Does anyone know anything about the ancestry of Noble Thomas Campbell
(I think) born pre 1844 in Parkers Landing, PA Armstrong County, died
around 1880 in Karn City, PA of typhoid, buried in Alliance. Ohio. He
was my great grandfather and I have been unable to locate any links to
earlier generations.
On Oct 28, 2006, at 7:05 PM, alice prescott wrote:
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From: "alice prescott" <prescott27(a)comcast.net>
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Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Ca-Pa-Ne] Part 2 of ? - Harry Kemp's Letter
> Thank you so much for the History lesson. The Joseph Campbell born in
> 1793
> (Dec. 24th) would have been my Great Great grandfather according to my
> records
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> From: "Bill Thompson" <capane(a)verizon.net>
> To: "Campbell Mail List" <CAMPBELL-PA-NELSON-L(a)rootsweb.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 10:54 PM
> Subject: [Ca-Pa-Ne] Part 2 of ? - Harry Kemp's Letter
>
>
>> As a final comment on the "handsome Campbell" issue, if anyone wants
>> to
>> nominate me as proof that it's true, my thanks -- and I wish long
>> life
>> to them and their guide dog.
>>
>> In part 1, I promised to cover Harry Curtis Kemp's account of our
>> Campbells and Hazletts coming to Lycoming and Tioga Cos. And the
>> arrival
>> of the Blackwells in Lycoming Co.
>>
>> As mentioned, Harry's chronology begins with John Campbell (eventual
>> husband of Sarah LUGG Clinch Blackwell Campbell, and younger brother
>> of
>> Mary Harper's Joseph Campbell) being in Philadelphia. That appears
>> to
>> be correct.
>>
>> He asserts that John bought parcels of land "from Pine Creek to the
>> Cowanesque" and that the purchases are recorded in Wellsboro
>> (presumably
>> at the court house). And that the largest was 2,000 acres at
>> "Beacher's
>> [sic] Island". It would be good if one of you that has easy access
>> to
>> Wellsboro would check that out. Since Harry only mentions
>> Wellsboro, I
>> guess we can infer that all the land was in the present Tioga Co. and
>> none in the present Lycoming Co.
>>
>> Lycoming County's Tioga Twp. became Tioga Co. in 1804, but a county
>> seat
>> was not selected till 1806. Lycoming Co. commissioners continued to
>> govern Tioga Co. until it could form a government of its own. If the
>> records of the purchases are in Wellsboro, not Williamsport, it seems
>> likely that they were made after Tioga became a county and after a
>> county seat was formed.. The purchases have to have been made by
>> 1810
>> at the latest.
>>
>> Harry doesn't mention it, but according to Brown's 1897 "History of
>> Tioga County", the first settler in Nelson was Reuben Cook, an
>> ancestor
>> of Harry.
>>
>> If John bought 2,000 acres from the Beecher family, and several other
>> purchases, that confirms Harry's calling him wealthy, even though the
>> frontier land was considered cheap. As is consistent with Harry's
>> report that John built a sawmill, gristmill, and tannery, which would
>> also have required 'cash money', as they say in parts of the South.
>> Other histories confirm those enterprises and, in addition, say John
>> built a fulling mill. (Some of you may be making a quick check in a
>> dictionary to find out what a fulling mill is.)
>>
>> Until someone checks the recorded deeds, we won't know for sure when
>> John made his purchases. Munsell's 1883 "History of Tioga county,
>> Pennsylvania" says that Daniel Strait sold his Nelson holdings to Sam
>> Hazlett in 1806. The diary of Joseph Campbell (the elder) indicates
>> that Sam completed the purchase in the fall of 1810 shortly before
>> the
>> Campbell and Hazlett families departed from the Stroudsburg, PA,
>> area or
>> Nelson.
>>
>> Harry states that the elder Joseph Campbell "came from Ireland with
>> three sons and three daughters". Harry believed "the sons came
>> sometime
>> before landing at Perth Amboy". OK. We do know that the elder
>> Joseph
>> Campbell, husband of Mary Harper, lived in N. Ireland for at least
>> eight
>> years before emigrating to America. And he definitely did land in
>> Perth
>> Amboy, NJ. And some of his children came to PA before him.
>>
>> As best we can tell, Joseph and Mary had eight children. One son,
>> William, died of burns as a boy in N. Ireland. There were three
>> other
>> sons: John, Joseph and James; and 4 daughters: Sarah (Sally), Mary,
>> Elizabeth, and Jane. If Joseph Wallace Buck interpreted the elder
>> Jos.
>> Campbell's diary correctly, and he Mary emigrated as late as 1810,
>> the
>> "children" would have ranged in age from Sally's 33 to 12 for
James.
>> My
>> impression is that only 2 or 3 of the youngest of the children
>> traveled
>> on the same ship as Joseph and Mary, and that all the others arrived
>> previously.
>>
>> Sally's first child, Archibald Hazlett, was born in 1803, apparently
>> in
>> Lancaster Co., PA. Mary Campbell married in Lancaster Co., in 1806,
>> and
>> lived the remainder of her life there, never coming to Tioga Co.
>> That
>> may be the reason Harry only speaks of three daughters. There is
>> contradictory evidence as to whether Elizabeth came to Nelson as
>> part of
>> the family "expedition, or whether she stayed in Lancaster Co. with
>> her
>> sister Mary for a year of two or three, before she joined her parents
>> and most of her siblings in Nelson. Elizabeth died as a young wife,
>> perhaps in childbirth, and had no other children, so it's possible
>> that
>> she is the daughter Harry didn't count.
>>
>> Harry recounts one version of an oral tradition that survived in
>> varying
>> form in different branches: "On the voyage across the ocean a young
>> man
>> by the name of Samuel Hazlett fell in love with one of the daughters,
>> Sally, and was married by a minister on the vessel."
>>
>> We don't know when or where Sam and Sally met or married, or how
>> many of
>> Sally's siblings were on the same ship, but there is no evidence that
>> contradicts the tradition. She probably didn't make the voyage by
>> herself. Perhaps she and Sam married in N. Ireland and someone
>> "improved" the story by adding the shipboard romance. Perhaps she
>> made
>> the voyage with the eldest of her brothers, the 1781 - 1866 John
>> Campbell, and the shipboard romance part is accurate.
>>
>> According to the elder Jos. Campbell's diary, he and John met at Sam
>> Hazlett's farm in the fall of 1810 (which at that time was near
>> Stroudsburg, PA -- and Bossardvile), for the Campbell-Hazlett wagon
>> train's departure for Nelson, with all their goods, supplies and
>> livestock. The route they would have taken was the Sullivan Trail,
>> the
>> cut over the Poconos by Continental Army Gen. John Sullivan's
>> expedition
>> against the Senecas and Cauyugas. Sullivan's army left Easton, PA
>> and
>> at first followed what became the path of US 611. The
>> Campbell-Hazlett-Reed party would have followed the next segment of
>> the
>> Sullivan Trail, approximated by the present PA 115, to Wilkes-Barre.
>>
>> Harry says "They made their way to Jersey Shore the older brother
>> parting. Joseph and James going on to Pittsburgh, never to meet
>> again.
>> Joseph Jr. and James coming up the Pine Creek and to the Island."
>>
>> "The Island" obviously is Beecher's Island, the future Nelson. To
>> get
>> there from Wilkes-Barre via Pine Creek they would have followed the
>> Susquehanna downstream to Nothumberland/Sunbury, then up the West
>> Branch
>> of the Susquehanna to Jersey Shore, PA, and up Pine Creek to Tioga
>> Co.
>>
>> "Joseph Jr. and James coming up the Pine Creek" has to be the 1793 -
>> 1864 Joseph Campbell and his 1793 - 1865 brother James. Earlier,
>> Harry
>> mentioned that their uncle "Johnnie" entered Tioga Co. at Blackwells,
>> PA, so he presumably came up Pine Creek with them. Lucy Dunham
>> Hazlett's account of Sam and Sally, and many of the others journey to
>> Nelson makes it clear that they followed the Tioga River from Painted
>> Post, NY, to Lawrenceville, PA , then had to follow trails, not
>> roads,
>> up the Cowanesque to Nelson. Jane Campbell Tubbs account says that
>> the
>> livestock and some of the men, took the Pine Creek route, but that
>> the
>> women, household goods, and the rest of the men came up the
>> Susquehanna
>> from Wilkes-Barre. They would have followed it to Athens, PA, then
>> followed up the Chemung to Painted Post.
>>
>> So we have a 17 yr old Joseph "Jr." and his 12 year old brother James
>> going up Pine Creek as cow (etc.) herders, with their 38 year old
>> Uncle
>> John, and possibly their 52 yr. old father, and maybe some dogs, to
>> drive the livestock all those miles. While going up the Susquehanna
>> we
>> have 29ish Sam Hazlett and his 13ish brother John, with the household
>> goods and the women. According to Joseph "Sr", the widow Reed and
>> her
>> daughters came on the journey with them, but we have no idea how far
>> the
>> Reeds came with them.
>>
>> That leaves us having to figure out Harry's "They made their way to
>> Jersey Shore the older brother parting. Joseph and James going on to
>> Pittsburgh, never to meet again." Both father and son Joseph went to
>> Nelson, not to Pittsburgh. Joseph "Sr."'s son John (1781 - 1866)
>> left
>> Lancaster Co. for Pittsburgh abt 1806, and never came to Nelson or
>> Jersey Shore. To go from Lancaster to Pittsburgh he would have
>> followed
>> Forbes Rd, now approximated by US 30 and the PA Turnpike.
>>
>> Was Harry just confused/wrong when he wrote of"Joseph and James
>> going on
>> to Pittsburgh, never to meet again"? 'Joseph' doesn't make
sense
>> here.
>> Is 'James' just a mistake too? Or was another brother of Joseph
"Sr"
>> present? It doesn't seem likely, because Joseph Sr.'s diary mentions
>> meeting up with his brother John at Sam's farm, but doesn't mention
>> any
>> other brothers joining (or leaving) them.
>>
>> This is already too long, the Blackwells will have to wait until
>> Part 3
>> to arrive in America.
>>
>> To be continued.
>>
>>
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