Ancestry of
Richard Nichols

(1678–c1756)

Richard Nichols

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Isaac Nichols Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Baldwin   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Nov 1678 
  • Birth Location:
  • Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 29 SEP 1755 or 1756 
  • Death Location:
  • Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Congregational Burying Ground, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Notes: 

  • Richard Nichols's surname is also seen as Nicholls.

    The will of Richard Nichols is said to be dated 25 SEP 1755 and proved 08 OCT 1755. His tombstone gives his death date as 29 SEP 1756. It is believed that the year on his tombstone is in error.

• Marriages for Richard Nichols

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  • Spouse:
  • Comfort Sherman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Jun 1702
  • Marriage Location:
  • Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth Sherman
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 11 Feb 1726/1727

• Sources for Richard Nichols

  • ¹ Connecticut, U.S., Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934, Death record for Richard Nichols.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Stratford, p. 126, Marriage record for Richard Nicholls and Comfort Sherman.
  • ³ Fairfield, CT: Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, p. 438.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/30/2019).
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1870, Vol. 24, p. 69.
  • ⁶ The American Genealogist, 2002, Vol. 77, p. 255.
  • ⁷ Phelps, Judge Oliver Seymour and Andrew T. Servin, The Phelps Family of America, and Their English Ancestors, with Copies of Wills, Deeds, Letters, and . . ., Vol. 1, Pittsfield, Massachusetts: Eagle Publishing Company (1899), 744, gives Richard's grandfather Isaac as his father.