Cumberland County NcArchives Court.....Campbell - Petition, Dugald 1782
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Source: Colonial Records Of North Carolina
Written: 1782

Petition from Dugald Campbell concerning permission to travel to Charleston, 
South Carolina
Campbell, Dugald
March 28, 1782 
Volume 16, Pages 256-257

TO THOS. BURKE, ESQ., GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF IN AND OVER THE STATE OF 
NORTH CAROLINA FROM DUGALL CAMPBELL.

[From Executive Letter Book.]

The Petition of Dugall Campbell, of Cumberland County humbly sheweth:

That your Petitioner arrived in this Country in the Summer 1775, when it 
seemed to be the expectation and wish of every good man that a speedy 
reconciliation should take place between this Country and Great Britain; that 
in this belief your Petitioner left his native Country without bringing his 
property with him, thinking at that time that he could do it at any time he 
pleased. But the progress of the War, most unfortunately for him, has to this 
day, altogether put it out of his power, by which means he and his family have 
been reduced to distress.

He begs leave to inform your Excellency that John Rutherford, of Cape Fear, in 
Charlestown, sold him six negroes, which are now claimed by Mrs. Rutherford, 
widow of his brother Thomas, and that Lewis DeRosset, now also in Charlestown, 
owes him £300 Str. and further that your Petitioners property in Scotland and 
his expectation from his wife’s family in Ireland in consequence of his 
contract of marriage are to him very considerable. That there are, as he is 
informed, in Charlestown and with the British Army, several gentlemen who are 
well acquainted with him and the situation of his affairs and who would 
willingly purchase all his property and claims in the old Country and give him 
value for it in Charlestown which would furnish him with the means of 
supporting himself and family in this Country where he wished to spend his 
days.

May it, therefore, please your Excellency to grant your Petitioner a Flag to 
go to Charlestown to transact the business within set forth. And in case he is 
able to negotiate a transfer of his property in Britain, that your Excellency 
will grant him protection to bring from Charlestown to this State negroes or 
any other property he may get there in lieu of his property in Britain.

And your Petitioner shall ever pray and subscribe himself.

Your Excellency’s
Most Obedt. & Obliged
Humble Servant,
DUGALL CAMPBELL.

Cross Creek, 28th March, 1782. 

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