American Commercial Beacon and Norfolk & Portsmouth Daily Advertiser Monday, May 15, 1820

Died- On Saturday, May 11, Col. John Nivison late Recorder of Norfolk, and a prominent lawyer, age 60. (p. 3, c. 2)
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American Beacon Monday, May 15, 1820 Norfolk, VA

We perform a truly unwelcome duty in announcing the loss which our society has sustained, in the decrease of another of its most valuable and respected inhabitants.
Colonel John Nivison, late Recorder of this Borough, and for many years preceding an eminent member of the Bar, departed this life on Saturday night last, about 12 o’clock, after a lingering illness of several months. Col. N. had attained only his 60th year, yet so long and zealously had he discharged the duties of senior magistrate of this Borough, that all classes of the community looked up to him as the guardian of their rights and their interests.
Prompt in obeying the calls of duty, deeply learned in the science of law, and in flexibly just in the administration of it, his death will long be regarded by this community as a public calamity and the bench will long feel the deprivation of his able and impartial council.
In the relations of private life, his virtues are to generally known and appreciated to derive an additional luster from a newspaper eulogy. We will only add, that his public and private character commanded our respect and admiration while living, and that we claim a participation in the general regret that is felt for the loss of so worth a citizen.
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Mercantile Advertiser Saturday, May 20, 1820 New York, NY

Died at Norfolk John Nivison Esq. aged 61
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New-York Gazette Monday, May 22, 1820 New York, NY

At Norfolk, Col. John Nivison, late recorder of that place, aged 60
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Richmond Enquirer, Richmond, Va., Friday, May 26, 1820 issue

At Norfolk, after a lingering illness, in the 61st year of his age, Col. JOHN NIVISON, late Recorder of that borough, and for many years preceding an eminent member of the Bar.