Nathaniel Nickerson (1784 - 1871)

Born 14 Oct 1784 in Belle Isle, Kings, New Brunswick, Canada

Ancestors

Husband of Berthena (Miller) Nickerson — married 1830 in Ontario

Descendants

Died 6 Apr 1871 at age 86 in Goodland, Lapeer, Michigan, United States

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Biography

Nathaniel NIckerson was born on 19 October 1784 in Nova Scotia (now Belle Isle, Kings, New Brunswick), Canada.^[1]

In the 1842 Census of Malahide Township, Elgin County lists Nathaniel Nickerson with 8 members in his family owning 47 acres on the North half of Lot 11, Conc. 3. He is a farmer.

In the 1851 census for Malahide Twp., Elgin, Ontario, Nathaniel would have been 66 (However, the the southern half of the 1851 Census for Malahide Township is missing.)

In 1861 at Malahide Township, Elgin, Ontario ( ), is Nathaniel Nickerson, a widower, age 76, farmer, born in New Brunswick. There is a Mary Nickerson, age 26, married to an Alexander Nickerson, age 25. They are living with Nathaniel Nickerson, on the family estate, with their children, Alice, 4 and Alma, 1. Mary and the children are New Connexion Methodists.

In the 1870 census for Lapeer County, Goodland Township, Michigan (p. 15), Nathaniel Nickerson is age 85, a "Retired Farmer" born at New Brunswick, living with his son Alex Nickerson, 33 and his wife, Mary J., 33. Alex is a Farmer born in Canada. They have children, Alice, 12, Alma 9, Homer, 8, all born in Canada and Everett, 5, Ellena, 2. both born in Michigan which would indicate that they probably immigrated to the US between 1862 and 1865. They are living next to the family of Henry Watson from Canada and William Hickey from Canada. Not far away (p. 16) is the family of Issac Shotwell, 35, a farmer from Canada and his wife Mary, 35. She is the daughter of Nathaniel Nickerson. With them are their children, George, 14, Alfred, 13, Mortimer, 11, Charlotte, 8, all born in Canada, and Agnes, 4, and Ralph, 5/12, born in Michigan, and a Matilda Shotwell, 74, born in New Jersey who may be Isaac's mother.

There is a baptism record at Saint Johnsville, NY Dutch Reformed Church, Saint Johnsville, Montgomery Co., NY for a Nathaniel Nikerson, son of "Elind Nikerson" and "Margretha" (sic), baptised 18 Oct 1789. This is an IGI extracted record, Batch C510941, FHL film #533494, printout 1002782. The actual church Baptism record for the St. Johnsville church p. 18, indicates that he was born 19th 8bris [Oct] 1784. Later census records indicate that he was born in New Brunswick. He would have been about 5 years old at the time of his Baptism. His parents on the printed transcription are [Elind Nikerson and Margarethe]. Witness were John and Catherine Rice. Eliud is listed as being from Palatine.

Reid's, Sons and Daughters of American Loyalists, gives "Nathaniel of Hamilton", by Orders in Council a land patent 19 April 1808. This would be Hamilton Township, Northumberland County, near present Cobourg, Ontario.

According to The Nickerson Family History Nathaniel was supposed to have married a "Thyphenia" Miller. Other evidence, including her tombstone, gives her as Berthena (or Berthenia) Miller but she may actually have been named after an Aunt "Parthenia" Ogden.

Malahide Land Sales: Instr.# 2943 Nathaniel Nickerson bought 49 acres on Lot 14 Conc. 3 from Erastus Westover on 23 June 1864. Instr.# 3167 Nathaniel sold land to Jarms Thayer on 1 April 1865.

I could not find a stone, or record of a burial. Check old newspapers.

Robert Gunn is the husband of Charlotte, daughter of Nathaniel Nickerson, deceased, brother of the deceased and a Farmer in Yarmouth Township.

Families, vol. 28 - no. 2 May 1989, p. 121, has a query for a Charles Kerry or Carey who was born in 1827 and married a Eunice Nickerson.

Have copy of will of an Enos Nickerson who died in 1849 leaving 50 acres to wife Eunice Emiline Nickerson. Enos may have been a son of Nathaniel.

Alexander Nickerson of Malahide married Mary Bullock of Yarmouth, 26 Oct. 1856, wit Wm. Bullock & Isaac Shotwell, by License, p. 180, Elgin County Marriage Register, 1853-1857. In the Dunboyne Cem. is a Mary wife of Alex. Nickerson who died March 31, 1858 aged 23 yrs 4 mo and 13 days. She would have been born about 1835. Norfolk (or Brant Co. ?) marriage records gives Alexander Nickerson, 22, r. b. Malahide, s/o Nathaniel and Berthena Nickerson, married Mary Jane Miller, 23 res. Windham, born at Ancaster on 19 June 1859, wit. Sam Miller. This must have been his second wife.

Instr.# 2092 signed 8 March 1860 is a mortgage sale from Alexander Nickerson to Luke Kent on Lot 12, Conc. 3. This would be across from the Dunboyne Church.

Sims, History of Elgin County, p. 47 Volume I, shows a Della Nickerson as first teacher at Barnum's Corner school where Levi Young taught.

The Elgin County Death Register 1869-1873, part I & II, gives a Nickerson, Frederic, p. 66, 3

Berthena is buried at the Dunboyne Cemetery, south of Aylmer Cemetery. Her very old weeping willow tombstone was readable in 1992 and reads:

UCLP N 9/1 Hamilton (Twp., Northumberland Co., Upper Canada) son of Eliud, UEL.

In 1842 at Malahide Nathaniel Nickerson is farmer at N Lot 11, Conc. 3, from Canada with 8 in family. He is next to George Cottingham and Jane Plowman.

There is a baptism record at Saint Johnsville, NY Dutch Reformed Church, Saint Johnsville, Montgomery Co., NY for a Nathaniel Nikerson, son of "Elind Nikerson" and "Margretha" (sic), baptised 18 Oct 1789. This is an IGI extracted record, Batch C510941, FHL film #533494, printout 1002782. The actual church Baptism record for the St. Johnsville church p. 18, indicates that he was born 19th 8bris [Oct] 1784.

Later census records indicate that he was born in New Brunswick. He would have been about 5 years old at the time of his Baptism. His parents on the printed transcription are [Elind Nikerson and Margarethe]. Witness were John and Catherine Rice. Eliud is listed as being from Palatine.

Family Bible gives birth as 19 October 1785 but appears to have an overwrite.

Email from Willy Lang, ID <langid@nidlink.com> gives" My uncle, Leroy (Roy is the name he goes by) Everett Nickeson, son of Arthur Nelson Nickerson has the bible.

I could not find a tombstone, or newspaper obituary. Death Certificate, Lapeer Co., MI indicates that his birth was 23 SEP 1785, in New Brunswick, however I am using the birth date given at the time of his baptism by his parents when he was 5 years old.1 MAL Y Nathaniel, a 74 year old widowed farmer, died on 6 Apr 1871 in Goodland, Lapeer, Michigan.^[2] He is buried at the Arcadia Township Cemetery, Lum, Lapeer, Michigan.^[1]

Children

• Margaret Nickerson 1816–1855 • KG9Z-5VV​​

• Wilmot Jane Nickerson 1818–1857 • KG9Z-5P1​​

• Nathaniel Nickerson 1819–1826 • KG9Z-RM1​​

• Enos Elmenions Nickerson 1820–1849 • 27ZK-MY3​​

• Elida Ida Nickerson 1821–1903 • L844-6HC​​

• Rachel Nickerson 1823–Deceased • KGCJ-1WR​​

• Eunice Nickerson 1825–1849 • KGCJ-1W3​​

• Charlotte Nickerson 1830–1890 • L844-8WC​​

• Phoebe Ellen Nickerson 1831–1871 • L844-8ZD​​

• Mary Martha Margaret Nickerson 1834–1926 • L844-8YS​​

• Alexander Nickerson 1836–1902 • L7DF-NHC​​

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Find A Grave, database and images (accessed 04 December 2018), memorial page for Nathaniel Nickerson (19 Oct 1784–6 Apr 1871), Find A Grave: Memorial #108025027, citing Arcadia Township Cemetery, Lum, Lapeer County, Michigan, USA ; Maintained by Bruce Johnson (contributor 47661260).

   NOTE: There is no picture of a gravestone or a source for the information on the memorial.

2. ↑ "Michigan Deaths, 1867-1897," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N363-39W : 10 March 2018), Nathaniel Nickerson, 06 Apr 1871; citing p 338 rn 597, Goodland, Lapeer, Michigan, Department of Vital Records, Lansing; FHL microfilm 2,363,450.

<https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/KGCJ-17Z>

• Nickerson Family Association The Next Generation

• Upper Canada Land Petitions as son of UEL - http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/microform-digitization/006003-119.02-e.php?q2=29&q3=2573&sqn=169&tt=1423&PHPSESSID=k1o44oae8hbhe0ic6duf6ljtk2 Nickerson Nathaniel - Hamilton Twp Northumberland - S.U.E. Eliud of Hamilton Twp. and Grantham Rec land at Malahide 1808 382 N 9 1 pp. 169-170 RG 1 L3 C-2481

• "New York Births and Christenings, 1640-1962", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDYG-HDZ : 20 January 2020), Nathanael Nikerson, 1789.

• "Ontario Census, 1861," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQ74-TDZ : 5 September 2017), Nathaniel Nickerson, Malahide, Elgin, Ontario, Canada; citing p. 35, line 30; Library and Archives Canada film number C-1018-1019, Public Archives, Toronto; FHL microfilm 2,435,843.

• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHC9-DPX : 19 March 2020), Nathaniel Nickerson in entry for Alex Nickerson, 1870.

• "Michigan Deaths, 1867-1897," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N363-39W : 2 April 2020), Nathaniel Nickerson, 06 Apr 1871; citing p 338 rn 597, Goodland, Lapeer, Michigan, Department of Vital Records, Lansing; FHL microfilm 2,363,450.

• "Michigan Deaths and Burials, 1800-1995", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH8J-BPN : 16 January 2020), Nathaniel Nickerson, 1871.

• "Michigan Deaths, 1867-1897," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N363-39W : 2 April 2020), Nathaniel Nickerson, 06 Apr 1871; citing p 338 rn 597, Goodland, Lapeer, Michigan, Department of Vital Records, Lansing; FHL microfilm 2,363,450.