Issac Nichols Sr. (abt. 1733 - abt. 1781)

Born about 1733 in Nansemond County, Virginia [uncertain]

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Died about 1781 at about age 48 in Anson County, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Isaac Nichols first appears in the land records of Edgecombe County, North Carolina on 23 March 1761 when he received 700 acres on both sides of the Great Swamp joining Cornelius Jordan.

He was a witness to a Deed transaction. 18 Feb 1762. Nehemiah Joiner, Junr. of Craven County, South Carolina to John Dew of Edgecombe County, for L30 Virginia money a tract of 200 acres on the south bank of Toisnot Swamp on the Poplar Branch and at the mouth of the Dividing Branch adjoining George Blackwell. Wit: Dun. Lamon, Isaac Nichols. Edgecombe County, North Carolina Deed Book 1, page 426.

Anson County Court Minutes show that Isaac Nichols was residing in the county on 17 October 1772 when he was ordered overseer of the road in place of Stephen Miller.

Isaac Nichol and his wife, Honor, later moved to Anson County where Isaac received 200 acres joining the north side of the northeast fork of Lick Creek of Brown Creek on 22 January 1773. This land joined that of Robert Jarman.

On 14 July 1773 the County Court Minutes ordered Jolin Jackson, William Rorie and Isaac Nichols be appointed searchers from Stephen Miller's to the county line

Isaac signed both the 1777 and 1779 petitions to divide Anson County, along the Pee Dec River, into two separate counties. These petitions told of the difficulties the citizens had in crossing the river to go to the Court House. The later petition was also signed by William Nichols who appears to be Isaac's oldest son.

Deed records show that Isaac had purchased from John Hill a tract of 184 acres on Lick Creek and on the lower side of Brown's Creek in 1780. This same tract was sold in 1783 by William Nichols to Frederick Gordon thus indicating that William Nichols was the eldest son of Isaac and Honor Nichols.

Inventory of Estate of Isaac Nichols, by Honor Nichols. Debts: William Boggan, James Little, James Gordan, Thomas Gaddy, Abram Stricklin, Thomas Creel, William Stewart, John Moore, Frederick Gordon. 2 Jan 1782, Anson County North Carolina Wills and Estates, Page 155.

Issac was born in 1737. He passed away in 1781.

Sources

• Anson County, North Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1749-1766, Abstracts of Wills & Estates, 1749-1795, page 155
• https://www.myheritage.com/person-2500845_951357051_951357051/issac-nichols-sr