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Nichols Family Submitted by F. Richard Barr |
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FIRST GENERATION 1.
SAMUEL1 NICHOLS was born
between 1800 and 1810, but the names of his parents and the place of his
birth have yet to be discovered. In 1840 he was a resident of Hayfield
Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, in 1840, with his wife, four
young sons, and one young daughterA
In the same year he was taxed on 50 acres and one (1) cow.B
In 1880 his son, John Wesley Nichols, said
both of his parents were born in New York.C
In the same census, both parents of William Henry,
eldest son of Samuel Nichols, are said to
have been born in Connecticut.D
In 1900, John Wesley’s father is said to
have been born in Massachusetts and his mother in Rhode Island.E
In the same census, William Henry’s parents
were said to have been born in Connecticut.F
He died about 1847. The date and place of his burial is unknown. On June 21st,
1847, letters of administration on the Estate of Samuel
Nichols, “late of Hayfield township, deceased, granted and issued
to Edward A. Reynolds &c another of the
Borough of Meadville. Bond taken for One hundred dollars, with John
Reynolds and S. H. Reynolds as
sureties. Inventory of real estate filed June 26, 1847.”G
On the twelfth day of November, 1847, Edward A.
Reynolds, “...Administrator
of all and singular the goods and chattels rights and credits which were
of Samuel Nichols late of Hayfield Township,
Crawford County, Pennsylvania Decd who died intestate of the one part and Adam
Lefevre of the same place of the other par Whereas the said Samuel
Nichols in his life time became lawfully seized of in and to the
following described piece or parcel of land with the appurtenances,
situate in said Township viz three acres of land Bounded north by land of
Harrison Church East by land of Jared Shattucks
heirs, South by land of Daniel Williams and
west by land of Ansel Knapp and the said
Samuel being so seized died intestate after whose death to wil at an
Orphan’s Court held at Meadville on the 12th day of August 1847 upon the
petition of said Administrator praying the said Court to grant and order
to make sale of the real estate of the said Samuel it was ordered by the
said Court the real Estate of Said Decedent should be exposed to sale by
public vendue or out cry for the payment of debt &c and the said
Administrator make report thereof. In pursuance of said order the said Edward
A. Reynolds Administrator after having given due and timely notice
of the time and place of sale did on the 27th day of September 1847 expose
the said premises to sale and sold the same to the said Adam
Lefevre for the sum of Eighty one dollars he being the highest
bidder and that the highest and best price bidden for the same which sale
was confirmed by said court on the 12th day of Novr Inst. - and it was
considered and adjudged by the said court that the same should be and
remain firm and stable for ever.”H He
married about 1833 CATHARINE MAXWELL,
born about 1800.I After the death
of Samuel Nichols she married, second,
probably _________ AMA. She
may be the mother of the William H. Nichols, Samuel
N. Nichols, and J. W. Nichols
enumerated with her in the 1850 Census of Spring Township, Crawford
County, Pennsylvania.J No record
of her second marriage or of the date and place of her death and burial
have been found. “...About
the relatives,” wrote Estella May (Nichols) Barr, “I do not
know to much. My grandfather and grandmother on father’s side left
Elmira N.Y. I guess before my father was born they and a Mr. & Mrs.
Carter started west they were going to Michigan to live. Carters went on
by my grandparents stopped at or near Meadville Penn. they cleared a place
in the would and made a home there I have never seen any of them. Your
Grandpa was the youngest of a large fami’y his father died when he was a
baby. The older children were put out in homes as they used to do in those
days but my father was to young to take away from his mother and she was
quite well to do I guess. But she got married again and her husband so
spent her money....” K Children
of Samuel and Catharine (Maxwell) Nichols:
+ 2.
i. William
Henry2 Nichols, born April 1828
+ 3.
ii. Jeanette2
Nichols, born.
+ 4.
iii. Mary
Ann2 Nichols, born 1830-1835
5.
iv. Samuel2
Nichols, born 1830-1835; d. young?
+ 6. v. Simon2
Nichols, born Ca. 1838
7. vi. Salvador2
Nichols, born. Of him Estella May Nichols Barr
says, “Another brother was
in the navy. He was home on a furlough and started away with a sum of
money. They never heard from him again. They think he never got out of the
county. His name was Salvador.”K +
8.
vii. John Wesley2 Nichols, born 28
Jan. 1839
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