David Nichols (1757 - 1812)

Born 7 Feb 1757 in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 6 Jun 1812 at age 55 in Bastard, Leeds, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

This biography is a rough draft. It was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import and needs to be edited.

Name

Name: David /NICHOLS/ ^[1][2]

Name

Name: David /Nichols/

Given Name: David

Surname: Nichols

Name: David /Nickkels/

Type: other spelling

Date: 1801^[3]

Name: David /Nickols/

Given Name: David

Surname: Nickols

Type: other spelling

Date: 1805^[4]

Birth

Birth:

Date: 07 FEB 1757

Place: Westerly, Washington Co, RI^[5]

Death

Death:

Date: 06 JUN 1812

Place: Bastard, Leeds, ON, Canada^[6]

LDS Endowment

LDS Endowment:

Date: 26 SEP 1907^[7]

Event

Event:

Type: Event-Misc

Place: 4PP2-L4^[8]

Marriage

Husband: David Nichols

Wife: Susannah Lydia Sheldon

Child: Susannah Nichols

Child: Clark Nichols

Child: Lydia Nichols

Child: Ruth Nichols

Child: Sheldon Nichols

Child: Pheba Nichols

Child: Sara Nichols

Child: David Nichols

Child: Hiram Nichols

Child: Stephen Nichols

Marriage:

Date: 1777^[9]

Marriage

Marriage:

Husband: David Nichols

Wife: Susannah Sheldon

Child: Sheldon Nichols

Child: Clark Nichols

Child: Hiram Nichols

Child: David Nichols

Child: Ruth Nichols

Child: Phoebe Nichols

Child: Sally Nichols

Event

Event: adult male

Type: Misc

Date: 1801

Place: Bastard, Leeds, Upper Canada, British North America^[10]

Event: 1 man, 2 women, 2 male children, 2 female children

Type: Misc

Date: 1802

Place: Leeds, Upper Canada, British North America^[11]

Event: Bastard was originally settled by United Empire Loyalists, principally from Vermont and Connecticut

Type: Misc

Place: Bastard, Canada West^[12]

Residence

Residence: Census for Bastard and Kitley Townships

Date: 1801

Place: A Lest, Leeds, Upper Canada, British North America

Note: Place name comes from hard-to-read column header on first page.^[13]

Residence: Lived in Bastard or Lansdowne

Date: 1802

Place: Leeds, Upper Canada, British North America

Note: Kitley is given a header on the forms but not Bastard or Lansdowne.^[14]

Residence:

Date: 1805

Place: Bastard, Leeds, Upper Canada, British North America^[15]

Residence:

Place: Bastard, Canada West

Note: Referred to as "Elder Nichols (Baptist)" in the book, but one of his children was Sheldon Nichols, already known.^[16]

Religion

Religion: Baptist

Place: Bastard, Canada West

Note: Referred to as "Elder Nichols (Baptist)" in the book, but one of his children was Sheldon Nichols, already known.^[17]

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S2
2. ↑ Source: #S4
3. ↑ Source: #S10 Page: 3; col. 1, line 26; David Nickkels;
4. ↑ Source: #S12 Page: p. 2; col. 3, line 12; David Nickols;
5. ↑ Source: #S4
6. ↑ Source: #S4
7. ↑ Source: #S4
8. ↑ Source: #S3085
9. ↑ Source: #S4
10. ↑ Source: #S10 Page: 3; col. 1, line 26; David Nickkels
11. ↑ Source: #S11 Page: p. 2; col. 1, line 18; David Nichols
12. ↑ Source: #S9 Page: 121-122
13. ↑ Source: #S10 Page: 3; col. 1, line 26; David Nickkels
14. ↑ Source: #S11 Page: p. 2; col. 1, line 18; David Nichols; Text: David Nichols: 1 man, 2 women, 2 male children, 2 female children
15. ↑ Source: #S12 Page: p. 2; col. 3, line 12; David Nickols
16. ↑ Source: #S9 Page: pp 121-122
17. ↑ Source: #S9 Page: 121-122

• Source: S10 Title: 1801, Bastard and Kitley Twps, Ontario, population schedule, , ; digital images, Leeds & Grenville GenWeb (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onleedsg/research-census.html : accessed ); Ron Cox.
• Source: S11 Title: 1802, Bastard, Kitley, Leeds and Lansdowne (rear) twps, population, , ; digital images, Leeds & Grenville GenWeb (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onleedsg/research-census.html : accessed ); Ron Cox.
• Source: S12 Title: Bastard Township census, Bastard Township, population schedule, , ; digital images, Leeds & Grenville GenWeb (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onleedsg/research-census.html : accessed ); Ron Cox.
• Source: S7 Title: Brigham City Cemetery, manage and upload, "Managed Cemetery Record," database, Names In Stone (https://www.namesinstone.com : accessed ).
• Source: S9 Title: Thad. W. H. Leavitt, History of Leeds and Grenville Ontario: From 1749 to 1879, ... (Brockville: Recorder Press, 1879), ; digital images, Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org : accessed .

• Source: S2 Title: Pedigree Resource File CD 49 Publication: (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 2002)
• Source: S3085 Title: Type: Ancestral File Number
• Source: S4 Title: hofundssonAnces.ged
• Repository: R1 Name: Unknown

Research Note: This may not refer to the same person, as the DAR record is for someone who fought on the American side in the Revolution, while this David went to live in Canada in a place where many Loyalists took up residence.

• Lineage book - National Society of the Daughters of the American ..., Volume 34, Page 76 By Daughters of the American Revolution. Accessed on 10 Dec 2022 at InternetArchive.org Page 76

David Nichols enlisted 1775 under Captain Edmund Johnson and served several short enlistments under Col. John Topham. He died 1815 and in 1836 his widow was allowed a pension at the age of seventy-four for service of a private Rhode Island line.