A Salem shipmaster and merchant; the autobiography of George Nichols . e-house was on the estate at the side of the gardenand was removed only a few years ago. On June 23rd, 1827, the house was sold to Johonnot,1 a friend of the family. Many of the beautiful pieces of furniture, chinaand silver were scattered and my great-grand-father with his daughter Betsey went to live withmy grandfather, George Nichols, in the westernend of the Tontine Block on Warren Street. It is a curious coincidence that my great-grand-father, Jerathmael Peirce, and my grandfather, i Mr. George Stuart Johonno
A Salem shipmaster and merchant; the autobiography of George Nichols . e-house was on the estate at the side of the gardenand was removed only a few years ago. On June 23rd, 1827, the house was sold to Johonnot,1 a friend of the family. Many of the beautiful pieces of furniture, chinaand silver were scattered and my great-grand-father with his daughter Betsey went to live withmy grandfather, George Nichols, in the westernend of the Tontine Block on Warren Street. It is a curious coincidence that my great-grand-father, Jerathmael Peirce, and my grandfather, i Mr. George Stuart Johonnot, of Huguenot descent,fourth child of Francis and Mary Johnson Johonnot ofBoston. Born Nov. 23rd, 1756; died at Salem, 1839, aged83 years, a merchant. He married a widow of JosephGrafton, whose maiden name was Martha Elkins.—NewEngland Hist, and Genealogical Register, Vol. 7, p. 144. Miss Martha Elkins married first, William Pynchon, sonof Judge Pynchon; second, Joseph Grafton, and third,George S. Johonnot. She was the sister of Mrs. ThomasSanders of Salem.— GLIMPSES INTO HIS HOME LIFE 105 George Nichols, at the time of their reverses,should each have been living in a house built forhimself, and in which he took great pride. Tothe older man, then in his eighty-first year,already a victim of serious heart trouble, thestrain of leaving his beautiful home, where he hadalways welcomed his friends with such gracioushospitality, was too much for him. Only onceafter he had left his home, did he pass it, and onAugust 20th he died. My grandfather GeorgeNichols, however, was made happy when in 1845the house at 37 Chestnut Street came into thefamily again through his son John, who boughtit in that year. My grandfather was stimulated by his loss togreater activity, for during the years that he wasa merchant there had been leisure for him todevelop a certain mechanical ingenuity, and heinterested himself in making buff-colored leathertrunks for several of his children, with their i
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