Jane Nichols (Bostwick)

Nichols. Probably English but not always. Nichols / Nickels / Nickens are Pasquotank name derivations with had a known trade with NOLA ports where their spelling for the same names derived from Nicquelson and Nixon. The Nichols and Nuchols and other anglicized version of the name go back to the Nixon for Spanish Arabs and for Niquelson for the French in La Louisianne who brough in human traffic from NOLA Ports, on record, into Lancaster/Northumberland County/ and the Wicocomico Reservation history has not grasped this fact til the records opened up for said Ports. The Cumberland Indians were already there and then go to a reservation on a strip of land in Lancaster County, VA which was designated as the Wicocomico (Wicocomico-Chicacoan-Cuttatawomen) Indian Reservation and claimed as the personal property by Governor Samuel Matthews, a fur trader who married into the family of Old Tapp, (md. Charity Tapp) who asked that the reservation be part of Northumberland Co; but, was physically within the border of Lancaster Co. and later returned to Lancaster Co as the Wicocomico Parish of Lancaster County. Neighbors were Bennett, Edney, Jones, Nickens, and Shoecraft of Pasquotank County land purchased by Richard Nickens from Robert Edney and Jarvis Jones - both pioneers and residents in the Pasquotank River forks in the then Albemarle Cy, NC with The Wolf Pit Plantation and Wolf Pit Ridge as the landmarks of their lands.