When Rachel Nichols was born on 10 March 1712, in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Thomas Nichols II, was 41 and her mother, Jane Jameson, was 39. She married Roger Eastman Jr on 8 December 1730, in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 19 September 1791, in Newton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Newton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States.
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English: variant of Nichol , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages, e.g. Croatian and Serbian Nikolić (see Nikolic ); see also below.
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
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