Hi AT,
My first Campbell ancestor in America (John Campbell of Hampshire
County, VA, now WV) was one of these "transported" or forcibly removed
from the UK and sold as a servant for his part in "The '45," or the
Jacobite uprising of 1745. He was captured at the Battle of Golspie
(aka Littleferry) and eventually convicted of treason at Old Bailey.
Another Campbell cousin was able to find the information, and a book
called "The Prisoners of the '45" proved useful to her in tracing John
back to his hometown (Ardclach, Nairnshire) and finding his parents.
This is a very hard book to get hold of, but you can find libraries
that have it here:
http://www.worldcat.org/title/prisoners-of-the-45/oclc/5770648
She also found the following interesting bit about him producing
ramrods for Washington during the French and Indian War (Gunsmiths of
West Virginia Fred R. Lambert and James B. Whisker, Ph.D. 3rd Edition
Bedford, PA: Old Bedford Village Press Page 10):
John Campbell ( -1789). gun repairman. On 15 October 1755 Campbell
made some gun parts, including ram rods, for George Washington [8
Frederick County Historical Society Papers 35-38]. Campbell was
listed on the Hampshire County tax lists of 1782 and 1784. On 12
September 1786 he bought land in Mill Creek District, Hampshire
County, from John and Elizabeth Glaze [Deed Book 7, p. 114]. On 7
July 1789 Campbell obtained 439 acres near Romney from the governor of
Virginia [Deed Book 9, p. 590]. His estate was appraised in late 1789
and showed no tools of the gunsmiths trade [Will Book II, p. 228].
My family is also one like you mentioned in your last mail about
moving from VA to PA. They moved from VA to Fayette County, PA then
Fayette County, OH, and finally to Henry County, MO.
His birth date was 10 Sep 1727.
Chad
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 5:08 AM, <Atpowelljr(a)aol.com> wrote:
ATTENTION PLEASE; <SAD BUT, DID YOUR Ancestor PAY their Transportation
ACROSS the WATER????
PLEASE NOTE; That untill 1715, Only Those who PAID their transportation,
Were prvilegded. NOTE ALSO, that the Port of Tapahanock, Va is located in
the NORTHERN NECK AREA OF VA.
NOW, As there is SOME speculation of Our Ancestors haveing Been
Trans-shiped VIA <BARBADOS They would Have Arived, AT Least indentured, AND Acording
to this information NOT ENTITLED TO A Land GRANT, AS an Indentured Arival,
they would have been Indebted to the person who PAID THEIR PASSAGE for At
least 7 years. I did not think this up, According the Record that was the
PLIGHT of SO many people.
AND THOSE Conditions Happened to Be what so many People ENCOUNTERED &
Many of OUR Ancestors Had to Live under those Conditions, TOUGH BUT TRUE, IT
is not MY IMAGINATION, IT is that i am A DESCENDANT of some Those who
Experinced CONDITIONS that are Inposiable to be SWEPT under the RUG CUZ AT
Land Records
The records of the Virginia Land Office, which oversaw land transactions in
colonial-era Virginia, are located at the _Library of Virginia_
(
http://www.lva.lib.va.us/) . That institution has now made many of those records
available online, a description of which can be found on their web site by
following this link: _http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/land_
(
http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/land/)
During most of the seventeenth century and until approximately 1715, the
"headright" system was the common method of obtaining land in Virginia. Each
individual who paid the transportation costs of an emigrant received fifty
acres of land. The term "headright" refers both to the imported person and
the claim. Headright lists constitute almost the only record of early
emigration to Virginia. (The patent was not necessarily issued the year the
immigrant arrived.)
The headright system was not used in the Northern Neck (the area lying
between the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers). Beginning in 1690, land grants in
the Northern Neck were issued by agents and were maintained separately.
The abstracts of land grants from 1690 to 1692 are published in the
supplement to Cavaliers and Pioneers. Some important published sources based on
these records, and available in the reading room of the Virginia Historical
Society, are:
Nugent, Nell Marion. Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land
Patents and Grants, 1623–1782. 8 vols and supplement (vols. 4–8 published by
the Virginia Genealogical Society, Dennis Hudgins ed.) (Ref. F225 N841)
Gray, Gertrude. Virginia Northern Neck Grants, 1692–1862. 4 vols. (Ref.
F225 N841 G79)
Ship Passenger Lists and Immigration Lists
Before 1820, the arrival of immigrants was not documented. Very few
authentic records of passenger arrivals in Virginia exist. The list of headrights
mentioned above constitutes a record of immigrants but does not give the
date or place of origin or arrival or the name of the ship. Not all
headrights were immigrants, and some arrived long before the patentee entered the
claim for the land.
Coldham, Peter. The Complete Book of Emigrants. 4 vols. (Ref. E 187.5 C7).
These four volumes covering 1607–1776 contain virtually every reference to
English emigrants of the colonial period that can be found in England.
They identify only 100,000 emigrants, a small fraction of the total number.
Coldham, Peter. The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614–1775 (Ref.
E 187.5 C6 1988). Lists names of approximately 50,000 Englishmen who were
sentenced by legal process to be transported to the American colonies
between 1614 and 1775.
Coldham, Peter. More Emigrants in Bondage, 1614–1775 (Ref. E 187.5 C61
2002). Lists 9,000 additions and amendments to the earlier work, compiling
names of Englishmen sentenced to be transported to the American colonies.
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