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...".

Alexander Cameron, Mifflin County, PA

Source

One of 17 entries for Cameron in the Preston Papers.

Archibald Cameron

Halifax, Nova Scotia
31 March 1828

Source Was FHC Microfilm
Document Identical To One
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Martha Ann Cameron, widow

Of Lieutenant Archibald Cameron

King's Carolina Rangers

War Office

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Reference: WO 42/59

Description: WO 42. A - C

Date: 1776-1881

Held by: The National Archives, Kew

Legal status: Public Record(s)

James Cameron, War Of 1812 Veteran

Source

James Cameron

Private

Capt. James McDonald's Company

New York Militia

General Affidavit
...personally came before me...Eloise Cameron and Margaret Cameron of Glens Falls, Warren County, New York...widow Dinah (nee Coman)
Soldier and Dinah were married 27 September 1, 1818

James Cameron died 5 July 1858 at Stony Creek, Warren, New York

Dinah Cameron died about 1892


In 1901, Edward M. Cameron of the firm Cameron and Hawn, General Lumber Dealers, Albany, New York, made an inquiry for historical purposes regarding James and Dinah

George Cameron's War of 1812 Pension File

Marriages and Births from the George and Martha (Casteel) Cameron War of 1812 Pension file:

Source: Fold3

Also see April 2, 2013 Cameron Collections post.

Property Of Lt. John Cameron

From the History of the islands and islets in the Bay of Fundy, Charlotte County, New Brunswick [microform] : from their earliest settlement to the present time, including sketches of shipwrecks and other events of exciting interest:

A triangular piece of land formed by the line extending from Nett Point, north twenty-eight degrees west, 

twenty-eight chains, until it strikes the line at the highway, of the original Flagg and Sprague lots, became 

the property of Lieut. John Cameron on which reside his two daughters, his grandsons, Capt. Pettes, Peter 

Dixon, and his grand-daughter, Mrs. E. A. Dixon, and other descendants, and numerous other families. A 

long, narrow strip of land runs longitudinally on the south of tho latter line and highway, extending along 

the shore of Flagg's Cove to Drake's Dock and further. 

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

Duncan Cameron, Son Of Captain Donald Cameron, Request For An Allowance

#441

No. 1

Form of Affidavit to be made by a person receiving an Allowance on the Compassionate List, and competent to take an Oath.

No. Duncan Cameron, the legitimate son of the deceased Capt. Donald Cameron late of the Canadian Fencibles came this day before me, and made Oath, that he is the Person entitled to receive an Allowance of L 7, on the Compassionate List of the Year 1824, and has no other Allowance, Pension, or Provision from Government; that he is 18 Years of Age*. and is not married. [When the Person making the Affidavit is  Male, the words in Italics are to be struck out.]

Sworn before me, John Ma___, J.P.
at Point Fortune, in Hawkesbury, Eastern Division
this 29th day of October 1824

Duncan Cameron [Signature of the Person who makes Oath]
Carrillon in Argenteuil, Lower Canada [Residence]


Acting for the Ottawa District in the Province of Upper Canada [The Magistrate to state the County or place for which he acts]

Form of Authority to be given when the Person on the Compassionate List desires that the Allowance may be received by another Person for his or her use.

I request that my Allowance of seven pounds.... as an Officer's son may be paid to Mr. Arch'd Campbell of Regent street - London [Here mention the Name and Residence of the Person authorized to receive it]

[Signed]  Duncan Cameron [The claimant to sign here]

I do attest and declare, that I believe the above Affidavit to be genuine and authentic:  Arch Cambell [The person authorised to receive the Allowance to sign here]

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)

Note:  There was an Archibald Campbell of Regent Street mentioned on this website (don't know if it was the same person to whom the 7 pounds was transferred):
...A few minutes after my arrival there my old friend Mr. Archd. Campbell the Army Agent....
...at Mr. Archd. Campbell's office in Regent Street...

War of 1812 Application Of George Cameron

From the U.S. GenWeb Archives: Pension: Martha widow of George Cameron (1871); Jackson Co., IA

George Cameron who, Enlisted in (blank) at Pittsburgh Pa...that she was married under the name of Martha Casteel...that her husband died at the house of I. S. Cameron near Maquoketa, IA, on the 2nd day of April, 1864... .

He was in  Peter Stilley's Company.

The Camerons were living in Iow when the 1860 census was taken:

Source: Fold3 - 1860 Census Jackson County, Iowa, Geo. & Martha Cameron

United States Census, 1860

name: Geo Cameron

residence: , Jackson, Iowa

ward: Maquoketa Township

age: 72 years

estimated birth year: 1788

birthplace: Maryland

gender: Male

Source: Fold3 - War of 1812 File For George and Martha Cameron

The widowed Martha Cameron was living with her son, Isaac, in 1870:

United States Census, 1870

  Household Gender Age Birthplace

Isaac Cameron M 45y Pennsylvania

Rhoda Cameron F 34y Vermont

E J Cameron M 13y Iowa

Ida May Cameron F 6y Iowa

Marthe Cameron F 87y Pennsylvania

Marian Davis M 22y Pennsylvania

William Pangborn M 31y Pennsylvania

John F. Cameron's Widow's Civil War Pension File

Fold3.com (a paid site) has the following Civil War pension information for John F. Cameron's widow, Ann.  John died October 19, 1863, on a hospital boat on the Mississippi River near St. Louis, Missouri, of typhoid fever.  

Civil War "Widows' Pensions" 

Wisconsin Infantry Regiment 32 Company D Cameron, John F (WC14327):

The soldier, John F. Cameron, was born in Canada to David and Mary Cameron.  He and his first wife, Sophia, lived in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, circa 1856, according to an affidavit by B. H. Soper.  Sophia died in childbirth.  John Cameron married his second wife, Ann, Bennett, on 24 June 1861, in Oshkosh, Winnebago, Wisconsin.  John and Ann had John J. Cameron, born April 4, 1862, in Oshkosh.

Bible record included in the Civil War Widow's Pension file of John F. Cameron

The Bible records stated that Winfield Scott Cameron was born November 9, 1856, in Cleveland, Ohio; Anna Orilla Cameron was born near Lake Superior, Marquette, Michigan on May 2, 1859 and Albert Henry Cameron was born on March 24, 1861, near Oshkosh, Wisconsin.  

In the 1860 census, John Cameron was living in Oshkosh, Winnebago, Wisconsin, with Louise, age 25, born in Maine, Winfield, age 3, born in Ohio, and Aurelia, age 1, born in Michigan.  Marion Taylor, age 17, of England, was also living in the household.

Anna Orilla Cameron

BIRTH:  dd mm 1859

DEATH:  date - Johnson, Nebraska, USA

F: William Skinner Hogoboom

 M: Abeliza H McOmber

Adopted: "Real" father died in Civil War prison

Page 53 of the Pension files mentioned that Anna was adopted and lived with William Hogoboom near Oshkosh and had removed to Rockford, Floyd County, Iowa.  Page 70 mentioned that she was adopted in Illinois.