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Nicolas (Brittain) Britton (bef. 1680 - 1740)

Nicolas (Nicholas) Britton formerly Brittain aka Britton
Born before in Flatbush, Kings, Province of New Yorkmap
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Husband of — married 1701 in Staten Island, Richmond, New Yorkmap
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Died after age 59 in Staten Island, Richmond County, Province of New Yorkmap
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Biography

Nicholas, the son of William Britton and Mary, was married to Frances Stillwell, the daughter of Thomas Stillwell and Martha Billiou. Together they had at least three children, mentioned in Nicholas' will. [1]

Abt 1713 he built the stone front dwelling of the Thomas Stillwell house at 1479 Richmond Road, Dongan, Hills, the rear stone built by Thomas Stillwell in 1680. In 1749 the house was sold to Joseph Holmes, innkeeper who probably added on of the framed kitchens, Holmes` daughter married Edward Perrine and the house remained in the hands of Perrine descendants into 1913. [2]

On 3 June 1729 Nicholas Britton and Capt. Matthew Rue reported a new road was laid out. Nicholas held many prominent positions among which were Captain and Colonel of Militia and Justice of the Peace.[3]

Birth

1679 Flatbush, Kings CO, NY

Baptized

17 Oct 1680 - Nicolas, Parents William Britten and Maria Britton, wits.: Sara Casier, Jaques Guion at Flatbush, NY. [4][5][6]

Will

Will dated 5 January 1740/41 proved 27 Feb 1740/41. Nicholas Brittain of Richmond County, Gent., being very sick. My wife Francke is to have a good and sufficient maintainance, and to be furnished with good clothes, and a good horse and saddle when she wants to go abroad, also a negro man, with the proviso that she surrender and relinquish the 60 acres of land that she claims to be her own. I leave to my two daughters, Martha Moore and Rachel Brittain, all my lands, messuages, and tenements, and other estate, and they are to pay my son Nathaniel's 3 daughters, Mary, Francke and Natalie Brittain, £50 each when of age. They are also to give Randal Slive, my apprentice, a good horse, saddle and bridle. I make Samuel Moore and Samuel Holmes, and my two daughters, executors. Witnesses: Richard Stillwell, Vincent Fountain, Salem Comes.
Proved February 27, 1740 before Walter Dongan, Esq.. [7]

Death

12 Jan 1740 Staten Island, York [8][9][10]

Burial

Colonel Britton is buried in the Moravian Cemetery, Staten Island. He and his wife's tombstones are supposed to be the oldest erected on Staten Island, and prove it was used a cemetery before the Moravian occupation. His gravestone reads: "Col. Nicholas Britton died Jan. 12, 1740, aged 61 years.

  • "Here lies a man of tender hart
  • Unto the poor in every part
  • He never sent the poor away
  • Which well is known unto this day"[11]

Church records

  • 1680 Oct 17 Nicolas - child of Wm. Britten, Maria, S. I. Witnesses: Jaques Guion, Sara Casier. [12] Needs an updated citation.

Sources

  1. Wardell: Britton: Britton, Nicholas
  2. Pre-Revolutionary Dutch houses and families in northern New Jersey and southern New York. https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/27177/images/dvm_LocHist011453-00090-1?ssrc=&backlabel=Return&pId=164&rcstate=dvm_LocHist011453-00090-1%3A1027%2C3550%2C1289%2C3597
  3. John Stillwell, Vol. 4, p. 282
  4. John Stillwell, p. 123-124
  5. Elmer Garfield Van Name, p. 33
  6. Flatbush DRC Baptisms 1677-1754 indexed at http://www.ancestralcurios.com/flatbush_baptisms.htm
  7. New York (County) Surrogate's Court Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York (Vol. III 1730-1744) p. 287.
  8. Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 06 January 2021), memorial page for Nickolas “Nicklos” Britten (1679–12 Jan 1740), Find A Grave: Memorial #157969059, citing Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp, Richmond County (Staten Island), New York, USA ; Maintained by Bobby Kelley (contributor 46959922) .
  9. Elmer Garfield Van Name, p. 33
  10. John Stillwell, p. 123-124
  11. John Stillwell, Vol. 4, p. 282
  12. Year Book Holland Soc. NY: 1898, Page 117
  • Elmer Garfield Van Name, Britton Genealogy: Early Generations from Somerset, England to Staten Island, New York (Woodbury, New Jersey: Gloucester County Historical Society, 1970), page 33.
  • Stillwell, John, Stillwell Genealogy, Vol. 1, P. 123-124.
  • New York (County) Surrogate's Court Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York (Vol. III 1730-1744), Collections of the New York Historical Society (New York: Printed for the Society, 1894), page 287.
  • Dewitt Stillwell, History and Genealogical Record of One Branch of the Stillwell Family, (Solvay, N.Y.: Martin Press, 1914), p.43.
  • Stillwell, John, Stillwell Genealogy, Vol. 4, p. 282.

Acknowledgments

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Hello, Nicholas is connected to the wrong mother. I'm going to merge him with a duplicate profile that has the correct parents. Sources on that profile will support the parents.
posted by Carrie Quackenbush
This profile also needs to be merged with Brittain-393 although both have the wrong parents. (See note below)
I do not believe Nicholas was a son of Nathaniel and Ann Stillwell. In Nathaniel's will written in 1683 (after the birth of Nicholas) he states his youngest son is Richard who was born prior to Nicholas. According to Stillwell and findagrave his death was

12 Jan 1740.

John Stillwells "Stillwell Genealogy" vol. 1, p. 123-124 shows Nicholas to be a son of William Brittain and Maria Stillwell.

I am changing the death date and adding the sources for it as I have no idea what #S22 stands for.

Brittain-394 and Brittain-393 appear to represent the same person because: same individual so it needs to be merged
I believe that your Stillwell-393 and Stillwell-394 need to be merged. They appear to be the same individual.
I believe that your Stillwell-393 and Stillwell-394 need to be merged. They appear to be the same individual.
I believe that your Stillwell-393 and Stillwell-394 need to be merged. They appear to be the same individual.

Rejected matches › Nathaniel Brittain (abt.1734-1776)