Hi George I am wondering if you have checked the state/county formation maps available online to see if your Thomas moved, or if the land boundaries changed. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mcampbel/va2/1781a.htm USA in 1781 The above map gives an idea of where states claimed land as their state in 1781. The states in black had NO land (officially on paper). Check the other maps I have for VA also.. And then google VA land formation.... Or USA land formation ...and see what is out there. VA was one greedy state! Grabbed all the land they could.. And in 1609...that was "Sea to Sea". Marge Margie Campbell Campbell's http://www.lmcam1.com/ (always under construction) TinLizzie18 LS NuStyle 227 Visit my Webshots Albums http://community.webshots.com/user/margecam52 =============================================== George wrote: 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" 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