James Nisbet

Birth Date

1796-02-23

Death Date

1881-04-19

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Hopkins County, Kentucky, farmer. South Carolina native. Son of James Nisbet and Jane Bratton Nisbet. Married to Mary Ann Pritchett Nisbet. Father of Samuel R. Nisbet, James M. Nisbet, J. J. C. Nisbet, William A. Nisbet, Laura A. Nisbet, and Virginia F. Nisbet. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1850. Owned six enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1850. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 49B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 697.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 736.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 215B.
Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Louisville, Ky, National #76259, State #950.

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