Author: Gary Owen Green
Farquhard Campbell was born in 30 Oct 1722 in Argyll, the child of his parents. He was married three times and had two sons and seven daughters.

Many times great grandpa Campbell was a bit of a scallywag when it came to picking sides during the Revolutionary War! But he certainly had good taste in the women he married as they all brought family name and money to the union! Farquhard shares a memorial stone with his son, Robert Campbell, Sr.

As recorded by Robert M. McAllister (Historian, The Clan McAllister of America) Coll McAlester, Farquhard's father-in-law, was one of a group of merchant venturers who bought a boat in 1739, filled it with farmers, tradesmen and poor "aristocrats" (one of whom I believe to be an 18 year-old Baronet named Farquhard Campbell from Jura) and sailed directly from Kintyre to Wilmington, North Carolina. They moved up the Cape Fear River in barges, to the location of present-day Bluff Church. As they moved up the river, various families were landed on either side. The ship was the "Thistle" of Saltcoats, Ayrshire, and it sailed from Campbelltown and Gigha on 6 June, 1739. There were five Scottish gentlemen (the other four Campbells and McNeills, mostly relations by marriage) and some 90 poor families, totaling 350 souls in all. In 1740, these gentlemen were given large land grants and exemption from taxes together with a money grant to help establish themselves in their new country. This was the first large emigration of Scots settlers to America recorded, and all came from the mainland of Kintyre and the adjacent islands of Islay, Gigha and Jura.
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Said to have come to America with older brother Alexander, it is also said that the two had different political views, but remained close, which would explain why Farquhard was always in the area of Duncan Campbell his nephew, assumed to be the son of Alexander
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Campbellton Named for Early Scotch Settler

Among the earliest of Scotch emigrants to the Upper Cape Fear was Sir Farquhard Campbell, baronet, for whom the town of Campbellton (now Fayetteville) was named.

Arriving here as a youth of 19 about 1740, Campbell had become a man of wealth and prominence by 1764. In that year he was elected as a Cumberland County Representative in the General Assembly, a post he held at every session until 1775.

In the 1771 War of the Regulators, Campbell was appointed captain of a company of 150 men from Cumberland, Bladen and Anson counties organized to fight the Regulators.

When the town of Campbellton petitioned Governor Martin for a change in its charter on March 13, 1772, Campbell was one of the petitioners. Later he was named a town commissioner.

In 1774 Campbell was one of the local leaders who greeted Flora McDonald, Scottish heroine, who arrived here with her family after a voyage up the Cape Fear River.

During his tenure in the General Assembly, Campbell was active on a number of committees and played an important role in shaping policies of the government. His voting on various issues indicated that he was a conservative.

Opposed to oppression by the Crown, Campbell did not, however, sanction violent rebellion. On April 20, 1776, Congress found him guilty of assisting the enemy and he was imprisoned for the public safety. In 1778 he took an oath of allegiance and was paroled to North Carolina.

Campbell soon re-established himself politically and became a member of the North Carolina Senate from 1785-93.

He was married three times, first to Isabella McAllister, sister of Col. Alexander McAllister, by whom he had five daughters; then to Elizabeth Whitfield Smith, widow of Alexander Smith, by whom he had three sons; and finally to Rachel Whitfield, who had no issue.

He died in March 1808 in Cumberland, North Carolina, having lived a long life of 87 years, and was buried in Godwin, North Carolina. His will disposed in minute detail of extensive properties in Cumberland County, including his plantation "Plenty Plains," where he lived at the time of his death, about 20 miles above Fayetteville on the upper Cape Fear. He is buried in a family graveyard nearly opposite Old Bluff Church.

Will of Farquhard Campbell
Abstract WB A 124-129 Arch June 11 1801
June 1808 Codicil: 28 April 1802

To my wife Rachel Campbell "all estate both real and personal which came by her at our intermarriage. The Negroes which came by her and which compose a part of the said Estate, should be equally divided between my male children and such of the brothers and sisters of my said wife . . . money interest, now in the use of Shadrach Holon with William Bryan and William Goodman his securities . . . To my wife ?"the plantation, Plenty Plains, whereon I now live - - -and the use of the Mansion House until the coming of age of my son James…" To daughters Jannet Armstrong, Isabel Smith, and heirs of my daughter Anne Buchanon and their father Hector Buchanan, and Son-in-law Malcom McKay (The disposition of property and monies to his daughters and son-in-law is unclear). To my son James 640 acres on the west side of the Cape Fear River being the plantation where I now live and 450 acres bought from Henry Avera on both sides of the Upper Little River and 4,000 acres purchased of Peter Mallet on Stewart Creek. To my son William 640 acres on the East side of N.W. adjacent to George Blocker land and 300 acres on Lock’s Creek adjacent to Thomas Murphy, and 200 acres adjacent to Hector Buchanon’s land and two 1/ 2 acres lots in Fayetteville purchased of James Hogg and all the lands of plantation whereon I formerly lived cont. 500 acres and 1760 acres between Cape Fear and Black River and 450 acres in Moore County, incd. The prongs of Cane Creek and a house and lot in Fayetteville and mill and mill lands on Carver’s Creek when he is 21.

Executors: son-in-law Thomas Armstrong and sons James and William Armstrong. . Witnesses Samuel D. Purviance, A McQueen and Jno MacQueen.

Codicil: I repeal provisions for Negroes and money at interest; to go to wife and heirs forever.

Robert Donaldson, Esquire and two sons James and William. Witnesses Samuel D. Purviance, John Dickson and Robinson Mumford. J. P. Campbell qualified.
Submitted by Jo Grasso kodiwolf@earthlink.net
Here also rests Farq'd Campbell of Revolutionary Fame died about 1810

Source: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=CAM&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSst=29&GScntry=4&GSsr=3001&GRid=21315806&
Believed to be buried in family cemetery on his plantation across the Cape Fear River from Old Bluff Presbyterian Church, near Wade, northeastern Cumberland County, NC. Monument in Old Bluff Church Cemetery. GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 35.18377, Longitude: -78.72529Service: Member, Committee of Safety (State Regent’s Project Report; NSDAR 1947-48 Report; Falls County families & beyond Entries: 38333 Updated: 2013-04-01 16:55:12 UTC (Mon) Contact: Lisa,NSSAR Patriot & Grave Index Number P 127828)