Settlers Of The 84th Regiment

An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America ..., By John Patterson MacLean

"At the conclusion of the war grants of land were given to the officers and men... .  The men of Major Small's battalion went to Nova Scotia...a number settled on East River."

"The settlers of East Branch or River of the 84th on the East side were Donald Cameron a native of Urquhart Scotland served eight years possessed one hundred and fifty acres his son Duncan served two years as a drummer boy in the regiment." Alexander Cameron one hundred acres... .Finlay Cameron four hundred. Samuel Cameron one hundred acres."

"On the west side of the same river...Samuel Cameron three hundred acres."

"...James Cameron 84th regiment three hundred acres...".

Sergeant Alan Cameron

British Flag (Not In Canada)

"The very first fire of the enemy was sufficient to repulse men who had lost all sense of order and military discipline. Amherst's (the 15th) and the Highlanders alone, by the soldier-like and cool manner they were formed in, would undoubtedly have beaten back the whole Canadian army if they had ventured to attack them."

Source

"Sergeant Alan Cameron had no means of carrying the officer away except on his back.  Being a stout fellow this was not a difficult task."

Alexander Cameron's Death Announcement

Alexander Cameron

Death announcement

The Royal Georgia gazette. (Savannah, Ga.) 1779-1782, January 03, 1782, Image 2:

Alexander Cameron, Indian Agent, died in Savannah, Georgia, about 29 December 1781

Representatives Of John Cameron

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CAMERON, John, (Representives of), Lochaber,

Lt. Adjt., 2nd Battn.

Scrip for 500 acres of land

for services during the war of 1812-15.

Quebec, 12-9-1839

(List 2, Quebec Gazette, 12-9-1839)

C. 1061 B.  p. 21.

From The Baronage Of Angus

Source

Men Of The 78th Regiment Discharged In America

Canada East : Provincial Secretary letterbooks...:

Film# C-10462  Image 158
Date on the Previous Page: 25 Decemberr 1762 to to 24 December 1763

An account of His Majests Royal Bounty of Fourteen Days Substenance, also the sword money paid the following men of the 78th Regiment Discharged in America

Rank             Name                    Companies                     Substenance   Sword Money

Corporal  Allan Cameron        Majr Jno. Campbell's
Soldier     Angus Cameron          do
do             Ewen Cameron          do

Sergeant  Allan Cameron        Captain Cameron's
Corporal Evan (or Ewen) Cameron   Captain Cameron's

Ann (McIntosh) Cameron

Upper Canada Land Book C-102:

Image 731

26 October 1808

Ann Cameron, wife of John Cameron, Jr., Cornwall...daughter of John McIntosh, late of the 34th Regiment, now of Cornwall, a U.E. Loyalist

Cross-posted at In Deeds

Donald Cameron, B-393, POA In The Bahamas

Donald Cameron

B-393 (Image 580)

2 October 1786

...that I Donald Cameron of Abaco, Captain of His Majesty's late Regiment of Rangers commanded by Colonel Thomas Brown, have made....do make...my trusty and loving Friend, Mr. John Ferguson planter and Josiah Smith Captain of His Majesty's late Regiment of Rangers aforesaid, both of Abaco, one of the Bahamas islands, my true and lawful Attorneys, for me and in my name....

Witnesses: John Wells and Jno. McIntosh

Nassau, New Providence

Cross-posted at In Deeds

Edict Regarding Purchasing Lands From The Indians

To add to their discomfiture King George III had, in October 1763, issued an edict forbidding private persons from purchasing lands from the Indians. Soon after the line had been established, the British Indian agent, Alexander Cameron, visited the settlement, informed the whites that they were trespassers on the Cherokees and that they must vacate or they would be removed by British troops. In the meantime the little colony had been joined by John Sevier and the Shelbys, Evan and Isaac, father and son. Robertson had come to be by common consent the leader of the colony, but upon the arrival of Sevier the honors were divided between them. Cameron took Sevier and Robertson to one side and intimated in rather broad terms that on payment of a certain sum to him they would be allowed to remain unmolested, Both scorned the idea of a bribe, and the agent departed. Then the settlers decided to evade the king's order by leasing the lands from the Indians. A council was accordingly called and an agreement made by which the whites were to have undisputed possession of the Watauga Old Fields for a term of eight years, in consideration of goods amounting to about $5,000.  [Source -  Notable Men of Tennessee]

Camerons In A Book Of British Officers

British Officers Serving In America:

Jane, Wife Of D. Cameron

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Jane Cameron, wife of Pte. D. Cameron

85th Regiment

Return showing place in B.N.A. to which she desires to be forwarded.

H.J. French, Major, 85th Light Infantry, Com'dg.

St. Jean, C.E.   19-9-1843

C.1003   p. 151

Died At The Plains Of Abraham

Military Camerons in the Scot In New France

Alexander Cameron, born about 1720 in Dungallon, Invernesshire, Scotland; died [September 3rd] 1859 Plains of Abraham

Captain Alexander Cameron of Dungallon died on the 3rd.

On September 17th the Highlanders landed at Wolfe's Cove with the rest of the army and were soon on the plains of Abraham. [Source]

FindAGrave Memorial for Captain Alexander Cameron.

Alexander Cameron's Protege

*"Colonel Innes was a Scotchman.  He was probably a protege of his countryman, Alexander Cameron, the British Indian Agent among the Cherokees; and was, it would appear, an assistant commissary at the Long Island of Holston, at one time; and in the fall of 1777, returned to the Cherokee nation, taking up his  quarters with Cameron.  He was commissioned Colonel of the South Carolina Royalists, January 20, 1780; in 1782, he was Inspector General of the Loyalist forces.  Colonel Hanger, in his Reply to Mackenzie's Strictures states that Innes was living retired in 1789, probably on half-pay."

Colonel Cameron Of Fassifern's Memoirs

Dublin University Magazine, Volume 43 (excerpt):

Patrick Calhoun Sent To Capture Alexander Cameron

Colonial Families of the United States...

Patrick Calhoun's Memorial at FindAGrave.

John Cameron Married Mary McKenalay

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John Cameron marriage

John Cameron Married Catherine McDonal

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Another John Cameron marriage

Allan Cameron In Brown's Company

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Cameron Extracts English Wills

American Wills And Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1610-1857,

by Peter Wilson Coldham:

Cameron, Abigail, of New York City, widow of Alexander Cameron, Lieutenant of the Royal Navy.
Administration to Leonard Streate Coxe, attorney for the son, William H. Cameron, in New York.
(Jan. 1808).

Cameron, Alexander, of Savannah, Georgia. Probate to William Ogilvy with similar powers reserved
to Donald Cameron. (Feb. 1784).

Cameron, Alexander, Lieutenant of H.M. ship Roebuck. Administration to Daniel Coxe,
attorney for the relict, Abigail Cameron, in New York City. (Jan. 1802).

Cameron, Allan, corporal of the Second Regiment of Foot, who died in New Jersey, bachelor.
Special limited administration to the cousin german, Colin Cameron, pending his production of the will. (June 1765).

Cameron, Charles, Captain of the 7lst Regiment, who died in Savannah, Georgia,
bachelor. Administration to the father, Donald Cameron, in Kilmally, Scotland. (Jan. 1782).

Cameron, Mary Ann, formerly of Philadelphia, but late of Everton near Liverpool, Lancashire,
widow. Limited probate to Samuel Moon and William Cameron Moore. (Aug. 1848).

Christian Cameron, Lady Rosehill?

Lord Rosehill David Carnegie was the oldest son of the Sixth Earl of Northesk, a Scottish peer and admiral in the British navy. If aristocrats often entered into romantic and sexual liaisons with actresses, they rarely recast those mistresses as wives. But Rosehill was an impetuous young man, just nineteen years old. He had arrived in the colonies in late 1767 or early 1768, following two years as an ensign in the 25th Regiment of Foot, a Scottish infantry unit of the British army. The circumstances were not auspicious. The fact is that Lord Rosehill was already married: in January 1767, at age seventeen, he wed Christian Cameron at Fort William in the Scottish Highlands. Though a priest performed the rite, no witnesses were present or required by Scottish law. The couple consequently acknowledged their new status to various persons, "after which they were bedded." When Lord Rosehill's commanding officer heard the news, he placed his ensign under arrest and expelled the lady from the garrison. Ten days passed before the matter could be resolved, at which point Lord Rosehill was released from prison, his wife readmitted to the fort, and the couple granted two nights together. Lady Rosehill then left to stay with a cousin (her father Alexander Cameron of Dungallon had died fighting at Quebec), while Lord Rosehill "went abroad." These details come from a process of Declarator of Marriage filed against David Carnegie by Christian Cameron, asserting her status as wife, in 1769. [Source]