Sarah Nickerson
Probably a daughter of John Nickerson and Sarah Bassett of Harwich, Massachusetts, as the Nickerson genealogy has it; no birth record has been found. She married Joseph Cole Jr. of Eastham at Harwich in 1737, had five children at Eastham, among them the twins Mary and Sarah, born in 1738, and joined the Eastham church with him in 1774. Her daughter Sarah was probably the wife of John Holdershaw.
Life
- 1737Married Joseph Cole17 Nov 1737, Harwich, Massachusettsdocumentedproven
Family
- Father
- John Nickerson
The Nickerson genealogy: "SARAH 4 NICKERSON (John3, Joseph2, William1), born at Harwich, Mass., date not known; daughter of John and Sarah (Bassett) Nickerson." No birth record has been found.
compiledprobableSources
- The Nickerson Family: The Descendants of William Nickerson, 1604-1689 (Nickerson Family Association)
- Reasoning:
research/ellingwood/Ellingwood_Cape_Cod.md
- Mother
- Sarah Bassett
The Nickerson genealogy makes her the daughter of John and Sarah (Bassett) Nickerson; no birth record has been found.
compiledprobableSources
- The Nickerson Family: The Descendants of William Nickerson, 1604-1689 (Nickerson Family Association)
- Reasoning:
research/ellingwood/Ellingwood_Cape_Cod.md
- Spouse
- Joseph Coledocumentedproven
1 child
Pedigree
Notes
“Sarah Nickerson of harwich” married Joseph Cole Jr. of Eastham at Harwich on 17 November 1737 (record). Their children were born at Eastham: the twins Mary and Sarah on 9 September 1738, Reuben (1742/3), Abiel (1745) and Henry (1748) (record). Joseph, born at Eastham in 1718, was a son of Joseph Cole and Mercy Hinckley, and through the Coles a descendant of Daniel Cole of Eastham; he and Sarah joined the Eastham (Orleans) church in 1774, and he died in 1795 (source).
Open questions
- Her birth at Harwich, and Joseph Cole’s probate (1795), which would name his daughter Sarah Holdershaw.
Connections
- Famous kin
- William Standish Knowles
Monsanto chemist who shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the catalysis used to make L-DOPA
William Standish Knowles is the fifth cousin, once removed, of Richard Everett Ellingwood Jr.
- William Standish Knowles
- In her ancestry
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Every notable ancestor and famous relative that Sarah's own ancestors lead to, with the lines drawn down to her.