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Monday, 29 June 2009 | |||
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Announcement | |||
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Cousins,
Due to unexpected circumstances I will need to
take down this website in the very near future. If you monitor this site
you may want to copy all the data contained within it for future
reference. I will do the same and hope to one day be able to create
another website where we may once again resume our efforts at researching our
Nichols family as a group.
We have come far in our effort by working together
and hope we can maintain contact with one another as time passes. Please
let me hear from you from time to time. I wish all our family research
members well and trust you will maintain an interest in researching our
ancestry.
With Kindest Regards,
Danny Nichols
Tennessee
New e-mail address: nichols.danny.m@gmail.com
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Tuesday, 20 March 2007 | |||
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Greetings Nichols Cousins | |||
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Hello to all our Nichols cousins! Yes, it's been a while since you
heard from me. Historical pursuits have taken me in other directions these
past months. I have not lost sight of our objective, however, and I hope
the same holds true for each of you.
I still chase leads here and there and continue the hope of finding
something pertinent to our quest that I can share with each of you. I hope
you have not given up the chase. I plan to resume the Nichols research
effort once the current project that consumes my time is concluded.
Please do not feel that with my absence this project has halted. The
Discussion Board is there for all to use and derive any benefit from. It
will remain active as long as I am able to maintain it. Please feel free
to continue posting as you find materials of interest or have questions you
might like to ask of others in our research group.
With Best Regards,
Danny Nichols
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Sunday, 19 February 2006 | |||
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Joshua Nichols in Madison County, KY | |||
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Hi All,
I am pasting below a transcription of an early will from Madison County, KY, which is very interesting as I will point out below. First, here's the transcription: Madison County, Kentucky Wills and Estates, 1785 – 1813, compiled by Charles M. Franklin: Dated 27 Feb., 1792 Will Book A, p. 31 Recorded 3 Apr., 1792 Province, John: Wife – Mary Province, Dau. – Sarah Province, Son – William Province, Dau. – Rebeckah Province, Son – Alexander Province, Son – John Province, Dau. – Ann Province, Dau. – Mary Province, Other children not named Exec. – Mary Province, Alexander Denny, Samuel Woods Wit. – Joshua Nichols, Robert Henderson, Alÿÿÿ ndfather of Charity Denny who was a second wife of my gg grandfather John Alexander, son of James Alexander and grandson of Samuel Alexander who left the will in 1784 in Mecklenburg. C. Samuel Woods, I believe is the father of Charity Woods, second wife of John Bertrand Dysart who sold land to Samuel Alexander in Mecklenburg County, NC in 1781 (I will add a word of caution that I'm not entirely sure about Samuel Woods). D. Joshua Nichols is the puzzling person who appears in Madison County, KY and later in Tennessee. He is somehow obviously related to Daniel Nichols, but how??? In his 1793 will also in Madison Co., KY, Matthew Cowden named Joshua Nichols as his "step-father." Matthew Cowden also had property still in Iredell Co., NC ÿÿÿ maiden name is listed as Alcorn (remember that a witness to the Samuel Alexander will was Alcorn). This James Dysart and Martha Cowden migrated to Tennessee with John Dysart, but later moved to Randolph County, MO which, of course, is where my ggg grandfather James Alexander settled as well! E. Robert Henderson is also very puzzling. He had early land grants in Kentucky including land near Station Camp Creek and also near Paint Lick Creek where my Alexander and Logan families were living as were the Nichols, Denny, Woods, Dysart, Herron, and Kennedy families among others. In 1813, Robert Henderson deeded a significant portion of his Station Camp creek to my ggg grandfather James Alexander. | |||
David Brown Here's information on the Dysart Family in Randolph County: This is on the Randolph County Rootsweb site, but partly transcribed from book, "Old Families of Randolph County, Missouri" Dysart, James -- 1777 Burke Co., NC-1853 Rand., [s\o John (17 Dec 1749 Chester Co., PA-10 Sep 1842 Lewisburg, TN) & Martha (Patton)], m. Martha (b. 1780 NC, d\o Robert & Mary (Alcorn) Cowden); to MO 1818 & owned land in southern Rand. He was the third permanent citizen in the county, the other two were the Holman brothers. He ran for the legislature as a Democrat in 1850. He was a Justice of the Peace and took the 1880 Federal Census. children: (1) Nicholas, (2) Robert [d. Saline Co.], (3) John [d. Howard Co.], (4) Rev. James E.; Ref: HRM84 p. 673, John Wayland, OFR p. 93-95 Danny Nichols David, Great digging! The Joshua Nichols referenced above could possibly be the Joshua who by 1803 was living in Rutherford Co. Tenn. with his father, Joseph Nichols. Both Joseph Nichols and (a) Joshua Nichols signed the petition in 1803 that led to the founding of Rutherford Co. TN. This Joseph Nichols is also the person for whose children Daniel Nichols issued an affidavit in 1850 testifying that he knew Joseph Nichols and had lived in his home in Rowan Co. NC while Joseph served in the militia during the Rev. War. It appears we are getting closer to finding the relation between these two men. Perhaps by learning more of Joseph Nichols we can unravel this mystery. wanda killgore 24 Feb 2006: I'm not convinced the Joshua Nichols mentioned in Matthew Cowden's will of 1793 Madison Co., KY ever went to Rutherford Co., TN. So far, I have four Joshua Nichols in my files (Caution - I'm still working on this and haven't confirmed a lot of this - use the following as clues, not facts): Joshua Sr., B ca 1722 (maybe MD), D aft 1778 (Rowan Co., NC Tax List), wife Jennet ____. He is reported to have had a son named Joshua, B 10 July 1758 Rowan Co., NC, D 7 Sept 1841 Orange Co., IN, married to Margaret Porter. (Did he pass through KY on his way to IN?). Joshua Sr. and Jennet also reportedly had another son named Capt. Jacob Nichols. B ca 1740, D April 1797 Iredell Co., NC, married 17 May 1762 to Agness Lock/Locke and they had a son named Joshua, B ca 1764, no further info found (yet). Then, there is Joseph (married to Elizabeth Conger), reportedly also another son of above Joshua Sr. and Jennet, who D 1826 Rutherford Co., TN) who had a son named Joshua, but he wasn't B until ca 1792 per my notes. I think this is the family we need to look at more closely. I haven't turned up a will or estate settlement for Joshua Sr. yet, but sure would like to have proof of his children. Could our Daniel be a son or grandson of Joshua Sr. and Jennet? Thursday, 16 February 2006 | |||
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Daniel Nichols' birthdate | |||
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BIRTHDATE I
have been looking at some of the data we have on Daniel Nichols and his family,
as given on the other website that sets out the Daniel Nichols genealogy. I am concerned about some of the data
that we have been accepting based on some sources that cannot be submitted to
scrutiny. Why do we accept that
Daniel was born on exactly 1 Jun 1768?
I understand that this material comes to us from a descendant of Daniel,
with certain family traditions, some LDS records from contemporary sources, and
so on. Where do they get such a
marvelously specific date? As
we are about to see, even primary sources are not as accurate as we would
like. Taking
as thorough a sampling as I could of the various sources attesting to
Daniel’s
age (and that of his wife Mary, supposedly born 26 Sep 1770), unless I am
missing something we are celebrating their birthdays a little
late: Daniel's
birthdate 1820
Census Rutherford, Rutherford, Tennessee 1
male 26-44
Born 1774-1796 1830
Census Rutherford, Tennessee 1
male 60-69
Born 1760-1770 1840
Census Rutherford, Tennessee 1
male 70-79
Born 1760-1770 1850
Census Yourees, Rutherford, Tennessee Daniel
Nichol 90
Born 1760 Mary's
birthdate 1820
Census Rutherford, Rutherford, Tennessee 1
female 26-45
born 1774-1796 1830
Census Rutherford, Tennessee 1
female 60-69
born 1760-1770 1840
Census Rutherford, Tennessee 1
female 70-79
Born 1760-1770 1850
Census Yourees, Rutherford, Tennessee Mary
Nichol 91 Born 1759-1760 The
obvious outlier for both of them is the 1820 census, showing them a couple of
decades younger than the rest.
Besides that, however, the censuses are remarkably uniform in giving us
ages of two people born 1760-1770.
The kicker is the 1850 census, reporting Daniel and Mary both being in
their nineties. The problem with
this is that if Mary were born in 1760, she would have given birth to her last
child at the age of 52. Yikes! Unlikely, if not entirely out of the
question. Maybe 1771 is an
acceptable birth year for her, despite the 1850 census’s
disagreement. I still have my
doubts about Daniel, however. Where
did we get those dates? Were they
contemporary Mormon genealogy sources? BIRTHPLACE Daniel’s
North Carolina birthplace is perhaps easier to accept, as Daniel attested to it
himself in the 1850 census. Still,
we see how far Mary’s
own reported birthdate got us - and there is also some disagreement amongst
those of his children that survived until the 1880 Census to report their
parent’s
birthplaces. Such reports are often
rather unreliable, but perhaps worth considering as the people that reported
certainly had a better idea of where their parents were born than we
do. For
your consideration: Daniel's
birthplace: 1850
Census Daniel
Nichol
born NORTH CAROLINA Margaret born Kentucky Father NORTH CAROLINA Mother
North Carolina Levi Born
Kentucky Father KENTUCKY Mother North Carolina Daniel
Born Tennessee
Father TENNESSEE Mother Tennessee Easter born Tennessee
Father TENNESSEE Mother Tennessee The
votes: 2 for North Carolina, 2 for Tennessee, 1 for
Kentucky Mary's
Birthplace 1850
Census Mary
Nichol
born MARYLAND 1880
Census Levi
A Nickols
Born Kentucky Father Kentucky Mother NORTH CAROLINA Margaret
N Pace
born Kentucky Father North Carolina Mother NORTH
CAROLINA Daniel
B Nichols
Born Tennessee Father Tennessee Mother TENNESSEE Easter
Jones
born Tennessee Father Tennessee Mother TENNESSEE The
votes: 2 for North Carolina, 2 for Tennessee, 1 for
Maryland Now
this is a pretty picture.
I’d
like to rely on the individuals themselves, but of course census takers
sometimes make mistakes. The
Tennessee reports are suspicious, for the census taker simply wrote Tennessee
for child, husband, and wife.
Still, who knows? And then
there’s
the Kentucky and Maryland reports as well - Maryland apparently coming from Mary
herself! …or
maybe the census taker meant to write North Carolina on Mary’s
1850 census entry and Maryland on David’s,
but accidentally transposed them.
There’s
more than a few Nichols’
in Maryland during that time period.
Hmm… I’m
not saying I’ve
found anything conclusive about the birthplace. But perhaps it inspires some heretofore
neglected avenues of research. The
more important one is Daniel, of course, as we still don’t
know his parents. It appears
we’ve
gone a long time without a breakthrough about his forbears, perhaps we have not
been looking in the right places. (Though I do not know of course what work
actually has been done.
I’m
just guessing most research has been in North Carolina
sources.) Also,
presuming the family came there from somewhere else, what exactly were Daniel
(and presuming further) his parents and/or siblings doing in Kentucky 1780-1790
anyway? Could it be that they were
there to farm land granted to them as a result of service in the Revolutionary
War? I
can find no evidence that Daniel was granted any land, but other people named
Nichols were: Thomas, John, and Charles (though Charles assigned his to someone
else). Possible relations? Not necessarily, and maybe the
Nichols’
actually had nothing to do with the Revolutionary War. But once it may jog someone’s
memory or suggest a fruitful avenue of research. Or,
perhaps you all can refer me to the proper sources of the specific birth dates
and places that have been accepted for so long. Well. That certainly took a lot of words to
not say a whole lot. There may not
be much crucial value in these considerations of new dates - but the more
confidence we have in our starting point, the easier it will be to get where we
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Danny Nichols Garrett, I am sending you the affidavit of Daniel attesting to his knowledge of one, Joseph Nichols, wherein Daniel advises that he lived in the household of Joseph Nichols during the time that Joseph was away serving in the militia during the Rev. War. This places both Daniel and Joseph Nichols in Rowan Co. NC during the Rev. War. years. It does not tell us what family connection they had. One would strongly suspect, however, that the two were related. Perhaps this clue might fit into the puzzle at some point. wanda killgore 24 Feb, 2006: Great points, Garrett. Danny and I have been wondering these same things. Where DID that exact birthdate come from? Is there a family Bible floating around we don't know about? Is there something in the LDS records that would answer these questions? I'm not that familiar with their records and what's available. Good post, Garrett! Tuesday, 07 February 2006 | |||
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Cuthbert Nicholson of Meck. Co., NC | |||
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I think we can safely eliminate Cuthbert Nicholson of early Meck. Co., NC in our search for Daniel's father. However, since no one on the Internet knows who Cuthbert's father was, there may turn out to be an earlier connection. Cuthbert did have a son named Joseph, B ca 1739, D bef 1826 Greene Co., GA, married to Lillis McAdoo Jack, B 1754 Cumberland Co., PA and dtr. of Patrick Jack, D 1780 Meck. Co., NC. Cuthbert was married to Jannet/Jennet Candor, dtr. of Josias Candor/Candour who D 1748 Lancaster Co., PA. They also had sons George, B ca 1737, D aft 1790 Meck. Co., NC (per Worldconnect) and John, B ca 1738, D 1817-1818 Oglethorpe Co., GA. Cuthbert, George, John, and Joseph are mentioned with land on Sugar Creek; Joseph also on Paw Creek and town lot in Charlotte; George also town lot in Charlotte. Cuthbert and Jannet are buried in Steele Creek Pres. Church Cem., Meck Co., NC. Cuthbert was first recorded in Meck. Co. in 1767. This family is always given as Nicholson, not Nichols. Daniel's marriage bond to Mary Alexander in KY also spells his name as Nicholson. I am posting this info in case these locations and/or names pop up again in our search and to help weed out some of the Meck. Co., NC names. I am posting the following marriages from Rootsweb to show other Nichols/on names who may be related to Cuthbert and as another example of the many ways the name Nichols can be spelled in the records. The coincidence is there are a lot of other names on this marriage list that sound like Meck. Co., NC names (Houston, Alexander, Black, Sharpe, Jack, Kilpatrick, Sample, McKnight (McKnitt), etc.). Did any of these other Nichols/on families listed below come to our area of NC? Also keep in mind our Daniel and Mary Nichols had a son named William. I have googled and googled and can't find anything else on the names below. First Presbyterian Church Marriages 1702-1745, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA: Archibald Nickle and Esther Reed, 13 Jan 1722. John Nicklis and Eliz. Nicholson, 13 Sept 1740. William Nichols and Mary Ross, 29 Oct 1725. William Nichols and Jane Johnson, 9 Sept 1725. William Nichols and Eliz. Hill, 22 June 1728. Cuthbert Nicholson and Jannet Candor, 31 June 1736. Philadelphia Co., PA, settled as early as 1650, was one of the three original counties of PA, formed in 1682, just across the Delaware River from NJ. The other two original counties were Bucks and Chester and Philadelphia Co. sits between the two. Lancaster Co., PA was formed 1729 from Chester Co. and Cumberland Co., PA was formed 1750 from Lancaster Co. All are in the SE corner of PA. So, one down and a million to go. Keep looking, good luck, and my best to you all - Wanda. | |||
Norma Jones I am searching for Nichols in North Carolina, with little or nothing to go on. Three children Rachel Nichols B ? marion Co Tennessee Married ?(no record) to William Christopher Columbus Adams Sr. Rachel (head of household )1830 5 boys. One William Christopher Columbus Adams Jr. b Marion Co Tennessee 1823 and David Marcus Adams b Marion Co Tennessee. 1850 Census Franklin Co Arkansas Harvey Nichols 1814 Tennessee 1850 Census Franklin Co Arkansas Jesse Nichols born Marion Co Tennessee 1817 married Juliann Ransom D/ Geroge Ransom In Marshell Co. Alabama 1839. 1850 Census Franklin Co Arkansas 1850 census father born NC Do you know this family??? Norma Jones Norma53dave@ gmail.com Friday, 20 January 2006 | |||
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New Year Questions | |||
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Happy New Year! Are there questions that you may each have that you would
like to post on the Discussion Board? This is the best way to promote
discussion that may eventually lead to finding an answer to some of your
questions. Of course there is no guarantee of an answer but with us all
knowing what needs to be searched for, there would be a better chance of
finding one.
Maybe a roll call to see who is still on board would be in order. Please acknowledge on the Discussion Board in some way that you are still checking in. Thanks, Danny Nichols
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Wanda Killgore 29 Jan 2006: I'm still here (or there). I'm working on these Alexanders (there's only a bajillion of them, right David?) and the Nichols are under that stack. As soon as I get through entering all these Alexander notes (and hopefully find something on our Samuel, but it looks bleak), I'll be back with the Nichols research. Don't give up, we're still interested! We just need one more little fact (O.K., a few more) (and a whole lot more time to work on this) to get us going again. It's out there (somewhere) and we just have to dig deeper. My best to you all and keep looking - Wanda. David Brown Posted January 26: Happy New Year to you Danny and also to everyone else involved in the Alexander/Nichols genealogy reseach! Although I've been in the process of moving lately, I'm still working on the Alexanders and also on their connection with the Nichols family. I am still needing more information on Samuel Alexander (who were his ancestors?)who died in 1784 in Mecklenburg Co., NC as well as additional proof that his family is the same that appears later (by 1789) in Madision/Garrard Co., KY! Best Regards, David Brown Friday, 23 December 2005 | |||
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MERRY CHRISTMAS | |||
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MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU EACH AND
EVERYONE.
With Kindest Regards,
Danny
Nichols
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Pearl Yates Margaret Jane Nichols! Oh, who were her parents? Family records indicate that she was born 6 March 1826, that she married John Wesley Parker in Cannon County, TN on 24 June 1847, that she died 20 April 1900 and was buried in the Fulkerson Cemetery, Maries, Missouri. I have not verified where she died; however, I have seen her burial site. She was buried beside her husband John Wesley Parker.
Danny Nichols My how busy our board has become! Thank you Pearl Yates for bringing these postings to my attention. I apologize to all others whom I have neglected to respond to. I also thank you for taking the time to respond. Like many of you, our research efforts on our Nichols line have reached the proverbial "brick wall". In an effort to utilize every available resource to overcome this temporary set back, two of our male Nichols family members have joined the Nichols YDNA project in hopes of connecting with other Nichols families somewhere in the world. What we have learned from such testing is that the surname Nichols is like most other surnames in that it extends from numerous regions of the world and includes families with no recent blood connections that are yet traceable. In the 3 years since those tests were taken, there have been no other test participants who have matched our specific line that are traceable within the past 400 years. This does not preclude there are family connections. It means simply that of over 100 participants in the group there only the two who have tested and matched who represent our particular family line. For those who have not yet pursued this avenue of research, I must recommend checking into it further in order to add it to your arsenal of research tools available to you. Our family roots extend through North Carolina and possibly into Virginia. As with any research, these steps must be documented in order to make the assertion. Our Virginia connection is not yet documented that I am aware and is merely a working theory until otherwise proven. I will appreciate correction to this statement should any of our family members have documented proof to the contrary. For those who have found this discussion board, I know that you have followed our quest and seen our research as it has unfolded during the course of this effort. If you have not found your connection to this family line then there is a very good chance we are not connected within the period of time from the mid 1700's until now. Prior to this date there may still be hope. There were Nichols families arriving in America all through the 1600's and perhaps even earlier. We have much to learn of their connections and from where they originated. Thanks again for checking in with us and I promise to be more attentive in the months to come. With Kindest Regards, Danny Nichols Tennessee, USA