Sarah Nisbet

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brevard-8

Note: John Nisbet and Sarah Brevard branch (This is a branch with genealogy problems/errors that need to be sorted out) There is no documentation that she was born in Scotland as found in many pedigrees-the same errors have been entered on find a grave .

From James E. Baucom Jr.

Sarah Brevard who married John Nisbet was the daughter of Jean Paul Brevard and an unnamed daughter of Matthew Wallace and Elizabeth Alexander.

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 married Sarah Brevard at Head of Christiana Presbyterian church at Newark DE or at Rock Presbyterian Church in Cecil Co MD about 1730 The Wallace, McKnitt and Alexander families are documented as attending both churches They are five miles apart and about a mile south of the PA MD border. Sarah, born 1705-1710 at Somerset Co MD, was the daughter of Jean Paul Brevard and his first wife a daughter of Matthew Wallace and Elizabeth Alexander. The will of William Wallace, who died at Somerset Co MD 1698, had a bequeath to his cousin John Brevard. This also proves that William was not the 12-year-old son of Matthew b 1686 d 1698 as posted everywhere. William was probably Matthew’s brother born in Ireland and came to MD with who left Ireland and came together to Somerset Co MD. about 1670.

After his first wife, died Brevard married Katherine McKnitt at Somerset Co MD about 1711. The Brevard, Alexander Wallace and McKnitt families are first documented in Cecil Co MD about 1714.

“Sarah married John Nisbet I in 1730 in Hardhill, Scotland.” ?

Family

Children of JOHN NISBET and SARAH BREVARD are:

• JAMES NISBET, b. 1733, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania; d. Jan-1763, Rowan Co, North Carolina.
• WILLIAM NISBET, b. Abt. 1735, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
• DAVID NISBET, b. 1736, Rowan Co, North Carolina.
• JOHN NISBET II b. 1738, Rowan, NC, d. 18 May 1817, Statesville, NC. ( See 4th Creek Burying Ground )
• THOMAS NISBET, b. 1740, Rowan Co, North Carolina.
• ELIZABETH NISBET, b. Abt. 1742, Rowan Co, North Carolina.

Though hardly legible, her headstone reads "IN MEMORY OF SARAH NISBET WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE IN YE MONTH OF OCTOBER 1764 WIFE OF JOHN NISBET." ∼Born about 1709 and came to America after marrying her husband, John, about 1729 in Scotland.

See list of children under husand's memorial.

She died in Oct 1764, about age 55.

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: May 9 2021, 21:06:14 UTC has errors

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