In a message dated 2/4/2003 10:01:41 AM Eastern Standard Time, Ktbricks@msn.com writes: > Frank- > > I see you'll be taking on the Nichols in a future volume. Am interested in > Benjamin Nichols from Amesbury. He married a couple of Quaker gals. Seems > to have been involved in Quaker land transactions - shows in Nine Partners > in 1747, in Easton Washington Co in the 1780's, in Hoosick Rensselaer Co in > the 1790 census. Seems to have gone into St. Lawrence County NY about 1810 > or thereabouts. He also shows as founder of a town in Vermont. Is Nine > Partners in your area of concern? > > Benjamin's son Rowland Nichols appears to be an ancestor. Rowland's > daughter Mary married the John Chapman that we've spent so much time and > effort trying to track down in your Chapman section I too have a Benajmin Nichols. I'm not sure where he lived but his son Caleb was in Columbia Co 1790, went to Oneida Co, then Hamilton Co, and later to western NY. My Benjamin's Bible does not record a Rowland though. Mary Slack Maynard Thank you St. Jude and St. Theresa for your powerful intercession. Researching Slack, Gregory, Hopper, Bigalow, Nichols, Dunning, Mead, Fish in NY & NE, Perry/ CT, Nash, Maginn/McGinn, Donahue, Vokes in NY & Ire, Aird & Crombie/ NY & Scot

Nine Partners Patent is close enough to Columbia County, NY to be of interest, I would think. Cheers!! Geoff Brown