Samuel had purchased, previous to their sailing, 2,000 acres of land; the said land was surveyed to him in 1676, together with sixteen acres for a town lot, in new Salem. He died about the year 1690, on his property in Elsinborongh; he was the [first Justice of the Peace in Fenwick Colony. His widow, Ann Nicholson, died in 1693; in her will she devised her estate to her three grand-daughters—Rachel, Mary and Elizabeth Abbott, and her three sons—Samuel, Joseph and Abel Nicholson.
