Son of David "White David" Campbell (08 Mar 1705 - 19 Oct 1790) and Mary (Hamilton) Campbell (06 Apr 1716 - 22 May 1801).
Brother of Catherine Campbell McIannahan, Mary Campbell Lockhart, Martha Campbell, John Campbell, James Campbell, William Campbell, Margaret Campbell Campbell, Maj. David Campbell, Sarah "Sally" Campbell Howard, Robert Campbell, Patrick Campbell, and Ann Campbell Roane.
Husband of Margaret (Campbell) Campbell, daughter of Capt. Charles Campbell (1721-1767) and Margaret (Buchanan) Campbell (1722-1778).
Father of William Campbell, Col. John Buchanan Campbell, Charles Lewis Campbell, Arthur Lee Campbell, Capt. James H. Campbell, Elizabeth Campbell, Margaret Campbell, Mary Hamilton (Campbell) Beard, Jane B. [Buchanan?] Campbell, Martha C. Campbell, Ann Augusta Campbell, and Unknown Campbell (Son).
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Campbell County was named for Colonel Arthur Campbell, a soldier of the Revolutionary War and Indian Wars. He was born in 1742 in Augusta County, Virginia and was the son of David Campbell. At age fifteen, Campbell joined the Virginia Militia to help protect the Virginia Frontier. While stationed at a Dickerson's Fort on the Cowpasture River in Bath County, VA, he and several others were out picking plums when a group of Wyandotte Indians surprised the group. A skirmish followed, and Campbell was captured after being slightly wounded in the knee. He spent the next three years as a prisoner of the Indians and spent much of the time wandering through the Great Lakes territory. Eventually, an Indian chief took him under his protection and then took him to the French fort located near present-day Detroit. With his knowledge of the western frontier, he was eventually able to escape the Indians and make his way to a group of British soldiers more than 200 miles away. The British were on a campaign into Western Indian Territory and engaged Campbell as a guide. Campbell was later awarded a grant of 1000 acres near present-day Louisville, KY as reward for his services.
During his lifetime, he was involved in many aspects of military and political life. Some of which include:
January 1775 - He served as a member of the committee that drafted the Address of the Freeholders of Fincastle, VA.
1776 - He was chosen to represent Fincastle County, VA in the General Assembly.
January 1777 - He was appointed county lieutenant and commander in chief of the militia.
During the Revolutionary War, Campbell enlisted in the Virginia Militia and became commander of the 70th Regiment of the Virginia Militia.
During 1781, Campbell was one of the commissioners responsible for negotiating the Indian Treaties of 1781.
After the wars, Colonel Campbell settled on an estate on Yellow Creek, at the present site of Middlesboro, KY. He married his cousin, Martha Campbell. He lost two of his sons in the War of 1812: Captain James Campbell died at Mobile, AL and Colonel John B. Campbell fell at the Battle of the Chippewa. Colonel Campbell died August 8, 1811 at the age of seventy-three.
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LETTER:
FROM PRESIDENT THOMAS JEFFERSON
TO COLONEL ARTHUR CAMPBELL
J. MSS.
Monticello, Sepr 1, 97. [September 1, 1797]
Dear Sir,—
I have to acknolege the receipt of your favor of July 4. and to recognize in it the sentiments you have ever held, & worthy of the day on which it is dated. It is true that a party has risen up among us, or rather has come among us, which is endeavoring to separate us from all friendly connection with France, to unite our destinies with those of Great Britain, & to assimilate our government to theirs. Our lenity in permitting the return of the old tories, gave the first body to this party; they have been increased by large importations of British merchants and factors, by American merchants dealing on British capital, and by stock dealers & banking companies, who, by the aid of a paper system, are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and swaying the government by their possession of the printing presses, which their wealth commands, and by other means, not always honorable to the character of our countrymen. Hitherto, their influence & their system has been irresistible, and they have raised up an Executive power which is too strong for the legislature. But I flatter myself they have passed their zenith. The people, while these things were doing, were lulled into rest and security from a cause which no longer exists. No prepossessions now will shut their ears to truth. They begin to see to what port their leaders were steering during their slumbers, and there is yet time to haul in, if we can avoid a war with France. All can be done peaceably, by the people confiding their choice of Representatives & Senators to persons attached to republican government & the principles of 1776, not office-hunters, but farmers, whose interests are entirely agricultural. Such men are the true representatives of the great American interest, and are alone to be relied on for expressing the proper American sentiments. We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none. All this must be brought about by the people, using their elective rights with prudence & self-possession, and not suffering themselves to be duped by treacherous emissaries. It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back. I am happy in this occasion of reviving the memory of old things, and of assuring you of the continuance of the esteem & respect of, dear Sir, your friend and servant.
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Name: Arthur Campbell
Service Info.: LIEUT COL CONTINENTAL LINE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Birth Date: 3 Nov 1743
Death Date: 8 Aug 1811
Cemetery: Hensleys Cemetery
Cemetery Address: Rte 3 Middlesboro, KY 40965
Source Information:
National Cemetery Administration. U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. Original data: National Cemetery Administration. Nationwide Gravesite Locator.
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Arthur Campbell was my 1st cousin 7 times removed, as well as other relationships, through the Campbell and Anderson families of Virginia and Bledsoe County, TN.
Updated March 23, 2023 by Sammy Boyd.
Brother of Catherine Campbell McIannahan, Mary Campbell Lockhart, Martha Campbell, John Campbell, James Campbell, William Campbell, Margaret Campbell Campbell, Maj. David Campbell, Sarah "Sally" Campbell Howard, Robert Campbell, Patrick Campbell, and Ann Campbell Roane.
Husband of Margaret (Campbell) Campbell, daughter of Capt. Charles Campbell (1721-1767) and Margaret (Buchanan) Campbell (1722-1778).
Father of William Campbell, Col. John Buchanan Campbell, Charles Lewis Campbell, Arthur Lee Campbell, Capt. James H. Campbell, Elizabeth Campbell, Margaret Campbell, Mary Hamilton (Campbell) Beard, Jane B. [Buchanan?] Campbell, Martha C. Campbell, Ann Augusta Campbell, and Unknown Campbell (Son).
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Campbell County was named for Colonel Arthur Campbell, a soldier of the Revolutionary War and Indian Wars. He was born in 1742 in Augusta County, Virginia and was the son of David Campbell. At age fifteen, Campbell joined the Virginia Militia to help protect the Virginia Frontier. While stationed at a Dickerson's Fort on the Cowpasture River in Bath County, VA, he and several others were out picking plums when a group of Wyandotte Indians surprised the group. A skirmish followed, and Campbell was captured after being slightly wounded in the knee. He spent the next three years as a prisoner of the Indians and spent much of the time wandering through the Great Lakes territory. Eventually, an Indian chief took him under his protection and then took him to the French fort located near present-day Detroit. With his knowledge of the western frontier, he was eventually able to escape the Indians and make his way to a group of British soldiers more than 200 miles away. The British were on a campaign into Western Indian Territory and engaged Campbell as a guide. Campbell was later awarded a grant of 1000 acres near present-day Louisville, KY as reward for his services.
During his lifetime, he was involved in many aspects of military and political life. Some of which include:
January 1775 - He served as a member of the committee that drafted the Address of the Freeholders of Fincastle, VA.
1776 - He was chosen to represent Fincastle County, VA in the General Assembly.
January 1777 - He was appointed county lieutenant and commander in chief of the militia.
During the Revolutionary War, Campbell enlisted in the Virginia Militia and became commander of the 70th Regiment of the Virginia Militia.
During 1781, Campbell was one of the commissioners responsible for negotiating the Indian Treaties of 1781.
After the wars, Colonel Campbell settled on an estate on Yellow Creek, at the present site of Middlesboro, KY. He married his cousin, Martha Campbell. He lost two of his sons in the War of 1812: Captain James Campbell died at Mobile, AL and Colonel John B. Campbell fell at the Battle of the Chippewa. Colonel Campbell died August 8, 1811 at the age of seventy-three.
____________________________________________________________
LETTER:
FROM PRESIDENT THOMAS JEFFERSON
TO COLONEL ARTHUR CAMPBELL
J. MSS.
Monticello, Sepr 1, 97. [September 1, 1797]
Dear Sir,—
I have to acknolege the receipt of your favor of July 4. and to recognize in it the sentiments you have ever held, & worthy of the day on which it is dated. It is true that a party has risen up among us, or rather has come among us, which is endeavoring to separate us from all friendly connection with France, to unite our destinies with those of Great Britain, & to assimilate our government to theirs. Our lenity in permitting the return of the old tories, gave the first body to this party; they have been increased by large importations of British merchants and factors, by American merchants dealing on British capital, and by stock dealers & banking companies, who, by the aid of a paper system, are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and swaying the government by their possession of the printing presses, which their wealth commands, and by other means, not always honorable to the character of our countrymen. Hitherto, their influence & their system has been irresistible, and they have raised up an Executive power which is too strong for the legislature. But I flatter myself they have passed their zenith. The people, while these things were doing, were lulled into rest and security from a cause which no longer exists. No prepossessions now will shut their ears to truth. They begin to see to what port their leaders were steering during their slumbers, and there is yet time to haul in, if we can avoid a war with France. All can be done peaceably, by the people confiding their choice of Representatives & Senators to persons attached to republican government & the principles of 1776, not office-hunters, but farmers, whose interests are entirely agricultural. Such men are the true representatives of the great American interest, and are alone to be relied on for expressing the proper American sentiments. We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none. All this must be brought about by the people, using their elective rights with prudence & self-possession, and not suffering themselves to be duped by treacherous emissaries. It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back. I am happy in this occasion of reviving the memory of old things, and of assuring you of the continuance of the esteem & respect of, dear Sir, your friend and servant.
____________________________________________________________
Name: Arthur Campbell
Service Info.: LIEUT COL CONTINENTAL LINE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Birth Date: 3 Nov 1743
Death Date: 8 Aug 1811
Cemetery: Hensleys Cemetery
Cemetery Address: Rte 3 Middlesboro, KY 40965
Source Information:
National Cemetery Administration. U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. Original data: National Cemetery Administration. Nationwide Gravesite Locator.
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Arthur Campbell was my 1st cousin 7 times removed, as well as other relationships, through the Campbell and Anderson families of Virginia and Bledsoe County, TN.
Updated March 23, 2023 by Sammy Boyd.
Son of David "White David" Campbell (08 Mar 1705 - 19 Oct 1790) and Mary (Hamilton) Campbell (06 Apr 1716 - 22 May 1801).
Brother of Catherine Campbell McIannahan, Mary Campbell Lockhart, Martha Campbell, John Campbell, James Campbell, William Campbell, Margaret Campbell Campbell, Maj. David Campbell, Sarah "Sally" Campbell Howard, Robert Campbell, Patrick Campbell, and Ann Campbell Roane.
Husband of Margaret (Campbell) Campbell, daughter of Capt. Charles Campbell (1721-1767) and Margaret (Buchanan) Campbell (1722-1778).
Father of William Campbell, Col. John Buchanan Campbell, Charles Lewis Campbell, Arthur Lee Campbell, Capt. James H. Campbell, Elizabeth Campbell, Margaret Campbell, Mary Hamilton (Campbell) Beard, Jane B. [Buchanan?] Campbell, Martha C. Campbell, Ann Augusta Campbell, and Unknown Campbell (Son).
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Campbell County was named for Colonel Arthur Campbell, a soldier of the Revolutionary War and Indian Wars. He was born in 1742 in Augusta County, Virginia and was the son of David Campbell. At age fifteen, Campbell joined the Virginia Militia to help protect the Virginia Frontier. While stationed at a Dickerson's Fort on the Cowpasture River in Bath County, VA, he and several others were out picking plums when a group of Wyandotte Indians surprised the group. A skirmish followed, and Campbell was captured after being slightly wounded in the knee. He spent the next three years as a prisoner of the Indians and spent much of the time wandering through the Great Lakes territory. Eventually, an Indian chief took him under his protection and then took him to the French fort located near present-day Detroit. With his knowledge of the western frontier, he was eventually able to escape the Indians and make his way to a group of British soldiers more than 200 miles away. The British were on a campaign into Western Indian Territory and engaged Campbell as a guide. Campbell was later awarded a grant of 1000 acres near present-day Louisville, KY as reward for his services.
During his lifetime, he was involved in many aspects of military and political life. Some of which include:
January 1775 - He served as a member of the committee that drafted the Address of the Freeholders of Fincastle, VA.
1776 - He was chosen to represent Fincastle County, VA in the General Assembly.
January 1777 - He was appointed county lieutenant and commander in chief of the militia.
During the Revolutionary War, Campbell enlisted in the Virginia Militia and became commander of the 70th Regiment of the Virginia Militia.
During 1781, Campbell was one of the commissioners responsible for negotiating the Indian Treaties of 1781.
After the wars, Colonel Campbell settled on an estate on Yellow Creek, at the present site of Middlesboro, KY. He married his cousin, Martha Campbell. He lost two of his sons in the War of 1812: Captain James Campbell died at Mobile, AL and Colonel John B. Campbell fell at the Battle of the Chippewa. Colonel Campbell died August 8, 1811 at the age of seventy-three.
____________________________________________________________
LETTER:
FROM PRESIDENT THOMAS JEFFERSON
TO COLONEL ARTHUR CAMPBELL
J. MSS.
Monticello, Sepr 1, 97. [September 1, 1797]
Dear Sir,—
I have to acknolege the receipt of your favor of July 4. and to recognize in it the sentiments you have ever held, & worthy of the day on which it is dated. It is true that a party has risen up among us, or rather has come among us, which is endeavoring to separate us from all friendly connection with France, to unite our destinies with those of Great Britain, & to assimilate our government to theirs. Our lenity in permitting the return of the old tories, gave the first body to this party; they have been increased by large importations of British merchants and factors, by American merchants dealing on British capital, and by stock dealers & banking companies, who, by the aid of a paper system, are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and swaying the government by their possession of the printing presses, which their wealth commands, and by other means, not always honorable to the character of our countrymen. Hitherto, their influence & their system has been irresistible, and they have raised up an Executive power which is too strong for the legislature. But I flatter myself they have passed their zenith. The people, while these things were doing, were lulled into rest and security from a cause which no longer exists. No prepossessions now will shut their ears to truth. They begin to see to what port their leaders were steering during their slumbers, and there is yet time to haul in, if we can avoid a war with France. All can be done peaceably, by the people confiding their choice of Representatives & Senators to persons attached to republican government & the principles of 1776, not office-hunters, but farmers, whose interests are entirely agricultural. Such men are the true representatives of the great American interest, and are alone to be relied on for expressing the proper American sentiments. We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none. All this must be brought about by the people, using their elective rights with prudence & self-possession, and not suffering themselves to be duped by treacherous emissaries. It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back. I am happy in this occasion of reviving the memory of old things, and of assuring you of the continuance of the esteem & respect of, dear Sir, your friend and servant.
____________________________________________________________
Name: Arthur Campbell
Service Info.: LIEUT COL CONTINENTAL LINE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Birth Date: 3 Nov 1743
Death Date: 8 Aug 1811
Cemetery: Hensleys Cemetery
Cemetery Address: Rte 3 Middlesboro, KY 40965
Source Information:
National Cemetery Administration. U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. Original data: National Cemetery Administration. Nationwide Gravesite Locator.
____________________________________________________________
Arthur Campbell was my 1st cousin 7 times removed, as well as other relationships, through the Campbell and Anderson families of Virginia and Bledsoe County, TN.
Updated March 23, 2023 by Sammy Boyd.
Brother of Catherine Campbell McIannahan, Mary Campbell Lockhart, Martha Campbell, John Campbell, James Campbell, William Campbell, Margaret Campbell Campbell, Maj. David Campbell, Sarah "Sally" Campbell Howard, Robert Campbell, Patrick Campbell, and Ann Campbell Roane.
Husband of Margaret (Campbell) Campbell, daughter of Capt. Charles Campbell (1721-1767) and Margaret (Buchanan) Campbell (1722-1778).
Father of William Campbell, Col. John Buchanan Campbell, Charles Lewis Campbell, Arthur Lee Campbell, Capt. James H. Campbell, Elizabeth Campbell, Margaret Campbell, Mary Hamilton (Campbell) Beard, Jane B. [Buchanan?] Campbell, Martha C. Campbell, Ann Augusta Campbell, and Unknown Campbell (Son).
____________________________________________________________
Campbell County was named for Colonel Arthur Campbell, a soldier of the Revolutionary War and Indian Wars. He was born in 1742 in Augusta County, Virginia and was the son of David Campbell. At age fifteen, Campbell joined the Virginia Militia to help protect the Virginia Frontier. While stationed at a Dickerson's Fort on the Cowpasture River in Bath County, VA, he and several others were out picking plums when a group of Wyandotte Indians surprised the group. A skirmish followed, and Campbell was captured after being slightly wounded in the knee. He spent the next three years as a prisoner of the Indians and spent much of the time wandering through the Great Lakes territory. Eventually, an Indian chief took him under his protection and then took him to the French fort located near present-day Detroit. With his knowledge of the western frontier, he was eventually able to escape the Indians and make his way to a group of British soldiers more than 200 miles away. The British were on a campaign into Western Indian Territory and engaged Campbell as a guide. Campbell was later awarded a grant of 1000 acres near present-day Louisville, KY as reward for his services.
During his lifetime, he was involved in many aspects of military and political life. Some of which include:
January 1775 - He served as a member of the committee that drafted the Address of the Freeholders of Fincastle, VA.
1776 - He was chosen to represent Fincastle County, VA in the General Assembly.
January 1777 - He was appointed county lieutenant and commander in chief of the militia.
During the Revolutionary War, Campbell enlisted in the Virginia Militia and became commander of the 70th Regiment of the Virginia Militia.
During 1781, Campbell was one of the commissioners responsible for negotiating the Indian Treaties of 1781.
After the wars, Colonel Campbell settled on an estate on Yellow Creek, at the present site of Middlesboro, KY. He married his cousin, Martha Campbell. He lost two of his sons in the War of 1812: Captain James Campbell died at Mobile, AL and Colonel John B. Campbell fell at the Battle of the Chippewa. Colonel Campbell died August 8, 1811 at the age of seventy-three.
____________________________________________________________
LETTER:
FROM PRESIDENT THOMAS JEFFERSON
TO COLONEL ARTHUR CAMPBELL
J. MSS.
Monticello, Sepr 1, 97. [September 1, 1797]
Dear Sir,—
I have to acknolege the receipt of your favor of July 4. and to recognize in it the sentiments you have ever held, & worthy of the day on which it is dated. It is true that a party has risen up among us, or rather has come among us, which is endeavoring to separate us from all friendly connection with France, to unite our destinies with those of Great Britain, & to assimilate our government to theirs. Our lenity in permitting the return of the old tories, gave the first body to this party; they have been increased by large importations of British merchants and factors, by American merchants dealing on British capital, and by stock dealers & banking companies, who, by the aid of a paper system, are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and swaying the government by their possession of the printing presses, which their wealth commands, and by other means, not always honorable to the character of our countrymen. Hitherto, their influence & their system has been irresistible, and they have raised up an Executive power which is too strong for the legislature. But I flatter myself they have passed their zenith. The people, while these things were doing, were lulled into rest and security from a cause which no longer exists. No prepossessions now will shut their ears to truth. They begin to see to what port their leaders were steering during their slumbers, and there is yet time to haul in, if we can avoid a war with France. All can be done peaceably, by the people confiding their choice of Representatives & Senators to persons attached to republican government & the principles of 1776, not office-hunters, but farmers, whose interests are entirely agricultural. Such men are the true representatives of the great American interest, and are alone to be relied on for expressing the proper American sentiments. We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none. All this must be brought about by the people, using their elective rights with prudence & self-possession, and not suffering themselves to be duped by treacherous emissaries. It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back. I am happy in this occasion of reviving the memory of old things, and of assuring you of the continuance of the esteem & respect of, dear Sir, your friend and servant.
____________________________________________________________
Name: Arthur Campbell
Service Info.: LIEUT COL CONTINENTAL LINE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Birth Date: 3 Nov 1743
Death Date: 8 Aug 1811
Cemetery: Hensleys Cemetery
Cemetery Address: Rte 3 Middlesboro, KY 40965
Source Information:
National Cemetery Administration. U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. Original data: National Cemetery Administration. Nationwide Gravesite Locator.
____________________________________________________________
Arthur Campbell was my 1st cousin 7 times removed, as well as other relationships, through the Campbell and Anderson families of Virginia and Bledsoe County, TN.
Updated March 23, 2023 by Sammy Boyd.
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