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- Pilcher writes ....
"Charles Campbell, emigrant, is the brother of John Campbell, who married Elizabeth Walker. Charles Campbell was born in Ireland in 1703; died in October or November, 1778; his will was written in 1775, probated November 11, 1778; married about 1735, in Ireland, to Mary Trotter, who died, aged eighty-four years; they emigrated in 1740 to Augusta County, Virginia, by way of Philadelphia. He purchased fifty acres July 12, 1746, by land grant from King George II, and four hundred acres September 16, 1747, from John Anderson. The home was five miles northeast of Staunton, and between his lands and that town were located the Rev. John Craig, the first Presbyterian minister of the Valley of Virginia, who was pastor of the "Old Stone Church" (Augusta Church), the first church in the valley, erected in 1747, its predecessor, built of logs in 1740; it was organized in 1737. Others of the neighborhood were: James Robertson, whose family are famous in Tennessee annals; Robert Poage, who entertained Washington, and at his request his descendants moved to Kentucky and Ohio to help possess and hold the Ohio Valley for the Colonies. Above were the Prestons, nearer to the site of Staunton.
Charles Campbell's neighbors, the Andersons, removed to near what is now Pendleton, Anderson County, South Carolina, and Charles Campbell must have removed with them. While his son, Captain Charles Campbell, was born in 1741, in Augusta County, yet his father purchased no land until 1746. They built a stone church in South Carolina, calling it "The Old Stone Church," after the one in which they had worshiped north of the site of Staunton. The record of Marcellus Campbell, brother of John Campbell, of Ironton, Ohio, states: "Charles Campbell8 and Mary Trotter at one time lived in South Carolina. Just prior to the depreciation of Continental money, he sold his land for 8,000 pounds, equal then to $25,000, and came to near Grattan's Mills and Millar's Iron Works, in Augusta County, Virginia. He was a planter with numerous slaves. In Virginia, he lived in a large, fine house, the first story of stone, the second story of logs."
We can imagine the house so built, because of the Indians, and that the depreciation of currency just after the sale caused him some loss. He probably returned to Augusta County in 1746, disposing of his South Carolina property long after it had enhanced in value. As a town, Staunton did not then exist, and Grattan's Mills may have had greater local repute, and were ten to fourteen miles away. "There were no roads then, except the occasional trail of the Indian; they had nothing to guide them save the compass, the stars, and the moss upon the trees." Charles Campbell willed his homestead to his son, William Campbell, with a few slaves, and no other real estate was enumerated, but it is included in the clause "and the rest of my estate I allow to be equally divided among my other children, and this is to be done by my sons, John and Charles Campbell."
He had seven sons and three daughters, to wit: Robert, Hugh, John, Charles, James, Joseph, William, Elizabeth, Mary and Sarah.
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Also profiled in the Autumn 2013 (Vol. 40, No. 4) issue of the CCSNA Journal.
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CCSNA Article - A Gathering of Campbells of North River, Augusta Co., Virginia, by Ruby G. Campbell, CCS(NA) Genealogist
Arrival of the Campbells of North River. One of the families which traveled along this road in search of good land on which to make their home, was that of Charles Campbell (1703-1778), his wife, Mary Trotter, and their first three children, who had arrived first in Philadelphia from Ireland with his parents, Robert Campbell (1765-pre1768) and Margaret Buchanan or Bohannan, and siblings John, Hugh, and Margaret.
Augusta Co., Virginia, records show that the Campbells purchased land in the North River-Long Glade area in northeastern Augusta County (not to be confused with the Charles Campbell family in south Augusta Co.) where the family worshiped in the Old Augusta Stone Church. The soil here was fertile for farming and grazing animals, it provided wood and timber from the forests, and plenty of water was available for their needs.
Call for a Gathering. The Campbells continued to live in the North River area until 1791, a period of fifty-one years, after which the descendants of Charles Campbell and Mary Trotter scattered to the four corners of the United States and all the places in between. Two hundred twenty-two years after the last Campbell had moved from North River, a
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1703 - 1778 (75 years)
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