Person:Merritt Nichols (1)

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State of Iowa In the matter of the Fayette County application of Lucy Nichols for Widow's Pension Merritt Nichols of said county and state being first duly sworn deposes and says, that he is a son of Barber and Mary Nichols whose maiden name was Mary Thomas. That my mother Mary Nichols died about October 1824 at the town of Whitby Canada West. My mother never had been married pervious to her marriage to my father Barber Nichols. My parents were married in the town of Hawksburgh Canada East about ninety miles north of Montreal. This deponent was born June 28th 1817 in the town of Orangville Gennessee County (now Wyoming) N.Y. About three years after the death of my mother Mary Nichols my father Barber Nichols married Lucy Parshall. I think it was a short time before I was fourteen years of age. They were married at Whitby Canada West. I was present on the place at the time of the marriage but do not now remember that I witnessed the ceremony. The person who officiated at the marriage was Peter McDaniel Esq. Long since dead. The children of Barber and Mary Nichols were thirteen in number six boys and seven girls and at the time of the marriage of my father Barber Nichols to Lucy Parshall there was eleven of said children living and they were all at home but three. After the marriage of my father with Lucy Parshall the children of the first marriage were taken care of by may father & step mother Lucy Nichols the applicant herein for pension, until they were grown and left home. There were seven children five girls and two boys born as the result of the second marriage of my father Barber Nichols to Lucy Parshall. My father Barber Nichols died the fourteenth day of January 1885 at Lockport N.Y. he was about one hundred years of age at the time of his death. My father was born at Providence Rhode Island - he went to Hawksburgh Canada East when he was married to my mother Mary Nichols formerly Mary Thomas, he moved from there to Lisbon, N.Y. and from thence to what was known as Holand Patent Gennessee County N.Y., and moved from thence to Whitby Canada West where my mother died and when he married as his second wife Lucy Parshall afterwards removing to Lockport N.Y. where he resided until his death. Deponent further states that my step mother Lucy Nichols after the death of my father Barber Nichols removed from Lockport N.Y. to Blue Earth City Minnesota and is now living with her daughter Mrs. George B. Kingsley and where I paid her a visit in the month of June last past. That she is the identical person she represents herself to be the wife of Barber Nichols who was a soldier and pensioner of the War of 1812. This deponent would further state that at the time of the marriage referred to there was quite a company at the wedding. I remembered among the number were Henry Crawford and wife David Safford and wife Lewis Ketcham & wife Lawrence Haden & wife and David Reed. I know of none of the persons mentioned who are now living except it be David Reed who purchased the place of my father Barber Nichols on which the marriage referred to took place. I have no interest in the prosecution of this claim of Pension. In presence of E. A. Ainsworth Merritt Nichols D. W. Clements Merritt Nichols Subscribed in my presence and in the presence of E.A. Ainsworth and D. W. Clements and sworn to before me this 11th day of August 1885 and I certify that I am well acquainted with said Merritt Nichols and with the subsidiary witnesses hereto and know them to be persons of truth and voracity and that the statements made in the foregoing affidavit by the said Nichols is entitled to full credit Mr. E. Falles Notary Public in and for Fayette County Iowa

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Re: Merritt Nichols, 1817-?, NY>CAN>IL>MN>IA Posted by: Bob Lamb Date: June 25, 2001 at 15:00:24 In Reply to: Merritt Nichols, 1817-?, NY>CAN>IL>MN>IA by Michelle Nichols Folkerts of 12201 From the Marriage Registers of Upper Canada, in the book 1835 - 1843 Merrit Nichols, to Miranda Sillaway, both of Whitby, 25 June 1838, by Banns. Rev. Israel Marsh. Wit Anna Sillaway and Lucinda Watson.

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