John G. Campbell
ID # 4260, (1770-1847)
| Baptism | John G. Campbell was baptized in 1770 at Scotland. |
| Marriage | He married Margaret (--?--). |
| Death | He died on 9 December 1847. |
| Burial | He was buried at First Church Cemetery High Park, later Mountview Cemetery. |
| Note | For the following, see Upper Canada Sundries, C-4547, numbered pages 13170-13172. This is a petition dated July 4, 1816, at Caledonia, New York, and signed by a group of ex-patriot Scots. These names include Harvies, McKenzies, diverse individuals, and an Archibald Campbell Jr., and a John Campbell. (The petition itself is well worth reading.) Since the petition was filed in U.C. Sundries, it was effectively dead-ended, but was probably the 'lead' for William Dickson to send Absolom Shade to Caledonia, New York, to invite the signators to newly established Dumfries Township. Nothing further thus far has been found of Archibald Campbell Jr., but John Campbell is probably the John Campbell referred to here. The Dickson Papers have yet to be examined to locate the original land transaction between John Campbell and William Dickson, but the 1832 census of Dumfries Township east of the Grand River shows John on lot 19 of the 5th concession of what later became South Dumfries Township in Brant County. John is also there at the time of the 1842 Upper Canada census. By 1851, John is dead and the property is in the hands of son Malcolm Campbell. A note here. Shown below John G. Campbell in the 1832 Dumfries assessment is a John Campbell Jr. He is not shown with property, but he does appear to have an assessment of a shilling. We must believe him to be John's son, but he does not appear in later records. Since brother Malcom appears to have taken over the family farm it may be that John Campbell Jr. is deceased. John and Margaret Campbell's stone is in the general area of the tall Buchanan pillar stone in section 2 at Mountview. Cemetery records and the OGS transcription have them buried in that area. The OGS transcription done in 1984 shows the stone to be broken and buried, but does provide a transcription. These stones were almost certainly originally in the Strang Burial Ground at High Park inGalt. The stone as recorded was in poor shape and the transcriptions of dates inconclusive, but the death dates are not likely far off. Your researcher was a child when he first viewed the stone in the 1940s and had the connection explained by his mother just as her father had explained the stone to her. The stone lay flat and badly cracked at the time. In recent years, the cemetery has been revisited, but the stone is not currently visible, probably now sub-turf. |
Children of John G. Campbell and Margaret (--?--) |
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| Last Edited | 9 Feb 2021 |