Thomas Nickerson 1696 Lydia Covell 1701-1750

Thomas Nickerson
Parents Lieutenant Thomas Nickerson and Mary Bangs

Born 24 Dec 1696 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British Colonial America
Married 1) Lydia Covell 16 May 1716 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British Colonial America

Note: there is a marriage record with the name Thomas Nickerson and Lydia, but the year is wrong - 1705, which would make her 4 years old and him about 9, so though I think it is them, because of the date, I believe it was a clerical mistake...and the clerk that made the mistake was none other than a Thomas Nickerson.
2) (Widow) Sarah Crowell 5 Jul 1751 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British Colonial America

Note: marriage intention published 5 July 1750

Note: on family search, for place of marriage it claims London Grove Township, Pennsylvania, but the extracted work claims it was Chatham, Massachusetts. An extraction error?
3) Bethia Harding 26 Dec 1763 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British Colonial America

Thomas and Bethia's marriage record. The 6 on the 26th is very hard to see unless you really enlarge it. Note: marriage intention (engagement): 3 Dec 1763 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British Colonial America

Died after 1763 (when he married Bethia)

Buried
Sources
Birth: AGBI and IGI Film 0001251 V4 Batch C510401 dated 1696-1733
Marriage to Lydia: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records

Marriage to Sarah: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records

Marriage to Bethia: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records

Family Search

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Lydia Covell
Parents Joseph Covell and Lydia Stuart

Born 12 Jul 1701 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Died 18 Oct 1750 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Note:  Big fat question mark: Thomas was engaged to marry his second wife by July of 1750, so...he was engaged before Lydia died?  Were he and Lydia divorced? or are there two Thomas Nickerson's with wife's named Lydia?
Sources
Parents and birth date: Book: History and Genealogy of the Mayflower Planters and first comers to ye olde colonie Vol 2 (the Sandys and Brewsters of Scrooby Manor) by Leon Clark Hills, 1936, page 94 

Family Search

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CHILDREN

Desire Nickerson
Born 5 Feb 1718 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Desire Nickerson birth record. 
Note:  the year has been wrongfully thought to be 1715

Married Elisha (Eliaphas) Nickerson 1735
Children: Elisha, John
Died 28 August 1786 Argyle, Queens, Nova Scotia, Canada

Buried Canada
Sources

Birth: IGI Film 0001251 V4 Batch C510401 dated 1696-1733
Family Search

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*Thomas Nickerson
Born 28 Feb 1720 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Thomas birth record

Married Dorcas Sparrow 6 May 1741 Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Children: Sparrow, Thomas, Phebe, Hugh, Dorcas, Rachel, Sarah, Sabra

Died

Buried
Sources
Birth: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records, AND IGI Film 0001251 V4 Batch C510401 dated 1696-1733
Family Search

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Lydia Nickerson
Born 30 Mar 1722 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Note: Given name spelled Ledea in record

Lydia's birth and death record

Died 15 Aug 1722 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Sources

Birth: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records AND IGI Film 0001251 V4 Batch C510401 dated 1696-1733

Death: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records

Family Search

ancestry.com

Lydia Nickerson
Born 16 Feb 1724 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British Colonial America

Note: name is spelled Ledea in record

Lydia's birth record

Married Thomas Snow 5 Sep 1773 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British Colonial America

Children: none

Died after 1790

Buried
Sources

Birth: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records AND IGI Film 0001251 V4 Batch C510401 dated 1696-1733

Family Search

ancestry.com

Ansel Nickerson
Born 2 May 1727 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British Colonial America

Ansel's birth record

Married: Bathsheba Small 21 May 1748 Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Children: Levi (later renamed Ansel after his father died)

Died 1 Nov 1750 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British Colonial America

Ansel's death record

Life Note: Ansel Jr. was acquitted of murder. See the story below

AT THE ATWOOD HOUSE A Chatham Murder Mystery by Spencer Grey

On Nov. 15, 1772, when Captain Joseph Doane of Chatham was on board his schooner in Cape Cod Bay, he saw a vessel flying a distress signal. Coming alongside, he discovered it was the Schooner Abigail, Thomas Nickerson of Chatham, master, en route from Boston

to Chatham. When he boarded the Abigail, he confronted a horrifyingly gruesome scene. Her deck was covered with blood, and the captain, his cousin, Sparrow Nickerson, and his brother-in-law, Elisha Newcomb, all lay there, clearly having been murdered. Chests had been smashed open and rifled; a rum barrel with its head stove in was almost empty, and only one member of the crew, Ansel Nickerson of Chatham, also a cousin of the captain, remained alive. Although highly agitated and distressed, Nickerson was able to present his version of what had occurred.

The previous evening, he asserted, they had been hailed and stopped by a topsail schooner, and as four boatloads of men rowed toward the Abigail, Nickerson lowered himself with a rope over the stern of the ship to escape what he believed either were pirates or English sailors planning to impress them into the British Navy. While he remained out of sight, the intruders killed everyone on deck, except a 13-year-old boy named William Kent, whom they took with them after they had raided the contents of the chests and drunk most of the rum in the barrel. Nickerson heard them discussing whether or not to burn the Abigail, but fortunately for him they decided against it and returned to their schooner.

Although Captain Doane found Nickerson’s account plausible, he nevertheless reported the incident to the county judge, Edward Bacon, Esq., of Barnstable, who was less convinced of the young man’s veracity. After other vessels had scoured the area for evidence of any pirate foreign vessels and found none, Bacon sent a copy of the report to the governor and had Ansel Nickerson locked up in the Barnstable jail for further questioning. In the meantime, news of the bizarre and bloody incident reached as far as Boston, where a young attorney

named John Adams read it and recorded in his journal that he considered it a “mysterious,

inexplicable affair.”

Even though Captain Doane could not corroborate all of the evidence provided by Nickerson, it seemed unlikely that he could have overpowered and murdered three

members of the crew, and moreover there was no clear motive for his doing so. 

Nevertheless, Bacon was sufficiently suspicious to have him sent to Boston to be tried for murder on the high seas by a special Court of the Vice-Admiralty. The trial was scheduled for July of 1773, and John Adams and Josiah Quincy, Jr. were appointed counsel for the defense. The defense maintained that Nickerson was a lucky survivor of a pirate attack and was in no way responsible for the murder of the three men and the pillage of the cargo.

At the end of a five-day trial the jury returned a tie vote, resulting in Ansel Nickerson’s acquittal. Yet John Adams was not totally convinced of Nickerson’s innocence, as he wrote in his diary after the trial, “I know not to this day what judgment to form of his guilt or innocence.”

Because the facts of the case remained murky and Nickerson remained under a cloud of suspicion, he apparently left Chatham and settled on the island of Eleuthra in the Bahamas. Even though there were uncorroborated reports that he confessed to the crime on his deathbed, the whole episode remains a mystery to this day

Sources

Birth: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records AND IGI Film 0001251 V4 Batch C510401 dated 1696-1733

Family Search

Story about his son: ancestry.com

Prince Nickerson
Birth 10 Aug 1729 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British Colonial America

Prince's birth record

Occupation: Mariner

Married: 1) Lydia Cahoon 7 Oct 1750 Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Note: Her surname in the record is spelled Chohoon and his given name is spelled Prins
Children: Tabitha, Lydia
2) (Widow) Ruth Covell Atkins 22 Aug 1759 Barnstable, Massachusetts

Note: their engagement was published 2 July 1759. She had 3 boys and a girl before she married Prince. 

Children: twins, which survived her

3) Mary Crowell 12 Mar 1761 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Children: Ansel, Esther, Susanna, Eldad, Sparrow, Anna, Elizabeth, Thomas 
Died 1 Jan 1812 Westport Clyde, Nova Scotia, Canada

Buried

Life Sketch: "An early settler Prince Nickerson who settled shortly after Elkanah Smith,  was living in Barrington in 1763. His property was bound on the South by Clam Creek. He had 3 sons; Eldad, Sparrow, and Thomas. 

Eldad was famous for ship building, setting the pace for Coffin's and Sutherlands, who milled their ship timber on the river and rafted it to the harbour"..."The oldest son Ansel went to Maria Joseph, the other sons settled at Port Clyde." The Barrington 1769 Census shows a wife, 2 sons, 3 daughters, cattle, sheep, swine, fish boat and dried fish. Prince was on the Committee for laying out Proprietors Land 1768-9. He sold his lot at Barrington Head to William Donaldson and his interest on Cape Island to Stephen Nickerson. He was living at Cape Negro in 1783.

His will gave Mary his real and personal estate until her death, and then, to be divided between sons Eldad, Thomas, and Sparrow. It included the house and barn on three acres, fish house, stock, other land and meadows. Son Ansel received 10 Shillings and the daughters "all my household furniture to be divided equally" Eldad as executor of the estate after Mary died in 1830, wrote to Probate Court 21 June 1832, "...there is some land so dispersed belonging to the estate that it will be extremely difficult for the appraiser to view it will you please advise me whether it cannot be sold without a valuation" "Aug. 1, 1832 Probate judge gives land (agreeable to all) to son Eldad as it cannot be divided without great difficulty and expense".
Sources

Birth: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records AND IGI Film 0001251 V4 Batch C510401 dated 1696-1733

Marriage to Lydia: IGI Film 0905406 Batch M502466 dated 1654-1761
Family Search

Story: The Nickerson Family, Descendants of William Nickerson, Part II, 1980, pg 160.

I can't find the following 2 people in any official record's

Seth Nickerson
Born abt 1731 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British Colonial America
Married Mary 1756
Children: Ebenezer

Died

Buried
Sources
Family Search

Edward Nickerson
Born abt 1733 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British Colonial America

Married

Children

Died

Buried
Sources
Family Search

Thomas Nickerson 1720-1799 Dorcas Sparrow 1722

Thomas Nickerson
Born 28 Feb 1720 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Parents Thomas Nickerson and Lydia Covell
Married Dorcas Sparrow 6 May 1742 Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Died 18 Dec 1799 (will dated)
Sources
Family Search
Marriage record:  ancestry.com

Dorcas Sparrow
Born 4 Oct 1722 Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Parents Jonathan Sparrow and Dorcas Vickery
Died Before 17 Feb 1798
Sources
Family Search
Marriage record:  ancestry.com

CHILDREN

Sparrow Nickerson (male according to the original birth record)
Born 23 Feb 1742 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Married Abigail Burgess 11 Feb 1762 Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Children:  Abijah, Tamsin, Dorcas, Lewis
Died 16 Nov 1722 at sea
Note:  Found murdered aboard the ship Abigail with the crew. 
Sources
Birth: IGI Film 016968 V9 Batch C510401 dated 1727-1787

Book: The Enduring Shore: A History of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket

By Paul Schneider page 170
Family Search
http://e-booksgen.com/N0087.html
*Thomas Nickerson
Born 19 Mar 1744 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Note: Given name spelled Thomos in record
Married Ruth Hinckley 27 Oct 1765 Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Children: Merrick, Isaiah, David, Thomas
Died 16 Nov 1772 at sea
Note:  murdered at sea by pirates aboard ship Abigail with his brother, Sparrow, and brother-in-law, Elisha Newcomb.
Sources
Family Search
Birth: IGI Film 016968 V9 Batch C510401 dated 1727-1787
http://e-booksgen.com/N0087.html
Phebe Nickerson
Born 9 Oct 1746 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Married Elisha Newcomb 28 Oct 1765
Note:  Elisha was murdered at sea by pirates aboard ship Abigail with his brothers-in-law, Sparrow, and Thomas.
2) Constant Nickerson 11 Nov 1773 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Died After 1823
Sources
Family Search
Birth: IGI Film 016968 V9 Batch C510401 dated 1727-1787
http://e-booksgen.com/N0087.html
Hugh Nickerson
Born 18 Dec 1748 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Married Deborah Hinckley 11 Mar 1779 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Children:  Sparrow, Allen,Hugh, Deborah, Joseph, Thomas
Died 1789
Sources
Family Search
Birth: IGI Film 016968 V9 Batch C510401 dated 1727-1787
Dorcas Nickerson
Born abt 1750 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Married Thomas Lewis Jr 17 Nov 1768
Died abt 1799
Sources
Family Search
Rachel Nickerson
Born abt 17 Dec 1752 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Married David Godfrey 9 Jul 1772 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Children: Levi, David, Betsy, Katie, Rachel, Joseph
Died 18 Jun 1805
Buried:  Old Chatham Cemetery (did not find a memorial for her on findagrave)
Sources
Family Search
Sarah Nickerson
Born 1755 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Married Stephen Kendrick 18 Jan 1776 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Sources
Family Search
Sabra Nickerson
Born 10 Mar 1765 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Married Salathiel Nickerson 12 Jun 1780 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Died 10 Jan 1841
Sources
Family Search

Thomas Nickerson 1744-1772 Ruth Hinckley 1743-1827

Thomas Nickerson
Born 19 Mar 1744 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Parents Thomas Nickerson and Dorcas Sparrow
Married Ruth Hinckley 27 Oct 1765 Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Died Nov 1772 (Murdered at sea)
Note:
HISTORY OF CHATHAM - (pages 330-331, edited for clarity)

On Sunday the 15th of November 1772, Capt. Joseph Doane Jr. sailed from Chatham Harbor on the Back of Cape Cod.  Soon after (about ten o'clock in the Forenoon) Captain Doane saw a schooner with a signal of distress.  

Going on board, they found one survivor, who appeared to be in a great fright.  He gave the following account: the day before the said schooner incident, Thomas Nickerson, Master, sailed from Boston Harbor bound to Chatham.  He continued: at two o'clock the next morning they saw a topsail schooner.  The survivor, fearing he should be impressed (impressment, colloquially, "the press" or the "press gang", refers to the act of taking men into a military or naval force by compulsion, with or without notice. Navies of several nations used forced recruitment by various means.) , slung himself with a rope and let himself over the stern and four boats with armed men came on board.  

Further, that whilst he was there hanging over the stern, he judged by what he heard that the Master, Mate, and one man were murdered and a boy carried away alive.  He heard talk of burning the vessel, but it was finally agreed to leave her to drive out to sea with her sails standing.  After they left her, the survivor came up on deck, found none of the crew, but saw the marks of their being murdered. 

Captain Doane says that when he came on board, the Decks were bloody, the chests all broke open and plundered and the head knocked out of a barrel of rum and two or three gallons only left in it.

Captain Doane brought the schooner to the harbor at Chatham and early the next day repaired to Barnstable and gave this account to Edward Bacon Esq., who forwarded it to the Governor and the same day went to Chatham to examine the person found on board. His name was Ansel Nickerson, a cousin of the captain.  NOTE:  ANSEL WAS ACCUSED BUT NEVER CONVICTED OF THE MURDERS

Sources
Family Search
Book:  History of Chatham, page 330-331
Birth: IGI Film 0161969 V9 Batch C510401 dated 1727-1787
Memorial:  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/146948181/thomas-nickerson

Ruth Hinckley
Nickerson Crowell Phinney headstone

Ruth Hinckley
Parents Thomas Hinckley and Ruth Merrick
Born 27 Dec 1743 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Married 2) Abner Crowell 03 Apr 1777 Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Children:  Simeon
3)  Gershom Phinney Jr, May 25,1785 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Children:  Gershom
Died 31 Aug 1827 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Sources
Family Search
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42493544/ruth-nickerson_crowell_phinney

CHILDREN

Myrick's headstone

Captain Myrick Nickerson
Born 27 Mar 1767 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Married Esther Nickerson 5 Jul 1788 (License) Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Children:  Esther, Elizabeth
Died 27 May 1847 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA
Sources
1810 US Census Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA
1820 US Census Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA
1830 US Census Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA
1840 US Census Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA
Headstone:  https://billiongraves.com/grave/person/1948107
*Isaiah Nickerson
Born 10 Apr 1769 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Married Lydia Godfrey 12 Oct 1793 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Children: Isaiah
Died 29 Oct 1805 (Drowned at sea, therefore, no headstone)
Sources
1800 US Census Orrington, Hancock, Maine, United States

David's headstone memorial

Captain David Nickerson
Born 18 Jul 1771 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Married 1) Priscilla Snow 8 Oct 1797 Harwich, Massachusetts
Children: David, Joseph, Jonathan, Frederic, Thomas, Priscilla
2) Eunice Freeman 24 August 1815 Massachusetts
Children:  Francis, Isaiah
Note:  5 Feb 1829, Eunice died of burns at the house of her brother-in-law Joseph Smith. According to family legend, she'd been reading in bed when her clothes caught fire, at which time she ran nearly a quarter-mile, burning, to her sister Polly's house, whereupon reaching the house, she dropped dead.  Note:  Not trying to be the family rain cloud, but a quarter mile of running while on fire seems more likely to be a tall tale.   
THE FAMILY LEGEND ABOUT DAVID 
David was supposedly in France during the "Reign of Terror" following the Revolution. One day while there, a woman confronted the young sea captain, thrust a baby in his arms, and exhorted him to take the child to America and to call him "Rene Rousseau". He obliged the woman, and, at age 23, the child was a sea captain himself. Rene, too, was lost at sea at age 25, and his name was placed on the same stone as Capt. David Nickerson. The boy was rumored to have been the "Lost Dauphin of France".
THE TRUTH REVEALED
An article in Winter 2014 edition (Vol 15, No 1) of American Ancestors Magazine (published by NEHGS) puts the myth and rumors to rest, explaining that Rene Rousseau was, in fact, born after the French Revolution and was, instead, an apprentice of Captain David Nickerson, evidenced by a legal document from Jun 20,1807 at Nantes.

Died 26 Feb 1879 Boston, Massachusetts (At sea)
Note:  David died aboard the schooner Hope on the Atlantic Ocean, dying of African Fever on the passage home from a trading voyage. 
Buried:  Old Burying Ground, Brewster, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
Note:  The headstone that existed until the 1970's does not mark his final resting place, but, rather, is a memorial to the sea captain lost at sea. The stone itself was said to be under repair in 1979, but has not been seen again  Note:  the picture of the headstone (I could not make out what was on the stone, but it does look as if it has been repaired) was offered on findagrave).
Sources
Family Search (lots of errors and four wife's)
Headstone and story: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42524086/david-nickerson

Thomas Nickerson headstone

Thomas Nickerson
Born 3 May 1773 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Married:
 Bethia Snow 13 July 1792 Brewster, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Children: Ephraim, Priscilla, Thomas, Benjamin, Hiram, Melinda, Sophia, Bethiah, Caroline, Charles, Sylvina
Died 23 Sep 1839 Readfield, Kennebuc, Maine
Buried:  Faylene Hutton Cemetery, Unity, Waldo, Maine
Sources
Family Search
Headstone:  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/29854048/thomas-nickerson

Isaiah Nickerson1769-1805 Lydia Godfrey 1775

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4th G grandparents

Isaiah Nickerson

Parents: Thomas Nickerson and Ruth Hinckley
Born 10 Apr 1769 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Birth record for Isaiah 

Married Lydia Godfrey 12 Oct 1793 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Note: Intention to be married (engagement) published on 7 Sep 1793

Also, the New England Historical and Genealogical Register claims they were married 12 October 1791 page 47 volume 127
Died 29 Oct 1805 (Drown at sea, so no headstone)

Note: A quote from an letter addressed to Colonel Porter and written by William E Mann (who was a druggist at the city drug store in Bangor Maine)  Claimed: "Isaiah married, moved to Maine and was drowned." This letter was printed in the book: Brewer Orrington Holden Eddington, History and Families by Mildred N Thayer and Agnes H Ames published by L.H. Thompson Inc., in 1962 

Sources

Birth: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records
1800 US Census Orrington, Hancock, Maine
Family Search

ancestry.com

Book: Brewer Orrington Holden Eddington, History and Families by Mildred N Thayer and Agnes H Ames published by L.H. Thompson Inc., in 1962 

Lydia Godfrey
Parents: Richard Godfrey and Lydia Doane

Born 9 May 1775 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Married 2) William Parsons 13 Dec 1807 Massachusetts

Children: Philemon, Almira

Lydia's headstone

Died 14 Sep 1836 Sangerville, Piscataquis, Maine

Buried: Knowlton Mills Cemetery, Piscataquis, Maine 

Sources

Mayflower Births and Deaths Vol 1 and 2

Birth: NEHGR

Family Search

ancestry.com
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64194116/lydia-parsons

CHILDREN

George Nickerson
Born 1798 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Occupation: 1850: Shoemaker (except rubber) and farming: in census, he has $500 cash value of property: 20 acres of improved farmland, 28 unimproved, $15 worth of implements, he owns some animals worth $105: 2 'milch' cows, 2 oxen, 1 other 'cattle, 9 sheep and he grew 5 bushels of Indian corn and 10 bushels of oats

Married: Jane Holt 2 March 1826 Bangor, Penobscot, Maine

George and Jane's marriage record - including where they were from (George from Brewer, Jane from Bangor) dates of publishment (28 Jan 1826) and date of certificate (28 Feb 1826) and the marriage itself (2 March 1826). Note that the bride's name is given as Jane, not Susan Jane

Children: Mary, Horace, Levi, George, Louisa, Frederick,  Hannah, Rebecca, Walter, Winifred, George
Died 1857 Guilford, Piscataquis, Maine
Buried
Sources
1840 US Census Abbot, Piscataquis, Maine (age - probably 42)

8 August 1850 US Census Abbot, Piscataquis, Maine (age 52)
Marriage: Maine Marriages and Maine Vital Records
Family Search

ancestry.com

Ruth Nickerson headstone 
which also reads: A Christian woman
consistent and faithful

Ruth H Nickerson
Born 1799 Massachusetts

Note: likely  named after her paternal grandmother
Occupation: (1860) Servant

Never Married
No Children
Died 21 March 1861 Sangerville, Piscataquis, Maine
Buried: Knowlton Mills Cemetery, Piscataquis, Maine
Sources

1850 US Census Sangerville, Piscataquis, Maine (living with the Mitchell family)

14 June 1860 US Census Sangerville, Piscataquis, Maine (age 60)

Nathan Hale Cemetery Collection

Family Search

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4th G grandfather

Isaiah Nickerson (Jr)
Born 2 Oct 1800 Brewer, Penobscot, Maine
Occupation: (1850-60) Farmer

Married 1) Mary Ann Orcutt 22 Apr 1827 Brewer, Penobscot, Maine
Children: James, John, Isaiah, Joseph, Samuel, Charles
2) Mary Ann Orcutt 4 Jul 1843 Brewer, Penobscot, Maine
Children:  Henrietta, Maranda, Horace
Note: Yes, he married two women with the same name. It isn't a mistake. The two women were first cousins.
Died 3 Feb 1870 Holden, Penobscot, Maine

Buried

COD: Consumption

Buried Harts Corner Cemetery, Holden, Penobscot, Maine
Sources
1810 US Census Eddington, Penobscot, Maine

1830 US Census Brewer, Penobscot, Maine (should be age 29) with first wife and first two sons; James, John)

1840 US Census Brewer, Penobscot, Maine (should be age 39) with first wife and their five surviving sons; Joseph had died)

1850 US Census Brewer, Penobscot, Maine (age 49, with second wife and children from both marriages, who also just happened to be cousins)

1860 US Census Holden, Penobscot, Maine (age 58)

Book: Brewer Orrington Holden Eddington, History and Families by Mildred N Thayer and Agnes H Ames published by L.H. Thompson Inc., in 1962 page 30

Marriage to first wife: Maine Marriages

Marriage to second wife: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records and Maine Marriages

Death and cause thereof: US Mortality Schedules for Holden, Penobscot, Maine

Family Search

ancestry.com
Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94057440/isaiah-nickerson
Polly (Mary) Nickerson (did not find any record, so far, to tie her to Isaiah and Lydia)
Born about 1802
Married John D Finson II 13 March 1830 Dover-Foxcroft, Piscataquis, Maine, United States

Note Marriage intentions: 15 Feb 1830, 8 March 1830
Children?
Died - may have died young?
Buried
Sources

Marriage: Maine Marriages

Note: this is the only official record I've found and it doesn't name her parents.

Family Search

ancestry.com

Lydia Doane Nickerson (did not find any record, so far, to tie her to Isaiah and Lydia)
Born about 1804
Married?
Children
Died  - may have died young?
Buried
Sources

Family Search

ancestry.com

Isaiah Nickerson 1801-1870 Mary Ann Orcutt 1811-1879

Isaiah Nickerson

Parents Isaiah Nickerson and Lydia Godfrey
Born 2 Oct 1800 Holden, Penobscot, Maine
Occupation:  Farmer (1850-60)
Married 1) Mary Ann Orcutt 22 Apr 1827 Holden, Penobscot, Maine
2) Mary Ann Orcutt 4 Jul 1843 Holden, Penobscot, Maine
Note: He DID marry two women with the same name. The two Mary Ann's were cousins and born the same year
Died 3 Feb 1870 Holden, Penobscot, Maine
Note: COD: Consumption (Tuberculosis)
Buried: Harts Corner Cemetery, Holden, Penobscot, Maine
Note:  There is no headstone
Sources
1850 US Census Brewer, Penobscot, Maine (age 49)
1860 US Census Holden, Penobscot, Maine (age 58)
Book 1, page 76, image 46 of 576 Brewer, Maine Vital Records Lineage Book -1 1743-1841 Lineage of the Inhabitants of the Town of Brewer, Book No 1
Family Search
ancestry.com
US Federal Census Mortality Schedule 1850-1885 for the year ending 1 June 1870
Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94057440/isaiah-nickerson

Mary Ann Orcutt Nickerson
FIRST wife of Isaiah

Mary Ann Orcutt #1
Born 2 Aug 1811 Holden, Penobscot, Maine
Parents: Emerson Orcutt and Jane Hardison Fletcher
Died 22 Mar 1843 Holden, Penobscot, Maine
Sources
Family Search
ancestry.com
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23135080/mary-ann-nickerson

Mary Ann Orcutt #2 (Cousin to first wife)

Parents: Seth Orcutt and Ann Fletcher
Born 11 Jul 1811 Eddington, Penobscot, Maine
Died Apr 1879 Eddington, Penobscot, Maine
Sources
1850 US Census Brewer, Penobscot, Maine (age 39)
1860 US Census Holden, Penobscot, Maine (age 48)
1870 US Census Holden, Penobscot, Maine (age 58)
Family Search
ancestry.com
Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94058147/mary-ann-nickerson
CHILDREN with Mary Ann #1

Book 1, page 76, image 46 of 576 Brewer, Maine Vital Records Lineage Book -1 1743-1841 Lineage of the Inhabitants of the Town of Brewer, Book No 1

Note: the year of their marriage should be 1827 and it only lists the first 3 children

James Hastings Nickersons
death record

James Hastings Nickerson
Born 15 Jan 1828 Holden, Penobscot, Maine
Occupation: Farmer
Married 1) Ann Josephine Hapworth 4 Sep 1859 Amherst, Hancock, Maine
Children:  Sarah
2) Rosetta Sumner 14 Oct 1863 Amherst, Hancock, Maine
Note:  her first husband was Eben Giles
Died 2 May 1910
COD: Heart Failure
Buried May 1910
Sources
1850 US Census Brewer, Hancock, Maine (age 22, with father and stepmother)
1860 US Census Amherst, Hancock, Maine (Age 32)
1870 US Census Amherst, Hancock, Maine (Age 42)
1880 Census taken in Amherst, Hancock, Maine page 9B
1900 US Census Amherst, Hancock, Maine (age 72)

James H Nickerson's death notice in paper

1910 US Census Amherst, Hancock, Maine (age 82, living with nephew Sewell Nickerson, his daughter, Clara's son)
US Civil War Draft Registrations

Note: shows him as a 35 year old farmer

Establishes lineage: Book 1, page 76, image 46 of 576, Brewer, Maine Vital Records Lineage Book -1 1743-184, Lineage of the Inhabitants of the Town of Brewer, Book No 1 Maine Marriages:  Ann Josephine Hapworth
Maine Death Record
Family Search
ancestry.com
Maine, Faylene Hutton Cemetery Collection

Shared headstone for
John, Alice, Fremont, & Adelle 

John Warren Nickerson
Born 4 Aug 1829 Holden, Penobscot, Maine
Occupation: Farmer and Laborer
Married Alice M Orcutt 14 Sep 1853 Amherst, Hancock, Maine
Children:  Alonzo, Fremont, Adelle, Rose, Frank
Died 1887
Buried Amherst Cemetery, Amherst, Hancock, Maine
Sources
Birth:  Maine Births and Christenings
1860 US Census Amherst, Hancock, Maine (age 30)
1870 US Census Amherst, Hancock, Maine (age 40)
1880 Census taken in Amherst, Hancock, Maine page 10C (age 50)
Book 1, page 76, image 46 of 576 Brewer, Maine Vital Records Lineage Book -1 1743-1841 Lineage of the Inhabitants of the Town of Brewer, Book No 1

US Civil War Draft Registrations

Note: shows him as a 34 year old farmer
Maine Marriages
Family Search
ancestry.com
Maine, Faylene Hutton Cemetery Collection
Headstone:  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87392807/john-warren-nickerson

Isaiah and Mandana's headstone

Isaiah Wilson Nickerson
Born 28 May 1831 Holden, Penobscot, Maine
Married Mandana Silsby 4 October 1856 Hancock, Maine
Children: Charles, Mary, Bertha, Gertrude, Joshua, Winfield
Died 19 Aug 1914 Amherst, Hancock, Maine
Buried Tannery Loop Cemetery, Amherst, Hancock, Maine
Sources
1850 US Census Brewer, Penobscot, Maine (age 19)
1860 US Census Holden, Penobscot, Maine (age 29)
1870 US Census Amherst, Hancock, Maine (age 39)
1880 US Census Amherst, Hancock, Maine page 7A (age 41)
1900 US Census Amherst, Hancock, Maine (age 69)
1910 US Census Amherst, Hancock, Maine (age 78)
Birth:  Maine Births and Christenings
Book 1, page 76, image 46 of 576 Brewer, Maine Vital Records Lineage Book -1 1743-1841 
Lineage of the Inhabitants of the Town of Brewer, Book No 1

US Civil War Draft Registration

Note: shows him as a 31 year old farmer
Family Search
ancestry.com
Maine, Faylene Hutton Cemetery Collection
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87392888/isaiah-w-nickerson#view-photo=74411726

Joseph F Nickerson
Headstone

Joseph F (Lon) Nickerson

Born 11 Sep 1836 Holden, Penobscot, Maine

Died 3 Oct 1836 Holden, Penobscot, Maine

Buried: Harts Corner Cemetery, Holden, Penobscot, Maine

Sources

Family Search
ancestry.com
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23135069/joseph-nickerson

Samuel, Sarah, and Alvah's headstone

Samuel Emerson Nickerson
Born 7 Jul 1838 Holden, Penobscot, Maine
Occupation: Farmer
Married Clara Jane Silsby 2 Jul 1865
Children:  Alvah, Sewell, Hattie

Samuel's Death Certificate

Died 17 Oct 1908 Amherst, Hancock, Maine
COD: Chronic Brights Disease (Kidney disease) w/acute diarrhea 
Buried Mount Rest Cemetery, Amherst, Hancock, Maine
Note:  Previously known as Tannery Loop Cemetery
Sources

Birth:  Maine Births and Christenings
1850 US Census Brewer, Penobscot, Maine (age 11)
1860 US Census Holden, Penobscot, Maine (age 21)
1870 US Census Amherst, Hancock, Maine (age 31)
1880 US Census Amherst, Hancock, Maine page 8D (age 41)
1900 US Census Amherst, Hancock, Maine (age 62)
US Civil War Draft Registrations

Note: shows him as a 25 year old farmer
Cause of Death (COD): Death Certificate
Family Search
ancestry.com
Maine, Faylene Hutton Cemetery Collection
Headstone: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=104324223

Civil War
Enlisted 29 April 1861
Mustered 15 July 1861
Discharged 7 March 1863

Charles Dudley Nickerson
Born 21 Oct 1842 Holden, Penobscot, Maine
Physical description:  5 ft 6 1/4, dark hair and eyes
Military:  Private in Civil War, 6th infantry regiment, Company B
Occupation: Farmer and Lumberman (1880)
Married: Hattie Florence Robinson 11 April 1879 Orrington, Penobscot, Maine
Children:  Frank
Died 14 Jul 1911 Jacksonville, Duval, Florida
Buried Craig Swamp Cemetery, Jacksonville, Duval, Florida
Sources
Birth:  Maine Births and Christenings
1850 US Census Brewer, Penobscot, Maine (age 8)
1860 US Census Holden, Penobscot, Maine (age 18)

Charles and Hattie's headstone

1870 US Census Amherst, Hancock, Maine (age 28, in household of brother, John)
1880 Census taken in Amherst, Hancock, Maine page 10D (age 37)
1900 US Census South Jacksonville, Duval, Florida (age 58)
1910 US Census South Jacksonville, Duval, Florida (age 67, widowed)
Maine Marriages
Military: Maine, State Archive Collection
US Civil War and Pension Index
US Vets Administration Pension Payment Card
Family Search
ancestry.com
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9747382/charles-dudley-nickerson

CHILDREN with Mary Ann #2

Henrietta holding Maud

*Henrietta Godfrey Nickerson
Born 24 Apr 1844 Holden, Penobscot, Maine
Married Horatio Southgate Hapworth 30 Jun 1861
Children Maud, Horace, Horatio
Died Oct 1878 Eddington, Penobscot, Maine
Sources
1850 US Census Brewer, Penobscot, Maine (age 37)
1860 US Census
1870 US Census
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77900141/henrietta-godfrey-hapworth
Family Search
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Miranda Frances Nickerson
Born 15 Aug 1845 Holden, Penobscot, Maine
Died 3 Jun 1846 (age 19 months)

Meranda and brother Horace headstone

Buried in same grave as brother
Note: Her name is spelled Meranda on tombstone
Sources
Family Search
ancestry.com Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23135052/meranda-f-nickerson

Horace Nelson Nickerson
Born 12 Feb 1849 Holden, Penobscot, Maine
Died 4 Aug 1851 age 2y 6m
Buried in same grave as sister
Sources
Family Search
ancestry.com

Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23135063/horace-n_h-nickerson