Joshua Nickerson

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]

1. Joshua Nickerson was born in 1763 in Shag Harbor, Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia; died in 1800 in Oak Park, Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia.

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• Alternate death: 18 Dec 1749, Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Caleb married Mary Godfrey about 1732 in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Moses Godfrey and Deborah Cooke) was born on 4 Sep 1711 in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died on 24 Apr 1782 in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts; was buried in Queen Anne Cemetery, Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ensign married Deliverance about 1700. Deliverance died about 1716. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Possibly Deliverance Lombard (also called Lumbert), daughter of Caleb Lombard/Lumbert.

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• Alternate birth: 27 Jan 1667, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Moses married Deborah Cooke about 1700 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Deborah (daughter of Josiah Cooke and Deborah Hopkins) was born on 15 Feb 1679 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died on 27 Apr 1743 in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts; was buried in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 15 Feb 1678, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
• Alternate death: 23 Apr 1745, Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Notes:

William Nickerson (1646-1719) = Mercy Williams (1649-1739)
Thomas Nickerson (~1670-~1736) = Mary Bangs (b. 1671)
Edward Nickerson (<1700-~1754) = Thankful Covell (1707-1795)
Thomas Nickerson (1743-1789) = Hannah Hall (1740-1820)
Thomas Nickerson (1773-1806) = Rebecca Gibson (1778-1806)
Thomas Gibson Nickerson (1805-1883) = Margaret Drew (1813-1888)

William Bunker (b. 1648) = Mary Macy (1648-1729), 8G-grandparents
George Bunker (1671-1743) = Deborah Coffin (1676-1767)
Caleb Bunker (b. 1699) = Priscilla Bunker (b. 1703)
Caleb Bunker (b. 1736) = Eunice Gardner
Uriah Bunker (b. 1759) = Margaret Clark
Priscilla Bunker (1789-1820) = Alexander Drew (1785-1840)
Margaret Drew (1813-1888)

James Coffin (1640-1720) = Mary Severance (b. 1645), 8G-grandparents
Deborah Coffin (1676-1767) = George Bunker (1671-1743)
Caleb Bunker (b. 1699) = Priscilla Bunker (b. 1703)
Caleb Bunker (b. 1736) = Eunice Gardner
Uriah Bunker (b. 1759) = Margaret Clark
Priscilla Bunker (1789-1820) = Alexander Drew (1785-1840)
Margaret Drew (1813-1888)

William Bunker (b. 1648) = Mary Macy (1648-1729), 8G-grandparents
Peleg Bunker (1676-1730) = Susanna Coffin
Priscilla Bunker (b. 1703) = Caleb Bunker (b. 1699)
Caleb Bunker (b. 1736) = Eunice Gardner
Uriah Bunker (b. 1759) = Margaret Clark
Priscilla Bunker (1789-1820) = Alexander Drew (1785-1840)
Margaret Drew (1813-1888)

Tristram Coffin (1610-1681) = Dionis Stevens, 9G-grandparents
Stephen Coffin (1652-1734) = Mary Bunker (1652-1724)
Susanna Coffin = Peleg Bunker (1676-1730)
Priscilla Bunker (b. 1703) = Caleb Bunker (b. 1699)
Caleb Bunker (b. 1736) = Eunice Gardner
Uriah Bunker (b. 1759) = Margaret Clark
Priscilla Bunker (1789-1820) = Alexander Drew (1785-1840)
Margaret Drew (1813-1888)

George Bunker (d. 1658) = Jane Godfrey (d. 1662), 9G-grandparents
Mary Bunker (1652-1724) = Stephen Coffin (1652-1734)
Susanna Coffin = Peleg Bunker (1676-1730)
Priscilla Bunker (b. 1703) = Caleb Bunker (b. 1699)
Caleb Bunker (b. 1736) = Eunice Gardner
Uriah Bunker (b. 1759) = Margaret Clark
Priscilla Bunker (1789-1820) = Alexander Drew (1785-1840)
Margaret Drew (1813-1888)

William married Mercy Williams on 30 Nov 1668. Mercy (daughter of Thomas Williams and Elizabeth Tart) was born about 1649 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died on 2 Jul 1739 in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1644, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Notes:

Arrived in Eastham before 1661. He appears on a list of heads of families in Monomoit in 1711, one year before the town name was changed to Chatham, but he disappears from the record after that. Elizabeth Pearson White (citation details below) says that he "may have joined the Monomoit families who went at that time to Duck Creek (now Smyrna) in Kent Co., Delaware."

Josiah married Deborah Hopkins on 27 Jul 1668 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Deborah (daughter of Giles Hopkins and Catherine Whelden) was born in Jun 1648 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died between 28 Feb 1687 and 7 Dec 1727. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"William Nickerson was a man of intelligence and of great energy and strength of will, which degenerated into obstinancy. He could not brook opposition nor readily accomodate himself to his neighbors. He was litigious, insisting upon the letter of what he thought his rights. He was no doubt a religious man, and at Monomoy acted as a religious teacher to the infant settlement, but he could not agree with his Yarmouth brethren and had at least one of his children baptized in Barnstable. His purchase of land at Monomoy was doubtless in part dictated by a desire of independence and his intention to found a settlement of which he should be the head. After his removal to Monomoy he resisted the authority both of Yarmouth and Eastham, which the colony court successively extended over the place. His purchase at Monomoy was contrary to a salutary law of the colony of which he could not have been unaware, although when confronted with its penalty, he claimed ignorance. He more than once expressed regret that he had violated the law but at no time did he alter his course. His persistence in the end, it is true, brought him substantial victory, but his unaccommodating spirit made many years of his life a series of conflicts with the colonial authorities and others, in which he was almost uniformly worsted. As has been seen, he disposed of all his property before his death and therefore his name does not appear on the probate records. This action on his part was perhaps due to distrust of the public authorities, produced by his years of conflict with them." [James W. Hawes, "William Nickerson", in Library of Cape Cod History & Genealogy (vol 1-105). Yarmouthport, Mass.: C. W. Swift, 1912-23.]

William married Anne Busby in 1627. Anne (daughter of Nicholas Busby and Bridget Cocke) was born before 2 Feb 1608 in Norwich, Norfolk, England; was christened on 2 Feb 1608 in St. Mary Coslany, Norwich, Norfolk, England; died after 18 May 1686 in Monomoit, Barnstable, Massachusetts; was buried in Burial Hill, Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Emigrated in 1635. First at Plymouth, then at Eastham by 1649. He was a servant, and then a husbandman.

Thomas married Elizabeth Tart on 30 Nov 1638. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Elizabeth Tate. In Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y, Robert Charles Anderson gives her as a daughter of Thomas Tart, who was in Scituate in 1638 or 1639 and removed to Barbados after 1649. But in the later Great Migration Directory, Anderson says that Thomas Tart may have been her father but was more probably a sibling.

Notes:

Arrived in 1633, first at Plymouth, then Eastham. He was a tavernkeeper, and literate enough to serve in many public offices, including that of town clerk.

Josias married Elizabeth Ring on 16 Sep 1635 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of William Ring and Mary) was born about 1609; died before 3 May 1687 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 16 Apr 1690, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Notes:

Emigrated 1620 to Plymouth, Massachusetts, on the Mayflower.

Giles married Catherine Whelden on 9 Oct 1639 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Catherine (daughter of Gabriel Whelden and Jane) was born before 6 Mar 1617 in Basford, Nottinghamshire, England; was christened on 6 Mar 1617 in St. Leodegarius, Basford, Nottinghamshire, England; died after 5 Mar 1689 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Katherne, Catorne.

Notes:

He may have been a son of John and Elizabeth Nickerson of Norfolk.

The Margaret Nickerson who married William Ward at St. Lawrence church in Norfolk, 29 May 1626, appears to have been this William Nickerson's widow, but not necessarily the mother of all his children.

Notes:

He was a weaver. He may have been the Nicholas Busby who was a selectman in Watertown, Massachusetts in 1640 and 1644. Savage's Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England says "Nicholas Busby of Watertown came from Norwich in 1637, aged 50, with wife Bridget, aged 53, and four children." He definitely died in Boston, though.

Nicholas married Bridget Cocke on 24 Jun 1605 in St. Mary Coslany, Norwich, Norfolk, England. Bridget was born about 1584; died between 1 Jul 1660 and 3 Jul 1660 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was possibly the unnamed daughter of Christopher Cocke and Ellen Wigman that was baptized at St. Mary Coslany between May and September 1582.

William Emery Nickerson (citation details below) asserts that she was the daughter of Christopher Cocke and Margaret Allen whose marriage, 25 Jan 1579/80, is recorded in the same parish register as the 1605 marriage of Nicholas Busby and Bridget Cocke.

Notes:

He may have been the William Ring of Pettistree, Suffolk who married at Ufford, Suffolk, 21 May 1601, Mary Durrant, of Suffolk, single woman, and who had a daughter Elizabeth baptized at Ufford 23 Feb 1603.

William married Mary before 1609. Mary was born before 1589; died on 15 Jul 1631 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 19 Jul 1631, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Notes:

Possibly born Mary Durrant. Arrived in Plymouth as the widow Mary Ring in 1629 or 1630.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Hursley, Hampshire, England
• Alternate death: Aft 6 Jun 1644, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Notes:

Emigrated 1620, on the Mayflower, with his second wife Elizabeth Fisher and his children Elizabeth, Constance, and Giles. He was a tanner, merchant, and tavern-keeper.

Notable as the only Mayflower passenger to have previously visited the New World, as it now appears that he was the same Stephen Hopkins that served as the minister's clerk on the 1609 voyage to Jamestown of the Sea Venture. This ship was caught in a storm and ran aground at Bermuda, marooning its passengers. Sir Thomas Gates, who had been travelling to Jamestown as its newly-appointed governor, organized the passengers to build new boats to complete the voyage. Hopkins vocally dissented against Gates's authority, and was charged with mutiny and sentenced to death, but ultimately pardoned after many other passengers pled for clemency toward him. The boat-building project was successful and the passengers of the Sea Venture ultimately made it to Jamestown, from whence Hopkins ultimately returned to England in 1614. A written narrative of the Sea Venture's story was in circulation in England by late 1610 and is known to have been read by Shakespeare, whose The Tempest, first performed in November 1611, concerns a group of passengers shipwrecked by a storm, and includes a comic-relief drunk named Stefano who attempts to take over as their leader.

Stephen Hopkins = Mary
Constance Hopkins = Nicholas Snow
Mark Snow = Jane Prence
Nicholas Snow = Lydia Shaw
Thankful Snow = Joseph Burgess
Lydia Burgess = Salmon Kingsley
Orin Kingsley = Hilda Coon
Orin Kingsley = Margaret Buchanan
Alanson Kingsley = Laura Ann Jackett
Barbara Marie Jane Kingsley = Willis Wilbus Thompson
Bernice Maude Thompson = Archie Dean Swift
Archie Dean Swift = Rose Baldi Douglas
Scott Kingsley Swift = Andrea G. Finlay
Taylor Swift (1989- )

Stephen married Mary Kent alias Back before 13 May 1604 in England. Mary (daughter of Robert Kent alias Back and Joan Machell) was born about 1583; died before 9 May 1613 in Hursley, Hampshire, England; was buried on 9 May 1613 in Hursley, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Gabriel married Jane. Jane died after 15 Aug 1637. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]