Hi, Gene. You can locate and print out the colonial plats for Samuel Campbell and his relatives at the SCDAH search engine at www.archivesindex.sc.gov. It's faster to find if you narrow down the search by selecting "Plat" from the document type menu, select years 1765 to 1775. There are a lot of same-named people in the index. These are the related ones: 8 Oct 1770. Clark, John, Plat for 250 acres in Barkley County (petition of 2 Oct 1770). 23 Nov 1770. Clark, Henry, Plat for 200 acres in Berkley County (petition of 6 Nov 1770). 21 Dec 1770. Campbell, John, Plat for 100 acres in Berkley County (petition of 2 Oct 1770). 4 Mar 1772. Campbell, Samuel, Plat for 150 acres in Berkly County (petition of 4 Feb 1772). 28 Mar 1772. Campbell, John, Plat for 150 acres on Tyger River (petition of 4 Feb 1772). [Note: all these plats were "technically" in Craven County, rather than Berkley, but c'est la vie...] Elizabeth Underhill Clark got her certificate from Warrington MM (York Co PA) on 9 Jun 1770. The extended family--or at least part of it--was in Charlestown SC to present petitions for land in Oct and Nov 1770, so the trip south must have occurred in the summer and fall of that year. Henry Clark, his son John Clark, and his son-in-law John Campbell got adjoining lands on Padgetts Creek of the Tyger River in Ninety-Six District (Union Co SC from 1785). John Campbell petitioned for 100 acres (the amount for a single head of household) together with his brother-in-law John Clark on 2 Oct 1770. Then he got an additional tract of 150 acres (for 3 dependents) on 4 Feb 1772, with his brother Samuel Campbell. The 150 acres requested by Samuel Campbell was less than the full amount (350 acres) to which he was entitled by the headright grant program. Besides his wife (Mary, widow of John Insco), their son Ralph was in the household before the petition date, and so were Mary's 3 children by John Insco. If Samuel Campbell had decided to pay the fee for more land later, when the children were old enough to help with cultivation, he did not take the opportunity to do that. It is unusual that he selected land so very distant from the rest of his family. The place name on his plat, "Holson's Branch of the Enoree River", is not very informative because it's one of those unlisted creeks with a location hard to pinpoint. But when the adjacent lands were sold later in Laurens Co SC deeds, neighbors James Bright, Joseph Whitmore and Basil Prather referred to their properties as being "below the Antient Boundary Line"--i.e., very near the western border of Laurens Co with the Cherokee Nation (later acquired as Greenville Co SC). Samuel and Mary Campbell did not remain at that far-western location for very long at all. SC Deed Book X-5, pp. 40-49: Lease & release, 2 & 3 July 1773, Samuel Campbell of District of Ninety Six, SC, and Mary his wife, to William Hendricks of said district, by grant 4 Nov 1772 to Samuel Campbell, 150 acres in Berkley County in the fork of Broad and Saludy Rivers on a small branch of Enoree called Holsons branch adj. Bazel Prater, Joseph Witmore, Wm. Hendricks, James Bright, recorded in Book No. 12, page 86, now for £200 SC money. Saml Campbell (LS), Mary Campbell (X) (LS), Wit: John Pearson, William Morgan, James Benson (X). Proved by the oath of James Benson 13 Sept 1785 before Levi Casey, J.P. Recorded 28 March 1787. [William Hendricks purchased 5 other neighboring tracts, all of them recorded on the same day.] The records do not tell us where Samuel and Mary Campbell lived after selling their only land grant. Somewhere around Padget's Creek would be a reasonable guess, but it's merely a guess. Samuel Campbell died at some point between Jul 1773 (when he sold his Laurens Co grant) and Jul 1775 (when widow Mary XXX Insco Campbell married Thomas Pearson). Thomas Pearson and John Clark were appointed guardians of the two Campbell boys by Bush River MM on 4.25.1778, but no guardianship was mentioned for the three Insco children, who were still minors in 1775 (other than oldest child Joanna, who had married by then). The birth dates for all of Mary's children--by 3 husbands--were added to the Bush River birth records, but that does not imply that all--or any--of the Insco/Campbell children were birthright Quakers or born in SC, except for Samuel Campbell's son John, b. 6.1.1772 after the parents' arrival in SC. Harriet Imrey On 1/17/2012 7:08 PM, Geneloyce@aol.com wrote: > I am descended from Sarah and Ralph Campbell through their son Isaac > Haskett Campbell. I have much info on this branch of the family if interested. > I would like to know much more about Samuel (Ralph's father)i.e. where he > and wife Mary were living when he died, where he is buried, etc. Where was > his land grant located? Too, there seems to be no record of Ralph's only > sibling - John Campbell, born July 1, 1772. His birth is recorded in the > Bush River MM minutes, as well as his dismissal in 1797 with nothing after > that. Any info on the above would surely be appreciated. > > Ralph and Sarah did not move to Ohio until 1819, and then to Montgomery > County. In 1836 then moved on to Hamilton County, IN. where he died in > 1841. Their son Isaac Haskett (my great-great grandfather) moved to Tippecanoe > County, probably in 1836 as well, since his youngest son was born there in > that year. > > Gene Campbell, Waxahachie, Texas >