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Samuel Nicholas

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Birthplace: Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States
Death: August 15, 1852 (71)
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States
Place of Burial: 4000 Woodland Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA, 19104, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Major Samuel Nicholas (Continental Marines) and Mary Nicholas
Husband of Maria Nicholas
Father of Rebecca Mitchell; Charles Nicholas and Samuel Nicholas
Brother of Charles Jenkins Nicholas; William Nicholas; Sarah Nicholas; Sarah Jenkins Hagner and Mary (Molly) Jenkins Nicholas

Managed by: Erica Howton
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About Samuel Nicholas

Samuel Nicholas, third of the name in America, oldest son of Major Samuel Nicholas, U.S. Marines, and Mary Jenkins, succeeded to his father’s membership as a Cincinnatus in 1802. He married Maria Redman, one of the belles of Philadelphia society, and by her had two sons and one daughter: Samuel 4th, who died unmarried aged 24 years; Charles Jenkins 2nd, who died unmarried in 1881, and Rebecca, born 1814, who married, 1839, John Cowell Mitchell, Esq., born 1817, of “Elmwood” now in West Philadelphia, son of Thomas Mitchell, Esq. and Maria Matilda Cowell, (daughter of John Cowell, provost of Princeton College and Mary Cash), and grandson of Benjamin Mitchell, Esq. Native of Ireland. All were lawyers in Philadelphia.


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Samuel Nicholas's Timeline

1780
September 2, 1780
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States
1814
January 27, 1814
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States
1822
June 12, 1822
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States
1824
May 18, 1824
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States
1852
August 15, 1852
Age 71
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States
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4000 Woodland Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA, 19104, United States