Re: Colonel John Nicholas of Dinwiddie Co., Virginia
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In reply to:
Re: Colonel John Nicholas of Dinwiddie Co., Virginia
6/19/98
In the Virginia Historical Society, there is a photocopy of a Nicholas family Bible record that dates from the 1840s (Mss 6:4 N5147:1).It contains the birth dates of the children of Robert Carter Nicholas (1728/9-1780) (excluding Judith and Robert, who died young), the children of Wilson Cary Nicholas (1761-1820), and Cary Anne Nicholas and her husband John Spear Smith, as well as miscellaneous other descendants of Wilson Cary Nicholas.The document has a few quirks (it transposes the birthdates of George and Elizabeth Nicholas, children of Robert Carter Nicholas), but it gives the birth date of John Nicholas, son of treasurer Robert Carter Nicholas, as 19 January 1764. This seems to be the correct date because his obituary that appears in the Lynchburg Press and Public Advertiser on 28 January 1820 states that he died"at his residence in New York on Dec. 31 . . . aged 56 years."He was within three weeks of that age at his death.