You may want to check out the following book: "Scotch Irish Pioneers in Ulster and America" by Charles Knowles Bolton. It is available online in Google Books as well as on Ancestry.com. It looks like your Campbells are part of what I call the Campbell Londonderry Conundrum - Campbells that settled in Londonderry NH in the early 18th century. Besides Thomas there is also a James Campbell who helped settle Cherry Valley, NY, his brother, Samuel who did not go to New York, and father William Campbell, There is also the family of Henry Campbell who settled in Windham, NH which was once part of Londonderry. The James - William Campbell family were once thought to have been descended from the "Auchinbreck" line, but DNA has proved that they were actually from a MisCampbell Irish line. Your Campbells may be part of this general branch of the Campbell tree. Good luck Bob Goodwin Message: 1 Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 07:40:16 +0200 From: "G. Campbell" <[email protected]> Subject: [Campbell] Thomas Campbell, NH in 1700s To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Thanks to Margie and Mark for their suggestions, but this is not actually what I was looking for. My Thomas Campbell, who married Jane Davidson in Billerica, MA in 1733, and then moved to Londonderry, NH, had four children, listed below, who had families. I would like to contact anyone who believes that his ancestors descended from one of these children. Indeed if you have a Campbell ancestor who was living in Londonderry, NH, from 1735 to about 1800 I would also like to contact you because we might have a connection. Londonderry, NH, was a Scotch-Irish town. At that time the Scotch-Scots and the Scotch-Irish normally did not mingle, so if your Campbell ancestors came from Londonderry, NH, they probably immigrated from Ireland and not Scotland. My two main challenges right now are: 1) to trace Thomas Campbell back to a specific town in Ireland, and 2) to find descendants of John Campbell, who is said to have had a large family. Of course I'd be happy to find any other descendants of Thomas Campbell who have not been in contact with me already. George Campbell ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I'm submitting my Campbells again who stayed north until about the mid 1800s. Thomas Campbell was probably born around 1705 in Ireland. His future wife, Jane Davidson, was born in Ireland but we don't know when. However, she immigrated with her parents and siblings in 1728 to America. Thomas Campbell married Jane Davidson in Billerica, MA, 1733 and moved to Londonderry, NH, where they had the children Mary (1738-1828), John, Nathaniel (1741-1820), and Hugh Argyle (1744-1810). They had more children who didn't survive to reproduce. 1) Mary married John Tufts, moved to Maine and there had the children: Jane, William, Thomas, Jonathan, Susanna, and Annis. 2) John unknown. He has eluded us completely, although he is said to have had a large family. He probably moved to NY with his brothers. 3) Nathaniel married Agnes McCurdy and between Londonderry, NH, and NY state had the children: Jesse, Elizabeth, James, David, Thomas, Alexander, John, Abner, and Robert. 4) Hugh Argyle married Mary Smith and between Londonderry/Bedford, NH, and NY state had the children: Jane, Benjamin, Caty, Elizabeth, Mary, Margaret, Hugh, Robert, Thomas, Adam, and David. I descended from Hugh Argyle Campbell through his son Benjamin Smith Campbell (1773-1852). The families and descendants of Nathaniel and Hugh moved from NH to NY, then Ohio, then Indiana, and then after the mid 1800s spread out over the USA and parts of Europe. I conservatively estimate that Thomas and Jane Campbell had at least 30,000 descendants of whom at least 20,000 must still be living. Currently we have over 1300. Of course the majority of the descendants do not have the name Campbell as would be expected. Some of the more common family names are: Tufts, Fancher, Brown, Johnston, Fish, Perkins, Moore, Kitterman, Burns, and Moses. If your Campbell ancestors lived in NH during the 1700s, eastern NY (especially Cherry Valley area) during the end of 1700s and beginning of 1800s, Westfied/Portland, NY later, the Sandusky/Bellevue area of Ohio around the mid 1800s, and Valparaiso area of IN in the later 1800s, then we may have a connection. Also I'd like to recommend that every male Campbell on this list join the Campbell DNA project, but be sure to take at least the 25-marker test. I did and the results are extremely interesting. It turns out that I most likely belong to the so-called Irish Campbells, who descended from the Irish Clan Cathmhoal and are not related to the Scottish Clan Campbell. When during the 16th and 17th centuries the English kings moved protestant Scots into Ireland to suppress the catholic Irish, the Clan Cathmhoal (pronounced "Cammel" similar to Campbell) assumed the spelling Campbell. So if your ancestors emigrated from Ireland, it's very possible that they were not of Scottish descent. George Campbell ------------------------------ To contact the CAMPBELL list administrator, send an email to [email protected] To post a message to the CAMPBELL mailing list, send an email to [email protected] __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. 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A story was handed down from my grandparents that my great-great-grandfather was from Scotland. His name was William Henry Campbell. He was trying to start a revolution and overthrow the Scottish government and they kicked him out of the country. He took his sweetheart, Peggy Maria Carter from Ireland, and they came to America. They were married by the ship's captain during the voyage. They settled in New York and went to work for the writer, James Fenimore Cooper. William worked in the stables and Peggy was a cook. They had a son, William Henry, Jr. who married Willa Duval, and they had my grandfather, Hal Lorne Campbell, 1/1/1876. I don't have any dates for either of the two Williams, but it would be a generation and two generations before Hal. I would be interested in finding out anything about my ancestors. Do you know of any of these names? Thanx, Summer Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. -Albert Einstein ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Goodwin" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 3:38 PM Subject: Re: [Campbell] Thomas Campbell, NH in 1700s > You may want to check out the following book: "Scotch Irish Pioneers in > Ulster and America" by Charles Knowles Bolton. It is available online in > Google Books as well as on Ancestry.com. It looks like your Campbells are > part of what I call the Campbell Londonderry Conundrum - Campbells that > settled in Londonderry NH in the early 18th century. Besides Thomas there > is also a James Campbell who helped settle Cherry Valley, NY, his brother, > Samuel who did not go to New York, and father William Campbell, There is > also the family of Henry Campbell who settled in Windham, NH which was > once part of Londonderry. The James - William Campbell family were once > thought to have been descended from the "Auchinbreck" line, but DNA has > proved that they were actually from a MisCampbell Irish line. Your > Campbells may be part of this general branch of the Campbell tree. > > Good luck > Bob Goodwin

Summer, if your family used the name "Lorne" that may indicate they lived in the Lorn(e) area of Scotland. I'd start looking there for your Campbells. (I have a son named Lorn!) Sheila