Jesse Rigsby Genealogy
Record modified: 2011-12-10
Born: 1764-00-00 North Carolina USA
Died: 1827-10-26 Orange Co, North Carolina USA
Marriages:
1. 1801-07-13 Elizabeth Pickett
Children of Jesse Rigsby and Elizabeth Pickett:
Notes:
[R20.1]
married in Orange Co NC at the home of William Partin
buried in Rigsby cemetery on the Duke University campus
An Archibald Rigsby was bondsman for the marriages of this Jesse's son Jesse, and of Woodson. Was that this Jesse's son Archibald, or was it R03 Archibald?
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Another researcher sends:
"Virgil White's Genealogical Abstracts of Rev.War Pension Files" p.2890 says that Jesse's mother was named Elizabeth.
From Pickett Puzzles , Elizabeth Pickett - parents William and Elizabeth
Pickett of Orange Co., N.C. husband Jesse Rigsby - parents Thomas and
Elizabeth Rigsby.
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He received a pension for his Revolutionary War Service beginning 1808-09-05.
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"US Pensioners 1818 - 1872"
Private Jesse Rigsby 5.33/month 1820 to 1827
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He is in the DAR records as Ancestor #A096764.
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NC Revolutionary War Pensions
State of NC
Orange Co
This day came personly before me J B McDade one of the actings Justice of the peace for the said
county Mark Riggsbee and after being duly sworn according to law deposeth and sayeth that he was
acquainted with Jesse Riggsbee a United States pensioner and that he drew a pension of $64 per annum
and that the said Jesse Riggsbee died on the 26 October 1827 and that his wife Elizabeth Riggsbee
died on the 19 of April 1850 and left the surviving children viz Archabold Riggsbee Edy Riggsbee
Jesse Riggsbee Ruffin Riggsbee & Mark Riggsbee and that Jesse & Elizabeth Riggsbee lived and died
in Orange County.
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1820 census Orange Co NC p372
Jesse Rigsby 2 M <10, 1 M 10-16, 1 M 26-45, 1 F 10-16, 1 F 16-26, 1 F 45+
[Ruffin 7, Mark 10, Jesse J 12, Jesse 56?, Tempest 14, Edy, Elizabeth 40?]
This has to be him:
1810 census Orange Co NC p150
Josiah Rigsby 3 M <10, 1 M 45+, 2 F <10, 1 F 26-44
[Mark <1, Jesse J 2, Archibald 7, Jesse 46, Tempest 4, Edy, Elizabeth 30]
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