Robert Campbell and Jane Campbell
Husband Robert Campbell 1 2
Born: Abt Oct 1728 - County Down, Ireland Christened: Died: 10 Jul 1822 or 1824 1 2 Buried:
Father: Dugald Campbell ( - ) 2 Mother:
Marriage: 1759 - Chester Co, PA 2
Wife Jane Campbell 2
Born: Abt 1736 Christened: Died: 21 Jan 1821 2 Buried:
Father: [Father] Campbell ( - ) Mother:
Children
1 M William [1] Campbell 2
Born: 1760 2 Christened: Died: 1768 2 Buried: - Fagg's Manor, Chester Co, PASpouse: Did Not Marry
2 M Alexander Campbell 2
Born: 1762 2 Christened: Died: 31 Jan 1781 2 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
3 F Elizabeth Campbell 2
Born: 1764 3 Christened: Died: 5 Apr 1822 - ? Centre Co, PA 3 Buried:Spouse: Thomas Ferguson ( -1806) 3 4 Marr: Abt 1800
4 M John Campbell 1 3 5
Born: 18 Oct 1766 3 Christened: Died: 22 Mar 1845 3 Buried:Spouse: Rachel Oliver (1783-1871) 1 5 Marr: Spring, 1807 3
5 M James Campbell 3
Born: 1768 3 Christened: Died: 1790 - New York state 3 Cause of Death: Drowning Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
6 M Robert Campbell 3 6
Born: 1770 or 1774 3 6 Christened: Died: 10 Oct 1858 3 Buried:Spouse: Rebecca Robinson ( - ) 3 Marr: 1798 3
7 F Isabella "Aunt Ibby" Campbell 3
Born: 1772 3 Christened: Died: 10 Jun 1864 3 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
8 M William [2] Campbell 3 6
Born: 1770 or 1774 3 6 Christened: Died: 3 Aug 1795 - Georgetown, D. C. 3 Buried:
9 M Joseph Campbell 3 5 6
Born: Mar 1776 3 6 Christened: Died: 7 Aug 1857 3 Buried:Spouse: Elizabeth Oliver ( - ) 5 Marr: 17 Apr 1813 3
10 M Samuel Campbell 3 5
Born: Jan 1779 3 Christened: Died: 19 Sep 1841 - Delaware Co, OH 3 Buried:Spouse: Nancy "Agnes" Oliver ( - ) 5 Marr: 1805 3
General Notes: Husband - Robert Campbell
He was born in County Down, Ireland, and came to America in 1746, when eighteen years of age. Coming to what was then the Province of Pennsylvania, he settled near Oxford, in Chester County, but after a time returned to Ireland. He remained only a year, however, and again settled at his former home in Chester County, near a Scotch family of the same name who had come to the country a generation earlier, and whose only daughter, Jane, he married in 1759. They continued to live near Oxford about nine years longer, he and his brother-in-law, John Campbell, moving, with their families, to Delaware in 1768 and living on a rented farm near Wilmington for the next five years. This property was owned by a widow who lived near Philadelphia, but when she remarried about 1773 she wished to return to her Delaware property, though the Campbells' lease had not expired. So she told them of a Philadelphia man who owned a desirable tract of five hundred acres in the backwoods which could be bought for a dollar an acre, and as it offered a place to remove to and a chance to secure a permanent home they purchased the land, although neither of them had seen it. The deed, dated April 19, 1773, was given by the owner, Mr. Drinker, and these farms were always known as the Drinker tract. In August, 1773, Robert and John Campbell and two hired men started out on horseback for the land, which they located near Stone Mountain in Union township, Cumberland (later Mifflin) County. They cut some small timber, built a log cabin, scratched the ground with a plow made from the crotch of a sapling, and sowed wheat on almost six acres, harrowing it with a thorn bush. Each man had ridden out with a bushel and a half of wheat under him, in lieu of a saddle. They returned to Delaware in the fall, and in the spring of 1774 started out with their families for the new home, each family having a wagon and team of horses, some cows, colts and hogs. The distance was about 170 miles, and they arrived at their cabin on the morning of the 4th of May. There was no church or school-house near, and the nearest neighbors were miles away. The nearest mill was the little mill of William Brown, who lived down near what was later known as Reedsville. John Campbell soon built a cabin at the south end of what was known as the "sink hole" (a deep part of the channel of the river near by), and selected his share of the tract along the west end, most of his farm being further from the mountains. Though the families experienced many of the privations and hardships common to life in a pioneer region, they worked together so well and were so thoroughly self-reliant and thrifty that within a few years they had many comforts without depending upon the outside world. They raised flax to make their summer clothing, and had wool from their sheep for their winter clothing. Though they lived humbly they lived well, and were a sturdy and vigorous race of men and women. [HAC 1914, 388]
The first cabin he and his wife occupied seems to have been succeeded by a double story and a half log house, built some ten rods from the later stone mansion. Years afterward it was moved up near the foot of the mountain for a tenant house, and it was still standing in 1894, well preserved. The stone mansion house, erected in 1793, was still standing in 1914 and occupied by descendants of Robert Campbell. At the time it was built it was the best house in the valley. When a Presbyterian Church, the Kishacoquillas Church, was organized near Logan's spring (the early home of the celebrated Indian chief Logan), north of Brown's mill, Robert Campbell became one of the first ruling elders, and though the distance was fully eight miles the young men of the family used to walk there to attend services. Afterward the West Kischacoquillas Church was organized, and a brick church (which long ago disappeared) was erected some three miles west of the present town of Belleville. Near the site of this old brick church was located the old graveyard, where Robert and John Campbell, with their wives and many of their children, are buried.
1 A. J. Davis, History of Clarion County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., 1887), Pg 631.
2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 388.
3 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 389.
4 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 191.
5 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 386.
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—, History of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 622.
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