> IF YOU WISH TO REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE PLEASE USE [email protected] AS BOB > IS NOT A SUBSCRIBER ON THIS LIST > > > The earliest NICHOL ancestor I have identified in my line was Benjamin > NICHOL, b. in Maryland, USA [so said his son many years later], c. 1765-9. > There is a family tradition that the immigrant ancestor was Scots-Irish. > Benjamin begat four sons before 1820 in Tennessee: John W., David S., > Thomas and Alva. All of these, plus an unnamed wife and possibly a > daughter, are in the 1820 census of Wilson Co., TN. In 1827 or so he > married Polly SHERRILL, widow of Uriah SHERRILL, in Wilson Co., and had > three more sons: William Elliot Franklin, James Fletcher, and Benjamin > Houston. The elder Benjamin died c. 1843, last known residence was Carroll > Co., TN. > > > > I am descended from David S. NICHOL, by Benjamin's unknown first wife; I > have the family traced from then to the present. They moved west each > generation, first to Hickman Co., KY, then Texas Co., MO in the 1800's, > thence to the Pacific Northwest around the turn of the century. I have been > in contact with descendants of Benjamin's second family; they populated much > of Texas and went west to California. Their line is documented in "Nichol > and Osborne Family Tree" by Jack Ryan Nichol, available in the Library of > Congress. Interestingly, J.R. Ryan never stumbled onto the earlier crop of > sons; nor did he succeed in tracing Benjamin's pre-Tennessee origins, though > he [and I] suspected that he resided for a time in north-central NC. > > > > These are the questions I have been trying to answer for fifteen years: > > > > Where in MD was Benjamin Nichol born? > > Who were Benjamin's parents, and where were they born? > > Where, when, and whom did he marry first? [First son, John W., reportedly > was born in > > TN in June, 1796] > > Where did he live between 1769 and 1811, when he turned up in Wilson Co., > TN? > > > > ANY light either of you can shed on the above would be most welcome; > please, please also post this email where other interested researchers might > see it and make contact. > > > > Thank you, and Happy Hunting! > > > > Bob [Robert Byron] Nichol > > Wilmington, NC > > > > -- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com > > http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup > > > > > > 1 cent a minute calls anywhere in the U.S.! > > > > > http://www.getpennytalk.com/cgi-bin/adforward.cgi?p_key=RG9853KJ&url=http:// > www.getpennytalk.com > > > > >