Thanks Mary for the information. the dates are off quite a bit but mine are
from "family stories" and you know they are mostly wrong. I will study this
information and see what I can come up with.
I appreciate your sending this.
Sue
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Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: [CAMERON] Roll Call William or John Cameron
Good morning, Sue: I looked in my Mother's notes and found the
following
information. She was looking for the father of James C. Cameron and
received
a letter from a Mrs. Frank Miller. This was in 1963. Mrs. Miller
wrote.."Our Cameron ancestor first in this country was Parson John
Cameron,
who came from Scotland in 1770 with three brothers - Donald, Ewan,
and
William. Our records show that Ewan (Ewen) Cameron went to Tennessee.
Our
Ancestor Parson John stayed in Virginia."
In another letter from a Billy Cameron it was stated that Ewing, (Ewen)
was
born at Galkan Ferintosh, Scotland, Feb. 23, 1768 and came to America
in
1788
with four brothers. Galkan Ferintosh was in Perthshire. He was
believed
to
have been married in Scotland and his wife's name was Mary. Ewen
went
from
Virginia to Tennessee and built the first house in Franklin, TN. He
and
another man started the newspaper, "The Western Weekly Review." The 1820
census shows 7 children; William, R.P., Duncan, John, Elizabeth, Donald
and
an unknown.
A third letter from the TN State Archives says the brothers came over in
1785
but since it also states that this Ewen Cameron built the first house
in
Franklin, TN I assume it's the same people. My Mother says, in her notes,
that William came to Tennessee also and that Donald went back to Scotland.
She doesn't give the source of this information and since she is deceased
I
can't verify it.
Have you looked in the early censuses of Tennessee Counties? I don't know
what help this information will be but I wish you good luck. Mary Conley
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