James, John and their sister Margaret collectively owned a sugar plantation named Gilbratar”. While there is a report of a mortgage on both Spotsfield or Duanvale (or both), it is apparent the Campbell brothers had sufficient funds to establish large estates. It might be coincidental, but in the early a part of the 1800's an Alexander Campbell lived in Bound Brook. When and why John left Jamaica shouldn't be known to me however as late as 1840, the heirs of John Campbell” nonetheless owned the property named Gibraltar.
In all chance the old mill was moved or a brand new one built by 1831, nearly one hundred years after the first John Campbell and Aaron Louzada owned it. A John Herbert additionally bought the Kells Hall home from George Smock in 1817. From different luxury la property data we all know he was in Jamaica as early as 1779 when a John Campbell of Spotsfield” represented Trelawney, as a Member of the Council. John owned the plantation referred to as Spotsfield” and his brother James owned Duanvale” typically referred to as Duan Vale”.
In response to George Mason in The Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart, this portrait was in all probability painted circa 1810 in Boston and the portrait remained within the Campbell family until earlier than 1860. As a descendant of Jamaican Campbells (this John may be a first cousin six occasions eliminated), I've not too long ago taken an interest in monitoring our ancestry back.
John Campbell bought the Phil's Hill estate from her nephew Joseph Ricketts after the dying of Philip. Ann Campbell of the Household of Balenabe While I've my doubts about Ann of Balenabe being Ann Lenox, there may be a connection to the Lenox/Lennox household through John Campbell. Ann Campbell and her husband came to America from the Isle of Islay in Scotland with Captain Lauchlan Campbell. The next are a few of the facts and sources I used to make some assumptions of John Campbell who bought a part of the Kells Hall land and the Phil's Hill House in 1794.
