Coldengham, New York
Store of Cadwallader Colden, Jr.
John Nicholson Properties
On this date, 250 years-ago, an out-dated advertisement appeared on the last page of the New-York Weekly Mercury. A 194-acre farm would be auctioned by John Nicholson on November 10th, four days prior to the publication. Whether or not the auction occurred could not be ascertained. No deed for this property appears to exist.
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| Advertisement in the November 14, 1768 edition of the New-York Weekly Mercury. |
John Nicholson shopped at the Colden Store on several occasions. A brief biography appears in a prior blog.
This advertisement sent me looking for other properties of John Nicholson. Two deeds were found.
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This article is one in a series of a daily accountings of Colden Store transactions. Index to Colden Store Blogs. Be sure you read the first installment for an introduction to the store. You should also read this article which appeared in the Journal of the Orange County Historical Society.
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On February 1, 1777, with the Revolutionary War in its most crucial year for the Hudson Valley, John Nicholson sold a 100-acre farm in New Windsor to Jeduthan Belknap of Rhode Island. The property abutted the Johnston farms and had an unusual provision for mineral rights. The widow Elizabeth Johnston would be given half of the mineral rights and could search, dig, and cart away at all times. [see familysearch.org Liber HH p 97 Image 67; )
The second deed was for the homestead that still stands in current Maybrook designated with an historic marker. On December 6, 1786, John Nicholson of Albany and Richard Skinner Merchant of Albany purchased the 200-acre lot #7 of the 2000-acre Patrick McKnight patent. Fellow colonel of the Revolution, William Malcom, was the seller. He had lived there during the war, having been displaced from his home in New York City. After the war in 1783, Malcom returned to the City and attempted to sell the property to William Delevan. However, Delevan forfeited and the property reverted to Malcom. [See FamilySearch.org Liber II (two i's) p420 Image 400; ]
If the dates in public genealogies are correct, John Nicholson was about forty-six years-old on this date. He was apparently living in Albany where he had served as an assemblyman (representative of Ulster County in 1782, 1783, 1784). His first wife, Betsy Moffat, would decease only a few years after moving back to Ulster/Orange County.
On the evening of this date, November 14, 1768, some activists in New York City burned effigies of the royal Governor of Massachusetts and the Sheriff of Boston. This apparently occurred, despite the authorities efforts to stop it, on Queens Street (current Pearl Street) and was reported in the New-York Journal of November 17th. More in a future blog.
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