| Name |
Nichols, Rodney Lee [1, 2] |
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MRS. NORA NICHOLS DeVALL .........115254
Born in Millport, Pa.
Wife of Arthur M. De Vall
Descendant of Martin Murphy, as follows:
1. Rodney L. Nichols (1818-1908) m. 2nd Jennie Wentworth (b. 1850)
2. Orson Wentworth (1819-98) m. Nancy L. Gavitt (1830-87).
3. Isaiah Gavitt m. Elizabeth Murphy (b. 1784).
4. Martin Murphy m. Mary Stedman.
Martin Murphy (1755-1839) was placed on the pension roll of Madison County, NY, 1832, for service as priate in the Rhode Island militia. He was born in Newport, RI; died in Brookfield, NY.
Also No. 21173.
Lanny Nunn? Potter/McKean County, Pennsylvania Genealogy
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| Birth |
20 Oct 1818 |
Arcade, Wyoming, New York, USA  [1, 2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| underground RR |
Millport, Sharon, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA |
| "John Mann ... forwarded runaway slaves from Coudersport to his brother Joseph and his brother's partner, Rodney Nichols, in Millport," |
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book, "The Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania" by Charles L. Bockson, curator of the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection at Temple Universitay, Philadelphia.
- Coudersport - John S. Mann
- Sala Stevens
- Eulalia twp - Nelson Clark
- Millport - Joseph Mann
- Rodney Nichols
- Ceres, PA -John King
Routes through Pennsylvania led to freedom, by JOE MARREN
Times Herald Staff Writer
COUDERSPORT -
...
"Several operators in Coudersport harbored runaway slaves. So the fugitive slave might have felt relatively safe once he made it to Coudersport," Mr. Blockson said.
In his book, Mr. Blockson lists a man named John S. Mann as an Underground Railroad agent living in Coudersport. An "agent" was a code word for someone who helped plot the course of escape for fugitive slaves.
"John Mann ran an important site on the Underground Railroad because he forwarded runaway slaves from Coudersport to his brother Joseph and his brother's partner, Rodney Nichols, in Millport," Mr. Blockson said.
Millport, tucked into the northwest corner of the county, is near the New York state border. From there, Mr. Blockson wrote, people may have been directed to an agent named John King in Ceres, McKean County. Mr. King, in turn, got them to Niagara Falls, NY or Buffalo, NY and someone else took them across the Niagara River into Canada.
ROBERT CURRIN, president of the Potter County Historical Society Museum in Coudersport, said several area Quaker families of the time were active in the Underground Railroad.
"The King family was one of the first to settle in Ceres. Actually they were among the first to settle in this whole area. And Mrs. Mann was a King." Mr. Currin said by phone recently.
Mr. Mann's home on Main Street, where he reportedly hid escaping slaves on the second floor, is now the site of the post office building, Mr. Currin said.
The Mann family store, farther down Main Street, is also gone, burned down in a fire of 1880, he added.
"It would be difficult to find any physical evidence of the Underground Railroad around here."
Buldings from the period that still survive may or may not have had a connection with the Underground Railroad, but no one knows for sure.
That's largely because of a voluntary code of silence by participants. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 proscribed prison terms and hefty fines for those found guilty of harboring or aiding runaway slaves.
"They didn't exactly talk a lot about what they were doing," Mr. Currin said.
MR. BLOCKSON said another probable agent in Potter County was a Nelson Clark of Eulalia Township. Sala Stevens of Coudersport may also have been involved- Mr. Currin.
Another underground Railroad route went through Smethport aroun 1827, Mr. Blockson said. From there, the escaped slaves probably went through Eldred to Olean and eventually Buffalo.
Cameron County, he wrote in his book has no documented evidence of station routes.
For the runaway slave, dreedom meant the North. After the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act was passed, freedom meant Canada. Runaway slaves already in the North and those bound for Canada probably traveled through Pennsylvania to reach Canada, where freedom was just a reiver's breadth away from western New York.
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book, "The Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania" by Charles L. Bockson, curator of the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection at Temple Universitay, Philadelphia.
- Coudersport - John S. Mann
- Sala Stevens
- Eulalia twp - Nelson Clark
- Millport - Joseph Mann
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| Occupation |
16 Dec 1851 |
Millport, Sharon, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA [3] |
| Postmaster |
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Daniel B Neefe in the U.S., Appointments of U. S. Postmasters, 1832-1971
p. 290, 291, twps: Bingham - Oswayo
Name: Daniel B Neefe
PO Location: Brookland, Potter, Pennsylvania
Appointment Date: 30 Mar 1868
Volume #: 24
Volume Year Range: 1857-1874
Dis- Bingham:
James B. Jones 12 Oct 1853
Nathaniel S. Dike 20 Dec 1865
discontinued 08 Feb 1869
Brookland:
Alonzo B. Horton 03 Mar 1857
Harlan P. Bird 28 Apr 1857?
Lucien Bird 19 Oct 1859
Joseph Shaffer 28 Feb 1868
Daniel B. Neefe 30 Mar 1868
Thomas G. Hull 08 Jan 1873
Dis- Carter Camp:
Peter Gochem 22 Nov 1855
William conway 07 Jan 186?
Discontinued 01 Feb 1872
Clara:
Anna Maria Allen 06 Mar 1856
Colesburgh:
Nathan L. Dike 08 Apr 1856
William s. Raymond 22 Dec '57
Coudersport:
John M. Judd 18 Apr 1853
Samuel Haven 09 Sep 1859
Lewis Mann 19 Mar 1861?
John S. Mann 09 Sep 1861
Don C. Larrabee 04 Jan 1866
Eli O. Reese 29 Aug 1866
Melville s. Thompson 29 Mar 1869?
...
Kettle Creek:
Ezra H. Prichard 06 Jul 1853
Dis- Lymansville:
Horatio A. Nelson 29 Jul 1853
Mason Nelson 08 Feb 1858
Discontinued 13 Feb 1861
Millport:
Rodney L. Nichols 16 Dec 1851
Joseph Mann 10 Mar 1863
Source Information
Ancestry.com. U.S., Appointments of U. S. Postmasters, 1832-1971 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors.
Original data: Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971. NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, 145 rolls. Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28. Washington, D.C.: National Archives.
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| Residence |
1870 |
Sharon Twp, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA [1, 2] |
| Residence |
Between 1880 and 1900 |
Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA [1, 2] |
| Residence |
1900 |
Eulalia Twp, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA [1, 2] |
| Death |
8 Jul 1907 |
Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA [1, 2] |
| Burial |
Abt 11 Jul 1907 |
Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA [1, 2] |
| Person ID |
I61066 |
WetzelAncestry |
| Family |
Wentworth, Mary Jane, b. 23 Jul 1853, Almond, Allegany, New York, USA d. 4 Mar 1944, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA (Age 90 years) |
| Married |
9 Oct 1850 [2] |
| Married |
1 May 1873 [2] |
| Rodney's 2nd marriage, DAR. |
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MRS. NORA NICHOLS DeVALL .........115254
Born in Millport, Pa.
Wife of Arthur M. De Vall
Descendant of Martin Murphy, as follows:
1. Rodney L. Nichols (1818-1908) m. 2nd Jennie Wentworth (b. 1850)
2. Orson Wentworth (1819-98) m. Nancy L. Gavitt (1830-87).
3. Isaiah Gavitt m. Elizabeth Murphy (b. 1784).
4. Martin Murphy m. Mary Stedman.
Martin Murphy (1755-1839) was placed on the pension roll of Madison County, NY, 1832, for service as priate in the Rhode Island militia. He was born in Newport, RI; died in Brookfield, NY.
Also No. 21173.
Lanny Nunn? Potter/McKean County, Pennsylvania Genealogy
August 7 · 2018
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| Marriage |
1875 [1] |
| Children |
| | 1. Nichols, Nora Eola, b. 6 Sep 1876, Millport, Sharon, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA d. 14 Nov 1950, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA (Age 74 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 2. Nichols, Ora Lee, b. 1 May 1869, Andover, Allegany, New York, USA d. 22 Dec 1929, Cottage Grove, Lane, Oregon, USA (Age 60 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 3. Nichols, Dutton, b. 26 Jul 1880, Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA d. 21 Jul 1881, Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 0 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
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| Family ID |
F41381 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
1818 - 1907 (88 years)
