Daniel Cameron Settlement

  Land Transactions In Transallegheny Magazine Historical:

Settlement

Cross-posted at In Deeds

Dr. Edwin Cameron

Source

United States of America Declaration of Intention

Residing: Martinsburg, Berkeley, West Virginia

Occupation: Physician

Born: Tatangouche, Canada

DOB: 6 September 1899

Married 3 April 1926

Place: Halifax, Canada

She (Wife) Born 30 June 1900

Three Children: Jean Isabel Marie; Donald Chisholm; Anna

Name Edwin Cameron

Census 1940

Morgantown, Monongalia, West Virginia

Last Place of Residence Martinsburg, Berkeley, West Virginia

Edwin Cameron Head M 40 Canada

Molly Cameron Wife  F 39 Canada

Jean Cameron Daughter F 12 Kentucky

Donald Cameron Son M 10 Kentucky

Ann Cameron Daughter F 8 West Virginia

Dr. Cameron moved to Delaware (per daughter Ann):

 "In 1945,my father, Dr. Edwin Cameron purchased the house at 22 South Main Street.  We had relocated from West Virginia so that Dad could take the position as Delaware's Public Health Physician." 

Edwin Cameron died in Kentucky in 1967.

Excerpts of the obituary published on April 10, 1967 in The Morning News from Wilmington, Delaware:

Dr. Edwin Cameron, 67, a former executive secretary of the Delaware State Board of Health, died Thursday in Clay City, Ky.... . For two years after leaving Delaware, Dr. Cameron served the Connecticut health department. Before taking the Kentucky post he had a tour of service in India for the World Health Organization, spent a year in Syria working for the U.S. State Department and practiced for a time in West Virginia. 

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Molly Cameron; two daughters, Mrs. Robert Dowd of Seaford and Mrs. Ann Burke of Camden; a son, Dr. Donald Cameron, Wilmington, and 13 grandchildren. 

Edwin was the son of Laughlin and Maud Cameron.

Buried At Point Pleasant, West Virginia

George Cameron died at the Battle of Pleasant Point; his brother, Charles, survived the battle.

Source

The name of George Cameron (a private), of Captain George Mathews' Company, of the Augusta County Regiment is listed on the Magazine Monument.

A post about Point Pleasant at Detour Through History.

Cameron Land In West Virginia

From "The Transallegheny historical magazine":

"Daniel Cameron, assignee of Frederick Beebles, 150 acres on Cheat River at the mouth of Bull's Run, to include his settlement made in 1776."

"Daniel Cameron, 400 acres on the Cheat River, one mile below the mouth of Licking Creek, in right of residence."

Also:

 Selethiel Goff, 400 acres, on Cheat River adjoining the lands of Dan Cameron to include the actual settlement of the said Goff made in 1774 with a preemption of 1000 acres.

Salathiel Goff, 400 acres on Cheat River, adjoining the lands of Daniel Cameron, to include the actual settlement of Salathiel Goff in the year 1774, with a preemption to 1,000 acres adjoining.

See information about Daniel Cameron's widow and children here.

Charles E. Cameron Born In Virginia

From the We Relate website:

Charles Edward Cameron...was a soldier at Point Pleasant, where his only brother was killed.

In New York, he [Dr. John Cameron, said to be a nephew of Cameron of Lochiel] met and married a widow, Mrs. Margaret Murray...who had two daughters, Sarah and Mary Murray.  ...came to Norfolk, Virginia, and there his two children [Charles Edward Cameron and George Hugh Cameron].

Charles and George Cameron were Colonel Charles Lewis's brother-in-law (married to their half sister, Sarah Murray).  Lewis County, West Virginia, is named in his honor.