When Margaret Nicholson was born in 1708, in Perquimans, North Carolina, British Colonial America, her father, Christopher Nicholson, was 51 and her mother, Mary Pool, was 25. She died in 1732, in Perquimans, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 24.
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The British, Dutch, and German settlers fought with the Tuscarora Native Americans, from September 22, 1711- February 11, 1715, in North Carolina.
North Carolina is the location of Cape Hatteras, sometimes called the Graveyard of the Atlantic- many shipwrecks have occurred nearby.
July 25, 1729, North Carolina became a royal colony, when the colony was sold to King George II.
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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