Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ...who died in infancy. THE NICOLS GENESIS. Rev. Henry Nicols was born in Glanmorganshire, Wales, on April 1st, 1678, and graduated at Jesus' College, Oxford, in 1702. The following year he was sent to the United States by "the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign parts," and settled in Pennsylvania, ministering at Chester and at Concord in that State. In his travels through New England, he met a Miss Gatchell, whom he married, and in 1708, became the incumbent of St. Michael's parish, Talbot county, Maryland, and settled near that town at a place called "Maiden's Point," where were born to them five sons and one daughter. Jonathan, their eldest son, married Miss Ann Knowles, and were the parents of Harry Nicols of "Darley," who married Miss Sarah Hollyday, of "Ratcliffe Manor," (and whose romantic history forms yet a pleasant tradition in the family), and Sarah Nicols, (who married Dr. John Troupe and had one daughter, Mary, (who married, first, Mr. Polk, second, Dr. Davidge, of Harford county, ) and a son, Dr. Irving Troupe, who married Miss Sarah Hemsley, and whose children, viz: Henrietta Maria, Mary and Henry Troupe, are now living in Baltimore. These ladies have among other family relics, the portrait of their great-uncle Harry Nicols. Jeremiah, second son of Rev. Henry Nicols, married Miss Deborah Lloyd, daughter of James and Ann Grundy Lloyd, of "Hope." Their eldest son, Robert Lloyd Nicols, married Mrs. Susannah Robins-Chamberlaine, and had one son, Lloyd Nicols, (who married Susan Gulley), and two daughters, Henrietta Maria, (who married Robert Henry Goldsborough, of " Myrtle Grove"), and Susannah Nicols, (who married Hon. Bond Martin, of Cambridge, and...
