Nichols (surname)...

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Btw, here's a potentially great link to a 2-volume publication with 1700 pages & 1000 photographs... which I now have a .pdf copy of, compliments of Jon Huffman.  

Elizabeth Nichols (5/20/1731) (headstone photo) -- (however, Jon Huffman, author of the 2-vol set, doubts this is the same Elizabeth Nichols reported to be John Nichols mother.)

• John Nichols (born in Virginia, 1769) (saved as .pdf) married Nancy R. Burch in appx 1793 (age 13???... born appx 1780 in Maryland).  (And here a potentially great link to a 2-volume publication with 1700 pages & 1000 photographs.)  [I, Neil Cox, now possess a .pdf of this great 2-volume publication with photos.]   (Here's Nancy's headstone in Bowles Cemetery)
  • John Jr. (1800)
  • Anne (1801) married Robert Benham Burch (1797, in Virginia) -- son of John "Long" Burch (1759) & Elizabeth Benham (1779).  The Benham line goes way back to 1630 when John Benham came by ship to America and paid for it by indenturing himself.  Later he obtained freeman status in 1631.
  • Mary Polly Nichols (1811) married John James Pursley (1805)... a doctor (?) and Keeper of the Poorhouse.  He was the son of William Pursley (1779) and Nancy Buckley (daughter of captured Henry Buckley).  Btw, William apparently later married Missena... who brought her slave Lucy along.
  • Thomas Nichols (1807) married Lucy McCoy  Ranes (1809).  One internet site footnoted that her mother was related to the (Hatfields vs.) McCoys.   (alt-link)
    • America Jane Nichols (1829) -- be careful, there's another America Jane (Bowles) elsewhere -- and more directly in OUR portion of the tree.
    • Thomas J. Nichols (1843)
    • Lucy Nichols (1845)
    • Willis Nichols (1849)
    • Alabama Elizabeth Nichols (1834 - or 1832) married William Thomas Bowles (1828).