When Reuben Nichols was born on 23 May 1770, in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, his father, Ephraim Nichols, was 42 and his mother, Esther Peet, was 37. He married Mercey Caverly about 1795, in Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 5 May 1844, at the age of 73, and was buried in Mayfield Congregational Cemetery, Sycamore, DeKalb, Illinois, 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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