Nicholas Ivory was transported to Northampton County, Virginia, before 1643, by Obedience Robins, who in that year obtained 450 acres of land for transporting into Virginia nine persons, one of whom was Nicholas Ivery, later spelled Ivory. In this group were also Henry Boston and Stephen Horsey, who later became two very prominent citizens of Somerset County, Maryland. Fifty acres was given to all who came to Virginia to settle, or to the person who transported settlers to Virginia.
Nicholas Ivory died intestate in Northampton County, Virginia, and his two little daughters, Margaret, born 1654, and Mary, born 1656, in Hungers Parish, Virginia, were transported to the Manokin section by Philip Berre, who claimed in 1662 the rights of 50 acres each for transporting himself, wife, two daughters, and the above children, Margaret and Mary Ivory, for which he received 400 acres of land. Lord Baltimore gave 50 acres to each settler who came into the Province to inhabit. Margaret and Mary Ivory were in what is now Somerset County before that county was formed in 1666.