Brief Life History of Shadrack
When Shadrack Nicholson was born in 1771, in Fairfax, Culpeper, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, John Nicholson Sr, was 33 and his mother, Ann, was 35. He married Sarah Dodson on 29 July 1801, in Madison, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Madison, Virginia, United States in 1840. He died in 1854, in Madison, Madison, Virginia, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Madison, Madison, Virginia, United States.
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- Shadrach Nickelson, "United States Census, 1830"
- Shadrack Nickelson, "Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1771-1989"
- Shadrach Nicholson, "Virginia Deaths and Burials, 1853-1912"
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1775
Patrick Henry made his "Give me Liberty or Give me Death" speech in Richmond Virginia.
1780 · Richmond Becomes the Capital
On April 18, 1780 Richmond became the capital of Virginia. It was the temporary capital from 1780-1788.
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
Name Meaning
English (northern) and Scottish: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Nic(h)olas or the vernacular form Nic(h)ol + son; see Nichol , Nicholas . In Scotland the name was sometimes substituted for McNichol .
Americanized form of Danish, Norwegian, and North German Nicolaisen or Nikolaisen , or of the Swedish cognate Niklasson, patronymics from equivalents of the personal name Nicholas .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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