Lands Laid Out To Alexander Cameron

Alexander Cameron

The Georgia gazette. December 08, 1763, Image 4

100 acres in St. Andrew's parish, adjoining lands of David Douglas, laid out for Alexander Cameron.

Also see English Crown Land Grants Georgia:

CAMERON, Alexander 100 acres St. Andrew Parish, located at Cherry Tree Bluff on South Newport River adjoining David Douglass on the west, according to the original warrant. (q.v.)  Surveyed on November 1, 1759 Plat Book C, page 33

CAMERON, Alexander 100 acres St. Andrew Parish, bounded on the north by South Newport River marshes, southeast by Stephen Dickinson and southwest by Sir Patrick Houstoun.  Granted on May 1, 1759 Grant Book B, page 72

J. P. Cameron, Gordon County, Georgia, Grantee

Gordon County, Georgia

J.P. Cameron

Grantee
From W. C. Cain

Deed# E-465 (Image 267)
10 October 1866

Not cross-posted

Gordon County, Georgia, F-112

Deed Book "F"

"C" Index

Gordon County, Georgia

Deed# F-112 (Image 99)
3 September 1869

Cross-posted at In Deeds

Alexander Cameron In An 1805 Newspaper

Alexander Cameron

The Augusta chronicle and gazette of the state. (Augusta [Ga.]) 1789-1806, June 29, 1805, Image 4:

"...Alexander Cameron, late a soldier in the second regiment of the North Carolina line of the army of the revolution...".

Factory Fire In Richmond, Virginia

The Fayetteville news. (Fayetteville, Ga.) 18??-????, February 28, 1890, Image 1:

Alexander, Cameron and Company

factory fire

Alexander Cameron Estate, Gordon County, Georgia

Georgia weekly opinion. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1867-1868, April 14, 1868, Image 4:

Alexander Cameron

Mary Cameron, Administratrix on the estate of Alexander Cameron

Gordon County, Georgia

Census 1850

Gordon county, Gordon, Georgia, United States

Household Role Sex Age Birthplace

Alex Cameron Male 52 North Carolina

Catharine Cameron Female 40 North Carolina

Mary Cameron Female 20 Georgia

Joseph Cameron Male 18 Georgia

Ann E Cameron Female 16 Georgia

John Cameron Male 14 Georgia

Catharine Cameron Female 12 Georgia

Sarah Cameron Female 10 Georgia

Allen Cameron Male 8 Georgia

Elizabeth Cameron Female 5 Georgia

Simeon O Neal Male 16 Georgia

Alex Mccoy Male 70 Scotland

(This one?)

Alexander Cameron, Administrator

Southern recorder. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1820-1872, November 13, 1855, Image 4:

Alexander Cameron, Adm'r. for Daniel Cameron

late of Tattnall County [Georgia] 

Alexander Cameron Deed

Alexander Cameron Deed

100 Acres

Cherry Tree Bluff south, Newport

adjoining land granted *David Douglass

2 October 1759

Book C Page 23   74

Source

"...having a Wife and Child..."

See Plat here  (Parish of St. Andrews) 

*See more about the Douglass family

ENGLISH CROWN LAND GRANTS GEORGIA 1755-1775:

CAMERON, Alexander 100 acres St. Andrew Parish, located at Cherry Tree Bluff on South Newport River adjoining David Douglass on the west, according to the original warrant. (q.v.)  Surveyed on November 1, 1759 Plat Book C, page 33

CAMERON, Alexander 100 acres St. Andrew Parish, bounded on the north by South Newport River marshes, southeast by Stephen Dickinson and southwest by Sir Patrick Houstoun.  Granted on May 1, 1759 Grant Book B, page 72

Alexander Cameron, British Agent Among The Cherokee

 From an 1811 "History of Georgia..."

Coastal Area

Marching To Meet Cameron

Searching Documenting the American South:

Description by J. G. M. Ramsey of an attack by the North Carolina Militia on the Cherokee Nation 

[Reprinted from Ramsay's History of Tennessee. P. 162.]  Excerpt:

"To inflict suitable chastisement upon the Cherokees several expeditions were at once made into their territory. Colonel McBury and Major Jack from Georgia entered the Indian settlements on Tugaloo and defeating the enemy, destroyed all their towns on that River. General Williamson of South Carolina early in July began to embody the militia of that State and before the end of that month was at the head of an army of eleven hundred and fifty men marching to meet Cameron who was with a large body of Esseneca Indians and disaffected white men encamped at Oconoree. Encountering and defeating this body of the enemy he destroyed their town and a large amount of provisions. He burned Sugaw Town, Soconee, Keowee, Ostatory, Tugaloo and Brass Town. He proceeded against Tomassee, Chehokee and Eustustie where observing a recent trail of the enemy he made pursuit and soon met and vanquished three hundred of their warriors. These towns he afterwards destroyed."

Alexander Cameron's Probate

Alexander Cameron (link) Probate Document

29th Day of July 1761

Catherine Cameron of Savannah, Widow and Administratrix

David Montaigue, Merchant

Samuel Pelton

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).

Alexander Cameron At Fort Prince George

A Map of the lands ceded by the Cherokee Indians to the State of South-Carolina... (LOC)

"Stuart, who likely had observed [Alexander] Cameron serving at Fort Prince George during the Cherokee War of 1759-1761...". [Source]

Alexander Cameron, Agent

Portrait Of Native American 

The History of Georgia...


"Influenced by Stuart and Cameron the Creek and Cherokee Indians exhibited a threatening attitude. For the patriots the present was dark indeed and the future fraught with apprehension."

Cameron In The History Of Georgia

From The History of Georgia:

"Taking advantage of the unsettled condition of affairs and hearkening to the advice and the bribes of royal agents the Cherokees in violation of established treaties began depredating upon the frontiers of Georgia and the Carolinas. To these lawless and bloody acts were they largely incited by Captain Stuart his majesty's superintendent of Indian affairs in the Southern Department and by Mr. Cameron, his assistant."

Alexander Cameron At Keowee

See (Where Alexander Cameron Sent His Letter) at my In Deeds blog:

Source [Page 210]

Cameron's Indian Wife

The Works Of Theodore Roosevelt...

"A small party of Georgians had just previously made a sudden march into the Cherokee country. They were trying to capture the British agent Cameron,who being married to an Indian wife, dwelt in her town...". 

Documentary History of the American Revolution... published a letter that referred to Molly:

Influenced By Stuart And Cameron

From "The History of Georgia..."

Influenced by Stuart and [Alexander] Cameron the Creek and Cherokee Indians exhibited a threatening attitude.  For the patriots the present was dark indeed and the future fraught with apprehension...

Taking advantage of the unsettled condition of affairs and harkening to the advice and the bribes of royal agents the Cherokees in violation of established treaties began depredating upon the frontiers of Georgia and the Carolinas. To these lawless and bloody acts were they largely incited by Captain Stuart his majesty's superintendent of Indian affairs in the Southern Department and by Mr Cameron his assistant.

Excerpt From Exhibit At Horseshoe Bend National Park

See Obituary post.

Gray Cameron

Cherokee Advance, Apr. 17, 1885 -- page 1

"Alexander Baer worked for the writer.  Baer was possibly engaged to a girl named Hathaway who then became interested in a man named Gray Cameron (from the Steuben County, New York, area).  In 1864 Baer and Cameron fought over her.  Baer disappeared and there were suspicions that Cameron had killed him (he had not).  Sometime later a body, thought to be Baer, was found in a lake and there demands to have Cameron arrested.  Cameron escaped and joined the Army (67th PA*) then died in Libby Prison.  Baer resurfaced and said that he thought that he had killed Cameron, so he traded coats with a (drunk) man named Perry (whose body was found in the lake).  After the fight Baer went to Pittsburgh, adopted an alias, and joined the Army.  After the war he went to California and other areas out west.  Miss Hathaway married in 1867 and died (last year -- 1884?).  After Baer went back and worked a day in the Pennsylvania mill, the scene of the fight with Cameron, he decided he preferred the west."

The only soldier named Cameron in the *67th PA Regiment found on this  National Park Service website:

Cameron , John
BATTLE UNIT NAME: 67th Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry
SIDE:     Union
COMPANY: B
SOLDIER'S RANK IN: Private
SOLDIER'S RANK OUT: Private
ALTERNATE NAME:
FILM NUMBER: M554 ROLL 17
PLAQUE NUMBER:
NOTES: none

Alexander Cameron's Will

Note: Cross-posted at Detour Through History

Alexander Cameron's Will

Savannah, Georgia, Visitor's Center
Alexander Cameron's Will Was Written In Savannah

"...Alexander Cameron of the province of Georgia, Esquire, do make my last will and Testament....".

Son, George Cameron
*Susannah Cameron, oldest daughter
Joaney/Jeany/Jane Cameron, youngest daughter
Molly Grafton/Stratton?, for faithful service
Slaves James and Delia
Cousin Donald Cameron, one half of my plantation in South Carolina called Lochaber
Nephew Alexander Cameron, the other half  "    "
Bequeath to nephew Alexander Cameron, Man named Will
Bequeath to Margery Cameron, living in Argyleshire...my sister
"  unto Duncan Cameron plantation...upon Saludy River in South Carolina...first granted to Charles ?...
Bequeath to Charles Taylor...
...lands...in West Florida...
....establishing a fund for Molly Stratton...widow....

Appoint William Oglivy, Charles Shaw, Duncan Cameron and Donald Cameron to be executors...

Excerpt From Alexander Cameron's Will
Heirs' Names Included

Will written in Savannah, Georgia

24th Dec 1781

Witnesses: John McGillivray, John McIntosh, Ferg. Bethune [Farquhar Bethune]

March 1872 witnesses swore that they were present and Donald Cameron was qualified to be executor and oath taken [James Wright]


*Susannah Cameron m. Dr. Guerineau