This is a repeat of a prior message, plus additional information, and a challenge.
According to George Washington Cleek author of "Early Western Augusta Pioneers,"
John Campbell and Grace Hay immigrated from Ireland and came with four of his sons,
Patrick, David Robert, and William. Cleek also states:
"Family tradition says that he came to New Jersey in 1684 and migrated to
Pennsylvania and then to Virginia."
You will note in the article below (History of Reformed...America), which is reproduced
here in its entirety, the ship Henry and Francis of New Castles passengers list contains
four Campbells: Robert, David, John, and William and they landed at Perth Amboy, New
Jersey in the middle of December 1685. The article below also states that passengers
remained in New Jersey for the winter and then immigrated to Pennsylvania, New York and
Connecticut.
The passenger list below also lists Grisel Gamble, who also survived the trip.
If you match John Campbell with his wife, Grisel Gamble, and add to the family the sons
Robert, David, and William, you almost have a perfect match. The only discrepancy is the
missing Patrick who could have been young enough that his name was not listed.
CHALLENGE:
I believe this is documentary proof of the time of arrival of John Campbell and Grisel
(Grace Hay) Gamble to the Americas. I would like to ask my fellow researchers to add
whatever information they have to prove or disprove this to be a fact.
Article:
History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in America, by W. Melancthon Glasgow,
Baltimore, MD., 1888, pages 228-234.
NEW JERSEY.
Perth Amboy. In 1685, George Scot, Baird of Pitlochie, was given his liberty in Scotland
provided he transported to East Jersey many of the Covenanters who had refused to take the
oath of allegiance to a tyrannical and profligate ruler. Thus authorized, he proceeded to
gather his company from those confined in the tolbooth of Leith. He had to give security
to land them there prior to September, 1686, and the penalty was to be five| hundred merks
in case of failure in any instance. In May, 1685, Scot chartered the Henry and Francis of
New Castle, a ship of three hundred and fifty tons and twenty great ' guns, with
Richard Hutton as master. ()n the eve of their banishment, twenty-eight of them signed the
following conjunct testimony; bearing "That, now to leave their own native and
Covenanted land by an unjust sentence of banishment for owning truth and. standing by
duty, studying to keep their Covenants engagements and baptismal vows, whereby they stand
obliged to resist and testify against all that is contrary to the Word of God and their
Covenants; and that their sentence of banishment ran chiefly because they refused the oath
of allegiance which in conscience they could not take, because in so doing they thought
utterly declined the Lord Jesus Christ from having any power in His own house, and
practically would; by taking it, sat, "He was not King and Head of His Church and
over them consciences. And, on the contrary, this was to take and put in His room a man
whose breath is in his nostrils; yea, a man who is a sworn enemy to religion; an avowed
papist, whom, by our Covenants; we are bound to withstand and disown, and that agreeably
to Scripture: When thou art come unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, and
shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a King over me, like
as all the nations that are about me, thou shalt in any wise set him King over thee, whom
the Lord thy God shalt choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set King over thee:
thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother. Deut. 17: 14-15. They
then bore their testimony against the defections of the day, and for preaching in the
fields and homes, and then signed their names. As Wodrow has given these names of the
banished, we have thought it proper to insert them here. Their names are: (Article
continues after the listing the passenger list.)
Robert Adam
Lady Athernie:died, voluntary
John Arbuckle: protested
Rev William Aisdale: died
John Black
George Brown
Robert Campbell
David Campbell
John Campbell
William Campbell
Christian Cavie
John Crichton
John Corbet
Andrew Corbet
John Casson
Agnes Corhead: died
Barbara Cowan
Marjory Cowan
William Cunningham: died
Patrick Cuningham
Charles Douglas
William Douglas
Isabel Durie
John Frazer
Thomas Finlater: died
Elspeth Ferguson
Janet Ferguson
Mary Ferret: protested
John Ford: protested
James Forsythe: protested
John Foreman
John Gray
Thomas Gray: died
Thomas Graham: died
Grisel Gamble
William Ged: died, voluntary
Fergus Grier
James Grier
Robert Gilchrist
John Gilfillan: protested
Bessie Gordon
Annabel Gordon: protested
Katharine Bovan
John Harris: protested
John Harvie: protested
John Henderson: protested
Adam Hood: protested
Charles Honyall: protested
John Hutchinson: died
John Hodge: died
Thomas Jackson: died, protested
William Jackson
George Johnston: protested
John Johnstone: voluntary
James Junk
John King
John Kippan: died
John Kincaid: protested
James Kirkwood
John Kirkwood: died
John Kellie
Katherine Kellie: died
John Kennie
Margaret Leslie: protested
Janet Linthron
Gawen Lockhart
Michael Marshall
John Marshall
John Martin
Margaret Miller
George Muir: protested
Gilbert Monorg: died
Jean Moffat: protested
John Muirhead
James Muirhead: protested
William MccCalmont
John McEwen
Walter McEwen: protested
Robert McEwen: protested
John McQueen: protested
Robert McLellan
Margaret McLellan: died
Andrew McLellan: died
John McKenman: died
William McMillan: died
John McGhie: protested
William Nevin: voluntary
William Oliphant
Andrew Patterson: protested
John Pollock
John Ramn: died
Rev. Archibald Riddell: died, voluntary
Mr. Archibald Riddell: died, voluntary
William Rigg: died, voluntary
Marian Rennie
John Renwick: died
James Reston
Thomas Russell: died
Peter Russell: protested
Christian Strang: protested
William Sprat
Agnes Stevens: protested
William Sproull: protested
Thomas Shelston
John Swinton: died
John Smith: died
John Seton: protested
George Scot: died, voluntary
Margaret Scot: died, voluntary
Eupham Scot: died, voluntary
Janet Symington: protested
James Sittingtown
John Targat
John Turpine
William Turnbull
Patrick Urie
John Vernor: voluntary
Mrs. Vernor: voluntary
John Watt
Patrick Walker
James Wardrope: died
Elizabeth Whitelaw
Grizel Witherspoon
William Wilson
Robert Young
The charge for transportation was five pounds sterling for each adult and to each of those
who were unable to pay for their passage was promised twenty-five acres of land and a suit
of new clothes on the completion of four years of service; for children under twelve years
of age, fifty shillings; sucking children free; one ton of goods, forty shillings. These
have been known in American History as "Redemptioners." Many of these passengers
had endured much suffering. After some delay, the ship sailed from the road of Leith,
September 5, 1685. We hear of no untoward event until after they had turned the Land's
End," when a fever began to prevail with virulence, particularly among the prisoners
who had been confined' in the great vault of Dunnotter. Many were sick when they came
aboard, and the health of the others was endangered by the condition of the provisions
laid in by the Captain. The meat began to putrefy and was not eatable, In a month the
fever assumed a malignant type. Few escaped its ravages, and three or four bodies were
cast overboard every day. Most of the ship's crew, except the Captain and boatswain,
died. Pitlochie, who had freighted the ship, with his lady, died likewise, and so enjoyed
nothing of the. gain of nearly one hundred prisoners gifted him by the Council, and
upwards of seventy persons died at sea. Death and unwholesome food were not the only evils
the unfortunate Covenanters had to encounter; the master of the ship was most cruel to the
prisoners. Those who were placed under deck were not allowed to go about worship, and when
they attempted it the Captain would throw down great planks of timber to disturb them and
endanger their lives. The ship sprang a leak twice, and frequent storms added to their
anxiety, After the death of Pitlochie, the prisoners fell into the hands of John
Johnstone, his son-in-law Captain Hutton began to tamper with Mr. Johnstone, and urged him
to carry the prisoners to Virginia or Jamaica, either places presenting better opportunity
for disposing of them than New jersey, and offered as an inducement to charge himself with
the disposal of the prisoners and to account to him for them in the productions of the
country. But the wind changed and they were forced to sail straight for. New Jersey. They
landed at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, in the middle of December, 1685, having been about
fifteen weeks at sea.. Before going ashore, Johnstone endeavored to stop them by urging
them to sign an agreement to serve four years at that place in consideration of the
expense incurred by the departed Scot. This they would not agree to, but joined in another
protest against their banishment and recounted their harsh treatment during the voyage.
When they came ashore, the people who lived on the coast and had not the gospel preached
to them, were inhospitable and showed them no kindness. A little way up in the country,
however, there was a town (supposed to be Woodbridge), and a minister settled, and the
inhabitants were very kind to them. When they learned who the prisoners were and their
circumstances, they invited all who were able to travel to come and live with them, and
sent horses far the rest, and entertained them freely and liberally that winter. In the
following spring, John Johnstone pursued them and had them all cited before a legal
tribunal of the Province. Alter hearing both sides, the Governor called a jury to sit and
cognosce upon the affair, who found that the pannels had not of their own accord come to
that ship, nor bargained with Pitlochie for money or service, and therefore, according to
the laws of the country, they were assoiled. Those who had so agreed had their suits come
before the Court of Common Rights, and Captain Hutton was remunerated. The prisoners then
scattered throughout Eastern Pennsylvania, New York and Connecticut, where they were
kindly entertained and found employment according to their different trades. At different
times the persecuted Covenanters were banished to New Jersey, Delaware and South Carolina,
but in the latter part of the seventeenth century this cruelty ceased. At this time no
organized' society of Covenanters has an existence in New Jersey.
PATERSON. For some years previous to its organization into a congregation, a few, families
of Covenanters resided in the city of Paterson. They were usually supplied by the students
of the Philadelphia Seminary and received the organization in the fall of 1818. The Rev.
William L. Roberts was the first pastor ordained and installed in charge in May, 1824. The
congregation was small and rent with factions, and he resigned charge in December, 1825.
The Rev. William Gibson took charge, of the congregation in 1826, and was stated supply
for several years. In 1833, the great majority of the members went into, the New School
body, and the cause gradually declined. The few faithful followers of the Church were
supplied but they lost their organization in October, 1836. Of the eldership were James W.
King, John McIntire and Thomas Lindon.