Will continue for a little while longer, I know that there appears to be a lot of
repeating, however, it shows the wording from several different sourses. Therefore plese
bear with it, if you are interested with these different accounts, after-all several of
you have asked for this.
Some of you may be interested in Published Campbell Genealogies.
The information that follows was compiled from several published works of record. Of
these, The Lookout, June 8, 1929; The Campbell Genealogy, by J. Montgomery Seaver, pp. 43
- 45; Historical Sketches,, The Campbell, Pilcher and Kindred Families, by Margaret
Campbell Pilcher, 1911, p. 11, History of Augusta Co., Va. by J. Lewis Peyton, 1882, pp.
307-08; Annals of Augusta Co., Va. by Joseph A. Waddell, 1888, pp 396 - 398 and The
Campbell Clan in Va., by Leslie Lyle Campbell, 1954, pp. 137 - 139, are essentially
compatible on the representation of the Campbell line. Other details of the line are
extracted from History of the Campbell Family, by Henry Lee, 1968, pp. 75 - 79.
From The Lookout, June 8, 1929, which stated:
"The Campbell family traces its origin far into antiquity, the present Duke's (as
of 1929) ancestry reaches 64 generations to Harderick, the first known Saxon King, B. C.
90, and includes Robert Bruce, Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, and William the
Conqueror...IT is stated upon good authority that there is more Highland blood in America
today than in the Highlands of Scotland itself...The Campbells and their kin were
prominent in Colonial dayis and almost countless officers and soldiers were in the
American Revolution...Since 1695 Clan CAmpbell, which has always been the bulwark of
Protestantism in Scotland, has been an all powerful factor in the life of the Scottish
people.
The Campbell Clan in Va. p. 137, states;
"Duncan Campbell of Inverary, Argyleshire, Scotland, married in 1612 Mary McCoy
(RAMSAY) and the same year immigrated to Ulster Co., Ireland and died there, leaving
descendants who about 1726 immigrated to Pennsylvania and in 1738 they removed to Augusta
Co., Va.
John Campbell, born November 1664 (1674) on his father's estate near Londonderry,
Ireland, married Grace (Grizel, Grizzel, Grace) Hay, 1695 and moved to Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania in 1726. Later moved to that part of Orange County, Virginia which in 1738
became Augusta County, Virginia. He settled near Bellefont, which is near Staunton. He
died in 1741. He and all his descendants were raised and educated after the strictest
manner in the Presbyterian Church.
John Campbell, Sr. had six sons and three daughters....
HISTORY OF THE CAMPBELL FAMILY, pp. 75 - 76 states
In the later part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, DUNCAN CAMPBELL, son of DUGAL: Campbell
of Inverary, and an officer in the English army, went from Scotland to Ireland. In the
year 1612, forfeitures of large estates were declared in Ulster, some of the forfeited
lands being bought by Duncan Campbell. In 1726, John Campbell, with his wife and
children, first settled in Pennsylvania, moving from Lancaster County, about 1730 to
Virginia. Mary Campbell, his sister, married Moses White, from which marriage many
families of the southern and western part of the country are descended. (Moses White of
North Carolina).
Robert and Dugal Campbell, sons of John CAmpbell, went to St. Mark's Parish, Orange
County, betyween 1732 and 1741. Subsequently, Patrick Campbell in Augusta Coiunty,
Virginia. Other records of Virginia at this period show thatin 1738, surveys of land in
Augusta County were had by Robert Campbell and Patrick Campbell, also that, in 1746, James
Campbell was the owner of 570 acres of land in the same county, Charles Campbell and Hugh
CAmpbell also settled in Virginia at this time.
THE LOOKOUT, June 8, 1929, stated, on the same subject:
John Campbell, born Ireland, 1664 (1674) on his father's estate, Drumadoben, 7 miles
from Londonderry, son of Duncan (John) and Mary (McCoy) Campbell, emigrated to America
1726, accompanied by several grown sons and daughters, settled Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania (member of the Provincial Council of Pa.), six or eight years afterwards he
removed to that part of Orange County which in 1738, became Augusta County, Virginia,
married (1695) Grissel Hay (daughter of Patrick Hay)....
"White" David CAmpbell, (b. 1706) born in Ireland, son of John Campbell (b.
1674) emigrated to America with his father and severl grown brothers and sisters in 1726
in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. They moved to Orange County, Virginia, subsequently
Augusta County. He married in 1735 in Augusta County, Virginia to Mary Hamilton. They
had 7 sons and 6 dughters: John, Arthur, James, William, David, Rober and Patrick;
Margaret, Mary, Martha, Sarah, Ann and Catherine.
HISTORY OF AUGUSTA COUNTY, VIRGINIA, by J. Lewis Peyton, 1882, Facsimile Reprint, 1986, by
Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, MD., pp. 307 - 08 states
John Campbell, emigrated to America from Ireland in 1726 and first settled in Lancaster,
Pa. In 1733, he came south to Augusta, then Orange county, and settled near Bellefoont.
He left two sons, Patrick and David (this is only partially correct),. Patrick left a son
Charles, whose son William was born in Staunton 1744, and was the hero of King's
Mountain....
I am once again going to stop for a bit. I hope that it has been of help in sorting out
you different lines of Campbell families. I also want to take this time to ask you to
buy some of these different books if you are able to do so. I would like for you have
have a copy of the exact data word for word for your own records. Some of them I have not
been able to obtain personally.
Beth