Nicoll, Matthias, 1758-1830

General Matthias Nicoll was born on October 11, 1758, in New York to Benjamin Nicoll and Mary Magdalen Holland. He married Sarah Taylor in 1777 and together they had twelve children, nine of which lived to adulthood and include Capt. Samuel Charles Nicholl, who was Captain of the Privateer Scourge, a 15 gun brig; and Eliza Hopkins Nicoll Dowdall, whom he built the Nicoll-Benjamin House (called The White House) in Stratford, Connecticut. He died on February 11, 1830 at the age of 71 and is buried at Christ Episcopal Church Cemetery in Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut.