↑ Pioneer Patriot Families of Bradford Co., PA 1770-1825 Vol. 2, p. 252 pub. 1915:. 252.
John Nichols, a native of Connecticut, who was an expert basketmaker, came to Bradford county,first stopping on Gregg Hill and afterwards, 1818, moving to Albany where he purchased and improved a farm. In 1842 he sold and moved to Smithfield and there died, 1849, aged 72 years. He married Margaret, daughter of Robert Potter and had children, Sally, Isaac, Polly, Elsie, James, John, George, Kelsey, Julia Ann and Marian.
John Nichols came from Connecticut to Albany, N. Y., and thence to the township of Albany, in 1819, and settled on the hill east of New Albany, on the farm now occupied by George Lenox, who married Julia Ann, the youngest daughter of Mr. Nichols. This farm was on the Clymer lands, of which he and his son-in-law, Chapman, bought four hundred acres. Mr. Nichold lived for a short time on the Gregg hill, near Towanda, where Wm. Gregg recently lived.
