Person:Robert Campbell (83)

Robert Campbell was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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American Revolutionary War Veteran

Revolutionary War Pension Information

Information from “Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records”, Vol. 1, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :

Campbell, Robert - entered service 1776 in North Carolina where he moved from Virginia; born 1/3/1759 in Prince Edward County, Virginia; granted Pension 1833 in Carter's Valley, Hawkins County, Tennessee, when resided there for 40 years; query letter in file states a Robert Campbell*, born Rockbridge County, Virginia, 1/3/1761**, married 1/18/1785 to Mary Young, Abingdon [Washington County], Virginia (she died 4/1/1841), & settled in settled in Carter's Valley, Tennessee, where died 12/29/1941, further Mary Young was born 17 miles from Rogersville, Rockbridge County, Virginia, 2/12/1765, 2/12/1765, further soldier appointed as one of the 1st magistrates by Virginia government after Revolutionary War; query letter in file states soldier's son Alexander of Sneedville, Hancock County, Tennessee, was a War of 1812 soldier, R459.

• - differs from other sources having his birth on the same day in 1761.

• • Rockbridge County was formed from part of Augusta County in 1778.

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   ROBERT CAMPBELL
   Robert Campbell applied for revolutionary pension while living in Carter's Valley, Hawkins County, Tenn.. Aug. 27, 1833. He was born Jan. 3, 1759 in Prince Edward County, Va. In the fall of 1776 he moved to North Carolina, that section which was later Tennessee, where he volunteered immediately and served two months on scouting parties in Hawkins County against the Indians. He volunteered again in 1779 and served three months as a private in Capt. Christie's company, Col. Evan Shelby's regiment and was in the Chickamauga Expedition. He again volunteered in the latter part of 1779 or early in 1780 and served two months in Capt. John Looney's company, Col. Arthur Campbell's regiment against the Cherokee Indians. He also served as a scout under Capt. Kyle.
   Note--He married Oct. 15. 1785, Mary Young. born in Rockbridge County, Va., Feb. 12, 1765. Her mother was Elizabeth Long Young, born Oct. 28. 1744. died 1835, who remembered seeing Washington and Braddock pass her father's house on the ill-fated Braddock Expedition. Mary Young Campbell died April 1. 1841. and is buried beside her husband on the home place 17 miles from Rogersville. They had 13 children: James Young, born 1786; Andrew, born 1787; Alexander, born 1789; Joseph, born 1791, died 1867, married Frances Vermillion; Robert, born 1793; Mary, born 1795, married Isaac Carmack; Jane, born 1797, married Samuel Curry; Elizabeth, born 1799, married John McNear; Anna, born 1800, married Manson Merriman; Nelson, born 1802, died 1806; Anderson, born 1802 (twin to Nelson); Nelson (a second child by the name) born 1806; Phoebe, born 1809.
   
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