John Nicoll (c.1590–1668), was a Scottish chronicler who recorded the political events of his day which were later published and are used as a primary source by historians.
Not improbably he was the John Nicoll who was nominated as clerk to the general assembly at Glasgow in November 1638, when Sir Archibald Johnstone of Warriston was elected.
[1] Wodrow, who in his Sufferings of the Kirk makes large use of the manuscript of Nicoll, described it in the list of his papers as The Journals of John Nicol, writer to the signet, containing some account of our Scots Kings, with some Extracts as to China and the West Indies, and a Chronicle from Fergus the first to 1562.
[1] On 21 October 1606 Nicoll married Bessie the daughter of James Thomson (an Edinburgh merchant).
His first wife died in August 1627 and on 12 December the same year he married Magdalene, daughter of Andrew Hutchison (another Edinburgh merchant).