Freeman Nickerson

Freeman Nickerson (February 5, 1779 – January 22, 1847) was an early missionary in Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and a member of Zion's Camp. Life Nickerson was born in South Dennis, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. He moved to Vermont in 1800 and shortly after that married Huldah Chapman. During the War of 1812 he served as a lieutenant in the Vermont infantry. After the war, Nickerson moved to Springville, Pennsylvania. In 1824, Nickerson moved to what was then part of Perrysburgh, New York (in what is now the village of South Dayton). He later worked on the construction of the Erie Canal. Nickerson was baptized a member of the Latter Day Saint church in April 1833 by Zerubbabel Snow. That fall, he served a mission in western New York and Upper Canada with Joseph Smith, Jr. and Sidney Rigdon. On 12 October 1833, Smith received a revelation at Nickerson's home in Perrysburgh, New York. Smith, Rigdon, and Nickerson travelled to Mount Pleasant, upper Canada, to the home of Nickerson's son.