Nicholas Massecar

   Other names for Nicholas were Nicholas Mesiker, Nicholas Messacher, Nicholas Messacre and Nicholas Messcerr.

  Burial Notes:

Nicholas Messeker is likely buried in Marshall County, WV. There are daughters in law buried at Blair's Ridge Cemetey in Marshall County.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Residence: Wheeling Creek, 1798, Ohio County, VA. Owned and farmed land on Wheeling Creek. It also appears to be his place of residence.

• Census: Ohio County, West Virginia 1810 Census of households, 1810, Ohio County, Virginia. Nicholas Messcerr is listed in the census of Ohio County.

Nicholas married Mary Slaght, daughter of Philip Slaght and Rosanna, about 1793 in New Jersey USA. (Mary Slaght was born about 29 Oct 1772 in Roxbury, Morris, New Jersey,³⁹ died on 13 Jan 1853 in Morgan County, Ohio and was buried in McConnellsville, Morgan, Ohio.)