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He died aboard the Schooner "Hope" at sea in the Atlantic Ocean, dying of African Fever on the passage home from a trading voyage. The stone that existed in this cemetery until the 1970s does not mark his final resting place, but, rather, is a memorial to the sea captain lost at sea. The stone itself was said to be under repair in 1979, but has not been seen again.
A longstanding story has been perpetuated through the years: He is said to have been in France during the "Reign of Terror" following the Revolution. One day while there, a woman confronted the young sea captain, thrust a baby in his arms, and exhorted him to take the child to America and to call him "Rene Rousseau". He obliged the woman, and, at age 23, the child was a sea captain himself. He, too, was lost at sea at age 25, and his name was placed on the same stone as Capt. David Nickerson. The boy was rumored to have been the "Lost Dauphin of France".
An article in Winter 2014 edition (Vol 15, No 1) of American Ancestors Magazine (published by NEHGS) puts the myth and rumors to rest, explaining that Rene Rousseau was, in fact, born after the French Revolution and was, instead, an apprentice of Capt. David Nickerson, evidenced by a legal document from Jun 20,1807 at Nantes.
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Son of Thomas Nickerson IV and Ruth Hinckley Nickerson.
He married first, on Oct 8,1797 at Harwich,MA, Priscilla Snow.
He married second, on Aug 24,1815, Eunice Freeman. On Feb 5,1829, she died of burns at the house of her brother-in-law Joseph Smith. She had been reading in bed when her clothes caught fire, at which time she ran nearly a quarter-mile, burning, to her sister Polly's house, whereupon reaching the house, she dropped dead.
Children(by first marriage): David Nickerson Jr, Joseph Nickerson, Jonathan Snow Nickerson, Frederick Nickerson, Thomas Nickerson, and Priscilla Snow Nickerson.
Children(by second marriage): Francis Freeman Nickerson and Isaiah Nickerson.
He died aboard the Schooner "Hope" at sea in the Atlantic Ocean, dying of African Fever on the passage home from a trading voyage. The stone that existed in this cemetery until the 1970s does not mark his final resting place, but, rather, is a memorial to the sea captain lost at sea. The stone itself was said to be under repair in 1979, but has not been seen again.
A longstanding story has been perpetuated through the years: He is said to have been in France during the "Reign of Terror" following the Revolution. One day while there, a woman confronted the young sea captain, thrust a baby in his arms, and exhorted him to take the child to America and to call him "Rene Rousseau". He obliged the woman, and, at age 23, the child was a sea captain himself. He, too, was lost at sea at age 25, and his name was placed on the same stone as Capt. David Nickerson. The boy was rumored to have been the "Lost Dauphin of France".
An article in Winter 2014 edition (Vol 15, No 1) of American Ancestors Magazine (published by NEHGS) puts the myth and rumors to rest, explaining that Rene Rousseau was, in fact, born after the French Revolution and was, instead, an apprentice of Capt. David Nickerson, evidenced by a legal document from Jun 20,1807 at Nantes.
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Son of Thomas Nickerson IV and Ruth Hinckley Nickerson.
He married first, on Oct 8,1797 at Harwich,MA, Priscilla Snow.
He married second, on Aug 24,1815, Eunice Freeman. On Feb 5,1829, she died of burns at the house of her brother-in-law Joseph Smith. She had been reading in bed when her clothes caught fire, at which time she ran nearly a quarter-mile, burning, to her sister Polly's house, whereupon reaching the house, she dropped dead.
Children(by first marriage): David Nickerson Jr, Joseph Nickerson, Jonathan Snow Nickerson, Frederick Nickerson, Thomas Nickerson, and Priscilla Snow Nickerson.
Children(by second marriage): Francis Freeman Nickerson and Isaiah Nickerson.
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He died aboard the Schooner "Hope" at sea in the Atlantic Ocean, dying of African Fever on the passage home from a trading voyage. The stone that existed in this cemetery until the 1970s does not mark his final resting place, but, rather, is a memorial to the sea captain lost at sea. The stone itself was said to be under repair in 1979, but has not been seen again.
A longstanding story has been perpetuated through the years: He is said to have been in France during the "Reign of Terror" following the Revolution. One day while there, a woman confronted the young sea captain, thrust a baby in his arms, and exhorted him to take the child to America and to call him "Rene Rousseau". He obliged the woman, and, at age 23, the child was a sea captain himself. He, too, was lost at sea at age 25, and his name was placed on the same stone as Capt. David Nickerson. The boy was rumored to have been the "Lost Dauphin of France".
An article in Winter 2014 edition (Vol 15, No 1) of American Ancestors Magazine (published by NEHGS) puts the myth and rumors to rest, explaining that Rene Rousseau was, in fact, born after the French Revolution and was, instead, an apprentice of Capt. David Nickerson, evidenced by a legal document from Jun 20,1807 at Nantes.
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Son of Thomas Nickerson IV and Ruth Hinckley Nickerson.
He married first, on Oct 8,1797 at Harwich,MA, Priscilla Snow.
He married second, on Aug 24,1815, Eunice Freeman. On Feb 5,1829, she died of burns at the house of her brother-in-law Joseph Smith. She had been reading in bed when her clothes caught fire, at which time she ran nearly a quarter-mile, burning, to her sister Polly's house, whereupon reaching the house, she dropped dead.
Children(by first marriage): David Nickerson Jr, Joseph Nickerson, Jonathan Snow Nickerson, Frederick Nickerson, Thomas Nickerson, and Priscilla Snow Nickerson.
Children(by second marriage): Francis Freeman Nickerson and Isaiah Nickerson.
He died aboard the Schooner "Hope" at sea in the Atlantic Ocean, dying of African Fever on the passage home from a trading voyage. The stone that existed in this cemetery until the 1970s does not mark his final resting place, but, rather, is a memorial to the sea captain lost at sea. The stone itself was said to be under repair in 1979, but has not been seen again.
A longstanding story has been perpetuated through the years: He is said to have been in France during the "Reign of Terror" following the Revolution. One day while there, a woman confronted the young sea captain, thrust a baby in his arms, and exhorted him to take the child to America and to call him "Rene Rousseau". He obliged the woman, and, at age 23, the child was a sea captain himself. He, too, was lost at sea at age 25, and his name was placed on the same stone as Capt. David Nickerson. The boy was rumored to have been the "Lost Dauphin of France".
An article in Winter 2014 edition (Vol 15, No 1) of American Ancestors Magazine (published by NEHGS) puts the myth and rumors to rest, explaining that Rene Rousseau was, in fact, born after the French Revolution and was, instead, an apprentice of Capt. David Nickerson, evidenced by a legal document from Jun 20,1807 at Nantes.
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Son of Thomas Nickerson IV and Ruth Hinckley Nickerson.
He married first, on Oct 8,1797 at Harwich,MA, Priscilla Snow.
He married second, on Aug 24,1815, Eunice Freeman. On Feb 5,1829, she died of burns at the house of her brother-in-law Joseph Smith. She had been reading in bed when her clothes caught fire, at which time she ran nearly a quarter-mile, burning, to her sister Polly's house, whereupon reaching the house, she dropped dead.
Children(by first marriage): David Nickerson Jr, Joseph Nickerson, Jonathan Snow Nickerson, Frederick Nickerson, Thomas Nickerson, and Priscilla Snow Nickerson.
Children(by second marriage): Francis Freeman Nickerson and Isaiah Nickerson.
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