Nickerson, Thomas (b. BET 28 FEB 1718 AND 1719, d. 15 NOV 1772)

Note: News Article:

Nickerson, Capt, Master of schooner bound from Boston to Chatham, Cape Cod, murdered by pirates last Sunday; also murdered was his brother and also his brother-in-law named Newcomb. (There is a rumor that Thomas was killed by his cousin, Ansel Nickerson, though he was never convicted).

Note: ISAAC COVIL has a better record. He was born in Enfield, N.H. in 1749. He removed to Colebrook about 1790, and went on to the farm now occupied by Richard Tibbettts. He had numerous sons and daughters, to wit,
Content, who married Asa Terry;
Ruth, who married Danforth Wallace; and
Sally, who married Ephraim Benedict.
The boys were
Judah, whose wife was Charlotte Luther, and who lived on the James M. Mathews farm;
Ebenezer, whose wife was Mary Fellows, who lived on the George E. Hammond farm, and afterwards on the Joseph Tibbetts farm, with his father;
Nathaniel and Daniel, who died unmarried.

The children of Judah and Ebenezer have largely settled in this town and vicinity. The children of Judah were James, who married Clarissa Mills; William, who married Hannah Corbett; Timothy, who married Abiah Cogswell; John W., who married Phebe Pulsifer; Joseph Y., who married Jane Mills; Elmira, who married Mack Springer; Mary P., who married Charles Cooledge; Susan, who married Henry Burnham; and Phebe A., who married Samuel E. Day. The children of Ebenezer Covell were Orrin, who married Julia A. Kidder; Otis E., who went to Claifornia amont the "forty-niners" and was killed there; Loring G., who married Mrs. Burnside; Ezra S. and Eleanor, who died unmarried; and Freeman P. Covell, who married Rebecca Hicks. James and Joseph Y., the sons of Judah, are still living in Colebrook, as is also Freeman P., son of Ebenezer. The last has held many positions of trust in the town. For a hundred years this family has been well represented in Colebrook, and the younger stock bid fair to do their part for the next hundred.

So much for the briefest possible sketch of the petitioners for the incorporation of Colebrook.

Note: Stephen and Dorcas were first cousins.

Note: Hannah and Edward were second cousins.

Note: Thomas Nickerson 1789

In memory of
Mr Thomas Nickerson
who departed this Life
March 29 1789
in the 48th Year
of his Age

Here Lies My Body in the Dust
Altho in Water Four Days
I Was Buried First

The tympanum displays a flying cherub (not shown).

Note: Anna and Samuel were third cousins.

Note: Mercy and Thomas were second cousins.

Note: Note by Teri Dimmett TJDimmett@@aol.com

I found no records for Barnabus, the only thing available at ancestry were entries to One World Tree; a tree that allows people to add their info. I found no actual documents that prove Barnabus Higgins Covell ever existed.

Note: Ruth was the half first cousin of Prince.

Note: Sarah and Richard were first cousins once removed.