The case of Lieutenant Donald Campbell, and the other children of the deceased Capt. Lauchlin Campbell, of the Province of New York.
Campbell, Donald,Lieutenant.
[London? ; s.n.,
1767?]
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In 1734 New York Provincial Governor William Cosby (1690-1736) issued a call for Protestants from Europe to settle in the northern parts of the province, promising to each family two hundred acres of land from 100,000 acres purchased from Native American tribes. In 1737, Captain Lauchlin Campbell of Islay, Scotland visited New York. Cosby’s successor, Governor George Clarke (1676-1760), assured Campbell that he would receive 1,000 acres for every family he brought over, and each family would receive from 150 to 500 acres depending on the size of the family. Campbell returned to Scotland and brought his own family and thirty-four other families, totaling 176 people. They remained near New York City until Campbell could bring more to settle as a group in the wilderness.  Meanwhile, Governor Clarke on December 4, 1738, declared in writing his promise of 30,000 acres to Campbell for the thirty families he had brought. In 1739 and 1740, Campbell brought more families, making in the end 93 Protestant families, totaling 485 people. Although Campbell had hoped to attract 100 families, he now found that the provincial government intended to give no lands either to him or to the families he had brought. Campbell used the rest of his resources to purchase a farm seventy miles north of New York City for his family of six children. After helping to put down a rebellion in Scotland from 1745 to 1747, Campbell returned to New York and soon died.
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