Forebears and Bears

A Yarmouth’s Widow’s Pension Deborah (Studley) Nickerson, Widow of John Nickerson, Revolutionary War Veteran               John Nickerson of Yarmouth is an ancestor of mine I have neglected in researching although I often acknowledged him as a pivotal and important individual in my family tree.   I admit I must have been far too excited about what connections came about from John and Deborah Nickerson’s union - several of their children married into the indigenous Greenough family of Yarmouth - putting the couple aside for future research.   The Time Is Now or There is No Time Like the Present I recently returned to John Nickerson and noticed that I had  estimated dates of death for both him and his wife, Deborah  Studley.   I fear (please forgive me I was new!) that the estimated death years that I did have must have come from what I saw in other Ancestry trees. There were no source documents to be found. I took a look at Deborah’s Widow’s Pension Application for John’s Revolutionary