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- Some people believe that this Captain Matthew Campbell, son of Captain Walter Campbell, immigrated to America under the name Matthew Campbell "The Rebel" Rhea. This theory was put forth in 2001 by Dr. Ed Foley in his book "The Descendants of Matthew 'The Rebel' Rhea of Scotland and Ireland", 2000, Heritage Books, Bowie MD.
Subsequent to this book, Dr. Foley has found contradicting evidence. On Jan. 1, 2005, Dr. Foley wrote, "I have seen no proof and this connection is currently only a vauge possibility until further research is performed."
http://www.genforum.familytreemaker.com/rhea/messages/1125.html
Glen Mark Mrtin summarizes this evidence in his 2006 post.
http://martin.techwind.com/rhea/
"However, I have recently found evidence that this is the wrong Matthew Campbell. The Midlothian Parish and Probate Records (searchable on ancestry.com) include a listing for the marriage of a Captain Matthew Campbell to Magdalene Kinloch on 25 December 1710, well after The Rebel would have fled Scotland."
Also recorded in Edinburgh is the burial of this same Matthew Campbell, as well as the subsequent re-marriage of his widow.
In addition, DNA comparison of the Matthew Campbell Rhea descendants (http://garyr50.tripod.com/Rea_Surname_DNA_Project.htm) with that of the Campbell of Argyll cadet lines results in no better that a 20/25 match with a questionable line and no better than a 16/25 match with all other Campbell cadet lines. This tends to also disprove this specific Rhea-Campbell connection.
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- Abt 1722
