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- Of all the family names of Scotland, there is hardly another so invested with lustre in the varied manifestations of human greatness, so renowned for various deeds, or so proudly enshrined in the national affection, as that of Campbell: and the race transplanted in America has flourished alike, and in its distinguished representatives, by numerously attested examples, has lost naught of that which constitutes true nobility; for in every department of learning and of useful service, and in heroism by sea and land, has the name lent honor to our national annals.
It is believed that a majority of those in this country, of the name, who claim Scottish origin, are descended from Duncan Campbell, of the noble branch of Breadalbane. Duncan Campbell, born in Inverary, Scotland, accompanied, it is thought, the English army sent by Queen Elizabeth, in March, 1579, under the Earl of Essex (who was succeeded by Mountjoy), to suppress the rebellion in Ireland, headed by Hugh O’Neale, Earl of Tyrone. After the forfeiture of lands in Ulster was declared in the reign of James I., in 1612, Duncan Campbell, who had married Mary McCoy, bought a lease from one of the English officers and remained there. His son Patrick bought the lease and estate in remainder, thus acquiring the estate in fee simple. Another son, John Campbell, born in 1621; married, in 1655, Grace, daughter of Peter Hay, and had issue:
i. Dugald, whose descendants settled in Rockbridge County, Virginia.
ii. Robert, born in 1665; married in 1696. His descendants settled in Orange (now Augusta) County, Virginia, in 1740.
iii. John, born in 1666; died in 1734; emigrated to America in 1726, and settled in Donegal, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, but soon moved with several of his family to that part of Orange County, Virginia, which in 1738 was formed into Augusta County. Had issue: i. Patrick, born in 1690; “a strong churchman;” removed to Virginia in 1738, and was the father of General William Campbell, the hero of King’s Mountain (after whom the county of Campbell, formed in 1784 from Bedford, was named), born in 1745, and was killed in September, 1781; married Elizabeth, the sister of the orator Patrick Henry, and she married secondly, General William Russell, of the Revolution, born in Culpeper County, Virginia, in 1758, and died in Fayette County, Kentucky, July 3, 1825. ii. John, born in 1692; a minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church at York, Pennsylvania; died in 1764; married, and had issue; James, born in 1731, removed to Virginia in 1760; Ellen Frances, and John, born in 1740; died in 1797; one of the most eminent lawyers of Pennsylvania; married Ellen Parker, and their descendants in the names of Lyon, Chambers, and others, are quite numerous. The late Parker Campbell, banker of Richmond, Virginia, was a son. iii. Robert, migrated to Virginia; had issue five children, of whom four daughters survived. iv. William, died in youth. v. James, died in England. vi. David, married, in 1735, Mary Hamilton (who came to America in the same ship as him), and, about the year 1772, settled at the “Royal Oak,” in the valley of the Holstein (now rendered Holston), about one mile west of Marion, the county seat of Smyth County He left issue seven sons: i. John, born April 20, 1741. ii. Colonel Arthur, born in 1742; hero of Indian wars; married a sister of General William Campbell; removed in 1804 to Yellow Creek, Knox County, Kentucky, where he died in 1815. He had two sons, who died in the war of 1812 – Colonel James Campbell, at Mobile, and Colonel John B. Campbell, who fell at Chippewa, where he commanded the right wing of the army under General Winfield Scott. iii. James; iv. William; v. David, first clerk of Washington County, which office he held until March 17, 1779, when he was succeeded by his brother John. Removing to Tennessee, he became distinguished in its annals. vi. Robert, Colonel, and Indian fighter, born in 1755; displayed great bravery in many conflicts with the Cherokees, and subsequently at the battle of King’s Mountain; nearly forty years a magistrate of Washington County, and in 1825 removed to Tennessee; died near Knoxville in February, 1832. vii. Patrick.
source: Brock, Robert Alonzo and Virgil A. Lewis. 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 Powell Hill, Robert E. Lee, Thos. Jonathan Jackson, Commodore Maury; History of Virginia, from Settlement of Jamestown to Close of the Civil War. Richmond, VA: H. H. Hardesty, 1888.
- The Breadalbane branch are of the same lineage as the House of Argyll and Lorne. The arms of Duncan Campbell, as preserved in the hands of his descendants, are identical in their quarterings with the Marquis of Breadalbane, as follows: Quarterly, first and fourth, gyronny of eight or. and sa. for Campbell; second or. a fesse chequey ar. and az. for Stewart; third, ar. a lymphad, her sails and oars in action, all sa. for Lorne. The Breadalbane arms agree with those of Argyll save in the addition of those of Stewart. The crest of the Marquis of Breadalbane is a boar's head, erased ppr. and his motto is, Follow Me. The crest of the Duke of Argyll is a boar's head couped or., and over the crest the motto, Ne Obliviscaris.
source: Brock, Robert Alonzo and Virgil A. Lewis. 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 Powell Hill, Robert E. Lee, Thos. Jonathan Jackson, Commodore Maury; History of Virginia, from Settlement of Jamestown to Close of the Civil War. Richmond, VA: H. H. Hardesty, 1888.
- Whether the Campbells, Montgomerys, and Hamiltons were known to each other in Ireland, tradition does not tell. We find from these Campbells Duncan Campbell, whose son, John Campbell, came from Donegal, Ireland, and settled in Donegal township, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. His descendants passed down the valley of the Shenandoah to South-western Virginia, where we find among the branches on an old family tree, revived and added to from time to time, General William Campbell, of King's Mountain fame, and his grandson Wm. C. Preston; the brothers, Colonel Arthur and Captain John Campbell, of Virginia (the latter of whom was the father of Governor David Campbell, of Virginia); Judge David, of the State of Franklin, afterward the State of Tennessee, with their cousin and brother-in-law, Colonel David, of Campbell's station, East Tennessee; his son, General John Campbell, of the War of 1812; grandson, Governor William B. Campbell of Tennessee. Another branch bears upon it the name of the gallant Confederate, General Alex. W. Campbell, of West Tennessee, Scotch Irish on both sides.
source: The Scotch-Irish Society of America. The Scotch-Irish in America: Proceedings of the Scotch-Irish Congress at Columbia, Tennessee May 8-11, 1889. Cincinnati, OH: Robert Clarke and Company, 1889.
- Christian: We have traced this family back to Gilbert Christian, a native of Scotland, who settled in the North of Ireland, A.D. 1702, and there married Margaret Richardson, by whom he had children: that Gilbert was ,we find, the great-great-grandfather of J. R. Christian, living in 1877, in Holly Springs, Mississippi, United States, America; subject to whose correction we write this notice of his family. And, we find, that Duncan Campbell of Inverary, Scotland, whose wife was Mary McCoy, and who settled in Ireland at the time of the “Plantation of Ulster,” by King James II., of England, was one of Mr. Christian's maternal ancestors. This Duncan lived near Londonderry, where his son Patrick Campbell purchased some land. Patrick's youngest son, John, when far advanced in life, migrated to America, A.D. 1726: from him and his numerous children and other kindred have descended a large progeny, spread over the Southern States of the American Union.
source: O’Hart, John. Irish Pedigrees: or, The Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation, Volume 1, 5th Edition. Dublin, Ireland: Jack Duffy and Company, 1892.
- The earliest ancestor of which we have any account was Duncan Campbell, of Argyleshire, Scotland. He married Mary McCoy in 1612, and removed to Londonderry in Ireland the same year. He had a son, John Campbell, who married in 1655, Grace Hay, daughter of Patrick Hay, Esq., of Londonderry. They had three sons, one of whom was Robert, born in 1665, and who, with his sons, John, Hugh and Charles Campbell, emigrated to Virginia in 1696, and settled in that part of Orange County afterward incorporated in Augusta. The son, Charles Campbell, was born in 1704, and died in 1778. In 1739, he was married to Mary Trotter. He had seven sons and three daughters. He was the historian of Virginia. His son, William, born in 1754, and died in 1822, was a soldier of the Revolution, and as such had a distinguished record as a General at King’s Mountain and elsewhere. He married Elizabeth Wilson, of Rockbridge County, Virginia, a member of the distinguished Wilson family. They had eleven children. Their son, Charles, was born December 28, 1779, and died September 26, 1871. He was married September 20, 1803, to Elizabeth Tweed, in Adams County. He had five sons. The third was John Campbell, of Ironton, born January 14, 1808, in Adams County, Ohio.
source: Evans, Nelson W. and Emmons B. Stivers. A History of Adams County, Ohio from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Including Character Sketches of the Prominent Persons Identified with the First Century of the County's Growth. West Union, OH: E. B. Stivers, 1900.
- Duncan of Inverary, went to Ireland in 1612, and settled in Ulster, m. Mary McCoy, and had issue a son,
Patrick, of Moyris and Magherahubber, who d. 1661, aged 48, leaving issue. His youngest son, John, settled in Virginia 1726, and had issue.
source: Burke, Bernard. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, The Privy Council, Knightage and Campanionage, Seventy-Third Edition. London, UK: Harrison and Sons, 1911.
- In the later part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Duncan Campbell, son of Dugal Campbell of Inverary, and an officer in the English army, went from Scotland to Ireland. In the year 1612 forfeitures of large estates were declared in Ulster, some of the forfeited lands being bought by Duncan Campbell. In 1726, John Campbell and Mary Campbell, two of his descendants emigrated to America. John Campbell, with his wife and children, first settled in Pennsylvania, moving from Lancaster County, about 1730, to Virginia. Mary Campbell, his sister, married Moses White, from which marriage many families of the southern and western part of the country are descended.
source: Lee, Henry James. History of the Campbell Family. New York: R. L. Polk and Company, 1920.
- DUNCAN CAMPBELL, born in Scotland.
Married: 1612, Mary McCoy.
Duncan Campbell was of the noble house of Breadalbane. He moved into Ireland the year of his marriage, 1612, and was the ancestor of the Campbells who, a century later, emigrated to New England, to Pennsylvania and to Virginia. James and George Campbell and Will Campibell were among the signers of the petition from the inhabitants of the North of Ireland to Gov. Shute of Massachusetts in 1718.
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.
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