Abraham Nesbit

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Husband Abraham Nesbit ¹

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         Father: James Nesbit (      -      ) 2
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General Notes: Husband - Abraham Nesbit

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He followed his cousins to the new territory west of the Susquehanna where he finally purchased a plantation on a branch of the Bermudian in Warrington Township, now within the boundary of York County, Pennsylvania. It is said he assisted the surveyors in running the lines in the new territory and in 1748 he petitioned the Courts of Lancaster County for a new road from York to McCallister's Mill to be called the Bermudian Road, later known as the Shippensburg Pike.
He represented the Bermudian Settlement at Carlisle Presbytery, where he prayed for a more convenient church arrangement and asked that they might be annexed to Lower Pennsborough congregation. While the petition was denied, Presbytery soon granted the right to found a church near Dillsburg, York County, known as the Monaghan Presbyterian Church, of which congregation his brother, John Nesbit, Esq., of York County, was a founder.
In 1761 Abraham Nesbit was commissioned under the seal of King George III of Great Britain a justice of the peace for York County, an office not without honor in provincial days when the amount and character of the court business was very much like that of the Common Pleas Court of later days. These officers of the crown were seated with the president judge who was usually a man learned in the law.
He was the first of James Nesbit's family to settle in York County, but he was soon followed by other members of the family.

1 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 9.

2 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 10.