John N. Nisbet, Jr.

A Patriot of the American Revolution for NORTH CAROLINA. DAR Ancestor # A082370

Birth: 1738 Rowan County North Carolina, USA Death: May 18, 1817 Statesville Iredell County North Carolina, USA

Son of John Nisbet I and Sarah Brevard. John was a man of influence and prominence in State and Church. He was a Revolutionary soldier. In 1775, he served as chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of Safety of Rowan Co., NC and a delegate to the Provisional Congress until 1776. He married Mary Osborne. Father of Dr. James Nisbet of Athens, GA.

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Parents:

 John Nisbet (1705 - 1755)

 Sarah Brevard Nisbet (1707 - 1764)

Spouse:

 Mary Osborne Nisbet (1746 - 1788)*

Children:

 James Cooper Nisbet (1768 - 1832)*

 Elizabeth Nisbet Hall (1773 - 1833)*

 Alexander Nisbet (1777 - 1861)*

 John Nisbet (1781 - 1841)*

Siblings:

 James Nisbet (____ - 1763)*

 Alexander Nisbet (1731 - 1773)*

 John Nisbet (1738 - 1817)

*Calculated relationship

Burial: Old Fourth Creek Cemetery Statesville Iredell County North Carolina, USA

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Created by: Donnie E. Record added: Jan 22, 2007 Find A Grave Memorial# 17642350 https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=17642350

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John Nisbet, general merchant, Patriot, and state legislator, was born in New Jersey, one of six children of John and Sarah Nisbet. In 1750 his parents moved from New Jersey to that part of Rowan County that later became Iredell.

Nisbet was a member of the Rowan County Committee of Safety in 1774. Fifteen years later he became the first member of the state senate from Iredell County, serving in 1789 and 1790. Nisbet also was a delegate to the Fayetteville convention of 1789 that approved the U.S. Constitution for the state. In 1790 he was one of the commissioners chosen to lay out the town of Statesville as the seat of the new county of Iredell.

After operating a general store in Salisbury, he opened one at his plantation four miles northwest of Statesville. He later had a store in Statesville, but when it burned he did not replace it.

Nisbet married Mary Osborne, the daughter of Colonel Alexander Osborne, and they became the parents of eight children: James, Nancy, Sarah, Elizabeth, Alexander, John, Milus, and Jane. The mercantile interests of the family continued through three generations.

From James E. Baucom Jr. :

Documented John Nisbet and Sarah Brevard Many sources claim that the John Nisbet who married Sarah Brevard was the son of James Nisbet of Hardhill Castle at Edinburgh Scotland. It is a made up myth by someone who wanted to connect his line to a famous Nisbet.

James Nisbet had no children as documented in: https://archive.org/details/analectaormateri03mait/page/518/mode/2up

John Nisbet, of PA married Sarah Brevard at probably at Head of Christiana Presbyterian church at Newark DE or at Rock Presbyterian Church in Cecil Co MD about 1725-1730 Sarah was born at Somerset Co MD to Jean Paul Brevard and his first wife, a daughter of Matthew Wallace, and Elizabeth Alexander, who some say was Mary Wallace This is documented in the 1698 Somerset Co MD will of William Wallace, a cousin of Matthew Wallace where he bequeathed items to his cousin by marriage, John Brevard and two other children of Matthew Wallace.

Documented Proof that Jean Paul Brevard married a daughter of Matthew Wallace and Elizabeth Alexander who was probably Mary Wallace The source, the will of William Wallace, a cousin of Matthew Wallace: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/48376/images/PAFam...

Which stated: On 16 MAY 1698 William Wallace “Manokin River, Somerset county, carpenter” made his will. In it he mentioned his “cousin Jean Macknett “She was of course Jane Wallace McKnitt whose husband was not only a witness to the will, but was a surety for his brother James Wallace when he qualified as administrator of his brother William’s estate

The testator also left property to “my two cousins John Bruard and John Wallace.” The name Bruard is almost undecipherable and was undoubtably intended to be Brevard.

From this will the the following assumptions can be made: 1 Wallace brothers William and James were the sons of a Mr. X Wallace. 2 Matthew Wallace, husband of Elizabeth Alexander, was the son of Mr. Y Wallace 3 X Wallace and Y Wallace were brothers who lived in Ireland. 4 Matthew, James, and William Wallace probably came to America together with the Mcknitts and Alexander families. 5. Matthew’s son John was born before 1670 and Mary Wallace Brevard b before 1780 and she died about 1710 at Somerset Co MD. 6 Sarah Brevard, who married John Nisbet, was the daughter of Jean Paul Brevard and Mary Wallace born at Somerset Co. MD before 1710.

Jim Baucom, a genealogy researcher descendant of john and Sarah

Baucom followed up with this:

Yes, he [referring to John Nisbet, I ] is the one, died Saulsberry NC NOV 1755. So far there is no proven data on where he was born or who were his parents.. He was living in Lancaster PA just north of the Maryland and Delaware borders when he married Sarah Brevard, whose family was in Cecil Co. MD. As Ulster-Scots they probably married at the Head of Christ Presbyterian Church in Delaware which was bout 5 miles from where the Brevards lived and where Nisbet lived. John Nisbet lived at his home in PA went to NC about 1749 along with many other UI.