Our Scottish Connection

Grandparents
Grandparents arranged by last name
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7 Isabellas in my family line

Thomas Campbell

Thomas Campbell (1744-1825) according to his grandson’s obituary in 1907 was “an officer in an Highland regiment who settled on the Hudson.”

That town on the Hudson was Newburgh NY where he presumably met his wife Elizabeth Cropsey, fell in love and married in the nearby Presbyterian Church of Marlborough on December 1, 1773.
In 1775 he signed a loyalty pledge with the American side of the Revolutionary War in Newburgh, which happened to be General Washington’s headquarters at the time, and began serving on April 24, 1779 at age 35 on a list of Captain Arthur Smith's company of the town founder, Col. Jonathan Hasbrouk, the Ulster County 2nd Militia, along with Henry Cropsey, his wife’s brother and his own brother Duncan who lived on after the war until 1808.

Upon his return from the war Thomas sired three children with Elizabeth: Valentin Campbell, who lived to be 63, Henry Munroe Campbell, who when he reached adulthood would move west, and James, who would later move west and live with him in Detroit as Michigan Territory entered statehood.

Thomas and Elizabeth after the children left, moved upstate to Stillwater near Fort Edward and the Saratoga battlefield. Fort Edward was a major town at that time and soldiers were awarded free land as a reward for their service. As the Indian threat diminished the land became desirable and cheap.

Elizabeth died there at age 63 . They had been married for 47 years.
Thomas died on February 28, 1825 age 81 and is buried in a Stillwater cemetery under a tombstone, which appears in a photo on the internet but all I found in person when I looked in 2016 were stones with the writing obliterated by time.

Edited 2018

Thomas is buried in Stillwater, NY.

His tombstone once seen in Stillwater, NY.

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