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Entrepreneur,
Farmer
James Nickens
Virginia
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1781
Nickens, descended from a family that was freed in 1690, used his Navy pension from time served during the Revolutionary War to purchase land and become a farmer in Lancaster County, Virginia. His descendants still live and work that land today.
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