Samuel B. Nisbet

Birth Date

1794-04-21

Death Date

1876-08-17

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Hopkins County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. South Carolina native. Father of Francis M. Nisbet, Mary L. Nisbet, Wealthy A. Nisbet, and William W. Nisbet. Served in the 5th Regiment Kentucky Militia as a private in the War of 1812, from August 25, 1813, to November 15, 1813. Farmer in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1860. Owned ten enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 103B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 632.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 211A.
"Samuel Bratton Nisbet (1794-1876)," Find A Grave, Memorial #26783989, accessed October 16, 2020, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26783989.
War of 1812 Pension Applications, War of 1812 Pension Application Files Index, Washington D.C., National Archives, Pension #SO2881, NARA Microfilm Publication M313, Microfilm Roll RG15-1812PB-Bx2557.

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