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]
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.
↑ 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.
↑ 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) .
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.
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DNA Connections
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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.
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.
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.