Hannah (Rednap) Nicholson (abt. 1642 - 1678)

Born about 1642 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Wife of Christopher Nicholson — married 22 Oct 1662 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 2 Dec 1678 at about age 36 in Perquimans, North Carolina

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Biography

Hannah was a Friend (Quaker)

The identity of Hannah Rednap's mother (and wife of her father) is not known. She could not have been Sarah Laughton, daughter of Thomas, because Thomas married too late to have a daughter of the right age to marry Joseph Redknap.

Hannah married Christopher Nicholson in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts in on 22 October 1662^[1]. He was already marked by the local authorities as a Quaker and was subject to continual harassment^[2]. There first two children may have been born in Lynn^[3].

Soon though Christopher and Hannah moved to the Albemarle area of North Carolina to escape the continuing persecution. They had certainly moved by 1665 when her father Joseph sold land and in a subsequent deposition reported that his daughter "had married and went to Roanoke."^[4]

Christopher and Hannah were in Perquimans in 1676, when he was one of the Quakers seized by the insurrectionists in Culpeper's Rebellion; the document refers to Christopher as a burgess of Albemarle County^[5].

Hannah died 2 December 1678, a week after the birth of their son (and eighth child), Benjamin^[3].

Sources

1. ↑ Vital Records of Lynn, Massachusetts, Vol 11, Marriages and Deaths, Essex Institute, Salem, 1906, Pg 279, Date reads: 22 : 8 m: 1662, CT. R. https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofly02unse/page/n561
2. ↑ Ferris, Mary Walton,. Dawes-Gates ancestral lines : a memorial volume containing the American ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes. Milwaukee: Wisconsin Cuneo Press, 1931-1943., Vol 2. Full view available here: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066042367;view=1up;seq=201
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Winslow, Mrs Watson, History of Perquimans County, Raleigh, 1931 page 395; https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/13772#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=219&xywh=2217%2C431%2C1635%2C2131
4. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009); Volume VI, R-S; featured name: Joseph Redknap (subscription required); p 39, citing EQC 9:338 -339 Please Note: re Anderson's citation of "Roanoke" in the court deposition of Hannah Rednap's father: What is today Edenton, North Carolina was at that time known as the Port of Roanoke (there was no actual settlement at Roanoke, Virginia at this time) in the Albemarle and later Chowan County. Hannah's father was referencing they went to North Carolina and not Virginia. The misinterpretation of Roanoke can cause considerable confusion.
5. ↑ Colonial and State Records of North Carolina, Hancock, Stephen; Et Al. September 13, 1679, Volume 01, Pages 250-253 https://docsouth.unc.edu/csr/index.php/document/csr01-0107

Acknowledgments

• WikiTree profile Rednap-1 created through the import of Murdock _ WarrenFamilies.ged on May 29, 2011 by Jerry Murdock.
• WikiTree profile UNKNOWN-114723 created through the import of Cato Family Tree_book_EN.ged on Sep 21, 2011 by Linda Cato.
• WikiTree profile UNKNOWN-114398 created through the import of Cato Family Tree_book_EN.ged on Sep 21, 2011 by Linda Cato.