Hawkins County TN Archives Military Records.....Campbell, Robert 
Revwar - Pension 
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ROBERT CAMPBELL



    Robert Campbell applied for revolutionary pension while living in Carter's

Valley, Hawkins County. Tenn., Aug. 27, 1833. He was born Jan. 3, 1759 in Prince

Edward County, Va. In the fall of 1776 he moved to North Carolina, that section

which was later Tennessee, where he volunteered immediately and served two

months on scouting parties in Hawkins County against the Indians. He volunteered

again in 1779 and served three months as a private in Capt. Christie's company,

Col. Evan Shelby's regiment and was in the Chickamauga Expedition. He again

volunteered in the latter part of 1779 or early in 1780 and served two months in

Capt. John Looney's company, Col. Arthur Campbell's regiment against the

Cherokee Indians. He also served as a scout under Capt. Kyle.



    Note - He married Oct. 15, 1785, Mary Young, born in Rockbridge County, Va.,

Feb. 12, 1765. Her mother was Elizabeth Long Young, born Oct. 28, 1744, died

1835, who remembered seeing Washington and Braddock pass her father's house on

the ill-fated Braddock Expedition. Mary Young Campbell died April 1. 1841, and

is buried beside her husband on the home place 17 miles from Rogersville. They

had 13 children: James Young, born 1786; Andrew, born 1787; Alexander, born

1789; Joseph, born 1791, died 1867, married Frances Vermillion; Robert, born

1793; Mary, born 1795, married Isaac Carmack; Jane, born 1797, married Samuel

Curry; Elizabeth, born 1799, married John McNeal; Anna, born 1800, married

Manson Merriman; Nelson, born 1802, died 1806; Anderson, born 1802 (twin to

Nelson); Nelson (a second child by the name) born 1806; Phoebe, born 1809.



Additional Comments:
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SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. I



by Zella Armstrong



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