Rev. John Campbell

1692 - 1764  (~ 72 years)

• Name	Rev. John Campbell  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Born	Abt. 1692	Drumboden, Kilmachrenan, Donegal, Ireland   [1, 2, 3, 6]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	York, York, Pennsylvania, USA   [3, 6]
  	Minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church at York
  Residence	Aug 1732	Derry, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA   [4, 5]
  Property	21 Mar 1736  [4, 5]
  	Owned 200 acres of land 2 miles southwest of Pequea Creek at this time
  Residence	21 Mar 1736	Derry, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA   [4]
  Died	20 Feb 1764	York, York, Pennsylvania, USA   [1, 2, 3, 6]
  Person ID	I11693	Campbell Genealogy
  Last Modified	27 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

  
  

  Children	1. James Campbell,   b. Abt. 1731, Pennsylvania, USA ,   d. Abt. 1807, York, York, Pennsylvania, USA  (Age ~ 76 years)   2. Eleanor Campbell,   b. 1733, Pennsylvania, USA ,   d. 1735, Pennsylvania, USA  (Age 2 years)   3. Francis Campbell,   b. 1737, Pennsylvania, USA ,   d. 1 Mar 1791, Shippensburg, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA  (Age 54 years) + 4. John Campbell,   b. Abt. 1740, Pennsylvania, USA ,   d. 1797, Pennsylvania, USA  (Age ~ 57 years)
  Last Modified	15 Sep 2023
  Family ID	F4368	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Pennsylvania, ss. By the Properietaries. WHEREAS John Campbell of the County of Lancaster has requested that We would grant him to take up two hundred Acres of Land, scituate about 2 miles to the South West of Pequea Creek whereon he was settled before August 1732 & adjoining to Thomas Creaghead in the said County of Lancaster for which He agrees to pay to our Use the Sum of Fifteen Pounds Ten Shillings current Money of this Province for each Hundred Acres, and the Yearly Quit-rent of One Half-Penny Sterling for every Acre thereof; THESE are therefore to authorize and require three to survey or cause to be surveyed unto the said John Campbell at the Place aforesaid, according to the Method of Townships appointed, the said Quantity of 200 Acres if not already survey’d or appropriated, and make Return thereof into the Secretary’s Office, in order for further Confirmation; for which this shall by thy sufficient Warrant; which Survey in case the said John Campbell fulfil the above Agreement within six Months from the Date hereof, shall be valid, otherwise void. GIVEN under my Hand, and the letter Seal of our Province, at Philadelphia, this 21st Day of March Anno Dom. 1736. To Benjamin Eastburn, Surveyor-General. Wm Penn source: Province of Pennsylvania. Land Grant from the Province of Pennsylvania to John Campbell, 21 Mar 1736, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; Warrant Applications, 1733-1952. Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania State Archives. 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. 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.

  
  

• 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). [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). [S10] Pennsylvania, U.S., Land Warrants and Applications, 1733-1952 [database on-line], Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012). [S11] Land Grant from the Province of Pennsylvania to John Campbell, 21 Mar 1736, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; Warrant Applications, 1733-1952, Province of Pennsylvania, (Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania State Archives). [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).