Duncan Cameron, Witness To Deed# 25-136

  

Orange County, North Carolina

25-136

23 March 1832

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...".

Annis Hawthorn Cameron

Annis Hawthorn Cameron in Race and Slavery Petitions Project:

PAR Number 20184008
State: Alabama Year: 1840
Location: Talladega Location Type: County

"William Hawthorn seeks to recover slaves that were devised by deed of gift to his late father, Benjamin Hawthorn, by James Hawthorn Sr., his late grandfather. This is William's second petition on the subject.

William Hawthorn alleges that his uncle, James Hawthorn Jr., and his aunt, *Annis Hawthorn Cameron, procured through a fraudulent deed of gift slaves that rightfully belong to him and his siblings... ."

*Her mother was Flora Florilla Cameron Hawthorn and her husband was William Cameron

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."

1827 Duncan Cameron NC Probate

North Carolina, Estate Files, 1663-1979


Name Duncan Cameron
Event Type Probate
Event Year 1827
Event Place Richmond, North Carolina, United States

Also mentioned: Laughlin Cameron (brother of Duncan Cameron), Hugh McColl, John Cameron, John McAlister

Catherine Cameron In North Carolina

North Carolina, Estate Files, 1663-1979:

Catherine Cameron

Name Catherine Cameron

Probate

Year 1839

Cumberland, North Carolina, United States

File Name Catherine Cameron

Number of Images 16

"Also ordered that John D. Cameron be appointed next friend of his - brothers sisters

the petitioners Ann Nash Cameron - Catherine LaFayette Cameron - Duncan W. Cameron and Eliza Adams Cameron to be prosecute and represent them...".

Judge J. A. Cameron Of West Florida

1836 Notices of Florida and the Campaigns...:

Biography of Col. Francis Hawkes Cameron:

"We should mention that the brothers of William Cameron, the grandfather of Col. Cameron, were Judge Duncan Cameron...and Judge J. A. Cameron, who was a member of the supreme court of Florida for many years; and who was lost at sea many years ago, on the ill-fated steamer, Pulaski; and Dr. Thomas N. Cameron, of Fayetteville, N.C."

John A. Cameron's Daughter Mary

North Carolina, Estate Files, 1663-1979

Name John A Cameron

Event Type Probate

Event Year 1831

Event Place Orange, North Carolina, United States

Petition of William E. Anderson...appointed guardian of Mary Andrew Cameron...her father, John A. Cameron, Esq., who is absent in Foreign Parts in the service of the Government o the United States...

1829 Cameron Probate, Richmond, North Carolina

North Carolina, Estate Files, 1663-1979

Name Daniel Cameron
Event Type Probate
Event Year 1829
Event Place Richmond, North Carolina, United States
File Name Daniel Cameron
Norman Cameron mentioned

"Amount of sales of the property of Donald Cameron, Dec'd, October 15, 1829"

John Cameron, 1812

North Carolina, Estate Files, 1663-1979

Name John Cameron
Event Type Probate
Event Year 1812
Event Place Cumberland, North Carolina, United States

Angus B. Cameron's U.S. Patent

Source

Duncan Cameron In The Murphey Papers

The papers of Archibald D. Murphey, Volume 1

"Judge Locke resigned from the bench in February, 1814, and Duncan Cameron was appointed temporarily by the governor...".

 Duncan Cameron (1777-1853)

Warrant For The Arrest Of Alexander Cameron

From the University of North Carolina's Preston Davie Collection:

Folder 70

(digitized 2 scans)

John Matthews, 17 September 1776 (56)

Warrant for arrest of Alexander Cameron.

South Carolina...Alexander Cameron...absent from and without the limits of this State...to answer to Duncan Cameron...

Second page...19 March 1778...

John Ross's Cameron Relative

The John Ross House Near Chattanooga, Tennessee

From the Eastern Cherokee Applications at Fold3 (note also that John Ross was mentioned):

See Aulsa Cameron and others on this NARA document.

Christiana Cameron (Blue) Family Records

The North Carolina Digital Collections included the Christiana Catherine Cameron (Blue) Family Bible Records here.

Baptisms Of Archibald And Martha Ann Cameron's Children

Found in Microfilm # 857998 (British) (Certificates of birth, baptisms, marriage and death......Author: Great Britain. War Office)

Parish of St. Paul, Halifax, Nova Scotia.....

1815

June 5

Ann Darby, born 11 Dec 1812, child of Archibald and Martha Ann Cameron

1818

Sept. 16

Margaret Jane, 5th child of Archibald & Martha Ann Cameron, born 13 Dec 1817

1823

August 20

Amelia Caroline, 6th -- of Archibald & Martha Ann Cameron, born April 20, 1923

Parish of Saint George.....

1827

June 10

Maria Matilda, daughter of Archibald & Martha Ann Cameron, was baptized in the Parish of Saint George ,June the 10th 1827

Martha Ann Cameron's Petition

Found in Microfilm # 857998 (British) (Certificates of birth, baptisms, marriage and death, : with wills, administrations, statements of services and personal papers of officers and their families...alphabetically arranged, 1776-1881, plus eight bundles of similar certificates, 1755-1908. (W.O. 42/1-51)
Author: Great Britain. War Office)

To The Right Honorable The Secretary At War

The Petition of Martha Ann Cameron of Halifax in the County of Halifax and Province of Nova Scotia, Widow of Archibald Cameron late a Lieutenant in the King's Carolina Rangers commanded by Lieut. Col. Browne

Most humbly showith, that your petitioner's late husband Archibald Cameron served his Majesty as a Volunteer in the Revolutionary War in America & that in the Year 1780 his Excellency Sir Henry Clinton Commander in Chief of his Majestys Forces in America was pleased to grant him a commission to serve as Lieutenant in the Kings Carolina Rangers commanded by Lieut Col. Browne - in which capacity he served his Majesty until the Year of the Peace in 1783 (being a period of three years & upwards) when the Regiment was reduced at Halifax Nova Scotia on the 8th Day of November 1783, from which date your Petitioner's late husband continued to receive half-pay as a Lieut. in His Majestys Service -- That your petitioner was married to her late husband Archibald Cameron at Country Harbour in the County of Halifax and Province of Nova Scotia on the sixteenth Day of Dec. 1807.  That your petitioners late husband died in the parish of Saint George in the Town of Halifax on the 3rd Day of March 1828 - leaving your petitioner a Widow with a young & helpless family of seven children (the eldest nineteen & the youngest only three years of age) That your petitioner with a young family of seven children are in consequence of the death of the late Archibald Cameron deprived of the means of support & left in very destitute circumstances.

Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays that you will be pleased to take the present state of herself & helpless family into your favourable consideration & grant her the usual pension of the Widows of deceased officers of her late husband's rank, and such pension from the Compassionate Fund for her orphan family as your Lordship in your charitable consideration of their destitute circumstances may think fit to bestow -- And your Petitioner as is duty bound will ever pray -- 

Martha Ann Cameron

Halifax  March the 24th, 1828

Birthdates Of Archibald Cameron's Children

A record found in Microfilm FHL# 857998 (British):

Birthdates of the children of Lieutenant Archibald and Martha Ann Cameron.  Lieutenant Cameron was a member of the King's Carolina Rangers.

Mary, born November 25, 1808

Anne, born December 11, 1812

Alexander, born November 27, 1815

Margaret Jane, born December 13, 1817

Archibald, born October 20, 1820

Amelia Caroline, born April 20, 1823

Maria Matilda, born August 4, 1826

Martha Ann Cameron's Widow's Petition

Found in Microfilm # 857998 (British) (Certificates of birth, baptisms, marriage and death, : with wills, administrations, statements of services and personal papers of officers and their families...alphabetically arranged, 1776-1881, plus eight bundles of similar certificates, 1755-1908. (W.O. 42/1-51)
Author: Great Britain. War Office)

Names of children listed (truncated)
....Amelia, Maria, Mary, Alex,....

Halifax, Nova Scotia
March 31st, 1828

My Lord,

I have the honor to transmit herewith the Memorial and several corroborant documents of Martha Ann Cameron, widow of the late Lieutenant Archibald Cameron of the King's Carolina Rangers, who died here on the 3rd instant on Half-Pay of that Corps.--

Mrs. Cameron solicits the Pension of the Widows of Officers of her deceased husband's rank, and an allowance from the Compassionate List for her seven orphan children.--She is a woman of very respectable character and is left in circumstances of such pecuniary distress.--It appears by the enclosures that they are sufficient to establish the validity of her marriage in this Province,--that her husband served three years as a commissioned officer on Full Pay,--that he was placed upon Half Pay by reduction,__ and that he died subsequently to the 24th June 1806;__.  I trust therefore they may be deemed sufficient to induce your Lordship to accede to her application.--

I have the honor to be My Lord Your Lordship's Most Obedient Humble Servant,
James ____

The Right Honorable The Secretary at War

Thomas Browne's East Florida Rangers

Donald Cameron (who is thought to be an ancestor) married (2nd) Thomas Browne's daughter, Elizabeth.

British Florida, from the Department Of Military Affairs, included this:

As important to the future survival of British Florida as the arrival of the 60th Foot, was the arrival of Thomas Browne, formerly of Augusta, Georgia. Recognizing his merits, Governor Tonyn commissioned Browne...and authorized him to raise, equip, and lead a force of irregular militia (the East Florida Rangers). 

The East Florida Rangers ended their career on 24 June 1779. At that point a new corps was created on the Provincial establishment, called the King's (Carolina) Rangers, also called just the King's Rangers or King's Florida Rangers.

Brown's letter to Sir Guy Carleton regarding his military status.