When James Albert Nichols was born about 1828, in Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, George Schreiber Nichols, was 24 and his mother, Hannah Warne, was 23. He married Rachel Mary Harvey in 1864, in Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 8 daughters. He immigrated to New York, United States in 1946 and lived in Digby, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1881 and Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1900. He died on 15 November 1923, in Bennington, Vermont, United States, at the age of 96.
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During the years 1799 to 1827, New York went through a period of gradual emancipation. A Gradual Emancipation Law was passed in 1799 which freed slave children born after July 4, 1799. However, they were indentured until 25 years old for women and 28 years old for men. A law passed 1817 which freed slaves born before 1799, yet delayed their emancipation for ten years. All remaining slaves were freed in New York State on July 4, 1827.
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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