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- See Ancestry entry from TimCampbell79
http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.campbell/11504/mb.ashx
There is intense Internet speculation that Gilbert emigrated through Pennsylvania and settled in Auguta Co., Virginia marrying Prudence.
Cecilia Fabos-Becker writes, "Examination of the written will of Gilbert shows that Chalkley mis-transcribed the name of Gilbert Campbell's wife. It's Osman, which IS/WAS in Pennsylvania. .... Gilbert married Prudence in Pennsylvania soon after he arrived in Pennsylvania .... sued Gilbert Campbell, his younger brother William, and his sisters, Mary, Elizabeth and Anne and in the records it was noted that they (most of them, anyway) lived in America. ... I have a copy of the memorial, recently finally reprinted with the permission of the Bodleian Library by "Eighteenth Century Collections Online Print Editions." Even the attorney was not fully aware that Gilbert Campbell the brother described by the plaintiff was dead, as he titled the Memorial "Memorial for Gilbert Campbell eldest son now in life of the deceased Sir James Campbell of Auchinbreck and Mrs. Susanna Campbell his second wife." [Cecilia has never provided this evidence]
Wil: Feb 26, 1750 Will Book I, Page 294. Gilbert Campbell's will, of Forks of James River, plantationer -- ... Proved, 26th February, 1750
Will Extract of Gilbert Campbell Augusta Co., VA [[Page 294.--29th August, 1750. Gilbert Campbell's will, of Forks of James River, plantationer--Wife, Prudence Campbell, alias Osran; son, George (infant); son, Charles (infant); daughter, Elizabeth Woods, alias Campbell; son, James; daughter. Prudence Hays; daughter, Sarah Campbell; daughter. Lattice Campbell. Executors, James Trimble, Thomas Stuart and Andrew Hays. Teste James Thompson, Robert Allison, Alex. McMullen Proved, 26th February, 1750, by Thompson and Allison, and probate granted to Andrew Hays.
AUGUSTA COUNTY, VIRGINIA - CHALKLEY'S CHRONICLES; Vol 3, PP 10 - 19
Buck Harris writes: "History tells us that Gilbert and Prudence was in Augusta County in 1739 as Gilbert did, in 1739, obtain a grant from Borden in what is Rockbridge County today - in fact his grant takes in the city of Lexington today but in colonial days it was called Campbell's Ford. The grant specifies the north fork of the James River but that is known as the Murray River today. I-81 runs over this river today. Gilberts land laid between Patrick Campbell's on the North toward Staunton and James Campbell's land on the south toward Buchanan."
Carol Mitchell writes, "Patrick Campbell, Gilbert Campbell & James Campbell were already established along the old indian path through Augusta County, Virginia in 1745...."
Timber Ridge Presbyterian Church - Rockbridge, VA the site: "Founded by Scots-Irish families who settled in that part of Augusta County, Virginia in the 1730s before Augusta was divided and became present day Rockbridge County in 1778, was Timber Ridge Presbyterian Church. That area is considered the oldest community in Rockbridge County, the main town being Lexington,and the church was the earliest in the area. (Lexington, the county seat, was a part of the Borden Grant, acquired in 1739 by Gilbert Campbell, and became a town in 1777 - US GENWEB)"
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~berry/newupload/pages/tableII.htm
Newspaper Ad: Thorp(e), Matthew, Irish conv, svt. , c.27 ran away from Gilbert Campbell, Westmoreland Co. (VRG 10 Jan 1771); jailed as a runaway in Augusta Co. (VGR 23 May 1771)
[LINKAGE OF GILBERT CAMPBELL OF AUGUSTA, VA TO SIR JAMES CAMPBELL OF AUCHINBRECK IS SPECULATION AND NEEDS TO BE VERIIFIED]
DNA Update - A descendant of Gilbert and Prudence (kit 310959 matches our Auchinbreac reference line 64/67 suggesting a TMRCA of 10-11 generations.]
See also
http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.campbell/11462/mb.ashx
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1690 - 1750 (63 years)
(Age > 83 years) 