Families were originally desperate to come to America to escape persecution
against Presbyterians in Scotland and Ireland and had to move on somewhere
as more and more families arrived in the new world. Mary Campbell married
into the Woods family and their descendant married into the McAfee family
who are listed as Kentucky pioneers and frontiersmen, among the first to
cross the Cumberlands in 1779 forming McAfee Company of surveyors and
settlement guides who built security forts for the newer pioneers...although
it breaks my heart regarding the treatment of the Native Americans while
taking their lands, that is the way the westward movement was (human nature,
all over the world, no?)
So I don't think it took much to encourage travel to America or
westward...word
gets out about available land...just like today...although you are not
likely to lose your life in the attempt today, it sure costs a pretty penny!
----- Original Message -----
From: "margecam52" <margecam52(a)valornet.com>
To: <CAMPBELL-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 1:01 PM
Subject: [CAMPBELL] Virginia - it's formation per old maps.
I am leaving a small portion of one post re VA & first
Campbell's to enter
the state.
I don't claim to know a lot about Virginia, only what I have found in old
history & geography books. Some of the best genealogy tools are old text
books.
I believe that (from the history/geography books I have) that it was felt
that NC was settled by migration FROM Virginia.
Also..why, when we know our ancestor's crossed a vast ocean to an unknown
place, knowing full well that they would most likely never see family &
loved ones again, do we still think that they would not venture across a
range of mountains? They had to, or we would not be here today (just my
opinion). The following maps are why I don't let a location stop me from
considering a family as a possible link to Ellis Campbell b 1804 in VA.
I find that :
The Virginia Charter (1606) put the boundries of Southern VA between the
34th & 38th degree of the North Latitude (between Cape Fear & the
Potomac).
Northern VA was the area between the 41st & 45th degree of the North
Latitude (between the east end of Long Island & Nova Scotia). The mid
country embracing the 38th to 41st degree of North Latitude included what
is
now Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and a small corner of New York.
This area was open to both the Delaware and London Co., but they were not
to
settle within 100 miles of one another. These divisions ran from the
Atlantic for 100 miles inland.
You can see a picture of the old map from a geography book my grandpa had
at:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mcampbel/va2/va1606a.htm
VA maps posted by Marge Campbell
The Charter of 1609 put the boundaries of America as shown on the above
webpage.
A really good map showing the lands claimed by the states as of 1781 is
at:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mcampbel/va2/1781a.htm
VA maps posted by Marge Campbell
Let's take a look and compare the inception of each state shown above into
the Union of the Confederation of the USA:
1. Florida - Territory 1822 - State 1845 (27th). Looking at the above
map,
Florida belonged to Spain. This was Spain's second time in having control
of Florida. Spain landed in Florida on Easter Sunday 1513. They called
the
land Florida from the Spanish name for Easter (Pasuca Florida). Attempts
to
locate Spanish settlers in the new region a few years later failed , as
the
colonies had been routed by Indians (Native Americans). The French
Huguenots attempted to establish colonies in Florida from about 1564
until
the end of the Seven Years War (1763), at which time all the land
possessed
in North America by France were ceded to Britain. In the same treaty,
Spain
traded Florida to Britain or Havana (Florida is found on maps in Spain as
early as 1513).
Twenty years later, the Florida sections were returned to Spain in a
treaty
ending the Revolutionary War in 1783.
2. Georgia - State 1788 (4th) - Note that Georgia, as with all the states
extended westard to the Mississipi River. England and the Spanish played
around with the dominance of Georgia as the prize from about 1540 until
early 1700. South Carolina became a royal province in 1732, and the land
between the Savannah and the St. Mary's rivers was kept aside for a new
British colony.
In 1733, a man named James Oglethorpe, who had come up with an idea that
would have 20 men beside himself come to America instead of being put in
prison in England. There were 35 families sent to Americas, and granted
land in a track of land south of Savannah. These familes formed a
community
at the mouth of the Savannah, which Oglethorpe named after the river.
From
1738-39, many nationalities came to the area & formed communities. In
1741,
Georgia was divided into two counties- north of the Atlamaha was called
Savannah, and south of that river Frederica.
There were many disputes about Georgia's lands, one of which was the
selling
by America of Georgian land to speculators. Another was the fact that
much
of what was left was Indian reservation.
3. North Carolina - State 1789 (12th) - The first NC settlement was in
1653
when groups of settlers came south from VA to occupy the section north of
the Albermarle Sound. The main influx of settlers from after 1711 were
Scottish Highlanders. So much so, that the population rose from 14,000 to
over 20,000 in a few short years.
4. South Carolina - State 1788 (8th) - The first successful settlers
(there
were unsuccessful atempts between 1526-1664) in SC arrived to form a
colony
on the Ashley River in the southeastern part of the state in 1671. The
capital was moved in 1790 from Charleston to Columbia.
5. Virginia - State 1788 (10th) - As most Americans today know, the
colonization of the American continent in what we consider modern times
began with the arrival of three boatloads of English immigrants in May of
1607. This immigration took place on the northeast shore of the James
River
in VA, where present day Jamestown is located.
VA registered the highest population in the first three federal census for
the USA (1790, 1800 & 1810). This, I believe, may have been partially due
to the large area VA claimed during this early time.
Maine, Massachusetts and other colonies all had different boundaries than
they do today. I will not go into these as extensively as the preceeding
states. Nor am I going to mention the states that now exist in the stead
of
the large areas that once were claimed by some of the original 13
colonies.
By looking at the map above, one can see that many of the eastern states
as
we know them today, lay within the boundaries of the original colonies.
Take a look at all the links...you may learn some of where your persons
were
located.
A good site to find more on VA History is:
http://marg.mhost.com/vahistory.html
(Marge Campbell is not the host of the above).
Marge Campbell
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Subject: COUSINS I KNOW THIS IS LONG, BUT PLEASE READ THANKS, <BELOW>
Dear AT and others,
According to this researcher, Mary CAMPBELL would have been the FIRST
Campbell into Albemarle Co VA, settled there in 1734, haveing come down
from
Pennsylvania.
He says they were the FIRST White settlers in Albemarle Co VA. I don't
know
if this is true or not, I have to believe him until he is proved wrong.
If this is TRUE, then perhaps Mary Campbell might have alerted other
Campbell men to follow??? Or it could be pure luck, that they came later?
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