The following is excerpted from NEHGR 1922 memoirs ...
"Willard Atherton Nichols, S.B. of Redlands, Calif., a resident member since 1907,
was born at Standish, Me., 25 August 1844, the son of George Henry and Sarah Ann (Atherton)
Nichols, and died unmarried at Redlands 22 August 1921.

He was descended from Thomas Nichols, who was at Amesbury, Mass., as early as 1665, through
Thomas of Amesbury, born 16 Oct 1670
David of Salem, [this David is almost certainly the David who married Hannah Gaskill, Salem Mass VR dated 18 Feb 1730/31 (or 31/32)]
Capt Ichabod of Salem, [born 01 May 1749]
Rev Ichabod of Portland, Me., A.B. (Harvard,1802), A.M. (ib., 1805),D.D. (Bowdoin,1821), S.T.D.
(Harvard,1831), [born 17 Sep 1782 in Portsmith,NH & recorded in Salem Mass VR]
who died in 1859, and
George Henry, A.B. (Harvard, 1833), M.D. (University of Pennsylvania, 1836, his
father, a distinguished physician, who practised his profession ..."