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View Tree for Nicholas VARNEYNicholas VARNEY (b. Bet. 21 February 1738 - 1739, d. 28 November 1784)

Nicholas VARNEY (son of Ebenezer VARNEY and Elizabeth HANSON) was born Bet. 21 February 1738 - 1739 in Dover, Strafford Co, NH, and died 28 November 1784 in Falmouth, Cumberland, Maine. He married Mary ESTES on 28 November 1764 in , , Maine, daughter of Edward ESTES and Patience CARR.

 Includes NotesNotes for Nicholas VARNEY:
Notes for NICHOLAS VARNEY: Stackpole's History of Durham: 'After living a few years in Falmouth he purchased, in 1782, lot No. 17 of Stephen Hart in Royalsborough. Hart's buildings had just been burned and Varney built his house on the hill southwest of John Varney's blacksmith-shop. The house is now occupied by his great-gradson, George E. Varney. He belonged to the Society of Friends and their rules prohibited any active part in war. They protested against all taxes, any part of which was to meet war expenses. Since it was impossible to discriminate in tax-bills what portion was for war, some of the Friends refused to pay any taxes at all. When the collector of Royalsborough called on Nicholas Varney, he persistently refused payment of the amount assessed upon him. Consequently the shiriff came and seized a new milch-cow, and sought also to take away her young calf with her. The boys, unterrified by the officer's badge and ignoring the spirit of the Quaker principle of non-resistance, mixed those calves up so that the officer was unable to decide which was the right one; and finding it difficult to catch and impossible to drive any one, he went away with the cow alone. The animal was sold, and the next time the officer came that way he brought the balance of the sale money remaining after the deduction of the tax-bill. Neither husband nor wife would touch the polluted currency, and the officer could relieve himself of the responsibility for the money only by laying it upon the high shelf at a corner of the room. There the money remained untouched for many months. When the next year the officer came round for another collection, his demand was met only by an allusion to what he had done the previous year and the statement that the money he had placed on the shelf then was still there. The officer found it so and withdrawing from it the amount required, returned the balance to its former position. It proved sufficient for the third year also.'



More About Nicholas VARNEY and Mary ESTES:
Marriage: 28 November 1764, , , Maine.

Children of Nicholas VARNEY and Mary ESTES are:
  1. Carr VARNEY, b. 22 July 1773, d. date unknown.
  2. Patience VARNEY, b. 05 November 1775, d. 19 February 1843, , Palmyra, Maine.
  3. +Mary Ann VARNEY, b. 12 October 1783, d. 01 January 1870.
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