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Benjamin Nichols (1665 - abt. 1715)

Benjamin Nichols
Born in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticutmap
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Husband of — married 1700 [location unknown]
Husband of — married 1711 [location unknown]
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Died about at about age 49 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticutmap
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Biography

Benjamin NICHOLS was born 2 Feb 1665/6 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony; the son of Isaac Nichols and his wife Margaret.[1]

He married (1st) to Abigail in 1700 in Stratford. She apparently died for he married (2nd) in 1711 to Rebecca Sandford, widow of John Seeley and daughter of Ezekiel Sandford.[2]She was born on December 13, 1672.[1]

Benjamin died in 1715 at Stratford, Fairfield, Conncticut Colony. The administration of his will was granted to Jonas Wooster of Stratford on February 2, 1714/15. The inventory was taken April 9, 1717 and presented October 8, 1718.[1]

His widow, Rebecca, married (3rd) to John Mann on May 24, 1716 at Stratford.[1][2]

Rebecca (Sandford) Seeley, Nichols, Mann died at Stratford in March of 1725/6.[1]

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000) vol 1, p 438. p. 439, 440.see at hathitrust.org
  2. 2.0 2.1 Early New England Families, 1641-1700. (Original Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013. (By Alicia Crane Williams, Lead Genealogist.) Sketch for George Squire. p. 4.need subscription
  • The image of Isaac Nichols' genealogy is from a book named "Martin's Geneaolgy." North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000.[1]
  • Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 3, p 595.
  • Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), p. 331.

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Per Ancestry's transcription of the Barbour Collection, his birth year was 1665.
posted by E. Logan
agreed and changed I don't understand the dual dating where two years are shown.
posted by Mark Curtis
I've seen it numerous times (at least 50% of individuals who have records in the Barbour Collection) in different transcriptions of the Barbour Collection - I don't know why either.
posted by E. Logan

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