Jonathan Loveland Nicholson
1783 - 1869 (85 years)-
Name Jonathan Loveland Nicholson Birth 14 Oct 1783 Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut 
Gender Male Death 01 Jan 1869 Hornellsville, Steuben Co., New York, USA Burial Nicholson Cemetery, Hornellsville, Steuben Co., New York, USA 
Jonathan and Elizabeth Nicholson - Turnpike/Nicholson Cemetery Notes - In primary and secondary sources, Johnathan's named seems to be uniformly spelled as such, adding an h to the more typical spelling of Jonathan. Perhaps in recognition of this variation, Johnathan's son used the more typical spelling. When [Johnathan] was 15 years of age his parents moved to the state of Penn. and settled at South Canaan in Wayne co. in a district which was termed the "The Great Swamp," about half way between the Delaware and Susquehanna rivers. Here when he was 20 years old, his father died leaving to him, and his mother the care of a large family. For several years he taught school, to help support the family. This school was located in a settlement of very thriving Methodists and he heard for the first time the doctrines that were to make so radical a change in his after life.
After [Johnathan's] school closed being much attached to the place and the people, he settled there, in what was known as North Canaan and joined the society of Methodists, which shows the change in his views, his early training having been Calvinistic. He soon after [became] an itinerant preacher. There also he married the daughter of John Swingle and remained for seven years. At the end of that time, in the year 1811, he removed to Union Luzerne County, [Pennsylvania] about 20 miles below Wilkesbarre.
In 1823 [Johnathan] moved to the state of New York and settled first in the town of Catlin about six miles north of Newton, now Elmira [Chemung County], where he continued to preach, working for his family five days of the week and giving the remaining two to the community at large. At the end of this time, in the year of 1827, he removed into what was then the town of Howard [Steuben County], now known as Turnpike Hill. Hornellsville as then a mere hamlet and had no communication with the outside world except the Canisteo river and the turnpike road, which was open [sic; opened] by the state soon after. In [Johnathan's] forest home on the turnpike, [he] reared a family of 15 children, 13 sons and 2 daughters. Of this family only two are living, David who resides with his daughter in Hornellsville and Perry, now at the good old age of four score who lives on Cunningham Creek. By the efforts of this large family the forests were cleared for the fine farms and pleasant homes which abound through this district at the present time. Johnathan] was careful to keep a record of his descendants, which at the time of his death number [sic;numbered] something over 250.
We have now to mention [Johnathan's] going at the ripe old age of four score and 5 years on New Year's morning 1869. He was at the time at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Abram Smith, on the Turnpike, and was sitting in his rocking chair. He went at the unfolding of the New Year to the country where we hope to meet him in the sweet bye and bye. Notwithstanding the many virtues of this good old man, not even he was exempt from slanderous tongues. There were certain charges preferred against him and an investigation was held. Elder Jesse Bartholomew of blessed memory was chairman of the committee that investigated the charges. On the following Sabbath morning he arose before his congregation in the little old red school house and said: "Brethren, them stories against Father Nicholson is all false. When I can read my title clear to mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, and wipe my weeping eyes. Sing, Brethren, Sing." (NF)
It is probable that the first school regularly maintained in the township was that started by Jonathan Nickerson in a portion of Hans Ulrich Swingle's house in 1812... The Nickerson school was kept up for several months and had an attendance of about twenty pupils (Alfred Mathews, History of Wayne, Pike, and Monroe Counties, Penn. [1886]).
... on the turnpike in 1808. After him came Johnathan L. Nicholson. The turnpike hill... it is familiarly known as 'Nicholson Hill' from the numerous families of that name that have settled there, all descendants of Johnathan L. Nicholson (Roberts).
Johnathon Nicholson, a local methodist preacher, primarily from Hartsford, Connecticut, settled in Union, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, moved to Newtown (now Elmira, Chemung County, New York) in 1825 and in 1829 located in the eastern part of this town [Hornellsville], on the turnpike, on the Wesley Nicholson farm, where he built a large two-story house on the site of the Luther Chapman house. He bought out Thomas Beattie who had made a slight clearing, and build a small log house with a sloping or shed roof. A small distillery had previously been built there about the time the turnpike was opened in 1809, to supply the men employed in building the road, with whiskey. The only clearing between the river at Hornellsville and the Nicholson place in 1829, was at the Henry Ranger place, where Hughey Clark, an Irishman, had cleared about 20 acres, and had built a log house and barn. Mr. Nicholson was the father of fifteen children, thirteen of them were sons. ("Town of Hornellsville," Gazetteer of Steuben County [New York], Part 1)
Person ID I196 OurNorthernRoots | Andrew's Ancestor Last Modified 29 Aug 2011
Father Sergeant Francis Nicholson, b. 13 Apr 1758, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut d. 9 Dec 1803, Salem, Wayne Co., Pennsylvania, USA (Age 45 years) Mother Rachel Loveland, b. 06 Aug 1762, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut d. 09 Feb 1843, Salem, Wayne Co., Pennsylvania, USA (Age 80 years) Marriage 07 Feb 1781 Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut Family ID F476 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Elizabeth Swingle, b. 1785, Montgomery, Orange Co., New York, USA d. 11 Aug 1845, Hornellsville, Steuben Co., New York, USA (Age 60 years) Marriage Abt 1804 North Canaan, Wayne Co., Pennsylvania, USA Children + 1. John Nicholson, b. 1 Sep 1805, Canaan, Wayne Co., Pennsylvania, USA + 2. Catherine Nicholson, b. 22 Dec 1806, Canaan, Wayne Co., Pennsylvania, USA d. 11 Feb 1882, Farmington, Davis Co., Utah, USA (Age 75 years)+ 3. Edmond Nicholson, b. 23 Aug 1808, Canaan, Wayne Co., Pennsylvania, USA d. 30 May 1889, Hornellsville, Steuben Co., New York, USA (Age 80 years)+ 4. Henry Nicholson, b. 13 Jun 1810, Canaan, Wayne Co., Pennsylvania, USA d. 1 Dec 1875 (Age 65 years)+ 5. Harmon Nicholson, b. 1811, Canaan, Wayne Co., Pennsylvania, USA d. 26 Jun 1890, Hornellsville, Steuben Co., New York, USA (Age 79 years)+ 6. Francis Nicholson, b. 06 Jul 1813, Canaan, Wayne Co., Pennsylvania, USA d. 17 Feb 1900, Hornellsville, Steuben Co., New York, USA (Age 86 years)+ 7. Zenas Nicholson, b. 23 Dec 1814, Canaan, Wayne Co., Pennsylvania, USA d. 18 Aug 1899, Liberty, Mercer Co., Ohio, USA (Age 84 years)+ 8. Jonathan Fletcher Nicholson, b. 12 Jun 1816, Canaan, Wayne Co., Pennsylvania, USA d. 10 Feb 1854, Hornellsville, Steuben Co., New York, USA (Age 37 years)+ 9. Wesley Nicholson, b. 24 Dec 1817, Canaan, Wayne Co., Pennsylvania, USA d. 03 Dec 1900, Hornellsville, Steuben Co., New York, USA (Age 82 years)+ 10. David Nicholson, b. 24 Mar 1819, Canaan, Wayne Co., Pennsylvania, USA d. Aft 1900 (Age > 82 years)+ 11. Ambrose Nicholson, b. 19 Jun 1821, Canaan, Wayne Co., Pennsylvania, USA d. 8 Feb 1888 (Age 66 years)+ 12. Elmira Mynis Nicholson, b. 17 Apr 1823, Scranton, Lackawanna Co., Pennsylvania, USA d. 26 Dec 1903, Hornellsville, Steuben Co., New York, USA (Age 80 years)13. Mordecai Nicholson, b. 4 Mar 1825, Chemung Co., New York, USA d. 18 Feb 1855, Hornellsville, Steuben Co., New York, USA (Age 29 years)+ 14. Perry Nicholson, b. 7 Jun 1827, Howard, Steuben Co., New York, USA d. 10 Jul 1907, Hornellsville, Steuben Co., New York, USA (Age 80 years)+ 15. Charles Nicholson, b. 15 Jul 1830, Howard, Steuben Co., New York, USA d. 1893 (Age 62 years)Documents 
Reunion Notice - Nicholson 1891 Family ID F187 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 18 Jun 2017
Family 2 Mary Ann Chapman, b. ca 1814 Marriage 1846 Hornellsville, Steuben Co., New York, USA Children 1. Dency Elizabeth Nicholson, b. 25 Jul 1846, Hornell, Steuben Co., New York, USA d. 29 Jul 1915, Brownsboro, Jackson Co., Oregon, USA (Age 69 years)Family ID F188 Group Sheet | Family Chart
- In primary and secondary sources, Johnathan's named seems to be uniformly spelled as such, adding an h to the more typical spelling of Jonathan. Perhaps in recognition of this variation, Johnathan's son used the more typical spelling. When [Johnathan] was 15 years of age his parents moved to the state of Penn. and settled at South Canaan in Wayne co. in a district which was termed the "The Great Swamp," about half way between the Delaware and Susquehanna rivers. Here when he was 20 years old, his father died leaving to him, and his mother the care of a large family. For several years he taught school, to help support the family. This school was located in a settlement of very thriving Methodists and he heard for the first time the doctrines that were to make so radical a change in his after life.
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Birth - 14 Oct 1783 - Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut 
Marriage - Abt 1804 - North Canaan, Wayne Co., Pennsylvania, USA 
Marriage - 1846 - Hornellsville, Steuben Co., New York, USA Death - 01 Jan 1869 - Hornellsville, Steuben Co., New York, USA 
Burial - - Nicholson Cemetery, Hornellsville, Steuben Co., New York, USA = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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