_Allan Campbell._
Allan Campbell, son of Barcaldine, entered the Army as Ensign of
the 43d (now the 42nd) Highlanders, Dec. 25, 1744, and served that
year against the Pretender. Was made prisoner of war at Preston
Pans, 21st Sept. 1745 and sent on parole to Perth. Was appointed
lieutenant Dec. 1, 1746. He obtained a Company 13th of May, 1755,
and the next year came to America, where he shared the difficulties
and honors of the Regiment. In June, 1759, he was appointed Major
for the campaign under Amherst, and was actively employed at the
Head of the Grenadiers and Rangers, clearing the way for the army
up the Lakes. He became major in the army 15th August, 1762,
and went on half-pay on the reduction of the regiment in 1763,
having obtained a grant of 5,000 acres of land at Crown Point. He
served 19 years in the regiment. In 1770, he was appointed Major
of the 36th or Herefordshire Foot, then serving in Jamaica;
became Lieutenant-Colonel in the army in May (1772), and of his
regiment in January, 1778; Colonel in the Army, 17th Nov. 1780;
Major-General in 1787; and died 1795. His Regiment did not serve in
America during the Revolutionary War.
An extract from his will dated 2nd March 1787, reads:
“And whereas I am under a grant from the Crown intitled to a
considerable tract of land and heredits situate, lying and being
in the Province of New York in the County of Albany in America,
between Ticonderoga and Crown Point. * * * I do hereby give,
devise and bequeath unto my two sisters, Isabella Campbell,
(wife of John C. of Archalader, in the Shire of Perth, in North
Britain, aforesaid Esquire), and Jane Campbell of Edinchip,
in the Shire of Perth, aforesaid, widow of Colin Campbell of
Edinchip, aforesaid, Esq. deceased, their heirs, executors,
Administrates, and Assigns, all my said track of land and
heredits, in America,” etc.
Browne, IV, 150.
Knox Journal, I, 373, 377, 387; II, 401.
Army List. Commissionary Wilson’s Orderly Book. 1759. p. 18.
Stewart of Garth Appendix.
_Archibald Campbell._
Archibald Campbell. Born 1720. Eldest son of Duncan Campbell of
Glendaruel and Lockhead. His mother was Elizabeth, daughter of the
Rev. Archibald Campbell of Inverary. He was appointed Ensign 42d
Regt. 23d Jan. 1756, Lieut. 28th July 1757, Captain 4th Dec. 1759.
Died 3d June 1762.
_Donald Campbell._
Donald Campbell, son of Donald Campbell Bailie of McKairn, Taynuilt
Argyll, was appointed Ensign in the 42d Regt. of Foot, 5th May
1756. He was with one of the additional companies in the “Anandall”
which sprang two leaks, lost her mizen mast, was attacked three
times by Privateers (which they beat off with small arms), and was
driven into the West Indies, so that she did not arrive in New
York, in time for the company to join the attack on Ticonderoga.
He was appointed Lieut. 24th July 1758 and retired 13th June 1761,
having served with the Royal Highlanders from 1758 to 1761.
Highlanders in America by MacLean, page 176, N. Y. Colonial
Documents, page 629.
_Duncan Campbell (Killochronan, Island of Mull)._
Extract from the Memorial of Captain Duncan Campbell, American
Loyalist Claims.
“Humbly Sheweth, that he was a native of Great Britain and he
was appointed Ensign in the 42nd Highlanders 26 January 1756,
in which Corps he served the war before last in America and the
West Indies. And in August 1763 the Regiment was ordered on an
expedition to the relief of Fort Pitt, then invested by the
savages.
On the march he was severely wounded at the battle of Bushy
Run, and for a long time rendered unfit for service. (In this
skirmishing warfare the troops suffered much from the want of
water and the extreme heat of the weather) which occasioned his
retiring on half pay in 1764.
He soon thereafter settled at Fredricksburg, Dutchess Co. in the
Prov. of New York (in 1769) and purchased a valuable track of
land from Colonel Beverly Robinson and others on good terms. In
1775 he was Colonel of Militia and Magistrate for the said county.
That at the commencement of the troubles he took an early and
decided part in favor of His Majesty’s government, which rendered
him so obnoxious to the popular party where he dwelt that he was
obliged to fly to New York, to save his life, from the family and
abandon his property in June 1775. That soon after his arrival
there he engaged as an officer in the 2nd Battalion Highland
Emigrant’s in which he continued doing duty until the cessation
of hostilities, and consequent reduction of the Regiment in Nova
Scotia, in which Province he now dwells. (2 January 1784).
That early in June 1775 he got on board the Asia ship of war (64
gun frigate) then stationed in New York and soon after was joined
by some recruits he had engaged to follow him. In July thereafter
he went to Boston where Gen. Gage then Commander-in-Chief,
gave him command of an armed transport in which he returned to
New York where he enlisted and received on board about 60 more
recruits. That in September he returned again to Boston where
he left all his recruits except 26 which were left on board as
Marines, on the 8 October he was sent back on the same service.
But on the 16 of the same month was unfortunately shipwrecked on
the coast of New Jersey.
On this service he lost all his money and baggage to the
amount of £100. This loss His Excellency Sir William Howe,
then Commander-in-Chief, would not think of reimbursing at the
time. In consequence of the shipwreck he and his party had the
misfortune to be made prisoners and was carried to Philadelphia
where he was fourteen months in a small apartment of the dismal
gaol where he contracted a sickness which was likely to prove
fatal to him.
How soon he was taken his family were turned out of doors and
deprived of everything they had except some wearing apparell. The
distressed situation of the family so driven from their home may
be easier felt than described. It brought on for a beginning the
untimely death of an amiable wife, and deprived his five infant
children of a mother’s care whereby they for some time became
objects of compassion which he was unable to rescue them from.
Until he was exchanged and joined his Regiment (in January 1777)
he thereafter continued to serve during the war.
N. B. The Memorialist was appointed Second Oldest Captain in
the 2nd Batt. 84th Regiment the 14 June 1775 and was reduced in
October 1783 without a step of preferment in the Regt. or in the
Line.
Captain 4th Breadalbane Regt. of Fencibles 2nd Batt. 1 March
1793; Major 17 Feb. 1794; Lieut. Col. 9 Dec. 1795; Regiment
disbanded 18 April 1799. He died at Edinburgh in Dec. 1799.”
Major Sir Duncan Campbell of Barcaldine, Bart. C. V. O.
Stewart, I, 279; II, Appendix No. 11.
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