Descendants of James Campbell (Wanda Grant - Contributor) Generation No. 1 1. James1 Campbell was born 1782 in North Carolina1, and died 1859 in Grundy County, Tennessee2. He married Asenatha Lamb in Robeson County, North Carolina, daughter of James Lamb and Nancy Nail. She was born Abt. 1797 in Robeson County, North Carolina, and died in Grundy County, Tennessee. Notes for James Campbell: Tennessee 's Surveyors District 1807-1808: 13 CAMPBELL, George Wash. 1000 Wms McCullocks C S1 R3 25 Aug 1807 CC David Moore, Jas Moore. Mk Collin Campbell, Andrew Irwin. AT Jesse Franklin. Error, see No 107 14 CAMPBELL, Collin 640 Wms Elk R S1 R3 25 Aug 1807 CC David, Jas Moore. Mk Andrew Irwin. AT Jesse Franklin. MW 3702 Simon Albright. Error, see No 1 Abstracts of Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Cumberland County, North Carolina April 1779-January 1791 by William C. Fields page 26: Following has been claimed and ordered to be sent to the Superior Court: 320 acres of Angus CAMPBELL, claimed by FERQD. CAMPBELL for JOHN CAMPBELL; 640 acres of Hector McAllester, claimed by FERQD. CAMPBELL for Alexd. McAllester. 640 acres lately taken as property of JAMES CAMPBELL, his brother in Scotland, claimed by Ferqd. CAMPBELL for the orphans of said ALEXD. CAMPBELL; said land considered to be property of said orphans, ordered that the commissioners stop all proceedings thereon. Also, the following land and lot taken as confiscated property: 1/3 part of a tract of land lying in said County containing 350 acres conveyed by COLIN SHAW to Robert ____. Page 57: 27 APril 1784 James Campbell to Duncan Buie proved by Thomas Armstrong]. Page 81: James Campbell appointed deputy surveyor for this County, to qualify before R. Rowan, Esq.36 CAMPBELL, Michael & 640 Wms Duck R FS2 R10 18 Sep 1807 CC Jno Tate, Robt Campbell. AT Ezekiel Polk. 36 PHILLIPS, Phillip 0 same as Michael Campbell. 105 CAMPBELL, Collin 640 Wms Elk R S1 R3 25 Aug 1807 CC David Moore, Jas Moore. Mk Collin Campbell, Andrw Ervin. AT Jesse Franklin. 106 WHITE, John 427 Wms Cold Water C of Elk R FS1 R3 26 Oct 1807 CC Geo Criner, Jesse McCarly. 107 CAMPBELL, George Wash. 1000 Wms McCulloch C of Elk R S1 R3 25 Aug 1807 CC David Moore, Jas Moore. Mk Collin Campbell. AT Jesse Franklin. 128 CAMPBELL, Michael & 640 Whi crossing Elk R S3 R8 19 Oct 1807 CC Martin Jennins, Wm Davis. 128 PHILLIPS, Phillip 0 same as Michael Campbell. 157 CAMPBELL, George Wash. 1280 Mau Duck R FS1 R13 04 Dec 1807 CC Harrison Blagrave, Daniel Darnall. AT Jno Gordon. 188 CAMPBELL, Michael & 200 Rut M Fk Cane C of Elk R S3 R3 19 Feb 1808 CC Peter Wright, Job Mullen. 188 PHILLIPS, Phillip same. The 4th Regiment had the 1st company detached from Bladen Regiment included Ensign James Campbell, John Campbell, Colin Shaw, Sampson, David & William DAVIS Sr. & Jr., Thomas & Barnabas Brown, John B. COWEN. Depositions of James Campbell: State of Tennessee personally appeared before me, Josiah F. Morford Clerk and Master of the District Court of Chancery holden at McMinnville in the State aforesaid on the 4th day of April AD 1831, J. F. Morford Clerk, State of Tennessee , personally appeared before me Josiah F. Morford, Clerk and Master of trhe District Court of Chancery holden at McMinnville in the state aforesaid James Campbell a witness in a certain matter of controversy now depending in the said court, wherein John Hammons heirs and others are complainants and Hopkins and Layne are defendants, who being first duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists, deposes as follows in presence of counsel on both sides who interragates. In the year 1822, and from thence to 1827, I attended as counsel to a suit then pending in the Circuit Court at Bellefont, Alabama [Bellefonte is a ghost town in Jackson County, Alabama, United States. Bellefonte was settled in the early nineteenth century, became the County seat, suffered severe damage during the Civil War and was abandoned by the 1920s. All that remains of Bellefonte today are the cemetery, the chimney of the local inn and piles of scattered bricks.] where in Thomas Hopkins was plaintiff, and George W. Thompson was defendant. The suit was in relation to two Negroes, Molly and Agy, the first being black and the second a mullato, and whch slaves I believe formally had been the property of John Hammons, the reputed ancestor of complainants, where I was attending to said suit, and at one of the terms of said Court at Bellefont at which the cause had been argued and probably in the year 1825-1826 John Hammons came to that Court and expressed a wish that I would examine certain papers he had in his possession in relation to his dealings with Hopkins and also to give me full information in relation to the whole transaction. between him and Hopkins. I heard Hammons narrative, and examined his papers. I recollect two obligations or bonds of defeasance which had een executed by Hopkins to Hammons one of them showing as I believe that a conveyance Hopkins held from Hammons for a tract of land in Warren County, was a mortgage, another showing as I also believe that a bill of sale Hopkins held for the above Negroes was for a mortgage. I recollect no other facts in Hammons disclosure to me that now occur to me as material to relate. In the course of conversation Hammons expressed a wish that some person would undertake for him against Hopkins, and give him Hammons a part of what was received. My impression is I told him I could not undertake to do anything for him in the way he wished, as I WAS A PRACTICING LAWYER IN Tennessee and the law forbids me engaging in any business for conditional fees. I don't recollect that hemade any direct offer to employ me in the suit against Hopkins. But he showedme his papers, and maid a statement, and said he wished he could get some person to undertake to conduct a suit against Hopkins and he gave as a reason that he was unable to do so himself without assistance. I did not agree to undertake for Hammons and I maid no charge for anything I told or said to him. The negroes had been sold as I believe by virtue of an execution John McGowan against John Hammons. Thompson held them for McGowan under the execution sale. Hopkins claimed the negroes by a bill of sale from Hammons. The suit, I believe, is not yet decided but is now pending at Huntsville and those holding under the execution sale, one yet in possession of them. The defeasance in relation to the land, I believe to be the same now on filew in this duit and that in relation to the negroes, was attested by or purported to be attested by L. W. Harbury and I have understood is now on file in the suit at Huntsville. It was obtained since the death of John Hammons and FIled in that cause as I believe. And further, this depondent saith not, sworn to and subscribed before me at office where it was taken 4th April 1832. James Campbell. State of Tennessee , personally appeared before me at my office in the town of McMinnville in the state aforesaid on the 9th day of August 1829. The witnesses who have respectively signed their name to this deposition, all witnesses in a certain matter of controversary now depending in the district court of chancery holden at McMinnville in the State aforesaid wherein the heirs of John Hammons deceased and others are complainants and Thomas Hopkins and George Layne are defendants who having first duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists depose as follows. On 11 November 1842 in Warren County, Tennessee James Campbell sold to John Myres for $5 and other considerations a certain tract of land in Civil District 8 contaiing 45 acres. Also, 1 cart, 1 yoke of oxen, 1 sorrel filly, 5 young mares, 1 young heifer, 1 cow, 1 calf, 30 stock hogs, 10 hogs from 2-3 years old. This deed is made because I am indebted to GEORGE LAYNE for $50 due 1 May 1842 am to secure the payment of same. Signed in the presence of A. J. Brown and Wm. H. Dickerson. [George Layne had a livery stable in Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama ] Warren County, Tennessee December 1828 Ephraim & Ruth Myers Fults, Thomas Myers & other Myers heirs of Casper had a lawsuit against Thomas Hopkins for land on the headwaters of Hickory Creek beginning at the foot of the mountain on the lower side of the tract whereon Samuel Jones resided in 1811, to the line of original tract as located for John Carric Sr. in the occupation of GOLDEN FIELDS in 1811, near the path leading from Golden Fields to the place whereon William COKER resided in 1811 to the line of the tract originally located as an occupant claim made under the SETTLEMENT of JAMES CAMPBELL to include all Thomas Hopkins claims between Campbell's original claims and them. James Campbell served as a private in the War of 1812 enlisting at Lumberton, Robeson County, North Carolina on or about the 1st of October 1814 in the company commanded by Captain John McFatter & Col. Moore for a period of 6 months. He was stationed at Fort Johnston, North Carolina at Greenfield near Wilmington and discharged on 20 March 1815 at Wilmington. William Campbell & JAMES DAVIS certified that he was the James Campbell engaged in said War of 1812.