Valentine Nichols (1759 - 1808)

Born 1759 in Frederick County, Maryland

Died 1808 at about age 49 in Tyler, Virginia, United States

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Biography

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Birth

Birth:

Date: <1759>

Place: <,, Frederick Co., MD.>

Note

Note: From: Duane330@aol.com 

Subject: [NICHOLS] one Valentine Nichols 

Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 09:19:23 EDT

Greetings to all the Nichols family and friends............

1. I am a direct descendant of Valentine Nichols who lived in Greene Co., 

Pennsylvania from the 1780's until shortly after 1800. He was in the militia, 

and was the first Constable ("sheriff") of Cumberland Township in Greene 

County. This is the south west corner of Pennsylvania, and it borders West Virginia 

(then Virginia) on two sides, just north of Morgantown, WV, where I now live.

2. This Valentine Nichols married Elizabeth Gregg, daughter of Samuel Gregg 

of the Goose Creek Quaker Meeting families of Loudoun County, Virginia. This 

location is also very near to the Mason-Dixon Line which separates Penn. from 

(West) Virginia, Maryland and Delaware.

3. I suspect that this Valentine Nichols was related to Ellis Nichols who 

operated a business in Brownsville, PA, in the late 1700's along with Samuel 

Jackson, an "industrialist" of his time. Samuel Jackson was from southeastern 

Pennsylvania and started the iron industry on Cheat Mountain, in and near 

Cooper's Rock State Forest here in northern West Virginia.

4. These Nichols families, and perhaps this Jackson family, was possibly 

connected to the Nichols family of southeast Penn. and northern Delaware, as for 

example the Nichols family buried at the Center Meeting (Quaker) on the 

Penn.-Delaware state line.

5. Some Quaker familiies probably named their sons after Valentine 

Hollingsworth, a Quaker leader who came to America on one of the trips of William Penn. 

Hollingsworth is buried in the old "Newark Burial Grounds" in very northeast 

Delaware, near Marsh Road (Delaware Route 3) and I-95. [This is not in 

Newark, Delaware, which is in the northwestern part of Delaware].

[The Valentine Nichols (referred to above) named one of his sons "Valentine", 

who is buried at Wind Ridge in Greene County. And there was at least one 

grandson was named Valentine. Other individuals named Valentine Nichols lived in 

northeastern Pennsylvania (in northern Bucks County, from Germany) and in 

eastern Kentucky.]

Duane Nichols

330 Dream Catcher Circle

Morgantown, WV 26508

Sources

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Laura Scott for creating WikiTree profile Nichols-3276 through the import of wtnickals.ged on Dec 28, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Laura and others.