Zepheniah Nickerson

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1869, Nova Scotia

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"CLARK'S HARBOR, June 22 - The funeral of Zephaniah Nickerson, whose death occurred recently at East Boston, was held at the home of his sister, Mrs. Whitfield Blades on Sunday afternoon, Rev. Maxwell Balsor officated. The late Mr. Nickerson, who was 68 years old was one of Clark's Harbor's most respected citizens. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth, two daughters, Mrs. Frank MacCaulay of Boston, and Mrs. William Symonds of Clark's Harbor and two sons, Whitfield and Ivan of East Boston. One sister, Mrs. Blades resides here, and one brother, Samuel in Boston." [The Halifax Chronicle, 23 Jun 1936]

Zepheniah married Mary Elizabeth Crowell on 19 Sep 1898 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of John Samuel Crowell and Eliza Jane Bangay) was born on 15 Apr 1877 in West Head, Lockeport, Shelburne, Nova Scotia; died on 21 Nov 1952 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was buried in Clark's Harbour, Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Whitman Blades Nickerson was born in Mar 1905 in Clark's Harbour, Cape Sable Island, Shelburne, Nova Scotia; died in Mar 1937 in Chelsea, Suffolk, Massachusetts.

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• Alternate birth: Sep 1839, Nova Scotia
• Alternate birth: 1840

Cyrus married Martha A. Newell in 1867. Martha (daughter of Zephaniah H. Newell and Asenath Smith) died before 20 Sep 1887. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Abt 1876

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The Nickerson Family volume 4 (citation details below) says that his wife was "Elizabeth Dobbin, born Nova Scotia, called Betsey, of Port la Tour, probably daughter of William and _____ (_____) Dobbin", citing (among other sources) the History of Barrington Township (citation details below), p. 533. But all that page 533 says is that Knowles Nickerson, son of John Nickerson who "m. Dorothy James of Ireland", married a woman named Elizabeth. Whereas page 586 of the same work clearly says that Elizabeth Swain, daughter of Daniel Swain and Ann Taylor, married Knowles Nickerson.

Knowles married Elizabeth Swain on 14 Sep 1826. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was a sea captain.

Zephaniah married Asenath Smith. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1774, Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia

John married Dorothy James "Dolly" Burke about 6 May 1786. Dorothy (daughter of Edward Burke and Nora James) was born about 1770 in Bellyshannon, Donegal, Ireland; died about 1867 in Clark's Harbour, Cape Sable Island, Shelburne, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She died of dropsy. The Nickerson Family (citation details below) gives her death as 1867 in Clark's Harbour, Nova Scotia, daughter of Edward Burke and Nora James, but the same book also notes that Shelburne County vital records have her dying 5 Oct 1870, daughter of Thomas Burke and Nora James.

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The marriage is known to have taken place on a May 6th, probably in 1786.

Daniel married Ann Taylor. Ann (daughter of (Unknown) Taylor and Susanna Whitham) died on 19 Feb 1818. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hezechiah married Martha Nickerson. Martha (daughter of Scott Nickerson and Lucretia Jane Nickerson) was born on 14 May 1794 in Argyle, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Pattie. A History of Barrington Township (citation details below) makes her a daughter of Joshua Nickerson, son of Joshua, but The Nickerson Family (citation details below) makes the better case.

James married Tabitha Nickerson. Tabitha (daughter of Joshua Nickerson and Tabitha Kendrick) was born on 9 Sep 1790 in Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia; died on 18 Jan 1844. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1740, Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts

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He was a Loyalist, and went to Woods Harbor, Barrington, Nova Scotia at the time of the Revolution.

John married Jerusha Knowles. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"The evidences that Jerusha and Nathaniel were brother and sister are family statements of the descendants taken down around the year 1880 by the late Professor Arnold Doane of Barrington. The chief grounds for making them children of Enos Knowles are that Enos had a son not otherwise accounted for, that Jerusha and Nathaniel could not possibly have been children of Enos's brother Samuel or cousin Cornelius, that Nathaniel named a son Enos -- a name almost unused either in Eastham or Barrington, and that the name Jerusha prevailed among the proved descendants of Enos." [Charles Thornton Libby, citation details below.]

Her first husband was Simeon Crowell, who was lost at sea in the summer of 1768.

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According to family lore, he was a colonel in the British army and was last heard from when stationed in the East Indies.

Edward married Nora James. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Chapman married Sarah Meader on 19 Jul 1739 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of Joseph Meader and Charity Nason) was born on 30 Aug 1722 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 30 Jun 1722

(Unknown) married Susanna Whitham. Susanna died between 5 Feb 1796 and 31 Dec 1796. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Eunice Smith in 1776 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Eunice (daughter of Archelaus Smith and Elizabeth Nickerson) was born on 12 Mar 1760 in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Scott married Lucretia Jane Nickerson on 16 Dec 1789 in Argyle, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Lucretia (daughter of John Nickerson and Jerusha Knowles) was born in Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Sarah Wilson in Dec 1784 in Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia. Sarah (daughter of Henry Wilson and Sarah Chase) died in 1800. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joshua married Tabitha Kendrick on 26 Jun 1785 in Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia. Tabitha (daughter of Warren Anson Kendrick and Azuba Sears) was born on 29 Jul 1766 in Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1705, Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts

John married Dorcas Bassett on 14 May 1728 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Dorcas (daughter of Nathan Bassett and Mary Crowell) was born in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died in 1770. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Enos married Sarah Sparrow on 12 Apr 1733 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of Jonathan Sparrow and Sarah) was born on 20 Jul 1708 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died in 1784 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Called "England," presumably because he was born there, and to distinguish him from the other, more prominent Swain family of Nantucket.

John married Patience Skiff. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Charity Nason on 29 Dec 1704 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Charity (daughter of Joseph Nason and Mary Swain) was born on 17 Sep 1682 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 16 Sep 1723

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Or Newhall.

Henry married Elizabeth Grouard on 14 Feb 1754. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 3 Apr 1821, Cape Sable Island, Shelburne, Nova Scotia

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From Wikipedia:

Archelaus Smith was a tanner, shoemaker and early settler of Barrington, Nova Scotia. [...] In the spring of 1760 Smith began planning to move his family from their home in Chatham to a new home in Barrington, Nova Scotia. He was to be one of the earliest settlers in the area, along with Solomon Smith, Jonathan Smith, and Thomas Crowell. He spent the summer of 1760 fishing, and during that time, determined native hostility in the Barrington area was too threatening, and so he changed his mind about moving. However, his wife Elizabeth was unaware of his change of heart, and took it upon herself to travel to Barrington with her family before her husband returned to Chatham. It is possible that they crossed paths, but certainly he was delayed in returning to Barrington. When he finally got there, he found his family being cared for by friendly natives, the same people he had feared.

Smith was one of the original proprietors in the area, settling at Barrington Head in the fall of 1760. In fact, the first three houses at Centreville were called "the Housen", and belonged to Archelaus Smith, Simeon Gardner, and Jonathan Covell. "Housen" was Anglo-Saxon for houses. Smith's home was nearly opposite the old meeting house. In 1773 he moved to Cape Sable Island, where he and his family occupied almost all the land from Northeast Point to West Head (a distance of five miles). He also held a tract of land at Lower Clark's Harbour, Cape Sable Island (known then as Stumpy Cove), a large part of Hawk Point, and a great meadow in the centre of the island. He took over land that had been forfeited and abandoned by Joseph Worth, and built a home near the shore, a little north of where the Centreville Baptist Church would later stand. Around 1776 he moved to a house near the shore on Cape Sable Island, near the spot where just before 1981 Job Kenney would build the house that stands today. It is a short distance from the Centreville Baptist Church.

Smith had a fair education, and was highly respected by other settlers. He was known as a "good, quiet, easy, patient man", and was chosen over several years to be clerk of the proprietors, as well as a community magistrate and a surveyor. By trade he was a tanner and a shoemaker, using lime made from mussel shells to cure leather. He was very religious, belonging to the Presbyterian church, and no food was cooked in his house on Sundays. Before a minister came to the island he conducted prayers for the community, and when necessary, buried the dead.

Smith died 3 April 1821 in Centreville, Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia. He is probably buried in the Centreville Cemetery, but his grave is unmarked, so in 1998 a stone in honour of Smith and his wife was erected there. In addition, a museum on Cape Sable Island has been established in his memory, containing historical artifacts, photos, and genealogical data of area families (largely compiled by Margaret Messenger).

Archelaus married Elizabeth Nickerson on 16 Jul 1752 in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of William Nickerson and Sarah Covell) was born on 15 May 1735 in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died on 24 Apr 1824 in Cape Sable Island, Shelburne, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 2 Apr 1828, Cape Sable Island, Shelburne, Nova Scotia

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Officiated by the Rev. Stephen Emery.

Abner married Elizabeth Baker on 25 Oct 1765 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Shubael Baker and Lydia Stewart) was born on 2 Jan 1744 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died after 1800. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1740, Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts

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He was a Loyalist, and went to Woods Harbor, Barrington, Nova Scotia at the time of the Revolution.

John married Jerusha Knowles. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"The evidences that Jerusha and Nathaniel were brother and sister are family statements of the descendants taken down around the year 1880 by the late Professor Arnold Doane of Barrington. The chief grounds for making them children of Enos Knowles are that Enos had a son not otherwise accounted for, that Jerusha and Nathaniel could not possibly have been children of Enos's brother Samuel or cousin Cornelius, that Nathaniel named a son Enos -- a name almost unused either in Eastham or Barrington, and that the name Jerusha prevailed among the proved descendants of Enos." [Charles Thornton Libby, citation details below.]

Her first husband was Simeon Crowell, who was lost at sea in the summer of 1768.

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In 1761 he was one of the original proprietors of Barrington, Nova Scotia.

Henry married Sarah Chase on 4 Jan 1759 in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of Obadiah Chase and Mary Smith) was born on 26 Sep 1737 in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Intention posted at Chatham 11 Jul 1758.

Joshua married Esther Ryder on 15 Dec 1754 in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Esther (daughter of John Ryder and Mehitable Crowell) was born on 4 Mar 1735 in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died on 9 Feb 1819 in Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Lydia B. Brownson (citation details below) states that he drowned.

From A History of Barrington Township and Vicinity (citation details below):

He was a soldier at the taking of Louisburg, and unhurt, though in the thick of the fight. His family had slaves when living at Cape Cod. He moved from the Sherose Island lot to Shag Harbor and occupied part of Kendricks Island. His wife, Azubah Sears, was a sister of Mrs. Theodore Harding and of Josiah Sears another early settler at Shag Harbor. The name in the Return of 1769 is spelled Kenwick. Prof. Doane says, "Many of the names in this census are spelled carelessly or ignorantly." Documents bearing the signature of Solomon Sr., have Kenwrick. Anson Kendrick in a deed of 1770 signs Kincoruk. [...]

Anson Kendrick lost his life in a shocking accident. His daughter Abigail (Mrs. Bradford) with her husband and two children were going to one of the Shag Harbor Islands to get birds' eggs. The boat was capsized on a bar and all were drowned but Mrs. Bradford, who succeeded in righting the boat and bringing her to the shore. When arrived home they asked her where the others were. She said, "They are in eternity." This was about 1815. A year or two before this, when the men of the place were all absent on militia duty, a privateer came into Shag Harbor. Anticipating a raid at night Abigail Bradford gathered the women of the place for defence, and when a boat was about to land, those on board heard her in a gruff voice giving directions to fire upon them, and immediately put off again to their vessel. In 1819 Mrs. Bradford married Thomas West of Liverpool, N.S., whom she reformed to sobriety by her self sacrifice, fortitude and energy.

Warren married Azuba Sears on 29 Oct 1765. Azuba (daughter of Josiah Sears and Azuba Knowles) was born on 5 Nov 1747 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died in 1839 in Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]