Reverend John Cameron, D.D. was an Episcopal/Anglican Minister who came to Virginia from Scotland in 1770. He married Anne Owen Nash in 1773 and they had seven children. He was the Rector, among other places, of Bristol Parish in Petersburg, Virginia and Cumberland Parish in Lunenburg County, Virginia. According to the text of a memorial tablet regarding Reverend Cameron that was installed in 1908 in the Old Blandford Church in Petersburg, Virginia, he was ordained by the Bishop of Chester in England in 1768. That same memorial tablet states that he died in Lunenburg County in 1815. The U.S. Census of 1810 lists John Cammeron in Lunenburg County. His stated birth year of 1744 is based on the date given for his birth in the NCPedia Article about his son John Adams Cameron.

The location of his final resting place comes from the source: Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia in two volumes by Bishop William Meade (1861), Volume 1, page 486. That text states: “Dr. Cameron continued the minister of Cumberland parish until death in 1815. He was buried beside his daughter, Anna M. Cameron. A tombstone has been erected to their memory by his son, of whom we have just spoken, - the late Hon. Duncan Cameron of North Carolina.”

The cemetery was described in 1937 as follows: "This cemetery is not enclosed and neglected, being located in a cultivated field near the home of Mrs. Esser T. Oakes. There are several graves, two of which are marked with handsome tablets, one of which is broken and the inscription is illegible."

Source: Survey report, The Cameron Cemetery: November 8, 1937 by Pattie B. Seay, Kenbridge, Virginia. Virginia W.P.A. Historical Inventory Project. Found in the Library of Virginia’s WPA historical inventory on the Internet with a search for “Cameron Cemetery Lunenburg County”

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The Reverend John Cameron (d. 1815), an Episcopal priest, was the son of Duncan and Margaret Bain Cameron of Ferintosh in the Highlands of Scotland and was descended from members of Clan Cameron of Lochiel. John Cameron, who received his M.A. from King's College, Aberdeen, Scotland in 1767, came with three of his brothers to Virginia in 1770. One of the brothers later returned to Scotland; another, William, remained in Virginia; and the third, Ewen, married Frances Buford of Virginia in 1797 and later settled at Franklin, Tennessee. In 1773, John Cameron married Anne Owen Nash (1753–1825), daughter of Col. Thomas Nash (1730-1769) and Mary Read. Anne Nash Cameron was the niece of Governor Abner Nash of North Carolina and General Francis Nash who was killed in action at German town, Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary War. Reverend John Cameron and his wife had seven children. Their daughter Mary Read Cameron married Daniel Anderson; their son Judge Duncan Cameron married Rebecca Bennehan; their daughter Jean Cameron married the Reverend Andrew Syme; their son Judge John Adams Cameron married (1st) Eliza Adam and (2nd) the widow Mrs. Catherine McQueen Halliday, settled in Fayetteville, moved to Florida and was drowned in the wreck of the ship Pulaski; Anne Cameron, who died young; William Cameron, who practiced law at Hillsborough, married Anne/Anna Call (daughter of Chief Justice John Marshall's brother-in-law Daniel Call), and Thomas Cameron, a physician of Fayetteville, who married (1st) Jane Wilder and (2nd) Isabella Wilkins.

Main source: NCPedia article for Duncan Cameron (1777-1853), a son of Reverend John Cameron, D.D.

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The Camerons are, of course, of Scotch descent. Their immediate ancestor in this country was an Episcopalian clergyman, the Rev. John Cameron, D. D., a native of Scotland, born in the village of Farintosh in the Highlands, a lineal descendant of Sir Ewen Cameron, chief of the clan, of whom it was written that he was "a man of loyal heart, who obeyed his king and adored his God."

The Rev. John Cameron came to America equipped with an excellent classical education. He was a graduate of an Edinburgh College, and had been admitted to orders in the Church of England. He landed at Newport News in Virginia during the colonial government, and had his first charge in Mecklenburg County on the Roanoke River, not far from Alexander's Ferry. While here he married Anne Owen, a daughter of Col. Thomas Nash, elder brother of Gov. Abner and. Gen. Francis Nash, both distinguished in the Revolutionary history of North Carolina. These brothers were all born in Prince Edward County, Va., their father having come from Wales; and all three settled in North Carolina and became identified with her history.

It was during the residence of Dr. Cameron in Mecklenburg County, that his eldest child Duncan, was born in 1777. Subsequently Dr. Cameron was called to the Old Blandford Church near Petersburg, where for years he ministered to a large congregation of intelligent planters, merchants and professional men. The church and parsonage occupied by him are still standing and in good preservation. There for many years he was a prominent figure in the community, a useful parish priest celebrating the marriages and funerals of all classes far and near in town and country.

Declining health induced him to resign his extensive charge to his son-in-law, Rev. Andrew Syme and he then took the oversight of two country churches in Lunenburg County, and opened a select classical school where many bright boys were educated who afterwards became well-known and honored citizens of Virginia. Dr. Cameron left behind him at his death the reputation of a good man, a good scholar, a successful preacher and teacher, who went in for law and order in church at school. Very many of his pupils had no other schooling than his. His son Duncan was never at any college and never had any other teacher than his father.

Two brothers of Dr. Cameron followed him to America.

Source: Biographical Sketch of Hon. P. C. Cameron by Mrs. C.P. Spencer in The University Magazine issue of December, 1886 at page 121. Found on Archive.org website by searching for “North Carolina University Magazine 1886-1887.”

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Reverend John Cameron was educated at Kings College, Aberdeen. He was ordained by the Bishop of Chester in 1770 and came to America. His first charge was St. James Church, Mecklenburg County. In 1784 he came to Petersburg, thence to Nottoway. He was a fine scholar and taught a classical school with Caledonian discipline. He was made D.D. by William and Mary College. Reverend Dr. Cameron was chosen in 1785 to be Rector of Bristol Parish. He resigned in December of 1793.

Source: A History of Bristol Parish, Va. with Genealogies of Families Connected Therewith, and Historical Illustrations by Rev. Philip Slaughter, D.D. Second Edition 1879.

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He was married in 1773. He was elected to succeed Reverend James Craig as minister for Cumberland parish in December of 1795.

Source: “Cumberland Parish, Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1816 Vestry Books 1746-1816” By Landon C. Bell (1930)

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Dr. Cameron succeeded Reverend Craig as Rector of Cumberland Parish in Lunenburg County, Virginia.

“Dr. Cameron continued the minister of Cumberland parish until death in 1815. He was buried beside his daughter, Anna M. Cameron. A tombstone has been erected to their memory by his son, of whom we have just spoken, - the late Hon. Duncan Cameron of North Carolina.”

Source: Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia in two volumes by Bishop William Meade (1861), Volume 1, pages 485, 486.