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Nicholas was born on January 31, 1761, in Williamsburg and was the son of Robert Carter Nicholas and Anne Cary Nicholas. His father was a prominent member of the House of Burgesses and later treasurer of the colony and a judge of the state’s High Court of Chancery. After moving with his family to Hanover County during the American Revolution, Nicholas reportedly spent time as a student at the College of William and Mary about 1779. He was appointed a lieutenant of Virginia’s volunteer troops in 1780. That same year his father died and Nicholas, his mother, and her other children, including his brother Philip Norborne Nicholas, later Virginia’s attorney general and a member of the Convention of 1829–1830, soon relocated to a Nicholas plantation in Albemarle County. On January 29, 1785, Nicholas married Margaret “Peggy” Smith, the daughter of a wealthy Baltimore merchant. They had at least three sons and seven daughters. Their daughter Jane Hollins Nicholas later married Th

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