James Campbell

1691 - 1771  (80 years)

• Name	James Campbell  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  Born	1691	Drumboden, Kilmachrenan, Donegal, Ireland   [1, 3, 7]
  Gender	Male
  Property	2 Mar 1737  [7]
  	Granted 300 acres of land in Derry Township, Pennsylvania at this time
  Residence	2 Mar 1737	Derry, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA   [7]
  Residence	22 Jul 1754	Derry, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA   [7]
  Will	Derry, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA   [7]
  Died	31 May 1771	Londonderry, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA   [1, 3, 5, 7]
  Buried	Derry Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Hershey, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA   [1, 3, 7]
  Person ID	I11483	Campbell Genealogy
  Last Modified	29 Mar 2024

  
  

  Father	John Campbell,   b. Abt. 1656, Drumboden, Kilmachrenan, Donegal, Ireland ,   d. 20 Feb 1734, Derry, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA  (Age ~ 78 years)
  Mother	Mary McCoy,   b. Abt 1648, Inverary, Argyll, Scotland ,   d. 1689, Drumboden, Kilmachrenan, Donegal, Ireland  (Age ~ 41 years)
  Married	1672	Kilmacrenan, Donegal, Ireland
  Family ID	F2458	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Agnes,   b. 1707,   d. 3 Apr 1757, Derry, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA  (Age 50 years)
  Children	1. James Campbell,   b. Abt. 1723, Drumboden, Kilmachrenan, Donegal, Ireland ,   d. 25 Aug 1757, Derry, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA  (Age ~ 34 years)   2. John Campbell,   b. Abt. 1725, Drumboden, Kilmachrenan, Donegal, Ireland   3. Patrick Campbell,   b. Abt. 1730, Derry, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
  Last Modified	28 Mar 2024
  Family ID	F4248	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Rosanna
  Last Modified	15 Sep 2023
  Family ID	F4395	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  JAMES CAMPBELL, born, 1689 in Ireland; died May 31st; 1771 at Derry (now Hershey), Pa. Married: 1st, . . . . . . . . 2d, Agnes . . . . . . . ., born, 1707; died, April d, 1757; buried beside her husband. 3d, Mrs. Rosanna Vernon, a widow with at least two children March 2d, 1737, James Campbell is on a list of warrantees of land in Derry Twp. for 300 acres. On the same date 279 acres of land in Derry Twp. were “surveyed to” James Campbell. Egle's History of Dauphin County, Pa., p. 39: James and John Campbell were among the signers of a “humble petition of the inhabitants of the townships of Paxtang, Derry and Hanover, Lancaster County,” to the Governor of the Province, dated July 22d, 1754, showing “that your petitioners being settled on or near the river Susquehanna apprehend themselves in great danger from the French and French Indians. . . . We, your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your Honour would take our distressed condition into consideration and make such provision for us as may prevent ourselves and families from being destroyed and ruined by such a cruel enemy.” This was during the French and Indian War and old documents show that murders and scalpings by the Indians were of almost daily occurrence in 1756 and 1757, and had it not been for the bravery and military ability of Rev. John Elder the “Fighting Parson,” Captain of the Paxton Rangers and later Colonel under the provincial Government, the terrorized inhabitants in all likelihood would have fled the frontier. James Campbell was survived by his wife Rosanna, and in his will mentioned his step-daughter Jean Edmundson; James Vernon, son of his step-son Harry Vernon; Robert Cross's children; sister Martha Cary, then in Ireland; sister Elizabeth Long, then in Ireland; his sons John and Patrick; and James Campbell, son of his son Patrick. Rev. John Roan was witness to the will. James Campbell is buried in old Derry churchyard and the inscription on his tombstone has been published numerous times as an example of the lugubrious in epitaphs. It cannot be omitted here. “Under this stone lies entombed James Campbell's Dust you see Who was as healthy and as strong As many that may be But now by Death whom all devours Is laid upon this cell With crawling worms and reptiles base He is obliged to dwell. You that these lines do look upon May also call to mind That Death will be your certain fate Therefore improve your time.” Children: Patrick, John, and others. source: Douglas, Bessie P. The Families of Joshua Williams of Chester County, PA, and John McKeehan of Cumberland County, PA, with Some Allied Families. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Press, 1928.

  
  

• Sources

  [S5972] Pennsylvania Genealogies: Scotch-Irish and German, William Henry Egle, (Harrisburg, PA: Lane S. Hart, 1886). [S5970] Americans of Royal Descent: Collection of Genealogies Showing the Lineal Descent from Kings of Some American Families, Charles H. Browning, (Philadelphia, PA: Porter & Costes, 1883). [S5981] James Campbell, Gravestone Photo, Died 31 May 1771, Derry Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Hershey, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA, Find A Grave, Inc., (Name: Find A Grave, Inc. PO Box 522-107, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA 84152, http://www.findagrave.com;). [S5983] The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 28, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, (Name: Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Location: Philadelphia; Date: 1904;). [S5985] Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania: Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, and Many of the Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers, J. M. Runk and Company, (Name: J. M. Runk and Company; Location: Chambersburg, PA; Date: 1896;). [S5958] Will of James Campbell, Londonderry Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [S12] The Families of Joshua Williams of Chester County, PA, and John McKeehan of Cumberland County, PA, with Some Allied Families, Bessie P. Douglas, (Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Press, 1928). [S5971] Virginia and Virginians: Eminent Virginians; Executives of the Colony of Virginia from Sir Thomas Smyth to Lord Dunmore; Executives of the State of Virginia from Patrick Henry to Fitzhugh Lee; Sketches of Gens. Ambrose Powel Hill, Robert E. Lee, Thos. Jonathan Jackson; Commodore Maury, Virgil Anson Lewis, (Richmond, VA: H. H. Hardesty, 1888).