James Nickerson
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1704 - Monomoit (Chatham), Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 5 Dec 1757 - Danbury, Connecticut
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt Birth, , Monomoit (Chatham), Massachusetts in Monomoit (Chatham), Massachusetts
• Will
James' estate names his wife, Dorcas, all the children, and Thomas Nickerson who married daughter Mercy. The mother was appointed guardian of Samuel, Ezra and Dorcas, minors, in 1757. Joseph was appointed guardian of Eliphaz in 1757. Son William was administrator of his brother Joesph's estate in 1764.
Parents
Father: William Nickerson (Between 1668/1675-Bef 1742)
Mother: Deliverance Lombard (Cir 1680-Bef 1717)
Spouses and Children
1. *Dorcas Covel (1714 - 1803)
Marriage: Cir 1730
Status:
Children:
1. Mercy Nickerson (Abt 1732-Bef 1801) 1
2. Joseph Nickerson (1734-1764)
3. Eliphas Nickerson (1740- )
4. Rev Samuel Nickerson (1741-1798)
5. Ezra Nickerson (1746- )
6. Dorcas Nickerson (1748- )
James Nickerson
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 3 Jun 1742 - Chatham, Massachusetts 2
Baptism:
Death: Feb 1808 - Sag Harbor, Long Island
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Elkanah Nickerson (1722-Bef 1778)
Mother: Bathshua Snow (1723- ) 3
Spouses and Children
1. *Rebecca Harding (27 Mar 1746 - )
Marriage: Cir 1765 - Chatham, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. Priscilla Nickerson (1767- )
2. Bathsheba Nickerson (1769- )
3. Roxana Nickerson (1775-1799)
4. Azubah Nickerson (1778- )
5. Henery Nickerson (1781- )
6. Robert Nickerson (1784- )
James Nickerson
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 24 Apr 1730 - Chatham, Massachusetts 4
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: William Nickerson (1701-1763)
Mother: Sarah Covel (Abt 1705-Bef 1790)
James Nickerson
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 16 Jul 1797 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 5
Baptism:
Death:
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Parents
Father: James Nickerson (1769-1840)
Mother: Love Dunham (1769- )
Captain James Nickerson
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 14 May 1797 - Truro, Massachusetts 6
Baptism:
Death:
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Parents
Father:
Mother: Thankful Dyer (1774-1835) 7
Father:
Mother: Thankful Dyer (1774- )
Spouses and Children
1. *Ruth Rich (Est 1810 - )
Marriage:
Status:
Notes
General:
James Nickerson's unwed mother was Thankful Dyer, but which one?
Tentative marriage ID.
James Collings Nickerson
Sex: M
AKA: James Collins Nickerson
Individual Information
Birth: 13 Nov 1784 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 8
Baptism:
Death:
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Parents
Father: Allen Nickerson (1759-1836)
Mother: Molly Collins (1765-1848) 5
James H Nickerson
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1831 - Provincetown, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
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Parents
Father: Captain Caleb Nickerson (1798-1877)
Mother: Bathsheba Freeman (1808-1890)
James Henry Nickerson
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1835
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Mary A Cowing (9 Dec 1838 - 3 Mar 1915) 9
Marriage: 24 Aug 1857 - Boston, Massachusetts
Status:
James Wilson Nickerson
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 20 Jul 1858 - Eastham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 5 Aug 1859 - Eastham, Massachusetts
Burial: in Evergreen Cemetery, Eastham 11
Cause of Death: lung congestion
Parents
Father: Thomas P Nickerson (1823-1880) 11
Mother: Abigail Gould (1826-1864) 12
Notes
Medical:
age 1-0-16
James Wilson Nickerson
b Eastham
s/o Thomas & Abigail
Jane Nickerson
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 7 Sep 1805 - Harwich, Massachusetts 13
Baptism:
Death:
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Parents
Father: Henry Nickerson (1774-1846)
Mother: June Eldredge (1776- )
Jane Nickerson
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 12 Dec 1757 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 14
Baptism:
Death: 27 Apr 1829 - Provincetown, Massachusetts
Burial: in Cemetery #1, Provincetown 15
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Phineas Nickerson (1738-1828)
Mother: Susannah Smith (1738-1802)
Spouses and Children
1. *Samuel Cook (29 Aug 1756 - 18 Feb 1825)
Marriage: Est 1770
Status:
Children:
1. Eleanor Cook (1778-After 1850)
2. Ephraim Cook (1779-1833)
3. Captain Samuel Cook (1781-1867)
4. Captain Jesse Cook (1783-1871) 15
5. Captain Stephen Cook (1786-1859)
6. Ebenezer Cook (1788-1810)
7. Jane Cook (1791-1796) 16
8. Betsey Cook (1794- ) 16
9. Captain James T Cook (1796-1871) 16
10. Jane Cook (1799-1872) 16
Jane Nickerson
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 9 Apr 1722 - Chatham, Massachusetts 17
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Jonathan Nickerson (Abt 1690-After 1749)
Mother: Jane Covell (Abt 1698-Abt 1728)
Spouses and Children
1. *Elisha Gage (13 Oct 1726 - )
Marriage:
Status:
Jane Nickerson
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 10 Sep 1785 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 18
Baptism:
Death: 16 Jul 1868 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 19
Burial: in Hamilton cemetery, Provincetown
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Seth Nickerson (1737-1801)
Mother: Isabel Eldridge (1753-1837)
Spouses and Children
1. *Benjamin Lancy (7 Jul 1780 - 4 Aug 1863)
Marriage: 1802 - Provincetown, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. Sally Lancy (1804-1886)
2. Jane Lancy (1807-1816)
3. Benjamin Lancy (1810-1859)
4. Captain Seth Nickerson Lancy (1814-1863)
5. Jane Lancy (1817-1895)
6. Ellen Maria Lancy (1822-1861)
7. Henry John Lancy (1826-1903)
Notes
Marriage Notes (Benjamin Lancy)
"Supreme Judicial Court
...
Jane Lancy vs. Henry J. Lancy.--This is an action of contract to recover a distributive share amounting to $2220.26 of an estate of which defendent was executor; also to recover further a sum amounting to $500, alleged to be in the hands of defendant belonging to plaintiff. On trial.
King and David for pl'ff; Marston for def't.
The Court was holding an evening hearing session at the hour of going to press, and will not probably finish the business defore it until this forenoon." Barnatable Patriot, 4 jun 1867
"The Supreme Judicial Court closed its session in this village at 10 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The case of Jane Lancy vs. Henry J. Lancy, which trial was in progress at the hour of our going to press last week, was settled by agreement between the parties after it had had been given to the jury, and before the jury had come to an agreement." BP, 11 jun 1867
Jane Nickerson
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 24 May 1796 - Gerry, Massachusetts 21
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Death:
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Parents
Father: Captain Nathan Nickerson (1763-1849)
Mother: Sally Nickerson (1761-1823)
Spouses and Children
1. *Paul Raymond Kendall (26 Nov 1792 - 26 Mar 1845) 22
Marriage: 15 Feb 1818 - Phillipston, Massachusetts 23
Status:
Children:
1. Erasmus Nickerson Kendall (1818- ) 24
2. Edwin Evans Kendall (1820- ) 24
3. Paul Raymond Kendall (1822- ) 24
4. Nathan Kendall (1824- ) 24
5. Sarah Jane Kendall (1826- ) 25
6. Lydia Young Kendall (1829- ) 24
7. David Wellington Kendall (1831- ) 24
8. Henry Myron Kendall (1838- ) 24
9. Thomas Marshall Kendall (1841-1846) 25
Jane Nickerson
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 6 Apr 1699 - Harwich, Massachusetts 27
Baptism:
Death: 28 Apr 1781 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: William Nickerson (1658-1720) 26
Mother: Mary Snow (1661-1718/1721)
Spouses and Children
1. *Judah Baker (21 Mar 1700 - 19 Mar 1782) 26
Marriage: 18 Jun 1724 - Harwich, Massachusetts 28
Status:
Children:
1. Thankful Baker (1730- )
2. Judah Baker (1733-1814)
3. Huldah Baker (1737- )
4. Seth Baker (1739-1828)
Jane W Nickerson
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1929 - Orleans, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
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Parents
Father: Raymond E Nickerson (1893-1976)
Mother: Marion F Eldredge (1893-1962)
Jedidah Nickerson
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1780 - Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Ephraim Cole (12 Aug 1777 - ) 29
Marriage: 1803 - Eastham, Massachusetts 30
Status:
Children:
1. Heman Cole (1803-1848) 31
2. Ephraim Cole (1805-1876) 32
3. Thomas Hitchburn Cole (1807-1816)
4. Zubah Nickerson Cole (1809- ) 33
Jedidah Nickerson
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Cir 1777 - Chatham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 7 Nov 1805 - Readfield, Maine
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Constant Nickerson (Est 1740-Bef 1827) 1
Mother: Phebe Nickerson (1746-After 1823)
Spouses and Children
1. *David Nickerson (6 Oct 1775 - Nov 1804)
Marriage: 30 Jan 1796 - Chatham, Massachusetts
Status:
Notes
General:
m David Nickerson
Jedidah Nickerson
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 13 Aug 1751 - Chatham, Massachusetts 4
Baptism:
Death: in Clark's Harbour, Nova Scotia
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Nathan Nickerson (Cir 1728-Abt 1793)
Mother: Abigail Eldredge (Cir 1729-Bef 1761)
Spouses and Children
1. *Benjamin Kendrick (Est 1748 - )
Marriage: Est 1768 - (Nova Scotia)
Status:
Notes
Marriage Notes (Benjamin Kendrick)
daughter Deborah, 1765 (?) - 1866 Yarmouth, NS, m 10 May 1792 Abraham Weston 1764-24 Dec 1851
Jemima Nickerson
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 11 Sep 1753 - Harwich, Massachusetts 34
Baptism:
Death: Bef 1780 - (Barnstable, Massachusetts)
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Rev Joshua Nickerson (1719-1791)
Mother: Thankful Eldridge (1728-1813)
Spouses and Children
1. *Jonathan Burgess (14 Feb 1748 - 21 Oct 1826) 35
Marriage: 1773 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Status:
Sources
1. Lila Nickerson, My Bunch (Rootsweb file irish, with Nickerson Family records).
2. Sheila M. Dann Westgate and Anna Lowell Tomlinson, Vital Records of Chatham, Massachusetts, 1696-1850. vol. 1 (1991. Chatham Mass.: Chatham Historical Society), 1:26.
3. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 66 (MD15:231). Col. Leonard H Smith, Jr. and Norma H Smith. Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans. An authorized facsimile reproduction of records published serially 1901-1935 in "The Mayflower Descendant." With an added index of persons.
1980, 1993. Baltimore MD: reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Pub. Co.
4. Sheila M. Dann Westgate and Anna Lowell Tomlinson, Vital Records of Chatham, Massachusetts, 1696-1850. vol. 1 (1991. Chatham Mass.: Chatham Historical Society), 1:21.
5. George Ernest Bowman and Ethel A. Richardson, "Provincetown, Massachusetts Vital Records" (Mayflower Descendant), 14:147.
6. George Ernest Bowman, compiler, Vital Records of Truro, Massachusetts to the year 1849 (1933. Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants. republished online), 179.
7. Robert Paine Carlson, Cape Cod Gravestones, 2003 ff. Eastham MA. CapeCodGravestones.com. .... Richard A. Haskell, editor, Truro Cemeteries (2000. Wellfleet MA: Rich Family Association).
8. George Ernest Bowman and Ethel A. Richardson, "Provincetown, Massachusetts Vital Records" (Mayflower Descendant), 11:217, 14:147.
9. George Ernest Bowman and Ethel A. Richardson, "Provincetown, Massachusetts Vital Records" (Mayflower Descendant), 26:112.
10. Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 (Massachusetts Archives. [online at AmericanAncestors.org (NEHGS) and FamilySearch.org]), Eastham.
11. Margaret H. Weiler, Cemetery Inscriptions. Congregational & Soldiers Cemetery, Evergreen Cemetery, Eastham Mass. (1987. Eastham Mass: Eastham Historical Society).
12. Margaret H. Weiler, Cemetery Inscriptions. Congregational & Soldiers Cemetery, Evergreen Cemetery, Eastham Mass. (1987. Eastham Mass: Eastham Historical Society). .... births and marriages 1740-1841, in "Vital Records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (2002. Oxford, Mass: Holbrook Research Institute (2 CDs), files H01_02a - H01_02g), 212.
13. Louise H. Kelly and Dorothy Straw, compilers; Wynn, Rachel Linnell, author, Vital records, town of Harwich, Massachusetts, 1694-1850 (1982. Harwich MA: Harwich Historical Society), 328. poorly indexed.
Please note: Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts is 100 miles from Hardwick, Worcester, Massachusetts. There is no "Harwick."
14. George Ernest Bowman and Ethel A. Richardson, "Provincetown, Massachusetts Vital Records" (Mayflower Descendant), 11:48.
15. Robert Paine Carlson, Cape Cod Gravestones, 2003 ff. Eastham MA. CapeCodGravestones.com.
16. George Ernest Bowman and Ethel A. Richardson, "Provincetown, Massachusetts Vital Records" (Mayflower Descendant), 26:113.
17. Sheila M. Dann Westgate and Anna Lowell Tomlinson, Vital Records of Chatham, Massachusetts, 1696-1850. vol. 1 (1991. Chatham Mass.: Chatham Historical Society), 2.
18. George Ernest Bowman and Ethel A. Richardson, "Provincetown, Massachusetts Vital Records" (Mayflower Descendant), 12:24, 14:149.
19. Provincetown cemeteries (http://www.provincetowngov.org/historic/cem.htm). badly organized
20. Vital Records of Phillipston, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (1906. Worcester MA: Franklin P. Rice), 33. "This township was originally parts of Templeton and Athol. It was incorporated; October 20, 1786, and named in honor of Elbridge Gerry; but dissatisfied with his measures after he became governor, the citizens, [on 5 Feb 1814], procured a change of name to Phillipston." Nason & Varney, 1890
The date of the name change comes from the Phillipston Town Clerk, 27 Apr 2009.
online
21. Vital Records of Phillipston, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (1906. Worcester MA: Franklin P. Rice), 33.
22. Vital Records of Phillipston, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (1906. Worcester MA: Franklin P. Rice), 107. .... Vital Records of Phillipston, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (1906. Worcester MA: Franklin P. Rice), 26.
23. Vital Records of Phillipston, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (1906. Worcester MA: Franklin P. Rice), 79.
24. Vital Records of Phillipston, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (1906. Worcester MA: Franklin P. Rice), 26.
25. Vital Records of Phillipston, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (1906. Worcester MA: Franklin P. Rice), 27.
26. Monty Lee, Lee-Beckwith Family Tree (Rootsweb file montylee).
27. Louise H. Kelly and Dorothy Straw, compilers; Wynn, Rachel Linnell, author, Vital records, town of Harwich, Massachusetts, 1694-1850 (1982. Harwich MA: Harwich Historical Society), 9.
28. Harwich Massachusetts vital records (http://plymouthcolony.net/barnstable/vitalrecords/harwich/harlinktable.html
pages numbers refer to "Vital records, town of Harwich, Massachusetts, 1694-1850" 1982. Harwich Historical Society), 33. Please note: Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts is 100 miles from Hardwick, Worcester, Massachusetts. There is no 'Harwick.'
29. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 173 (MD33:11).
30. Vernon R. Nickerson, Marriages and Marriage Intentions, 1795-1844. Town of Eastham, Masachusetts (1969. New England Historical & Genealogical Register 123: 117-124, 198-204), by Mr. Shaw. numerous transcription errors
31. George Ernest Bowman, compiler, "Vital records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (Mayflower Descendant [several sections]), 34:183. highly incomplete
32. Rachel L Wynn, "The Descendants of Robert Linnell" (http://home.comcast.net/~linnellfamily/DRL1h.htm
http://home.comcast.net/~linnellfamily/DRL2h.htm
dates but few places, unreferenced).
33. George Ernest Bowman, compiler, "Vital records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (Mayflower Descendant [several sections]), 34:183.
34. Harwich Massachusetts vital records (http://plymouthcolony.net/barnstable/vitalrecords/harwich/harlinktable.html
pages numbers refer to "Vital records, town of Harwich, Massachusetts, 1694-1850" 1982. Harwich Historical Society), 104.
35. Leo Watson, "The Royal West India Rangers" (2003. http://awt.ancestry.co.uk/ file :2591868).