When Nicholas Nicholls was born on 26 December 1780, in Gerrans, Cornwall, England, his father, Henery Nickels, was 43 and his mother, Elizabeth Dash, was 40. He married Elizabeth Hill on 22 June 1808, in Gerrans, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He was buried in Gerrans, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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The first fleet of convicts sailed from England to Australia on May 13, 1787. By 1868, over 150,000 felons had been exiled to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia.
"Former slave Olaudah Equiano settled in London and published his autobiography titled ""The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano."" Equiano learned to read and write and converted to Christianity. His autobiography is one of the oldest published works by an African-American writer."
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
English and Dutch: variant of Nichols .
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