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Our Nicholson Line
From the Bundy Book by V. Mayo
Bundy:
"The Nicholson-Atwood
family appears in Bundy lineage.
Due to early and late marriages, and to the position of the ancestor in
the family (first or last born), both Christopher Nicholson and Samuel
Nicholson, his son, are each "his own grandpa" or at least finds himself
in the same generation with his own father and grandfather.
 Edmund
Nicholson came to America from Bootle,
Cumberland, England, possibly as early as 1644. He is first
recorded at Marblehead, Massachusetts, in 1646 when his eldest son,
Christopher, received a small bequest from the estate of George Pollard.
He married in 1636/7 and
probably in England to Elizabeth Simson, born about 1616.
They probably came to America in company with her brother, Francis Simson.
The brothers-in-laws owned property together and had various business
dealings together, although Edmund Nicholson was a fisherman.
Edmund Nicholson was not a
Quaker although his wife, Elizabeth, had certain leanings toward the
religion and was brought into court at least three times. It is
known that her brother, Francis Simson, was also brought into court and
fined for the same reasons and finally moved to Rhode Island to escape
persecution.
Edmund drowned in 1660 sometime between 4 June, when he appeared in court,
and 27 November when Elizabeth Nicholson, his wife, and Christopher
Nicholson, his son, were appointed to administer his estate which was
valued at £150,
with £54 in debts.
It was ordered that £10 be paid to each of the six children when he
reached 21 years of age, or married with consent of their mother.
His estate consisted, in part,
of the following: 1 house with outhouses and land, a boat fit to go
to sea and a canoe, 1 cow with hay, 1 bed with bolster, pillows, rug and
blanket, 9 years ticking, 10 sheets and pullovers, 1 piece of white kersie,
wearing apparel, 2 rugs, 2 pairs blankets, 1 bolster, and 2 kettles, 3
brass kettles and 2 scilletts (sic), pewter, earthen ware, wood and Lattin
(sic) ware, 3 wheels, lome (sic), sleies, wheel with barrell and other
lumber ... (detailed p. 324 Vol. I Probate Recores Essex Co. Mass.)
Elizabeth and her two sons were accused of
drowning her husband. Henry Howland Crapo, a descendant of Joseph
Nicholson (not the son of Edmund), quotes the following in his "Certain
Comeoverers."
"Bishop in his new England
Judged, tells this story, which he addresses to the Magistrates of
Boston: 'And to this, let me add a cruel tragedy of a woman of
Marblehead near Salem and her two sons, Elizabeth Nicholson and
Christopher and Joseph, whom you without ground charged with the death
of Edmund Nicholson, her husband and their father, who was found dead in
the sea; you having received information from some wicked spirits (like
yourselves) that the people did shew love sometimes to the people of the
Lord, whom you call cursed Quakers, your rage soon grew high against
them, and unto your butchers club at Boston you soon had them all three;
and fro prison you had them to the bar to try them from their lives; but
notwithstanding all your cunning and subtle malice, to destroy the
mother and her children at once, yet ye were not able; notwithstanding
you fined her a great sum (which, in behalf of the Court, your
secretary, Rawson, was willing to take in good fish, and Salter for Dyet
and lodging in barrels of mackerel, so devouring the widows house) and
her two sons to stand under the gallows certain hours with ropes about
their necks and to be whipped in your market place which was performed
with many bloody lashes; at which the young men being not appalled, old
Wilson standing by, said "Ah ! Cursed Generation!" And at Salem
they were ordered to be whipped also, where Michelson, the marshal (a
bloody spirited man), came to see it executed, where it was so
mercilessly done that one of the young men sunk down, or dyed away under
the Torture of his cruel suffering, whose body they raised up again and
life came to him. This was near about the time of your Murthering
William Leddra.'"
Crapo says this fixes the date
as in the early part of 1658. Savage in his "Genealogical Dictionary
of the First Settlers of New England, " says that it is presumed Edmund
Nicholson died in 1660 as his inventory was taken on 22 November of that
years and was presented six days later by Elizabeth Nicholson, his widow.
In "Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, " Mrs. Ferris gives the definite dates
listed above.
Elizabeth Nicholson was married
to _____ Browne sometime after 24 September 1662 and before 17 March 1666.
She was living in June 1673 when she and her two sons, Joseph and Samuel,
sued Capt. James Smith in reference to land purchased by Edmund Nicholson
and Francis Simson before 1651.
First Generation
Thomas NICHOLSON. Born in Lancaster Co, England. Thomas married
Alice KENYON. Born in Lancanshire, England.
They had:
i. Edmund (1612-1660)
Second Generation
Edmund NICHOLSON. Born in
1612 in Bootle, England. Edmund died in Marblehead, Essex, Mass on 22 Nov
1660, he was 48. Edmund married Elizabeth SIMSON, in England?
Born in 1616 in Boothby, C, England. Elizabeth died in Marblehead, MA ? abt 1673, she was 57.
They had the following children:
| i. |
John
Nicholson, born about 1646 (aged 14 in the 1660 inventory).
Later he was in Connecticut where he deserted his wife, Mercy, more
than five years for which she obtained a divorce. (It is
presumed these facts obtained to Edmund's son, John.) |
| ii. |
Thomas Nicholson,
born about 1653 (ages 7 in the 1660 inventory), died December 3, 1727.
She married Nicholas Andrews before 1727 and
they are the ancestors of Charles Dawes, Vice President of the United
States 1923-1929. |
| iii. |
Joseph
Nicholson,
born about 1640 (aged 20 in the 1660 inventory). His wife, Jane,
died in April 1691, aged 52 years. There appears to be no record
of his family. There is another Joseph Nicholson in
Massachusetts whose wife's name was also named Jane. They were
married in England where their first four children were born. He
died on the ship Elizabeth going from Barbados to London in June 1693,
and his will dated in April 1693 and proved in Portsmouth, Rhode
Island, on 29 September 1693, lists his children and names his
daughter, Jane, then 24 yrs old, as Executrix. His wife, Jane,
died in Bottle, Yorkshire, England, in 1712. These tow Joseph
Nicholson's could be relatives since the families came from the same
place in England. The children of this second Joseph were:
Joseph, born 2 November 1650; Sarah Nicholson, born 1 Feb 1653,
married John Ward, both died in 1705, two children; Rebecca, born 1
February 1656, married Nicholas Carr, son of Caleb and Mercy Carr.;
Rachel, born 22 April 1658, married John Peabody, son of John Peabody;
Dinah Nicholson, born 21 March 1660 at Salem, married James Burrill;
Benjamin, born 8 June 1665 at Barbadoes; Elizabeth, born 8 June 1667
at Maratinico; Jane born 29 September 1669 at Portsmouth, Rhode
Island. |
| iv. |
Christopher Nicholson born about 1638 (listed in the
inventory of 1660 as aged 22). |
| v. |
Samuel
Nicholson, born about 1644 (aged 16 in inventory), died after June
1673. |
| vi. |
Elizabeth Nicholson Born
abt 1648 in Massachusetts.
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Third Generation
Christopher NICHOLSON. Born in 1638 in Bootle, Cumberland, England.
Christopher died in Berkeley Pct. Perquimans Co., NC on 10 Sep 1688, he was
50. On 22 Oct 1662 when Christopher was 24, he first married Hannah
REDNAP, daughter of Joseph REDNAP, II & Mrs. Joseph
REDNAP, in Lynn, Essex, Mass. Born in 1642
in Lynn, Essex, Mass. Hannah died in Berkeley Pct. Perquimans Co., NC on 2
Dec 1678, she was 36. It is unknown when they went to North
Carolina but they were at Perquimans Monthly Meeting, Society of Friends,
prior to 1678 when Hannah died on 2 December of that year; they had seven
children together.
Christopher married second to Ann
Atwood at the house of Francis Toms
in 1688; eight years before his death. Theirs was the first marriage
entry in the minutes of the
Perquimans
Monthly Meeting, Society of Friends. This couple had six
children. The name of Atwood, is listed among the twenty-three persons
from whom 2150 acres of land were conveyed to Robert Johnson for bringing
them over from England. The deed is dated "23rd of April 1681, " and
the land was situated in the Isle of Wight County, Virginia. After
Edmund's death in 1688, Ann Atwood married Richard Dorman on 26 June 1690;
they had one child together; Ann Dorman, born 30 March 1695 who married
Richard Cheston Cooper of Albemarle County, North Carolina.
Christopher Nicholson and
Hannah Rednap had the following children:
| i. |
Deliverance Nicholson, born circa 1663, married Joseph
Sutton.
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| ii. |
Samuel Nicholson, born 12 March 1665,
died March 20, 1728, married Elizabeth Charles. His will was
probated in January, 1748 in Perquimans Co., North Carolina.
Samuel was a member of the House of Brugesses in North Carolina
between 1703 and 1709. He died in 1751/2. |
| iii. |
Hannah Nicholson, born 4 March 1667, married John Gosby, son of
John and Mary Gosby. She married second to Francis Foster, son
of William and Margaret Foster; she married third to Samuel Charles. |
| iv. |
Joseph Nicholson born 26 September 1670. In the Perquimans
Court held September 1, 1690, he asked for himself and brothers, John
and Nathaniel, that they be permitted to choose guardians.
Joseph and Nathaniel chose their brother Samuel, and John chose John
Gosby. At this time, property (presumably their father's) was
divided. On April 7, 1693, permission was given by the monthly
meeting to Joseph to marry Hannah Alberson, born 11 December 1675,
died in 1697, daughter of Albert and Mary (Gosby) Albertson. The
marriage took place on 6 June 1693. His will was dated 12 August
1697 and proved 10 January 1698. It refers to his brothers,
John, Benjamin, Samuel, Nathaniel, and
Christopher. |
| v. |
John
Nicholson, born 17 December 1671, died June 1718, married 20
September 1700 Priscilla Tomes, born 19 January 1674, daughter of
Francis and Priscilla Tomes.
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| vi |
Nathaniel Nicholson, born 7 January 1675. In August 1704 he
married Sarah Maris, daughter of John Maris. |
| vii. |
Benjamin
Nicholson, born born 26 November 1678. |
| viii. |
Elizabeth Nicholson, born 13 January 1680, died 11 September 1682. |
| ix. |
Sarah
Nicholson, born 16 August 1682, married 5 May 1699 to James
Newby, son of John and Magdalene
Newby. |
| x. |
Ann
Nicholson (cited as Elizabeth but this is an error) she was born
11 March 1683/4. She married John Newby on 11 June 1707 as his
second wife. She died 6 January 1720. |
| xi. |
Christopher Nicholson, born 2 November 1685, married on 12
November 1707 to Mary Pool. He died 23 March 1723 and his widow
with children married William Bundy on 7 August 1723. |
| xii. |
Thomas
Nicholson, born 7 February 1687/8, died 4 March 1687, married Mary
____. |
| xiii. |
Ann
Nicholson, born 8 February 1688/9, died 1743/4. Married on
11 May 1721 to Samuel Bundy as his second wife. |
Fourth Generation
Samuel NICHOLSON. Born on 12 Mar 1664/65 in Perquimans County, North
Carolina. Samuel died in Perquimans County, North Carolina on 20 Mar
1747/48, he was 83. On 16 Dec 1688 when Samuel was 24, he married
Elizabeth CHARLES, daughter of William CHARLES & Abigail BALIE
(BAILEY). Born on 8 Jan 1660/61 in Berkeley Pct. Perquimans Co., NC.
Elizabeth died in Perquimans Co., North Carolina. See the
Bailey and
Charles' lines. The will of Samuel Nicholson, in
Perquimens County, NC March 22, 1728, names daughters Sarah and Elizabeth,
son-in-law John Anderson and wife Elizabeth. Quaker Minutes: on
June 10, 1687, Caleb Bundy was a witness to the marriage of Samuel Nicholson
and Elizabeth Charles
They had the following
children:
i. Jane (Sarah?) Nicholson (1694-1728)
ii. Elizabeth Nicholson, married an
Anderson (1696-1760)
Fifth Generation
Jane NICHOLSON. Born on 10 Nov 1694 in Perquimans Co., North Carolina. Jane
died in Pasquotank Co., North Carolina on 13 Jan 1728/29, she was 33.
On 17 May 1712 when Jane was 17, she married Joseph BARROW, son of
John BARROW & Sarah SUTTON, in
Perquimans Co, North Carolina.
Born on 4 Apr 1690 in Berkeley Pct. Perquimans, NC. Joseph died in
Perquimans Co., North Carolina in Jan 1755, he was 64.
They had the following
children:
| i. |
Josiah Barrow |
| ii. |
Elizabeth
(1715-1796) |
| iii. |
Sarah Barrow |
| iv. |
Joseph Barrow |
| v. |
Jane Barrow |
From here see the
Barrow line.
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