HERKIMER, NICHOLAS (c. American Rev olutionary soldier, was born near Fort Herkimer, N. Y., probably about 1728. He was the son of Johan Host Herkimer who came to America from the Palatinate about 1725. Nicholas was com missioned lieutenant of militia under provincial authority in 1758, and was made brigadier general of the Tryon county militia, N.Y., in 1776. In 1777 he marched to relieve Col. Peter Gansevoort at Ft. Stanwix who was besieged by Gen. St. Leger of the British forces. Herkimer was ambushed at Oriskany, but fought a well that the British were forced to fall back into Canada. Herkimer was mortally wounded and died Aug. 17, 1777.
See Dedication of the Oriskany Monument by the Oneida Historical Society (1884) ; Eugene W. Lyttle, "Nicholas Herkimer," Proc. of N.Y. State Hist. Assoc. (1904) .