The Nixon Family
Zachariah Nixon, Sr. was born about 1629, in Nottingham, Parish of North Masrom, England. He evidently migrated at an early age. His wife was born about 1633, in Perquimans County, North Carolina.
Zachariah Nixon, Jr., was born about 1655, in Perquimans County, North Carolina. He was first married to Mary Page, who was born about 1659, in Perquimans County, and there is a note here in the records that on 4 May 1680, �Mary Page laid down the body.�
He was married/2, 2 January 1681, in Quaker rites, Perquimans County, North Carolina, to Elizabeth Page, born in 1663, daughter of Isaac Page, deceased, of Albemarle, North Carolina. Zachariah�s records are found in Pasquotank County, North Carolina. Mary may have also been the daughter of Isaac.
Isaac Page may have been the immigrant, and was probably the bricklayer living at Salem, Massachusetts, in 1658. On 30 July 1653, in Boston, Massachusetts, William Hibbens (pastor), married Isaac Page and Damaris Shattuck (2). Since they were married by a �priest� (any clergy not a Quaker,) they were not then members of the Society of Friends. Both had been fined as Quakers there, and moved to Albemarle in 1663/4.
Isaac died in North Carolina, Pasquotank Monthly Meeting, on 4 May 1680, �at a good old age,� �bearing a faithful testimony for the truth until his death.�
In his will, dated 30 April 1680, he mentions his daughter Damaris Morris, and her children; and provides for his daughter, Elizabeth, if she marries Samuel Hill.
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Ancestors of Damaris (2)
Daniel Shattuck and his wife, Damaris (1), came from England to New England. We do not have the date of their arrival, nor the date of his death. Damaris Shattuck (1) was prominent among the Quakers. On 15 March 1642, she had been married/1 Capt. Thomas Gardner, a distinguished merchant and citizen of Salem, Massachusetts.
Daniel was a husbandman of Weymouth, Dorsetshire, England. Damaris died 28d, September 1674.
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Zachariah Nixon, Jr. took up 323 acres of land in Pasquotank County, in 1684, on Nebraska side of Little River. He died intestate, 3, December 1691; his land inherited by his �surviving� son, Zachariah. Elizabeth died 4 October 1726. All children were born in Perquimans County, North Carolina.
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Zachariah Nixon (3), son of Zachariah Nixon, Jr. and Elizabeth Page, was born 22 March 1684, in Perquimans County, North Carolina.
He was married 11 January, 1707/8, at Symons Creek Monthly Meeting, in Perquimans County, to Elizabeth Symons, who was born 22 February 1691, Perquimans County, daughter of Thomas Symons and Rebecca White. (See: Symons Family-Part IV)
Zachariah received a grant for land in Perquimans County, 21 January 1712/3, 105 acres, in the fork of Little River, and another grant in Chowan County, in the fork of Coniby Creek Swamp, in 1712. He had cultivated for several years, the land that he had inherited, and it was bequeathed to his sons, Zachariah (4) and Barnabee. Zachariah (4) later, in 1748, decided to move, and laid out part of his inherited land in half acre lots for a Town-ship, and for a common, known by the name of Nixonton, formerly called Wind Mill Point.
Elizabeth Symons Nixon died 22 February 1725, and Zachariah died 12 August 1739, Perquimans County All their children were born there.
His will, probated in Perquimans County, October 1739, names sons, John, Phineas, Zachariah, Barnaby, daughter Rebecca Toms, and grandchildren Joshua and Mary Moore.
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John Nixon, son of Zachariah Nixon (3) and Elizabeth Symons, was born 18 October 1708, in Perquimans County, North Carolina.
He was married/1 10 July 1729, to Elizabeth Newby, who was born 29 April 1706, died 10 July 1730, daughter of Gabriel Newby and Mary Toms. No children.
He was married/2 15 October 1732, to Elizabeth Moore, daughter of William Moore and Elizabeth ___. Elizabeth Moore died 4 February 1734. (See: Moore Family)
He was married/3 4 January 1736, to Mary Enerigin, who was born 4 January 1736, and died 12 October 1738, daughter of William Enerigin.
He was married/4 1 November 1740 to Dorothy ____, from Perquimans County, who was born 18 October 1708.
He was married/5 10 March 1753 to Hannah Albertson, born 15 February 1719, died 18 February 1793, daughter of Nathaniel Albertson and Abigail Nicholson. (See: Albertson Family)
John died prior to 1771.
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Phineas Nixon, son of Zachariah Nixon (3) and Elizabeth Symons, was born 7 January 1710, in Perquimans County, North Carolina.
He was married/1 9 December 1731, to Mary Newby, who was born 3 November 1699, daughter of Gabriel Newby and Mary Toms. (See: Newby Family) Mary Newby had been married previously 9 December 1725 to William Trotter.
Phineas was married/2 on 2 May 1740, in Chowan County, North Carolina, to Mary Pierce, born about 1727, in Perquimans County, daughter of Thomas Pierce and Mary Jones (daughter of Peter and Mary Jones.)
Mary Pierce Nixon died in Pasquotank County, North Carolina. Phineas, an elder in the church, died 28 December 1771. His will probated in Perquimans County, 11 March 1772.
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Zachariah Nixon (4), son of Zachariah Nixon (3) and Elizabeth Symons, was born 15 April 1713, in Perquimans County, North Carolina.
He was married 10 June 1734 to Elizabeth Toms, born 20 November 169_, daughter of Francis Toms and Margaret Bogue Lawrence. (Elizabeth was the widow of #115. Jonathan Phelps, by whom she had 4 children-Henry, Elizabeth, Jonathan, and Mourning. See: Phelps Family, Part IV)
She named son Francis; grandchildren: Joseph Nixon, Zachariah, Miriam, Caroline, Christopher, and Samuel Nicholson. Margaret (who married Henry Phelps), Miriam Jonathan, Mourning, and Elizabeth Newby; grandsons: Zachariah Newby, Benjamin Phelps, and Jonathan Phelps, granddaughters Elizabeth Winslow, Dorothy Phelps, Mourning Henley and Elizabeth Toms. Executors: sons Zachariah and Francis.
Elizabeth (Phelps) Winslow was the daughter of Margaret Newby and Henry Phelps. She married Thomas Winslow
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Zachariah Nixon (5), son of John Nixon and Dorothy ___, was born 20 August 1744, in Perquimans County, North Carolina.
He was married 15 September 1771, to Mary White, daughter of John White (See: White Family Part IV for possible connections.) The children were all born in Perquimans County
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Thomas Nixon, son of Phineas Nixon and Mary Pierce, was born 12 February 1745, Perquimans County, North Carolina.
He was married at Wells Monthly Meeting, 13 March 1768, to Sarah Smith, daughter of John Smith. He died 2 November 1771. Sarah was married/2 24 January 1773, to Thomas Nicholson, and had 3 more sons. Thomas Nicholson died 4 March 1780, and Sarah died 20 May 1787.
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Pierce Nixon, son of Phineas Nixon and Mary Pierce was born 20 May 1749 in Perquimans County, North Carolina.
He was married 16 December 1770, at Wells Monthly Meeting, to Penninah Smith, who was born about 1744, and died 17 May 1787, daughter of John Smith and Rachel White. The children were born in Perquimans County.
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Zachariah Nixon (6), son of Zachariah Nixon and Mary White, was born 10 March 1778 in Perquimans County, North Carolina.
He was married 8 May 1793, in Perquimans County, to Martha Toms, daughter of Foster Toms. The children were all born in Perquimans County.
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Nathan Nixon, son of Thomas Nixon and Sarah Smith, was born 11 May 1769, in Perquimans County, North Carolina.
He was married 6 March 1793, �at Wells Meeting House,� to Lydia Anderson. He was married/2 14 June 1798, in Perquimans County, to Margaret Bagley
Nathan�s will was probated in Perquimans County in February 1810, naming his wife Margaret; son John; daughters Sarah and Pheribe; Executors: Brother Phineas, and Francis White. Mary died after 1823.
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Bibliography
History of Perquimans County, North Carolina by Mrs. Ellen Watson Winslow
Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogies, by W. W. Hinshaw
Salem Mass. Vital Records - Year ending 1849 Births, Vol II, 1918
Inscriptions from the Burying Grounds in Salem, Mass. 1837 by Loring
Memorials of the Descendants of William Shattuck, etc by Lemuel Shattuck, Boston (1833) Dutton and Wentworth Appendix, p 361
Webster Parry Collection of Quaker Families, edited by Edna Harvey Joseph
A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England by James Savage, Boston (1860-1862)
Colonel John Nixon 1733-1808- gave the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence, See �Dictionary of American Biography, Vol VII, pp 530-531�