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Will dated December 9, 1797. Lived in Franklin, Dutchess County, NY.
Daughters: Anna wife of Edward Mooney, Mary who had four children by James Nickerson, Elizabeth.
Sons: Seth, Gideon, Constant and Joshua.
Mary's four children by James Nickerson: Benjamin, Susannah, Chloe, James.
Granddaughter: Patty Brewster, daughter of Samuel Brewster. Not yet age 21.
Other heirs: Susannah the wife of Obadiah Howland, Dorcas the wife of Samuel Brewster.
Wife: Mary, deceased before April 5, 1798.
Birth: 1723 Chatham Barnstable County Massachusetts, USA Death: 1798 Dutchess County New York, USA
Seth Nickerson married Mary Smith in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, before 1742, and he served in the Revolution as an Enlisted Man; Third Regiment, Dutchess County Militia (Land Bounty Rights).
SOURCE-Descendants "Nickerson Family Association, Inc.", 1077 Orleans Rd, P O Box 296, North Chatham MA 02650: "SETH NICKERSON, born at Chatham, Mass. between 1720 and 1725; son of Ebenezer (#93) and Constant (Covel) Nickerson; died at Franklin, NY. His will was dated 9 December 1797 with a codicil dated 5 April 1798. He married MARY SMITH of Chatham; who died before April 1798 at Franklin. In April of 1748 Seth was of Ridgefield, Conn. and appears on the tax list of Southernward, NY, in June that year. He later lived in the same area in which was called South Precinct, where he was road commissioner in 1773. The 1790 Census shows him in the town of Southeast, Dutchess Co., NY, with a family of 2 males over 16 and 2 females. The above places were a part of or adjacent to The Oblong. Seth's will names all his children, 4 children of daughter Mary--Benjamin, Susanna, Chloe and James--and Patty, daughter of Dorcas. "Son Gideon is impotent and not capable to take care of his part--Jabis Elwell, Jr. to be his guardian." The codicil says, "Wife Mary buried at west of garden"..." and lastly I do give to June Nickerson who hath formerly lived with me one good cow." SOURCE-The Oblong From "The Nickerson Family", Published by the Nickerson Family Associaton, 1973, LDS Film 0928159, Item 2, pp 34-35: "The Oblong was a strip of land two and one-half miles wide along the Connecticut border, which had been ceded by that state to New York in 1731 in exchange for lands along Long Island Sound. A guarantee of title and low prices for the land attracted young Cape Codders who had become dissatisfied with their prospects. A religious awakening and social upheaval extended over the Cape at the time. Settlers from Yarmouth, Harwich and other places occupied land in the Oblong as early as 1740, but there is no evidence that people from Chatham went until the "second emigration" in 1747. The Oblong adjoined the town of Ridgefield, Conn., and at the time was in Dutchess County, N.Y., (later Putnam County). Some of the villages of the Oblong were called Nine Partners, Pawling, Crumebow, Phillips Patent -- in New York, and New Milford, Sherman, New Fairfield -- in Connecticut."
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Categories: 1790 US Census, Southeast, New York