Tryphena Cameron

 

The original documents published in this volume...contains the records of land grants from 1st July, 1797, to 13th July, 1798... .

Read the petition of Terence Smith in behalf of Tryphena Cameron. Stating that her late husband William Cameron early in the spring 1776 evinced his loyalty by joining the King’s standard at St. Johns, and in the year 1777 acted as pilot to His Excellency General Burgoine’s army till after the death of General Fraser when he was ordered back to Canada with the general’s baggage. She has four small children and prays for land. The petitioner not residing in the province no notice can be taken of the petition. Read the petition of Terence Smith. Stating that his late father was in different employments and received the pay as captain, prays for 1000 acres more. Recommended to complete the donation of 2000 acres to Doctor Smith’s heirs they having already received 1400 acres. 

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...".

Cameraire And/Or Cameron

Here is a website for the CAMERON (CAMERER, CAMARAIRE) Family (an example below):

"This family as Charles Cameraire/Cameron and Marie-Anne Valois was later at St-Jean-d'Iberville. Descendents settled at Keeseville, Clinton Co., N.Y."

Roses Brought To Canada By John And Mary Cameron

(Not The Maiden's Blush Rose Brought By The Camerons - See Link For A Photo Of That Rose)

The role of Highland emigrants John and Mary Cameron of Inverness-shire in bringing this antique rose to the New World and safeguarding its Canadian future in the aftermath of the American Revolution is justly celebrated. [Source]

Mother's Intervention

An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America, by J. P. MacLean:

The method of warfare carried on by Sir John Johnson and his adherents did not sway the lofty mind of Washington, as may be illustrated in the following narration furnished the author by Rev. Dr. R. Cameron, grandson of Alexander Cameron, who was a direct descendant of Donald Dubh of Lochiel. This Alexander Cameron came to America in 1773, and on the outbreak of the Revolution enlisted as a private under Sir John Johnson. Three times he was taken prisoner and condemned to be executed as a spy. How he escaped the first time is unknown. The second time, the wife of the presiding officer at the court-martial, informed him in Gaelic that he would be condemned, and assisted him in dressing him in her own clothes, and thus escaped to the woods. The third time, his mother, Mary Cameron of Glennevis, rode all the way from Albany to Valley Forge on horseback and personally plead her cause before Washington. Having listened to her patiently, the mighty chief replied: "Mrs. Cameron, I will pardon your son for your sake, but you must promise me that you will take him to Canada at once, or he will be shot." The whole family left for Canada. [Source]

Allan Cameron's 1775 Letter

The American Archives website featured a letter from Allan Cameron to Duncan Cameron (v4:342)

Intercepted Letter transmitted to Congress by General Washington, with his Letter dated December 18, 1775. ALLAN CAMERON TO DUNCAN CAMERON. On board the ship William, Norfolk Harbour, in Virginia, November 11, 1775.

"No doubt, sir, you would have heard of an unfortunate accident that had happened between one Mr. Cameron, of Mursirloch, and I, in the year ' 72, at which time I believe you was at Fort-William, in Lochaber."

"From the above circumstances, I dare to say you will, and justly, conclude that I am a son of Mr. Cameron, of Erracht."

Charles Cameron's Rejected Virginia Petition

Cameron, Charles: Petition
Legislative Petitions of the General Assembly, 1776-1865, Accession No. 36121, Box 15, Folder 54
Abstract: Asks for compensation for his services as first lieutenant in Stephen's Regiment during the Revolution. Date Issued: 1786-12-06  Spatial: Augusta County
Bibliographic Citation: [title], [locality], [date], Legislative Petitions Digital Collection, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va.

Abaco In The Bahamas

Source

An excerpt from the Pannebecker message board at Rootsweb:

"Thomas Brown was not only enterprising, he was well placed with both the outgoing and incoming governors. Brown was initially awarded two hundred acres on Abaco in the Bahamas...". He would do better than that. Before his Rangers left Florida, some of them had decided to live as Brown's neighbors on Abaco."

"Near him [Captain Smith, on land called Spencer's Bight] were Captain Alexander C. Wylly, author of "The Sketch of the Siege of Savannah," Captain Donald Cameron...Conrad Pennybaker...".

Source

Search At The South Carolina Archives

Search screen at the South Carolina Archives for Revolutionary War Claims:

Cameron, Alexander

Plat for 50 Acres

Craven County

South Carolina [abolished in 1768]

Archibald Cameron

Halifax, Nova Scotia
31 March 1828

Source Was FHC Microfilm
Document Identical To One
At Link Below
[Image 834]

Martha Ann Cameron, widow

Of Lieutenant Archibald Cameron

King's Carolina Rangers

War Office

Image 834

Reference: WO 42/59

Description: WO 42. A - C

Date: 1776-1881

Held by: The National Archives, Kew

Legal status: Public Record(s)

Arch Cameron's Petition

Arch Cameron, Image 933

15 December 1789

Petition of Archibal Cameron, 

late soldier in the Kings Royal Regiment o New York

Here's a template on my "In Deeds" blog showing how the information below was found (I used "Howard" rather than "Cameron" at that site).

Alexr. Cameron By Executors

Source

Duncan Cameron

Heritage.Canadiana.ca has [W.O. 28, X, P. 1, page 158*] on microfilm #C-10861, Image #1643 (excerpted below):

"Return of Royalists Not Incorporated In Any Corps"

Families Names/Men, Women, Children, Total/Lodged/When Arrived/Came From

Duncan Cameron/2,1, 0, 3/Montreal/20th Nov./Delawa_ _ River

*From the Library and Archives of Canada:

W.O. 28 Volume Numbers
These War Office 28 records relate to the period of the American Revolution and contain correspondence, letters and muster rolls of the British army, Loyalist regiments and German regiments. The originals are held at the National Archives in England. 

The Library and Archives of Canada has digitized index cards pointing to where the W.O. 28 documents (digitized at HeritageCanadiana) can be found.

Allen Cameron Mentioned In The Journals Of Congress

Source

"Resolved, That the said Allen Cameron...confined in prison at Philadelphia....".

The back story can be found in a newspaper account here.

Dividing Duties In The Indian Department

Indian Department duties were divided between Alexander Cameron and Thomas Browne, according to His Majesty's Southern Department Of Loyal Indian Allies website:

"The first step was to find a replacement for John Stuart." "Both General Prevost and Governor Tonyn highly recommended Thomas Brown. General Clinton, on April 29, temporarily appointed Alexander Cameron to replace Stuart."

"In London, Lord Germain made a decision to split the Southern Department into two districts and give Brown the eastern and Cameron the western."

"....on December 31, 1779 the confusion and chaos in Indian Department Leadership came to an end."


Henry Clinton's Papers at the Clements Library at the University Of Michigan included the following:

Volume 57 April 30, 1779-May 11, 1779
Death of John Stuart, Superintendant of Indian Affairs in Southern
Provinces
Appointment of Alexander Cameron as Superintendant of Indian
Affairs in Southern Provinces 

Camerons And Fenwicks And Giles

Per a message at GenForum:

[Was]....Alexander Cameron's son, Alexander, Jr., was married to a daughter of Edward Fenwick... . Edward Fenwick's sister [Sarah] was married to Col. John Stuart, Superintendent of Indian Affairs...and immediate superior to Alexander Cameron.

An escape involving Mrs. Stuart and Mr. Fenwick:

Source

Additional information from the GenForum message:

[There] was a Charleston marriage record of the widow, Matilda Cameron to a man named [Robert] Giles. The other was the will of Edward Fenwick's widow leaving only a shilling against any claims to her estate to her daughter, Matilda Giles.

In the Charleston County, SC, Estates, there's a Matilda Giles, Estate #1862.

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

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.