Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4,617, for Robert Nisbett, South Carolina
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
S.C.
Nisbett, Robert
NUMBER
S.4617
carded.
CONTENTS
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30.905
West Tennessee
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Robert Nisbett of Dickson Co in the State of Tennessee who was a priv. Cav & Inf in the Company commanded by Captain Berry & others of the Regt commanded by Col Roebuck in the S. Carolina mila. for 1 year.
Private of Cavalry 9 mos. 10 days 38.88
" Inf. 2 " 20 " 8.88
[total] 47.76
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Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee at the rate of 47 Dollars 76 Cents per ann to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of December 1836 and sent to Hon. C. Johnson H. R.
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836 $262.68
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 37. 23.88
[total] $286.56
{Revolutionary Claim, June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Wm. S Allison Clerk,
Book E.2 Vol. 7 Page 99
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Let to Hon. C. Johnson Oct 9 1837
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Duplicate Certificate issued 24th Nov 1837 and sent to Pensioner, Charlotte Tenn
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State of Tennessee
Dickson County
Circuit Court
October Term 1836
Robert Nisbett Sr. personally appeared before the Circuit Court of Dickson County the 10th day of October in the year 1836 & being duly sworn deposeth and sayeth (for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the act of the 7th of June 1832) as follows to wit, that he was born in Ireland the 5th of March 1766 as he is informed & believes, he has seen the record of his age in his fathers family Bible many years ago which was then in the possession of his brother, who removed some years since to the Western District of Tennessee & died where he presumes the Bible now is - he never had the possession of the Bible & has not seen it for four or five years - his father came to this country when he was verry young & settled in South Carolina & resided in Spartanburg District at the commencement of the war, he served in various campaigns & various periods from the year 1778 to 1782 but is unable to specify the length of the campaigns or the precise time that he served, one of his old companions Wm. Caldwell now resides in South Carolina & upon examining the records has enclosed the settlement of an account by the State, which shews services between those years amounting to two hundred eighty days as a Horseman & Eighty two days in the Infantry in the companies of Capt John Berry, Capt. Andrew Berry, Capt John Collins, Capt John Nisbitt & Capt. Saml. Nisbett companies & in the Regiment commanded by Col Roebuck - that he is now old & his memory frail & feels confident that he served a longer time then the number days specified but cannot now remember with sufficient accurancy the different tours or the precise periods at which these services were performed, that he recollects well to have been stationed three months on the frontier under Capt. John Berry, on Tupelo River-he also recollects having served a tour of three months
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under the command of his cousin John Nisbett and he also remembers Capt. Andrew Berry (not Barry as written in the account) a brother of Capt. John Berry and also remembers a short service under his uncle Capt. Saml. Nisbett - he remembers Roebuck well & was with him when he was wounded on Little River by the tories & died of his wound - he also remembers to have served two months as a spy with Caldwell whose deposition accompanies this application he does not remember to have recd any discharge at any time for the services performed by him - that he has not heretofore made application because upon application to his friends, who talked with him he doubled whether his recollection was sufficiently precise to justify him in making an application, until he recd from Caldwell the papers which now accompanies this application - that after the war he continued to reside in S Carolina until about the year 1798 when he moved to Tennessee & shortly after settled in the County of Dickson where he now resides - he also annexes hereto the deposition of Capt John Nisbitt his cousin with whom he served a short time - he hereby relinquishes all claim to any annuity or pension except the one provided by the Law of 1832 and he also declares that he is not on the pension Roll of any agency in any State
Robert Nisbitt [his mark] X
Sworn to & Subscribed in open Court this 11th Oct. 1836
John C. Collier Clk
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State of Tennessee
Dickson County
Circuit Court October Term 1836
Col John Nisbett personally appeared in Open Court being duly sworn deposeth & sayeth, that he is well acquainted with Robert Nisbett the applicant for a pension that he knew him before the war, both having resided in the same neighbourhood & that he has known him ever since, having been neighbours ever since, that he recollects well that said Robert Nisbett was in the company as a soldier of Capt John Berry & also in Collins Company before he joined the company which I commanded, he was some time in my company & I feel confident served about three months at least in my company but my memory is not sufficient to be precise - he recollects that during the time he was in my company, we marched to a fort occupied by the tories called Williams fort on the waters of the Saluda & that we retreated to the waters of  Little River & were pursued by the tories & had a skirmish with them-- that he knows of said Robert having acted occasionally as a spy but the time or the officers under whom he served he cannot specify
John Nisbett
Sworn to & subscribed in Open Court
John C. Collier Clk
and thereupon the said Court having examined the said case & propounded the questions requested by the war Department & the said Col John Nisbett being well known to the Court as a man of integrity & honesty & entitled to full credit, is of opinion that the said Robert Nisbett was a soldier of the revolution and that he served as stated
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and private seal there being no public seal of office, this 11th of October 1836
John C Collier Clk
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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
BY HIS EXCELLANCY,
George McDuffie Esquire
Governor and Commander-in-Chief, in and over the State aforesaid.
George McDuffie
To all to Whom these Presents Shall Come.
Know Ye that William Laval is Comptroller General of the State of South Carolina that John T. Seibels whose name is signed to the certificate of the annexed sheet of paper is the Deputy of the said William Laval that his certificate is in due form by the proper offices and his signature genuine
THEREFORE, All due Faith, Credit and authority is an ought to be had and given to his Proceedings and Certificates as such.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereto set my Hand, and caused to be affixed the Seal of the State, in the Town of Columbia the Eighteenth
of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty six and in the Sixtieth year of the Independence of the United States of America.
BY THE GOVERNOR.
B. H. Saxon
Secretary of State.
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33.911
Robert Nisbett Junr.
Revolutionary services.
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fees $3.
$5.
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Robert Nisbett
Senr. & Junr.
For 280 days duty as Horsemen, & 82 days du. as Footmen in Capt. John Berry, Andrew Barry, Jno. Collins, Jno. Nisbett & Samuel Nisbett's Companies, Col. Roebucks Regt. from 1st May 1778 to 24 Octr. 1782 amounting to Currency
L 321 " "
Stg. L 45.17. 1 1/2
Forty five pounds, Seventeen Shillings & one penny half penny
Exd. JMc.

Comptroller Generals Office
Columbia 18 April 1836
I certify the above to be a true copy of the endorsement on a paper filed in this office enclosing the original accounts of Robert Nisbett Senr. & Junior, for services rendered in the War of the Revolution, and that the said accounts were written with such pale ink and so faded by age that it is impossible to furnish a correct transcript & that Indents were respectively issued viz: 
No. 3232, to Robert Senr. for L 21.11.5
& 3233 to Robert Junr. for L 24.5.8
[total L 45.17.1

William Laval Compt. Genl. per John T. Seibels
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January 9, 1931
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
EEL
Mary R. Mullen
Librarian
Department of Archives and History
Montgomery, Alabama
Dear Madam:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.4617, that Robert Nisbett was born March 5, 1766, in Ireland, and when quite young came to this country with his father, whose name is not given, and settled in South Carolina.
While residing in Spartanburg District, South Carolina, he enlisted and served at various times from 1778 to 1782, on short tours amounting to about one year in all, as a private in the cavalry and in the infantry under Captains John Berry, Andrew Berry, John Collins, John Nisbett (soldier's cousin) and Samuel Nisbett (soldier's uncle) and Colonel Roebuck in the South Carolina Troops. He also served two months as a spy under William Caldwell.
In 1798, he moved to the State of Tennessee.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 11, 1836, at which time he was a resident of Dickson County, Tennessee.
It is not stated that soldier was ever married.
The Revolutionary War records of this bureau fail to show a claim on file on account of the services of Samuel Nisbett.
Very truly yours
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.
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[first column]
1930 June 30. Hist to Mrs J. Frank Thompson - Letter in case of John
Childress D. 2423 EEL
1931 - Jan. 9 Hist to Mary R. Mullen EEL

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4617
Rev War
INVALID.
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File No. 4617
Robert Nisbett
Privt Rev. War
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Act: June 7. 1832
Index: Vol. A, Page 275
{Arrangement of 1870.}
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Rev. and 1812 Wars Section
EEL
June 30, 1930
Mrs. J. Frank Thompson
11 Kuhlman Court
Columbia, Missouri
Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.4617, it appears that Robert Nisbett was born March 5, 1766, in Ireland, and when quite young came to this country with his father, whose name is not given, and settled in South Carolina.
While residing in Spartanburg District, South Carolina, he enlisted and served at various times from 1778 to 1782, on short tours amounting to about one year in all, as a private in the cavalry and in the infantry under Captains John Berry, Andrew Berry, John Collins, John Nisbett (soldier's cousin) and Samuel Nisbett (soldier's uncle) and Colonel Roebuck in the South Carolina Troops. He also served two months as a spy under William Caldwell.
In 1798, he moved to the State of Tennessee.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 11, 1836, at which time he was a resident of Dickson County, Tennessee.
It is not stated that soldier was ever married.
of death
Very truly yours
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.

Date of death not on AB
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STATE OF ALABAMA
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY
Founded by Thomas M. Owen, LL.D., 1901
MONTGOMERY
December 8, 1930.
IN REPLY REFER TO FILE NO. A912
Nesbit
Dear Sir:
Would you kindly see if there is any Revolutionary pension record for Robert Nisbett, Senior, who received pay according to Salley's Indents "for duty done in Roebuck's Regiment", of South Carolina.
We would also like the record of Samuel Nisbett who also received pay for duty in Roebuck's regiment of South Carolina.
Sincerely yours,
Mary R. Mullen
Librarian.

Veterans Administration,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

[round stamp] U S PENSION OFFICE D DEC 10 1930
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State of Tennessee
Dickson County SS
On this 11th day of November 1837 Robert Nisbett Sr. appeared before me the subscriber John Eubank an acting Justice of the Peace for said County & made oath that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the continental service, during the revolutionary war and served as stated under the various officers mentioned in his Declaration now on file in the war department - that he has been informed and believes the fact so to be, that his name has been placed on the pension Roll of the United States & directed to be paid at Nashville and that a certificate issued in December last directing his payment at Nashville & was placed in the hands of his Representative & which he understands was directed to him & put in the post office at the City of Washington & he further declares that he has never recd. said certificate nor drawn any of the money due him
Robert Nisbett
Sworn on to & subscribed before me this 11th day of November 1837
John Eubank Justice of the Peace
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State of Tennessee
Dickson County SS
Richard Waugh personally appeared before me John Eubank an acting Justice of the peace for Dickson County & made oath that he is well acquainted with Robert Nisbett Sr. & has known him many years - that he understood he had made an application for a pension & that the same had been allowed but had not yet recd. the money for account of the loss of his certificate - and that the sd. Robert the present applicant for a certificate is the same person who applied for a pension
Richard Waugh
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 11th day of November 1837
John Eubank Justice of the peace

I John Eubank an acting Justice of the peace for Dickson County certify that the preceding affidavits were taken before me & the parties were duly sworn & that Richard Waugh is a credible witness & a person of respectability given under my hand & seal this eleventh day of November 1837
John Eubank {JP}
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State of Tennessee
Dickson County
I William Hightower Clerk of the County Court of Dickson certify that John Eubank whose name is subscribed to the preceding certificates is an acting Justice of the peace for Dickson County & that his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office at Charlotte this eleventh day of November in the year of our Lord 1837
Wm. Hightower Clerk

Col. Edwards
Dear Sir,
My recollection is that the certificate was forwarded by me from Washington to Mr. Nisbett & he has repeatedly applied to me declaring that he has never received it or his pension money. I know the old gentleman well and have prepared the preceding papers for him & sent them to Charlotte a distance of 30 miles. I could not annex my own affidavit without preparing a new set of papers, new affidavit & another county seal or go to Charlotte & I presumed the preceding would authorize him to have his certificate renewed
I am respectfully your friend
C Johnson
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Charlotte Ten
Sept. 27th 1837

free

J. L. Edwards Esq
Com. of Pensions
Washington City

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Oct 9
Robt. Nisbett
Tenn RW
30905
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Charlotte
Sept 25th 1837
Dear Sirs,
I procured the allowance of a pension for Robert Nisbett of Dickson Co Tennessee - & his name is now on the Roll at Nashville but he has never received the certificate & has never drawn his money. I wrote you about the 1st of August in relation to it & have not as yet recd. a reply. I know the old gentleman well - he is now with me & verry anxious to get a certificate authorising him to draw
Will you have the matter examined & address him at this place
your friend
C Johnson
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33.911
Robert Nisbett
Tennessee
admitted 1 for year
9 mos 10 days Pr Cav 38.88
2 mos 20 " Pr Inf 8.88
[total] 47.76
The Declaration of Mr. Nisbett was drawn up by myself & the certificates were also & signed by John C. Collier the acting Clerk of the Court which was then in session. The Signature is in his own hand writing & there is no public seal of office
C Johnson
10th Dec 1836
Hon. C. Johnson
H R
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State of South Carolina
Spartanburgh District
To wit, Personally came before me the subscribing magistrate, William Caldwell, a Revolutionary Soldier, who being Sworn in due form of Law, on his oath Saith that he was intimately acquainted with Robert Nisbit Junr. during the Revolutionary War, that he does know, that the said Nisbit did serve in the army of the United States, and in for some time in company with this Deponent, but this Deponent cannot State the exact time of his service in the army generally, nor the time of service in his company. This Deponent further states, that the applicant whom this evidence is furnished, is the identical person whom he knows, and with whom he served in the Army of the Revolution.
Wm. Caldwell
Sworn to & Subscribed before me 23rd May 1836
Jno Bomar Jr. I.Q. Ex. off

I, Joshua Tapp, Clerk of the Court for Spartanburgh District, do hereby certify that John Bower Jr. is a magistrate as above, and that his signature to the foregoing affidavit is genuine.
In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and Seal of Office this seventeenth day of May 1836.
J. Tapp
Clerk of Spartanburgh District
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12 - 5 - 41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
NAME Nisbitt, Joseph GRADE Private LINE New York
WARRANT NUMBER 7548 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Aug. 28, 1790
to Christopher Gates, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants, issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.