, near the south of the Assamhocking River, which had been built by the Swedes about 1640. At this place a party of English settlers from New Haven, Connecticut colony, undertook a settlement soon after the fort was erected, but became discouraged and returned to New Haven in 1642, leaving the place in the possession of the Swedes. The “Griffin” came to anchor there, September 23, 1675 (O.S), and the next day proceeded up the river along the eastern shore to the wide mouth of the Salem River, followed this river for about three miles until it became quite narrow, when they landed and, considering the place a favorable one for the location of a town, called the spot Salem. The passengers and their household goods were carried to the shore and the first permanent settlement by the English immigrants was made on the eastern shore of the Delaware River” (Lee).

One of the most prominent passengers on the ship was our ancestor. “Samuel Nicholson, a native of Orston, Northamptonshire, England, was one of the associates of John Fenwick on the “Griffin,” and he had with him his wife Ann, and five children, all born in Northamptonshire, the youngest being at the time only three years of age. He and his family were notable among the passengers as being the owners of two thousand acres to be located wherever the settlement should be made, such a possession giving them prominence as leaders, and they were, as well, members of the Society of Friends [Quakers]. Samuel Nicholson had been brought up as a husbandman and, upon arrival at their final location on the Delaware River, he proceeded to survey outside the town limits of Salem, and south of it, his tract of two thousand acres, obtaining full title and possession in the tenth month, 1675. He also purchased a town lot of sixteen acres on Wharf street in New Salem, where he built a house of hewn logs, and in this house the first religious organization in Fenwick colony was made in 1676, and the meetings of the Society of Friends were held in the houses periodically up to 1681, when the need of a meeting house became apparent and to meet this need, Samuel and Ann Nicholson deeded the estate of sixteen acres to ‘Salem Monthly Meeting for a Meeting House and burial ground,’ and the Society enlarged the building, taking out the partitions and making a firm clay floor, and the first yearly meeting was held in the house as transformed, the date of the meeting being 2nd month 15th, 1684. In this way the first home in New Jersey of Samuel Nicholson became the first meeting house of the Society of Friends in the state. Upon surrendering his home, Samuel Nicholson selected a site on his two thousand acre tract for a new home, the place becoming known as Elsinborough, and he was made the first justice of the peace in the Fenwick colony. He devised that his landed estate of Elsinborough be divided between his eldest son Samuel Jr., and his youngest son Abel. He died at his new home, Elsinborough, about 1690, and his widow, Ann, died in 1693. In her will Ann Nicholson devised her estate to the three grandchildren, Rachel, Mary and Elizabeth Abbott, and to her sons, Samuel, Joseph and Abel Nicholson” (Lee). We are not informed as to why Samuel did not include his son Joseph as an heir to his estate.

Children of Samuel and Ann Nicholson were: Parabol, born in 1659, who married Abraham Strand; Elizabeth, born in 1664, who married John Abbott and was the mother of the three girls who were named in her mother’s wil1; Samuel, born in 1666, who willed half of his huge estate to his brother, Joseph, who had not been included in their father’s will; Joseph, born in 1669, who married Hannah Wood; and Abel, born in 1672, who married Mary Tyler.

Second Generation: Joseph Nicholson

Joseph, second son and fourth child of Samuel and Ann Nicholson, was born 30 April 1669 in Wiseton, Nottinghamshire, England, and died 24 September1702 near Haddonfield, Gloucester County, now Camden County, New Jersey at age 33. Joseph and his wife, Hannah, were the first settlers of Newton Township, Gloucester County. After his marriage to Hannah Wood 3 March 1695 in Gloucester County, he lived in the homestead on the north bank of the Monmouth River, where Allowaystown now stands. Of this property he sold one-half to George Abbott, who came from New England about 1696, and the other half to Samuel Stebbins and John Forth. George Abbott built a dwelling house upon the place in 1706 and an addition to the same in 1725, and the house was in continued use as a dwelling and in excellent repair in 1909. Joseph Nicholson, after selling this homestead, removed to then Gloucester County, now Camden, New Jersey, where he died intestate.

The children of Joseph Nicholson and Hannah Wood were Samuel and George.

The first son, Samuel was born about 1696 and died in 1750. He married, first, Sarah Burroughs 09 April 1722, at Haddonfield Monthly Meeting (of the local Quakers, hereafter designated as MM). He married second in about 1744 to Rebecca Saint, and on 10th day 2nd month 1749 he married Jane Engles Albertson, widow of William Albertson.

Third Generation: George Nicholson

The second son of Joseph and Hannah was George. He was born in 1698 in Woodbury, Gloucester County, New Jersey, and died 12 January 1722. He married 6 June 1717 at Haddonfield MM, Burlington County, to Alice Lord, daughter of Joshua Lord and Sarah Wood, also of Woodbury, born 14 September 1696. Their intentions to marry were published in the Haddonfield Monthly Meeting in Gloucester, New Jersey. Alice and her parents were members of the nearby Woodbury MM. Their children were Hannah, born 1717, George, born 1718, Joseph, born 1720, and John, born 1720. After George died, Alice married John Bunting and had eight more children.

Fourth Generation: George Nicholson

George and Alice had a son named George Nicholson. He was born 21 September 1718 at Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey. He married about 21 October 1747 to Elizabeth Stockton who was born 28 December 1729 at Princeton, the daughter of Joseph Stockton and Elizabeth Doughty.

The children of George and Elizabeth were: Samuel, born about 1752; Jacob, born about 1756; John, born 9 May 1757 and married first to Mary Macomb(s)

or Combs, and second to Catherine Stevenson; Joseph, born about 1758; Doughty, born about 1760; Elsie, born about 1762; Mary Hannah, born about 1764 and married Andrew Anderson; and Daniel, born 27 November 1769 and married to Elizabeth Pegg or Piggott. All of these children were born in New Jersey.

Fifth Generation: Joseph Nicholson

It is at this point in the narrative that some missing pieces of the puzzle have prevented me and other researchers from climbing our Nicholson family tree directly to Samuel and Anne, who immigrated from England and settled in West Jersey. I am fairly confident, however, that I have patched the pieces together and have accurately identified this next generation.

George and Elizabeth Nicholson, mentioned as the fourth generation, had a son named Joseph. This Joseph Nicholson was born about 1760 in the area where Princeton, New Jersey later was established, or Monmouth County, New Jersey. He married first, probably in New Jersey, about 1785, to an unknown. Next, he married about 1794 to Sarah Webster of Plainfield, Essex County, New Jersey in Fayette, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Taylor Webster, of Plainfield, Essex County, New Jersey, and Hannah Jackson, of Flushing, Long Island, New York. Joseph died after November, 1836 in Monroe County, Ohio. His will was dated 23 October 1833 and filed in November of 1836. Sarah died before 31 August of 1815, Monroe County, since that is the date of Joseph’s marriage to his third wife, Rachel Mathing. I doubt that Joseph’s family moved to Monroe County. The county was organized in 1813, and part of Belmont County became Monroe County at that time.

Joseph had five children, probably by two different wives. With his first wife his children were James, born about 1788, and Elizabeth, born about 1790, who married Israel Wood 6 February 1812 in Belmont County. With his wife, Sarah Webster, Joseph’s children were George, born about 1794 in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, Hannah, born 31 January 1796 in Fayette, and died 26 July 1853 in Washington, Belmont County, Ohio, and William, born about 1798 in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, who died 25 December 1877 in Washington Township, Monroe County, Ohio. Hannah married 7 April 1814 to Everhart Perkins. William married first to Nancy Reed 16 February 1817 and second in April 1828 to Nancy Vass in Goshen Township, Belmont County, Ohio. In Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, which is just north of Fayette, Pennsylvania, a George Nicholson of the right age resides in 1850 with his wife Nancy, and children Elizabeth, Jane, William, George, and Mary. This could be the George who is a son of Joseph.

Earl Anderson Research

A Nicholson descendent, Earl Anderson, who has researched this line and who was kind enough to share his research in a three ring binder with my mother, deserves the credit for the following pages from his research notes. I have added in brackets information to clarify his narrative.

“Pennsylvania was merely a stop enroute for Joseph and Sarah Webster Nicholson. Quakers formed settlements in southwestern Pennsylvania at Westland MM and Redstone Monthly Meeting [in Washington and Fayette counties in southwestern Pennsylvania] about 1768. Redstone Quarterly Meeting became a way-station for migrating Friends coming from the East and the South on their way to Ohio. These meetings on the Monongahela [River] received the certificates of many Quaker families and later transferred them to new Meetings beyond the Ohio River.

Quaker records explain that there was a mass exodus from Burlington County, [flanked by Gloucester and Monmouth counties] New Jersey to Concord [Monthly Meeting in Belmont, County, Ohio]. Settlers came as early as 1788 and 1789 to Belmont County, which was organized 07 September 1801 from parts of Jefferson and Washington Counties.

Joseph S. Nicholson (by census records) was born between 1760 and 1770. [Joseph, son of George and Elizabeth in New Jersey was born about 1758, according to all the records I have found. Since this is an “about” date, and no other Joseph in the descendency fits our scenario, I believe this to be the one who moved to Ohio. Only one record has surfaced to give evidence of his activities between his birth and his appearance in Pennsylvania. In 1790, Joseph appears in the Fayette County, Pennsylvania census with a young male and two females. Next, he appears in the Quaker Westland Monthly Meeting records. He would have been about 35 years old. Joseph Nicholson and his two children were received by request at the Westland Monthly Meeting in southwest Pennsylvania, Washington and Fayette Counties, in June of 1793. A month later, he and his two children, James and Elizabeth were granted certificate to Redstone Monthly Meeting of Fayette County. His wife is not mentioned at all. However, on the same day in July, Sarah Nicholson is received in Westland MM from Rahway MM (New Jersey) and endorsed (sent on) to Redstone MM.]

Joseph was recorded next as received by Redstone MM on 27 July 1793 with two children, James and Elizabeth. [The record shows that Sarah was received into the Westland Monthly Meeting from Rahway, NJ on July 27, 1793. She was received into the Redstone MM on 23 August 1793. She is listed as the wife of James Nicholson. She was received on certificate of the Plainfield MM (Rahway was combined with Plainfield at one point) in New Jersey and endorsed by Westland MM in nearby Washington County, Pa.]

[It is clear from the records that Joseph and Sarah were not married until sometime between 1793 and 1802 when they are mentioned as a family in the Redstone MM minutes. I’m not sure why there is not a marriage record in the Redstone minutes. His first wife would have died between the census in 1790 and his acceptance into the Westland MM in 1793.]

[The Redstone records showed Joseph and Sarah as husband and wife with five children: James Elizabeth, George, Hannah, and William. The entire family was granted a certificate in 1802 to Concord Monthly Meeting in the Northwest Territory. The Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790 – 1920 shows the Belmont County area as part of Jefferson County, Ohio, Northwest Territory in 1800. By 1810, it was designated as Belmont County, Ohio.]

The Nicholsons next moved to Belmont County, Ohio. Joseph and his wife Sarah with their five children were received by Concord Monthly Meeting on certificate from Redstone 17 April 1702. [Later] Joseph Nicholson is listed on page 11 of the Belmont County, Ohio tax list of 1806.

[We next find Joseph in the records of Plainfield MM in Belmont, Ohio.] Joseph was disowned from Plainfield MM in 1811 but reinstated by Stillwater MM in 1812. Stillwater MM was formed in 1808 from part of Concord MM in Eastern Belmont. Elizabeth, George, Hannah, and William were granted certificate in 1812 to Stillwater Monthly Meeting” (Earl Anderson).

More Evidence

The following is additional evidence that this Joseph is our link to the New Jersey Nicholsons.

Evidence 1:

Strong evidence exists to prove that Sarah, Joseph’s wife, was the Sarah Webster who transferred from the Rahway/Plainfield Monthly Meeting in New Jersey. Earl Anderson cited a law suit filed in the Ross County, Ohio Court of Common Pleas, July 1816. John Webster, brings suit against members of the Webster and Nicholson families. The record states that Sarah Nicholson, Joseph’s wife, was the late Sarah Webster, heir of Taylor Webster. Taylor Webster was born in Plainfield, Essex County, New Jersey. Plainfield MM was located next to Rahway MM. In fact, at one point, the two meetings were combined into one meeting. The Sarah that shows up in the Redstone MM in Fayette County, Pennsylvania was transferred from Rahway MM.

Evidence 2

Joseph’s parents, George and Elizabeth Stockton Nicholson, were born at Princeton and Monmouth, New Jersey, according to the family history records I have found. (I have not found Monthly Meeting records to support this.) Their oldest son was born in Princeton, and the other children were born in Monmouth, which borders that area. Both Princeton and part of Monmouth County would have been a part of the Plainfield/Rahway MM. It is possible that the Websters and the Nicholsons knew each other through their association with the local monthly meeting. However, a search of Quaker Marriages in Plainfield and Rahway Meetings, New Jersey, 1712-1889 does not uncover one single Nicholson, though the records are full of Websters. In fact, the marriage of Sarah’s parents can be found here.

Evidence 3

The New Jersey Joseph had a brother named Jacob. Beyond their estimated birth information, nothing is known of the two New Jersey brothers. However, the Belmont County, Ohio Joseph is approximately the right age to be the same as the New Jersey Joseph. Also, in Belmont County, Ohio, is a Jacob Nicholson who is the right age to be the same Jacob who was the brother to the New Jersey Joseph.

Evidence 4

Another interesting detail is that several of Jacob’s children are named for earlier Nicholsons in the Samuel Nicholson line, while all but one of Joseph’s children bear these names. Joseph’s oldest child is James, which is not a common Nicholson name, at least in our line. It is interesting that Sarah’s first husband was James. There is another line of Nicholsons in the area with James as a prominent family name. Maybe Joseph and James were not related, at least closely.

Tying the Evidence Together

One piece of data provides fairly strong evidence that the Belmont County, Ohio Joseph was born in the right area of New Jersey to be the descendent of the original immigrant, Samuel Nicholson; that piece of evidence is the Ross County, Ohio court case. It states that Sarah’s parents are Taylor and Hannah Webster. Taylor was a resident of the right area of New Jersey to have had close associations with the Nicholsons. Then, the fact that Joseph and Sarah appear in the Redstone MM records at exactly the same time is also strong evidence. I suspect that her husband, James, mentioned in the Redstone MM records may have been a cousin of Joseph. It is quite likely that Sarah and her husband, James, and Joseph and his wife, who died after 1790, may have attended the same church meetings in their home state. Additionally, Jacob is not a common Nicholson name, yet the New Jersey Joseph has a brother named Jacob, and the Ohio Joseph and Jacob are the only two early Nicholsons in Belmont County.

All of this information may be made more clear by viewing it in the timeline below.

Timeline for Joseph Nicholson (Sorry, the table did not copy into this document!)

DateEventSourceNotes

About 1760Birth of Joseph Nicholson to George Nicholson and Elizabeth Stockton.Various online sourcesOf New Jersey, probably Burlington or Monmouth. Some say Princeton but that was not a town at the time.

About 1785Marriage to unknown wife1790 census, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Joseph and one young son and two females.Joseph and two children appear in the Redstone MM in 1793 but his wife is not mentioned.

About 1788Birth of son James1790 census Tyrone, Fayette, Pa .

Quaker MM records as recorded in Hinshaw’s Encyclopedia of Quaker RecordsIn the 1790 census Joseph had a boy under 16.

About 1790Birth of daughter Elizabeth1790 census, Tyrone, Fayette, Pa.

Quaker MM records as recorded in Hinshaw’s Encyclopedia of Quaker Records

In the same 1890 census, Joseph also has two females in the family. One would be his wife and the other probably a daughter. The Fayette MM records say Joseph arrived with a boy, James, and a girl Elizabeth. The Fayette MM records say Joseph arrived with a boy, James, and a girl Elizabeth.

About 1792Death of Joseph’s first wife.Westland MM records Joseph appears in the Westland MM records with two children but no wife in 1793.

1793Received in Westland MMBoth Joseph and Sarah were received into the minutes in June and July. Sarah from Rahway MM in New Jersey, Joseph, no record of where he is from.All four are granted certificate to Redstone MM in July.

June 22, 1793Received by request into the Westland MM, Washington County, PennsylvaniaQuaker MM records as recorded in Hinshaw’s Encyclopedia of Quaker RecordsJoseph and children. Sarah is not listed with them.

July 27, 1793Granted certificate to Redstone MM in Fayette County, Pennsylvania from Westland MM.Quaker MM records as recorded in Hinshaw’s Encyclopedia of Quaker RecordsJoseph and children James and Elizabeth. Sarah is not listed as part of the family.

Aug. 23, 1793Received into Redstone MM from Westland MM.Quaker MM records as recorded in Hinshaw’s Encyclopedia of Quaker RecordsJoseph and children James and Elizabeth.

Sarah was received into Redstone the same day but the record says she was the wife of James. It looks like Joseph and Sarah were not married at this point. They are sent and received as separate people. The children are listed with Joseph, not Sarah. This could be our Sarah married to a brother or cousin of Joseph and she later married Joseph. Just speculation.

About 1794Marriage to Sarah Webster Redstone MM records show Sarah as wife of James in 1793, but wife of Joseph in 1802.This indicates that Joseph’s two oldest children were not the children of Sarah. Ages of the other children will be between 1793 and 1802, when the family is transferred to Belmont Co. Ohio, Concord MM.

About 1795Birth of son GeorgeRedstone MM recordsWhen Joseph and Sarah transferred to Concord MM in Belmont County, Ohio in 1802, all five children were with them.

31 Jan 1796Birth of daughter HannahBorn in Belmont Co. Ohio

About 1799Birth of son William in Fayette County, Pa.

1800Nothing in census.No Joseph in 1800. Checked Pa, Ohio, NJ

Maybe they were traveling from Fayette, Pa to Belmont, Ohio at the time of the census.

March 5, 1802Granted certificate to Concord MM in NW Territory. Quaker MM records as recorded in Hinshaw’s Encyclopedia of Quaker RecordsJoseph and wife Sarah with five children. I suspect that James died after 1793 and Joseph married Sarah between 1793 and 1802. Why isn’t the marriage recorded?

April 17, 1802Received to Concord MM from Redstone MM.Quaker MM records as recorded in Hinshaw’s Encyclopedia of Quaker RecordsJoseph, Sarah, and the five children.

1806Tax List of Belmont Co. OhioTax list of Belmont Co. OhioPage 11

1810Nothing in censusNo Joseph in 1810 census.Did the census taker miss the family?

1811Disowned from Plainfield MMQuaker MM records as recorded in Hinshaw’s Encyclopedia of Quaker RecordsReinstated in Stillwater MM in 1812. Same area.

About 1811Death of wife Sarah Webster.Marriage of Joseph to Rachel, entry to Stillwater MM, and the lawsuit in 1816 establish the estimated death.

Jan 28, 1812Received in Stillwater MM.Quaker MM records as recorded in Hinshaw’s Encyclopedia of Quaker RecordsJoseph and children George, Hannah, and William. Sarah is not with them. Elizabeth married Israel Wood the month before.

11 Aug 1815Marriage to Rachel Mathany In Belmont County, Ohio

Ohio Marriages 1703-1900

July 1816Named in a lawsuit against Joseph and the heirs of Sarah Webster Nicholson.Court of Common Pleas, Ross County, OhioJohn Webster vs. Hannah Webster and heirs of Sarah.

18201820 Census Wayne, Belmont, Ohio1820 census Jacob and Joseph on one page, William on the next.

Joseph and wife over 45, a female between 10 and 16.

18301830 Census, Belmont, Ohio1830 censusJoseph and Rachel over 60,

1 male under 5, 1 male 15 to 20, one male 20 to 30, 1 female 15 to 20, one 20 to 30, one female 40 to 50.

23 Oct 1833Will datedBelmont County Court Records

Nov. 1836Will filedBelmont County Ohio Court RecordsOnly heirs wife Rachel, daughter Hannah, and son William.

Sixth Generation: William Nicholson

Remember that Joseph appears in Fayette County, Pennsylvania with two children, James and Elizabeth. We do not know the name of their mother. Then, while living in Fayette County, Joseph marries Sarah. Though no marriage record has surfaced for them, the Quaker Monthly Meeting record says that they are the parents of five children: James, Elizabeth, George, Hannah, and William. We know that the first two children are actually the children of Joseph and his first unknown wife. The last three children belong to Sarah, and her youngest son, William, is our ancestor.

Though the census and other records for William give his birth date as 1804, the Monthly Meeting records and other events indicate that he was probably born about 1799 in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. He arrived in Belmont County, Ohio with his parents, who were accepted into the Concord Monthly Meeting Records of that county. Nothing more is known of him until his marriage to Nancy Reed 16 February 1817 in Belmont County, Ohio. This marriage is recorded in Ohio Marriages 1803-1900. Nancy Reed Nicholson died in about 1825.

Next, William marries Nancy Vass 3 April 1828 in Goshen Township, Belmont County, Ohio. The marriage is recorded in the Ohio Marriages 1803-1900. This Nancy was born 24 October 1803. The place of her birth is debatable and has not been firmly established. She was the daughter of Rice Curtis Vass and Peggy Wood.

William and Nancy’s children are: Alcinda (or Lucinda), born 12 December 1829 at Goshen, Belmont County, married to Alfred Phillips 1853, and died 8 February, 1872 in Illinois; Arthonessia, born 8 May 1832, married Andrew Anderson about 1853, and died 5 January 1902; John D. Nicholson, born 27 December 1834, married Sarah Martin 22 January 1857, and died 25 November 1910 in Desoto, Kansas; a male child, born about 1835 in Goshen Township, Belmont County and died before 1850; William V. Nicholson, born 30 March 1837 at Goshen, married in 1847 to Lucinda Snyder, and died 1 September 1918; George, born about 1841 at Goshen; and Lavina, born 3 February 1842 at Goshen, married Alfred Sutton about 1860, and died 12 November 1872 at Lawrence Township, Washington County, Ohio.

The 1840 and 1850 censuses both show the family residing in Goshen Township, Belmont County, Ohio. By 1860 the family is living in Graysville, Washington Township, Monroe County, Ohio. In 1870, the address of the Nicholsons is still Graysville.

In 1850, the US Federal Non-population Schedule places William in Goshen, Belmont County, Ohio and gives some detailed information about his farm and other property. He owned 80 acres of land, 40 of it improved and 40 unimproved. The cash value of his farm was $1600. He owned 3 head of horses, and five head of cattle, along with 11 sheep and 12 swine. The value of this livestock was $184. He owned 40 bushels of wheat and 800 pounds of tobacco. All in all, William seems to be doing pretty well on the farm.

The same report in 1860 shows him living in Graysville, Washington Township, Monroe County, Ohio. His improved acreage is 20 acres, and his unimproved acreage is 120, with the farm being valued at $600. He now owns 2 horses, 2 milch cows, 18 sheep, and 3 swine, with the total value of his livestock at $225. He owns 50 bushels of wheat, 150 bushels of corn, 65 bushels of oats, and 130 pounds of tobacco, along with 80 pounds of wool. It seems that his move to Monroe County gave him a decreased farm value, but he would be about 60 years old by now, so he may be cutting back on his workload.

William died 25 December 1877 in Graysville and was buried at the Graysville Cemetery in Washington Township, Monroe County, Ohio. The Findagrave.com Internet site gives the gravestone information.

Seventh through Twelfth Generations

William and Nancy’s second child, Arthonessia, married Andrew Anderson. Their child, Viola Priscilla Anderson, married Thomas Johnson. That couple had a girl child, Leola Grace Johnson, who married Simon Hensel Whitney. The daughter of this couple is Leola Virginia Whitney who married Rex Parsons. I am the daughter of Leola and Rex.

Conclusion

I will be publishing this report on the Internet. Again, it is my hope that other descendents of the Nicholson family will find it and one of two things will happen. First, these distant cousins will find it to be useful and will learn new information that will help them in their search for their ancestors, or, second, a distant cousin will read it and find its flaws. If you, the reader, fit into that category, would you please contact me and set me straight? I have done my best to use the available information, especially in the Joseph Nicholson generation, to establish our relationship to the original Samuel Nicholson, who immigrated from England. However, I do want my details to be accurate and would appreciate any information from you that would correct or clarify what I have written. Contact me at marypflegel@gmail.com or at 208-716-0499.