Col. Robert Campbell

1755 - 1831  (~ 76 years)

• Name	Robert Campbell  [1, 2, 3]
  Prefix	Col.
  Born	May 1755	Augusta, Virginia, USA   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Died	25 Dec 1831	Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, USA   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I11666	Campbell Genealogy
  Last Modified	28 Mar 2024

  
  

  Father	David Campbell,   b. 8 Mar 1706, Drumboden, Kilmachrenan, Donegal, Ireland ,   d. 17 Oct 1790, Holston, Washington, Virginia, USA  (Age 84 years)
  Mother	Mary Hamilton,   b. Abt. 1719, Londonderry, Ulster, Northern Ireland ,   d. 1801, Smyth, Marion, Virginia, USA  (Age ~ 82 years)
  Married	16 Jan 1735	Augusta, Virginia, USA   [3, 4, 5]
  Family ID	F1051	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  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. 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. Robert Campbell, sixth son of David, was nineteen years old when he went with his brother to the Holston. He was a volunteer in the expedition of 1774, and a member of his brother John's company at the Long Island Flats in 1776. In October, 1776, he was in Christian's campaign, and in 1780 was an ensign under Colonel William Campbell at King's Mountain. In December, 1780, he served under Colonel Arthur Campbell, his brother, against the Cherokees. After acting as a magistrate in Washington county for more than thirty years, he removed to the vicinity of Knoxville, Tennessee, where he died in 1831. source: Waddell, Joseph Addison. Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871, 2nd Edition. Staunton, VA: C. Russell Caldwell, 1902.

  
  

• Sources

  [S5968] History of Augusta County, Virginia, John Lewis Peyton, (Staunton, VA: Samuel M. Yost & Son, 1882). [S5974] Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871, 2nd Edition, Joseph Addison Waddell, (Staunton, VA: C. Russell Caldwell, 1902). [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). [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). [S13] The Descendants of Capt. Thomas Carter of "Barford", Lancaster County, Virginia, 1652-1912, with Genealogical Notes of Many of the Allied Families, Joseph Lyon Miller, (Thomas, WV: Joseph Lyon Miller, 1912).