Elizabeth (Baker) Nickerson (1675 - 1765)

Born 1675 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Wife of John Nickerson — married 19 Aug 1696 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Plymouth

Descendants

Died 5 Jan 1765 at about age 90 in Dennis, Barnstable, Massachusetts

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Biography

Elizabeth Baker was born in about 1675^[1] in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, to John Baker and Alice Pierce. She married John Nickerson, son of Nicholas Nickerson and Mary Derby, in her hometown. They had 10 children in 60 years. She died on January 5, 1765, in South Dennis, Massachusetts.

Her father's will, written on 5 April 1712, mentions her siblings, John, Sarah Haddawa [actually her married name was Hathaway], Isaac, Bethyah, Marcy, and Jonathan.^[2]

"In the 1712/13 division of land by the proprietors, John Nickerson received considerable land north of his father's land in what is now South Dennis, extending easterly, in some cases as far as the Harwich town line. It was this land on which his sons Israel and John Jr settled, moving up toward what is now Highbank in South Dennis, near the Indian Lands. John's son Eleazer inherited his father's properties.

"John built his first house on his father’s land just north of where the South Dennis Congregational Church (aka the Sea Captains’ Church) stands today. He left that house to his son John. Just before his death in 1745. he built a house directly across from the church on Main Street. His first house also still stands, which he gave to son John. He left the new house to his son Eleazer."^[3]

Children

John and Elizabeth had nine children:^[4]

1. Elizabeth born 11 May 1699; married Silas Sears
2. Mary born 12 June 1701; married Eleazer Sears in 1729
3. John born 1 June 1703; married Mary Small in 1729
4. Patience born 15 April 1705; married Thomas Sears in 1732
5. Israel born 31 March 1709; married Hannah Small
6. Gershon (twin) 31 March 1709; died in infancy
7. Tabatha born 15 June 1713; married Judah Crowell, six children
8. Marcy/Mercy born 22 November 1716; married David O'Killey in 1741
9. Eleazer born 2 April 1718; married Sarah Bearce in 1742

Sources

• Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry.com
• Family Data Collection - Individual Records, Birth year: 1680; Birth city: Yarmouth; Birth state: MA. Source Information: Edmund West, compiler. [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.
• Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).
• Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005, Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp. Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, Film # 0945512.
• Millennium File [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003. Original data: Heritage Consulting. The Millennium File. Salt Lake City, UT, USA
• Nickerson Family Association, The Nickerson Family: The Descendants of William Nickerson (1604-1689) First Settler of Chatham, Massachusetts covering seven generations beginning with William Nickerson and Anne Busby, vol. 1-3
• U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Source number: 108.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: DR1Source Information: Yates Publishing. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
• U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2012. Original data: Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.

1. ↑ Millennium File [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003. Original data: Heritage Consulting. The Millennium File. Salt Lake City, UT, USA
2. ↑ Probate Record, Barnstable Court, Barnstable, MA
3. ↑ Massachusetts and More Genealogy Blog, by Chris
4. ↑ The Twining Family - Descendants of William Twining Sr. of Eastham, Mass., Where He Died 1659, published by Thomas Jefferson Twining, http://interactive.ancestry.com/15191/dvm_GenMono000615-00013-0/21?backurl=http%3a%2f%2ftrees.ancestry.com%2ftree%2f8983548%2fperson

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Baker-7725 created through the import of 00zfc5_802469u520m0l20m6i7fpd.ged on Nov 3, 2012 by Tamara Stevens.