Abraham Nicholas
Major Abraham Nicholas (died Sunday, September 3, 1738) served as mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia from 1735 to 1736.[1] He married a woman named Ann and had at least one son, Abraham Nicholas who died on March 5, 1751.[2]
Nicholas was the first Adjutant-General of the Virginia Colony from 1 November 1728, until his death ten years later.[3] (Succeeded by Isham Randolph, appointed Adjutant-General by Governor William Gooch, who was approved by the Council on 9 November 1738.)[2][4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ History of Williamsburg, Virginia Archived October 11, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b "Personal Notices from the Virginia Gazette". William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. 5 (1). The College: 242. July 1896. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
- ^ Executive Journals of the Council of colonial Virginia, Vol. 4, p. 189: 1 NOV 1728; accessed 2 SEP 2019
- ^ Executive Journals of the Council of colonial Virginia, Vol. 4, p. 429: 9 NOV 1738; accessed 2 SEP 2019
- ^ Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography- Abraham, Major Nicholas; accessed 2 September 2019.
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