isted themselves
to join the Expedition to Cuba.

That Captain Campbell having disposed of his whole Fortune in the
Island of Isla, expended the far greatest part of it from his
confidence in these fallacious promises found himself at length
constrained to employ the little he had left in the purchase of a
small farm seventy miles north of New York for the subsistence of
himself and his Family consisting of three sons and three daughters.
He went over again into Scotland in 1745, and having the command of a
Company of the Argyleshire men, served with Reputation under his
Royal Highness the Duke, against the Rebels. He went back to America
in 1747 and not longer after died of a broken heart, leaving behind
him the six children before mentioned of whom your Memoralist is the
eldest, in very narrow and distressed circumstances."

All these facts are briefly commemorated by Mr. Smith in his History
of the Colony of New York, page 179, where are some severe, though
just strictures on the behavior of those in power towards him and the
families he brought with him, and the loss the Province sustained by
such behavior towards them.

"That at the Commencement of the present War, your Memoralist and
both his brothers following their Father's principles in hopes of
better Fortune entered into the Army & served in the Forty Second,
Forty Eighth and Sixtieth Regiments of Foot during the whole War, at
the close of which your Memoralist and his brother George were
reduced as Lieutenants upon half pay, and their youngest Brother
still continues in the service; the small Farm purchased by their
father being the sole support of themselves and three sisters till
they were able to provide for themselves in the manner before
mentioned, and their sisters are now married & settled in the
Province of New York.

That after the conclusion of the Peace, your Memoralist considering
the number of Families dispersed through the Province which came over
with his Father, and finding in them a general disposition to settle
with him on the lands originally promised them, if they could be
obtained, in the month of February, 1763, petitioned Governor
Monckton for the said lands but was able only to procure a Grant of
ten thousand acres, (for obtaining which, he disbursed in Patent and
other fees, the sum of two hundred Guineas), the people in