Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22422, for Alexander Nisbet, Pennsylvania
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Penn.      Nisbet, Alexander    S22422
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Pennsylvania 25.705

Alexander Nisbet
of Chester Co. in the state of Penna who was a private in the Co Commanded by Captain McClure of the Rgt. commanded by Colonel Morris in the Penna line for (unintelligible)

Inscribed on the rolls of Penna at the rate of 20 dollars 00 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of Dec. 1833 and set to Hon. D. Potts. Esq.  House of Rep.

Arrears to the 4th of Sep 1833              50.00
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Mar 34    10.00
                                                                60.00

                                    {Revolutionary Claim,}
                                     {Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by  Wm. R. Palmer Clerk
Book e.  Vol. five  Page 43
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Declaration in order the benefit of the act of  congress passed June 7, 1832.

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Chester County

On this tenth day of September A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Court of Common Pleas now sitting Alexander Nesbit a resident of Nantmeal township in the county of Chester & being first duly sworn according to law doth in his solemn oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.

    That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated.

    He entered the service in the year 1776 on the 17th of July & (??) from home in West Nantmeal Township and went to Col. Moore the (unintelligible) in the same township about 2 1/2 miles distance from my home & served 2 months under Captain James McClure. From Col Morris' we went to Philadelphia thence to Trento, then to Princeton thence to Brunswick then to Perth Amboy then home without having been in any engagements.

    The next campaign was under Col. Wm. Gibbons under the immediate command of Capt. Saml. Henderson, In the fall of 1777 - I started in this campaign left home in company & encamped at Brandywine Manor Meeting House thence we marched to Newtown Square  & (unintelligible) in Regiment we marched to White Marsh & encamped there on Feathered Hills. Col Bartholemews Regiment was in this same encampment.  We (unintelligible) in encampment at Matsery Ford in Montgomery County on the Schuylkill river while encamped at this place our men had drawn three days provisions & had taken it into the county to get cooked when the enemy came upon them & took it all.
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In the month of December in the same year I left this place to go home having served two months. His next campaign was with Captain John Craig & does not recollect under what Colonel - he left home in the fall of the year 1778 under the command of General Reid in this campaign we did not leave the county of Chester we encamped first at the Black Horse in Uchlan township we then moved to Green Tavern in Brandywine township- At Featherbed hills the regiment was drawn up in line of battle when Gen. Irwin was taken prisoner, but our regiment was not actually engaged. This deponent was acquainted with Lieut. Levi Griffith who was a regular officer he has no documentary evidence. He knows of no person whose testimony he can present who can testify to his service.  In this campaign he served 2 months. In answer to questioning proposed by the court the deponent shakes.
    That he was born in West Nantmeal township aforesaid in the year 1755 - he has a record of his age in a family bible at his house. He was living in West Nantmeal when called in to service & has lived there ever since. He was called into service as a volunteer.  He can recollect no other names of officers then those stated in the foregoing declaration nor as to the general circumstances of his service he received no discharge.  He is known to George Miller, Alexander, (unintelligible), Nathaniel Irwin & Matthew Stanly all of over the county who can testify to his character for veracity & their (unintelligible) of his services as a soldier of the revolution.  The certificate of the two latter is hereto annexed.  He here by relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid before.    

                                       //s//
                                Alex. Nisbet
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John W. Cunningham Prot

    We Nathniel Irwin residing in Honeybrook township & Matthew Stanley residing in Brandywine township being affirmed (Unintelligible) I do in declare & say, that we are acquainted with Alexander Nisbet (unintelligible) in Chester Co, Penn who has sworn & subscribed to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 77 years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in the opinion.

Affirmed & subscribed in     Nathaniel Irwin
open court Sept 10th 1832        M. Stanley

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  John W. Cunningham Prot.

    And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the (??) of the matter & after, putting the interrogations prescribe by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states - and the court further certifies that appear that  Nathaniel Irwin who has signed the above certificate is a resident of Honeybrook & thus Matthew Stanley esquire is a resident of Branywine that both are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit.

                                  By the Court
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                              John W. Cunningham

I John W. Cunningham Prothonotary of the court of common pleas aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Alexander Nisbet for a pension.  In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court this 11th day September A.D. 1832

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          John W. Cunningham Prot.
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    I, John N. C. Grier, a clergyman residing in the township of Brandywine, in the county of Chester and state of Pennsylvania, do hereby certify, that I am well acquainted with Alexander Nisbet who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that from his appearance I believe him to be seventy seven years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution and that I concur in the opinions.

 Sworn & subscribed on                //s//
  November 11, 1833              John N.C. Grier
                        John W. Cunningham 
                        Prothonotary to Court  
                        November 11 1833.

     And the said court certified that it appears to them that John N.C. Grier who had signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the township of Brandywine in the county of Chester and state of Pennsylvania and that his statement is entitled to credit.

                          By the court
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                       John Cunningham Prot.

Chester County ss

     John W. Cunningham Prothonotary of the court of common pleas aforesaid. Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the (blocked words) the application of Alexander Nesbit for a pension.  

      In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of the said court at West Chester this ninth day of December A.D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.

                          John W. Cunningham Prot.
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13.233   25.705
Alexaander Nisbet

Chester Co. Pennsylvania

4 May 33
       See letter

Adm 6 months

            $20

Hon.  D. Potts 
House of representatives
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Brief in the case of Alexander Nesbit
towsh. Nantmeal of Chester County in the State of Pennsylvania (Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  Open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infinity?
3. How old is he?  77 years.
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period/During of Service/rank/Names of 
  Generals and Field Officers under whom he 
   served.
          Years, Months,Days  
                              Gen Reed
1776/-2 - /private/Capt Jac McClure Col Morris
1777/-2-/private/Capt Sam Henderson Col Gibbons                              
1778/Unintelligible/private/Capt Jno Craig Col not (Unintelligible)

5. In what battles was he engaged? None
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? West Nantmeal Chester Co Pa
7.Is his statement supported by living witness, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary
8.Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Now attached as requested.

Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.


Richard Cutty
Examining Clerk



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Revolution

22422
INVALID.

File No.  22422
Alexander Nisbet

Pri. rev. War

Act:  June 7th 32
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 278

{Arrangement of 1870}
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H. of R. Dec. 13, 1833

Dear Sir,

   I herewith send the declaration of A. Nesbit a soldier of the Revolution, (unintelligible) is the particular desire by the brief that accompanied the papers when returned.

     You early attention to this case is particularly requested, as great delay has already occurred in transmitting the papers from Penna. to the department.  Please send the certificate to me.

                            Very Respectfully,
                             Yr ob. sevt.
                              David Potts Clerk
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Pension Agency
Philadelphia Bank
April 22, 1846

Sir,

      Herewith enclosed the pension certificate of Alexander Nesbit, Act 7 June 1832, who died 18 December 1845 having no widow or children and the (??) of Administrating amounting to more than the average due, the Certificate is surrendered without claim.  I have noted the claim on the roll of the agency as having been surrendered, and the (??) deceased.   

                            Respectfully
                             (unintelligible)
                             Samuel F. Smith
                                         Pension Agent
                                         J. (??) Baron
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Payments to be made 
at Pennsylvania 
by (unintelligible) bak
Agent for paying Pensioners
as the Agency of 
Pennsylvania



Recorded in the Pension office
in Book e. Vol. 5 by

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                    Wm. Palmer
                               Clerk
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WAR DEPARTMENT
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM

    I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Alexander Nisbet of the State of Pennsylvania who was a private in the army of the Revolution is entitled to receive twenty dollars and 00 cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semiannually on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year.

  Given at the War Office of the United States, this nineteenth day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.

                   Lee Cass
               Secretary of War 

Examined and countersigned.

J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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Pennsylvania
Chester County

    Be it remembered that on the 20th day o March A.D. 1835 personally appeared before me one of the judges of the peace and for said county Alexander Nisbet and made oath to the facts set forth in the within certificate and that he is the identical Alexander Nisbet within named. 


Sworn and subscribed before me the subscriber the day and year above written.

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     George Lloyd                     Alexander Nisbet


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