ed of the lovely but unfortunate Jane McCrea), and
these joined the British forces. There were five companies from the
county that formed the regiment under Colonel Williams, one of which was
commanded by Captain Charles Hutchison, the Highland corporal whom Ethan
Allen had mobbed in 1771. In this company of fifty-two men it may be
reasonably supposed that the greater number were the sons of the
emigrants of Captain Lauchlan Campbell.

The committee of Charlotte county, in September 21, 1775, recommended to
the Provincial Congress, that the following named persons, living in
Argyle, should be thus commissioned: Alexander Campbell, captain; Samuel
Pain, first lieutenant; Peter Gilchrist, second lieutenant; and John
McDougall, ensign.

Captain Joseph McCracken, on the arrival of Burgoyne, built a fort at
New Perth, which was finished on July 26th, and called Salem Fort.

Donald, son of Captain Lauchlan Campbell, espoused the cause of the
people, but his two brothers sided with the British. Soon after all
these passed out of the district, and their whereabouts became unknown.

The bitter feelings engendered by the war was also felt in the Highland
settlement, as may be instanced in the following circumstance preserved
by S.D.W. Bloodgood:[99]

"When Burgoyne found that his boats were not safe, and were in fact
much nearer the main body of our army than his own, it became
necessary to land his provisions, of which he had already been short
for many weeks, in order to prevent his being actually starved into
submission. This was done under a heavy fire from our troops. On one
of these occasions a person by name of Mr.----, well known at Salem,
and a foreigner by birth, and who had at the very time a son in the
British army, crossed the river at De Ruyter's, with a person by name
of McNeil; they went in a canoe, and arriving opposite to the place
intended, crossed over to the western bank, on which a redoubt called
Fort Lawrence had been placed. They crawled up the bank with their
arms in their hands, and peeping over the upper edge, they saw a man
in a blanket coat loading a cart. They instantly raised their guns to
fire, an action more savage than commendable. At the moment the man
turned so as to be more plainly seen, when old M---- said to his
companion, 'Now that's my own son Hughy; but I'm dom'd for a' that if
I sill not gie him a shot,' He then actually fired at his