A Wilson Family Tree
Notes for Robert Campbell
"Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871", by Joseph A. Waddell, Second Edition, C. Russell Caldwell, Staunton, VA, 1902, p. 149 (obtained from http://www.archive.org/details/annalsofaugustac00wadd):
6. Robert Campbell, sixth son of David, was nineteen years old when he went with his brother to the Holston. He was a volunteer in the expedition of 1774, and a member of his brother John's company at the Long Island Flats, in 1776. In October, 1776, he was in Christian's campaign, and in 1780 was an ensign under Colonel William Campbell at King's Mountain. In December, 1780, he served under Colonel Arthur Campbell, his brother, against the Cherokees. After acting as a magistrate in Washington county for more than thirty years, he removed to the vicinity of Knoxville, Tennessee, where he died in 1831.
According to Margaret Campbell Pilcher, he married Rebecca McDonald, a sister of his brother John's wife, in 1783, and they had six children.
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