Josiah March Nickerson
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 18 Mar 1821 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 2
Baptism:
Death: 24 Apr 1849 - Provincetown, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain Jonathan Nickerson (1781-1871)
Mother: Sally Miller (1785-1876) 3
Josiah Oakes Nickerson
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 6 Oct 1834 - Cohasset, Massachusetts 4
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: George Lewis Nickerson (1799-1889)
Mother: Harriet N Beal (1807- )
Josias Nickerson
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1709
Baptism:
Death: 8 Jan 1749 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Burial: in Old Burial Ground, Brewster
Cause of Death:
Notes
General:
stone:
Here lyes Buried
ye Body of Mr
JOSIAS NICKERSON
Who Departed this
life Jan'ry 8th 1749 in ye
31st Year of His Age
[This has also been read as 8 Jan 1740]
A brief search does not ID him. 5
Judah Nickerson
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 7 Sep 1761 - Chatham, Massachusetts 6
Baptism:
Death: 3 Jan 1797 - Chatham, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Caleb Nickerson (1736-1804)
Mother: Elizabeth Mayo (1735-1806)
Spouses and Children
1. *Tabitha Hinckley (Cir 1753 - 17 May 1849)
Marriage: 23 Jul 1781 - Chatham, Massachusetts 7
Status:
Children:
1. Lendal Nickerson (1788-1866) 8
2. Abisha Nickerson (1795-1816) 9
3. Judah Nickerson (1791- ) 10
4. Tabitha Nickerson (1793-1836)
Notes
Marriage Notes (Tabitha Hinckley)
suspicious age difference
Judah Nickerson
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 24 Jun 1791 - Chatham, Massachusetts 10
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Judah Nickerson (1761-1797)
Mother: Tabitha Hinckley (Cir 1753-1849)
Judith Nickerson
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 9 Apr 1720 - Chatham, Massachusetts 11
Baptism:
Death: in South Haddam, Connecticut
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Jonathan Nickerson (Abt 1690-After 1749)
Mother: Jane Covell (Abt 1698-Abt 1728)
Spouses and Children
1. *William Gray (13 Feb 1720 - ) 12
Marriage: 8 Oct 1741 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Status:
Judith Nickerson
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1678 - Monomoit (Chatham), Plymouth colony
Baptism:
Death: Cir 1746
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: William Nickerson (Bef 1646-1719)
Mother: Mercy Williams (Cir 1644-1740)
Spouses and Children
1. *Nathaniel Covell (Cir 1665 - 13 Mar 1746) 14
Marriage: 5 Mar 1697 - Eastham, Massachusetts 15
Status:
Children:
1. Jane Covell (Abt 1698-Abt 1728)
2. John Covell (Cir 1700-1760)
3. Nathaniel Covell (Cir 1701-1746)
4. Seth Covell (Abt 1702- )
5. Hannah Covell (Cir 1706- )
6. Elizabeth Covell (Cir 1710- )
7. Simeon Covell (Cir 1715- )
Notes
Marriage Notes (Nathaniel Covell)
'Judeth' was of Monomoy when they wed.
To Ridgefield, Connecticut 1747, then to the Oblong.
Children
Jane COVELL b: 1698 in Chatham
John COVELL b: 1700 in Chatham
Nathaniel COVELL b: 1701 in Eastham
Seth COVELL b: 1702 in Chatham
Hannah COVELL b: 1706 in Chatham
Elizabeth COVELL b: 1710 in Chatham
Simeon COVELL b: 1715 16
Judith H Nickerson
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 15 Mar 1826 - Chatham, Massachusetts 17
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain Jonathan Nickerson (1794-1833)
Mother: Thankful Higgins (1795-1882)
Spouses and Children
1. *Otis Wing Eldredge (11 Sep 1825 - )
Marriage: 22 Sep 1843 - Chatham, Massachusetts 18
Status:
Children:
1. Rebecca W Eldredge (1843-1868)
2. Ellora P Eldredge (1845- )
3. Francelia O Eldredge (1849- )
Julia Nickerson
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Jun 1838 - Eastham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 24 Feb 1900 - North Eastham, Massachusetts 20
Burial: in Evergreen Cemetery, Eastham
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Hatsel Nickerson (1796-1881)
Mother: Sally Paine (1798-1858)
Spouses and Children
1. *Scotto P Bangs (Jan 1837 - 21 Jul 1902) 21
Marriage: 6 Dec 1856 - Eastham, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. Lois F Bangs (1858-1862)
Notes
Marriage Notes (Scotto P Bangs)
" Scatter P. Bangs, son of Seymour and Annie M. (Cobb) Bangs, grandson of Seymour, and great-grandson of John D. Bangs, was born in 1837. He learned the carpenters' trade when a boy. He returned to Eastham in 1888, after having been away twenty-six years. He married Julia, daughter of Hatsel Nickerson. They had one daughter, Lois F., born in Eastham in 1858, died 1862." 22
Julia Ann Nickerson
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 30 Sep 1854 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 1 Dec 1924 - Harwich, Massachusetts 23
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Jacob Nickerson Jr (1828-1896)
Mother: Mary Welch (Est 1830-1896)
Spouses and Children
1. *Edward Forte Sparrow (12 Mar 1850 - 17 Nov 1876) 24
Marriage: 21 Jan 1873 - Harwich, Massachusetts 25
Status:
Children:
1. Louisa K Sparrow (1873-1899) 24
2. Edna M Sparrow (1876-1897)
2. Osborn Franklin Chase (19 Jan 1860 - 17 Mar 1902)
Marriage:
Status:
Notes
General:
Father: Jacob Nickerson , Jr b: 27 NOV 1828 in Harwich, MAMarriage Notes (Osborn Franklin Chase)
Mother: Mary Welch b: in Barnstable, MA
Children
Geneva W Chase b: 10 NOV 1879 in Harwich, MA
Sherman J Chase b: 21 JUL 1880 in Harwich, MA
Mary Abbie Chase b: 5 APR 1884
Franchette B Chase b: 17 JUL 1893 in Harwich, MA
Orselle F Chase b: 22 DEC 1895 in Harwich, MA
(Rootsweb virgo48)
Julia Louisa Nickerson
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 5 Jun 1848 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: John Wesley Nickerson (1820-1884)
Mother: Julia Ann Allen (1822-1895)
Spouses and Children
1. *Solomon S Higgins (4 Jun 1845 - 1 Mar 1914)
Marriage: 15 Jan 1866 - Orleans, Massachusetts 26
Status:
Children:
1. Flora Louise Higgins (1866-1869) 27
2. Fred W Higgins (1868- )
3. Thomas Higgins (1870- )
Julia P Nickerson
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 4 Sep 1855 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 22 Feb 1873 - Orleans, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death: apoplexy
Parents
Father: William J Nickerson (Est 1820- )
Mother: Louisa (Est 1820- )
Spouses and Children
1. *Eldredge (Est 1852 - )
Marriage:
Status:
Notes
Medical:
age 17-5-18
Julia P (Nickerson) Eldredge
married
b Harwich, res Orleans
d/o Wm. J & Louisa Nickerson, b Harwich & Orleans 26
Julie Ann Nickerson
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 27 Nov 1820 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 1 May 1894
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Levi Nickerson (1781-1833)
Mother: Sally Nickerson (1788-1872)
Julietta Nickerson
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Feb 1855 - Eastham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 11 Dec 1857 - Eastham, Massachusetts
Burial: in Evergreen Cemetery, Eastham 28
Cause of Death: scarlet fever
Parents
Father: Thomas P Nickerson (1823-1880) 28
Mother: Abigail Gould (1826-1864) 29
Notes
Medical:
age 1-10
b 7 res Eastham
d/o Thomas & Abigail 30
Katherine Nickerson
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 25 Dec 1749 - Tisbury, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Shubael Nickerson (Cir 1722- )
Mother: Mary Hamilton (1727- )
Ken Nickerson
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1960 - Chatham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
Children:
1. Zachary Joshua Nickerson (1984-2008)
Keziah Nickerson
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 14 Aug 1814 - Harwich, Massachusetts 31
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Nathan Nickerson (1778-1827)
Mother: Bethiah Doane (1786-1850)
Keziah Nickerson
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 17 Aug 1824 - South Dennis, Massachusetts 32
Baptism:
Death: 12 Dec 1901 - Orleans, Massachusetts
Burial: in Orleans Cemetery 27
Cause of Death: dropsy
Parents
Father: Elijah Nickerson (Est 1800- )
Mother: Nancy Bray (Est 1800- )
Spouses and Children
1. *Sylvanus Snow (15 Nov 1823 - 10 Apr 1900) 33
Marriage: 31 Dec 1876 - Dennis, Massachusetts
Status:
2. Captain Sylvester Baker (1 Dec 1822 - 25 Nov 1905)
Marriage: 29 Feb 1844 - Dennis, Massachusetts
Status: Divorce - 1876
Children:
1. Wallace Nickerson Baker (1844-1908)
2. Josephine Baker (1847- )
3. Ella Keziah Baker (1849-1925)
Notes
Medical:
age 78-3Marriage Notes (Captain Sylvester Baker)
Keziah (Nickerson) Snow
widow of Sylvanus Snow
b So. Dennis, res Orleans
d/o Elijah Nickerson & Nancy unknown, b unknown 26
Keziah sued for divorce on grounds of desertion, with court notices published in spring 1876 in the Barnstable Patriot.
Kosciusko Nickerson
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 30 Jan 1847 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 2 Oct 1933
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Bangs Nickerson (1801-1852)
Mother: Dianna Rogers (1803-1885)
Spouses and Children
1. *Asenath Freeman Cahoon (Est 1850 - )
Marriage: 28 Jan 1868 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Status:
Laura Ann Nickerson
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 8 Sep 1838 - Eastham, Massachusetts 34
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain Joshua Walker Nickerson (1805-1868) 35
Mother: Mercy Walker (1804-1881)
Spouses and Children
1. *George L Holbrook (1828 - )
Marriage: 1 Jan 1861 - Eastham, Massachusetts 30
Status:
Children:
1. George M Holbrook (1862-1863)
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1. Provincetown cemeteries (http://www.provincetowngov.org/historic/cem.htm). badly organized
2. George Ernest Bowman and Ethel A. Richardson, "Provincetown, Massachusetts Vital Records" (Mayflower Descendant), 26:114.
3. George Ernest Bowman and Ethel A. Richardson, "Provincetown, Massachusetts Vital Records" (Mayflower Descendant), 12:79, 14:149.
4. Thomas W. Baldwin, compiler, Vital Records of Cohasset, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (1916. Boston: NEHGS), 78.
5. Robert Paine Carlson, Cape Cod Gravestones, 2003 ff. Eastham MA. CapeCodGravestones.com.
6. Sheila M. Dann Westgate and Anna Lowell Tomlinson, Vital Records of Chatham, Massachusetts, 1696-1850. vol. 1 (1991. Chatham Mass.: Chatham Historical Society), 1:72.
7. Sheila M. Dann Westgate and Anna Lowell Tomlinson, Vital Records of Chatham, Massachusetts, 1696-1850. vol. 1 (1991. Chatham Mass.: Chatham Historical Society), 1:88, 97.
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13. Enoch Pratt, History of Eastham, Wellfleet and Orleans (1844. Yarmouth MA: WS Fisher), 113. full title: A Comprehensive History, Ecclesiastical and Civil, of Eastham, Wellfleet and Orleans, County of Barnstable, Mass. from 1644 to 1844.
1844. Yarmouth Massachusetts: W. S. Fisher and Co.
see capecodhistory.us/Pratt/Pratt-intro.htm
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16. Enoch Pratt, History of Eastham, Wellfleet and Orleans (1844. Yarmouth MA: WS Fisher), 113.
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19. Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 (Massachusetts Archives. [online at AmericanAncestors.org (NEHGS) and FamilySearch.org]), 504:17.
20. Barnstable Patriot (Barnstable, Mass [archives 1830-1930 online at Sturgis Library, Barnstable]), 12 mar 1900 - funeral report.
21. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Deaths 1859-1907 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 47. 1902 #13.
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30. Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 (Massachusetts Archives. [online at AmericanAncestors.org (NEHGS) and FamilySearch.org]), Eastham.
31. 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), 351. poorly indexed.
Please note: Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts is 100 miles from Hardwick, Worcester, Massachusetts. There is no "Harwick."
32. Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 (Massachusetts Archives. [online at AmericanAncestors.org (NEHGS) and FamilySearch.org]), Orleans, Dennis.
33. births by family 1628-1855, in "Vital Records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (2002. Oxford, Mass: Holbrook Research Institute (2 CDs). files H01_01a - H01_01g), 13.
34. FamilySearch (FamilySearch.org [asserted, usually unreferenced, often wrong]).
35. Pauline Wixon Derick, chairman, The Nickerson Family: the descendants of William Nickerson, 1604-1689, first settler of Chatham, Massachusetts. (1973 ff. Yarmouth MA: Nickerson Family Association).