General Notes

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From Diarmid Campbell in Argyll in Scotland, EMail: diarmid@@diarmid.fsnet.co.uk msg to CAMPBELL-L@@rootsweb.com; Subject: Re: Duncan Campbell & Mary McCoy Line.
"The family tree in the 18th century document found in recent years among the papers from an estate in Virginia, and outlined in the second of Dr. Ruby Campbell's articles on the subject in the Clan Campbell Society (North America) quarterly Journals (Vol. 28 No.2 Spring 2001 pp. 46-48 & Vol. 28 No. 4 Autumn 2001 pp. 47-49), is the earliest known record of this family to date, and while a secondary source rather than primary, it does offer some possible clarification of relationships. It clarifies that there was a Duncan Campbell who married Mary Ramsay (said to be of the Dalhousie family - discussed in the article) followed by their son John Campbell, followed by his son John Campbell who appears to have married Mary McCoy.
Their son John Campbell (3rd of the name) married Grizle Hay, daughter of Patrick Hay, while John's sister Jean/Jane married James Hamilton (who appears to me was living in 1753 and 1762 (see article for source)).
This John's sister was named Jean/Jane Campbell and she married the above James Hamilton (son of Arthur Hamilton and a Miss Boyne) and they (Jean and James) were parents of Arthur Hamilton who married Mary Cunningham (whose parentage the tree also gives). Arthur and Mary had a daughter Mary Hamilton who married her cousin David Campbell, younger son of John Campbell (3rd of the name) and Grizle Hay. Their son, Arthur Campbell, married his cousin Margaret Campbell (see below)

The elder son of John Campbell (3rd of the name) was Patrick Campbell who married Elizabeth Taylor. Patrick was also living in 1752 (see article for source). Their son Charles Campbell and his wife Margaret Buchanan had five children. The eldest was General William Campbell of King's Mountain (d. 1781 and m. Elizabeth) while one of his sisters, Margaret Campbell, married Arthur Campbell (above). I presume this Arthur was General Arthur Campbell who was kidnapped by a local tribe as a 16 year old boy and survived and escaped and later spent the last part of his life in Kentucky. Arthur and Margaret had a son William Campbell."