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- THE CAMPBELL FAMILY.
John Campbell emigrated to America from Ireland in 1726, and first settled in Lancaster, Pa. In 1733 he came south to Augusta – then Orange county, and settled near Bellefont. He left two sons, Patrick and David. Patrick left a son Charles, whose son William was born near Staunton 1744, and was the hero of King's Mountain. David Campbell, the youngest son of the original settler, married Mary Hamilton, and left thirteen children. In 1765, John, the eldest son of David Campbell and Mary Hamilton, explored the southwest, and purchased lands on the headwaters of the Holston, where soon after, the family settled itself. One of the daughters, Mary, married Wm. Lochart; a second, Margaret, married David Campbell. All the Campbells supported the Founder in his early plans, and shared in the hardships and dangers of the Indian wars. John Campbell, the eldest son of David, born in Augusta, 1741, was a lieutenant in Wm. Campbell's company, in Col. Christian's regiment, under Gen. Lewis, in 1774. He commanded a company in the battle of Long Island Flats of Holston, in July, 1776, defeating the Indians under their famous chief, Dragon Canoe. He also commanded a company in October, 1776, in Col. Christian's expedition against the Cherokee towns. In 1778, he was appointed clerk of Washington county. He died in 1825, in his 85th year. His younger brother was Col. Arthur Campbell. David, the fourth brother of those who came to Holston, was educated for the bar. He removed to Tennessee, and was one of the Judges of the Supreme Court. He died in 1812. Robert, the next brother, born in Augusta, 1752, was a volunteer under Lewis in 1774, was in all the battles with his brother, and an ensign at King's Mountain. He was an active, energetic and useful man. He died 1831, aged 77. Patrick, the youngest brother, was also in the battle of King's Mountain. He married and left a large family, and died in his 8oth year. Such is a brief sketch of the five brothers, sons of David Campbell, and grandsons of Jno. C., the original Irish emigrant. The father of Gen. Wm. Campbell was Charles Campbell, who died in Augusta. Wm. C., with his mother and sisters, then removed to Holston. Elizabeth, the eldest sister, married Jno. Taylor, from whom Judge Allen Taylor and the Taylors of Montgomery county are descended. Jane, the second sister, married Thos. Tate; Margaret, the third sister, married Arthur Campbell; the fourth sister, Ann, married Richard Paston. All left families of high respectability.
source: Peyton, John Lewis. History of Augusta County, Virginia. Staunton, VA: Samuel M. Yost and Son, 1882.
- 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.
- 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.
- John Campbell came from Ireland to America in 1726, with five or six grown sons and several daughters, and settled first in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Six or eight years afterwards he removed to that part of Orange county, Virginia, which, in 1738, became Augusta county, where many of his numerous descendants lived for many years.
Three of John Campbell's sons came with him to Augusta, viz: Patrick, Robert and David.
source: Waddell, Joseph Addison. Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871, 2nd Edition. Staunton, VA: C. Russell Caldwell, 1902.
- Robert Campbell was one of the earliest members of the Derry church. In its graveyard is a stone to John Campbell, d. 20th February, 1734, aged seventy-nine. He is supposed to have come over from Ireland in 1726, and is thought to have removed to Shippensburg; and that Joseph and William Campbell, who bought lots Nos. 77 and 116 there, were his brothers; and two other brothers, Robert and Dugal, removed to Orange County, Va.; and that of his children, Alexander and James were warrantees for two hundred and three hundred acres in 1733-37 in Derry Township, and Patrick, Robert, and David went to St. Mark's Parish Orange County, Va., 1732-41, and subsequently Patrick settled in Augusta County, Va. The information, on traditions concerning the connection of the Virginia Campbells with those of early Pennsylvania is vague. However, there is a sheriff's writ, dated 19th November, 1746, for the arrest, for a debt of £146, of “Andrew Campbell, late of your [Lancaster] County, yeoman, otherwise called Andrew Campbell of Orange County, in the Colony of Virginia, yeoman;” and another writ, dated 5th November, 1758, to arrest John Campbell, late of Lancaster County, yeoman, to answer Redman Conyngham, administrator of the estate of John Henderson, deceased; and another, 4th May, 1759, to arrest James Campbell, yeoman, late of Lancaster County, for a debt. As these debtors departed for Virginia, these writs may be of genealogical use.
source: The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 28. Philadelphia, PA: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1904.
- The eldest son,
REV. DUGALD CAMPBELL, went to Ireland in 1611 with Andrew Knox, Bishop of Raphoe, and was incumbent of Letterkenny, co. Donegal. He m. Annabella, dau. of Robert Hamilton, of Barncleugh and Torrens, Ayrshire, and had with other issue,
1. JOHN, of whom presently.
2. Alexander of Donegal, who had a son, Patrick, mentioned in his will in 1664.
3. George, capt. in the army, m. Ann Melvill, and d.s.p.
4. 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.
5. William, m. 1st, the dau. of Lamont, and 2ndly, Mary, widow of Archibald Campbell, of Ormsary, and had issue four daus.
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.
- The printed accounts of this family are all based upon that prepared in 1851 by Gov. David Campbell of Virginia. John Campbell and five or six grown sons and several daughters emigrated to Lancaster County, Pa., from Ireland in 1726, and a few years later removed to that part of Orange County, Va., which in 1738 became Augusta County. One of these sons, David Campbell, married in Augusta, Mary Hamilton and had seven sons and six daughters, all of whom removed to the head waters of the Holston in 1765-71, where David Campbell owned a tract of land called the “Royal Oak.” One of David Campbell's sons was the distinguished stateman and patriot, Col. Arthur Campbell; another, David, Jr., was the first Federal Judge, and one of the judges of the Supreme Court of Tennessee. Daughters of the 1st and 6th sons married sons of Milly Carter Cummings.
source: Miller, Joseph Lyon. The Descendants of Capt. Thomas Carter of "Barford", Lancaster County, Virginia, 1652-1912, with Genealogical Notes of Many of the Allied Families. Thomas, WV: Joseph Lyon Miller, 1912.
- 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.
- JOHN CAMPBELL, born, 1656 in Ireland; died, Feb 20th, 1734 in Derry, Pa.; buried in the old Derry churchyard.
John Campbell is said to have come from Ireland in 1726 with several grown sons (see children below). He settled in Lancaster Co., Pa where he lived until his death. (Egle.)
In the “Virginia Historical Magazine,” Vol. 7, p. 126, it is stated that John Campbell came from Ireland to America in 1726 with five or six grown sons, settled first in Lancaster Co., Pa., and came in 1738 to that part of Orange Co., Va., which is now Augusta Co., with his sons Patrick, Robert and David.
One would infer that this John must be identical with Mr. Egle's John. It is unlikely that two John Campbells with several grown sons, bearing the same names, would have come to America in the same year. Patrick, Robert, and David, sons of Mr. Egle's John, did move to Virginia, but the father John, buried in Pennsylvania in 1734, certainly did not.
The removal of Patrick, Robert and David, to Virginia, as well as known records of their descendants, eliminates them as ancestors of our line, all of whom lived at or near Derry until 1800. The fifth son, John, an Episcopal clergyman at York, Pa., whose records are fairly complete is also eliminated, which leaves but James of Derry as our undoubted ancestor.
Children:
Robert, lived in Virginia and had five children.
David, moved to Orange Co., Va., in 1741; married Margaret Hamilton.
James, born, 1689, in Ireland.
Patrick, born 1690, in Ireland, moved to Orange Co., Va., about 1740.
John, born, 1692, in Ireland; died, 1764, at York, Pa. An Episcopal Clergyman.
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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