Person:Isaac Campbell (3)

Will Abstract

Campbell, Isaac. 5-17-1783 [will written], 2-12-1792 [will proven]

Leg: bros. Charles, James; younger bro. William; Peter Higgins; sis. Betsy; mother; if bro. "William moves to Kentucky this fall" etc.

Exrs: bros. Charles, James.

Wit: John Hall, Peter Higgins, William Hall.

Page 59.

[Register of Kentucky State Historical Society, Volume 12, pg. 122]

Records in Kentucky

Lincoln County, KY Records:

• May 17, 1788 - At Crab Orchard Isham Farris witnessed a will of isaac Campbell, but Isham was connected with this estate. Will probated Feb. 21, 1792.

• John Leveridge and Isaac Campbell came in and proved the same as Abraham Taylor did, that the former was in the country before January, 1772, and the latter was in the country in 1775, and that both were in the regular service at the time the Commission sat in Kentucky, in the fall and winter of 1779 and 1780. [History of the County Court of Lincoln County, Va., Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, pg. 172].

• Statistics on the number of residents in Kentucky in the summer of 1775 are at best sensible estimates. Counting the forty-two men who had returned to Kentucky with James Harrod, there were probably about three hundred persons residing in the Bluegrass region, most of them at the four stations which had been established. Other pioneers apparently ventured out on their own. Isaac Campbell and Benjamin Pettit located near St. Asaph's; Richard Calloway, Flanders Calloway, and James Estill were on Otter Creek; and John Hinkston and John Martin were on the South Fork of the Licking River. William Gillespie had taken up a claim on Boone's Creek, and James Knox, a former Long Hunter, had built a cabin on Beargrass Creek. Squire Boone had left Harrodsburg for a time in order to stake out a claim in present Shelby County. During the summer a number of pioneers, among them Daniel Boone and Benjamin Logan, returned to older settlements for their families. Many of the men actually in Kentucky, therefore, were probably members of surveying and land-seeking parties, such as those of John Floyd on the Kentucky and Elkhorn Creek and Thomas Slaughter on the Green River. [Source: Rice, Otis K. Frontier Kentucky. The University Press of Kentucky, 1993, pp. 78-80].

• Also, Isaac Campbell was granted a preemption of 1,000 acres and a settlement of 400 acres for raising a crop of corn at St. Asaph's in 1775. [History of the County Court of Lincoln County, Va, Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, pg. 174].

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   pg. 171.

   John Carr registered for land April 27, 1740, Orange Court House, Virginia. Chalkley’s Records show that in 1742 Benjamin Borden (the Borden tract) re¬corded at Orange Court House his deeds to Richard Woods, Gilbert Campbell and John Carr. Please keep Woods, and especially Campbell, in mind. Gilbert Campbell owned the land where Lexington, the County seat of Rockbridge, now stands. Kerr's Creek flows by the northedge of Lexington. Isaac Campbell, inherited the land where the Court House at Lexington, Virginia, now stands. This Isaac Campbell’s will was probated in Lincoln County, Kentucky, 1793. The Court appointed our ancestor, John Kerr, as an appraiser of Campbell’s estate. When Kerr filed his report, Willis Green,the Court Clerk, entered it as filed by John Carr. [It was signed that way]. In the 1789 Tax List, certified by Green, the name is spelled John Karr. Our ancestor managed to spell his own name both Carr and Kerr when in 1796 he requested that Green issue a license for marriage to Anderson Adkins and “my daughterRhoda” (our ancestors).
   
   http://wvancestry.com/ReferenceMaterial/Files/Reid_Family_-_Jeremiah_Reid_of_Timber_Ridge_Hampshire_County_Virginia_and_some_descendants_and_affiliations.pdf

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   pg. 172.

   Note: Andrew Cowan, Isaac Campbell and Col. Arthur Campbell, all veterans of the Revolution, moved to Kentucky and died there. Col. Arthur Campbell and his first cousin, Gen. William Campbell,stem from Rockbridge.
   
   http://wvancestry.com/ReferenceMaterial/Files/Reid_Family_-_Jeremiah_Reid_of_Timber_Ridge_Hampshire_County_Virginia_and_some_descendants_and_affiliations.pdf

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   pg. 187.

   1793 -Lincoln County, Kentucky Will Book “B”. Will and Estate Appraisement of Isaac Campbell, deceased. The Judge appointed our John Kerr as an appraiser of Campbell’s estate. Campbell’s Will and Estate Inventory shows that he had brothers and property in Lincoln County, Kentucky, and in Rockbridge County,Virginia. This Isaac Campbell, veteran of the Revolution, obtained a Kentucky land grant and died in Lincoln County, Kentucky. Among the Virginia debtors to his estate was William Stuart and the Browns of Rockbridge. Among the beneficiaries was his sister Bettey who married Peter Higgins. Higgins was with Rockbridge troops at Point Pleasant,and with Dick’s River, Kentucky, troops during the Revolution.
   
   Peter Higgins and John Hall witnessed Campbell’s Will. John Hall sold land on Logan’s Creek near Logan’s Fort now. Stanford, Kentucky, to our ancestor John Kerr.

4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 Will Abstract of Isaac Campbell, in McAdams, Mrs. Harry Kennett. Kentucky pioneer and court records: abstracts of early wills, deeds and marriages from court houses and records of old bibles, churches, grave yards, and cemeteries. Copied by American war mothers. Genealogical material collected from authentic sources. Records from Anderson, Bourbon, Boyle, Clark, Estill, Fayette, Garrard, Harrison, Jessamine, Lincoln, Madison, Mercer, Montgomery, Nicholas and Woodford counties. (Lexington, Kentucky: The Keystone Printery, 1929)
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   ISAAC CAMPBELL - Book B, page 59 -
   To brothers, Charles, James and younger brother, William.
   To sister, Betsy. If brother William moves to Kentucky this fall.
   Exec's., Brothers, Charles and James.
   Witnesses, John Hall, Peter Hegins, William Hall and A. Schedeele.
   Codicil. Mother is mentioned.
   Written Apr. 17, 1783.
   Probated Feb. 21, 1792.