Samuel Nesbitt

A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA. (Soldier). DAR Ancestor # A082390

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Nesbitt/Nisbet Society, United Kingdom Publication No. 10

Cambridge 1995

NESBITOLOGY

SAMUEL NISBET - MARY BERRY

In the settlement of the Estate of John Berry in 1771, Mary Neizbitt and John Neizbitt were named in the will and Samuel Neizbit was paid a claim.

Samuel Nisbeit on March 1, 1770, acquired 100 acres of land which he, on September 19, 1787, transferred by deed to John Nelson. In 1787 for the sum of $160.00, Samuel Nesbitt and his wife, Mary, joined in a deed to transfer the 100 acres acquired in 1770 which joined John Berry's land, said to be recorded in Deed Book A, page 696, Rockridge County. This deed was signed Sam'l Nisbeit and Mary Nisbeit, his wife, and recorded in Deed Book A, page 696 of the County of Rockridge.

In Volume 2 of Abstracts, Augusta County (Virginia) Records, show that "Samuel Nesbit went out as pack horseman on the last Indian Exposition in order to raise money to pay for his land". Morten's Rockridge County, Virginia, lists "Samuel Nesbitt as a Tithable" and a "Taxpayer in 1782", and on page 466 under "Locations and Arrivals" in 1788 lists Samuel Nesbitt (and Mary). The marriage record of Rockridge County shows a license granted to John Neisbit and Sarah Hunter, August 26, 1788. The consent is signed by Samuel Neisbit and William Hunter. The surities, John Neisbit and James McCutchan. Deed Book 36, Augusta County, page 12 shows John Nesbit and Sarah, his wife, from the County of Harrison, State of Kentucky, along with other heirs of William Hunter, deceased, as signers to a deed for land situated in Augusta County which William Hunter acquired through Government Patent deeded September 20, 1751. Samuel and his family came to Kentucky, now Harrison County, and settled on lands west of Cynthiana, on Grey's Run about 1790 and built a log house which was standing and occupied when I last saw it in 1937. He was a farmer and stockman and certainly a woodsman.

Family tradition insists that he had his chin cut off at the Battle of Cowpens, but no proof has been found in the War Pension Department. He is not listed in the Virginia War Records either. He was a taxpayer on personal and real estate in 1795 in Harrison County and was on the Tax Rolls until his death in 1814. Opposite his name on the Tax Rolls of Harrison County: in 1813 is a notation "In Capt. Gray's Co.". Here he is designated as Samuel Nesbett Sr.

My grandfather's name also appears on the 1813 Tax Roll as Samuel Nesbit, Jr., owner of 80 acres, and a notation "In Capt. Gray's Co". Samuel Nisbet died in 1814. I have never located his grave. His will was probated at the July Term Court.

Mary Berry Nisbet went to Washington County, Indiana in 1824 to live with her daughter, Mary Nisbet Martin, and died at her home on October 19, 1828, and she was buried on the Alexander Martin lot in the Livonia Cemetery in an unmarked grave. Alexander Martin had a brother, William, who was a great Presbyterian missionary in southern Indiana and was Pastor of the Church at Livonia.