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CAMPBELL, PATRICK (17??-18??)

CAMPBELL, PATRICK, Scottish traveller and author; uncle of Dugald Campbell; married; living in 1823.

In the late 1760s and early 1770s, Patrick Campbell was the head forester of the Royal Forest of Mamlorn, near Achallader, Scotland. He later took up farming and also became a trader, prospering sufficiently for him to gratify "a passion for travelling." In July 1791, he left from Greenock for British North America, accompanied by his dog and a servant, "to assess the possibilities various settlements offered to immigrating Highland Scots." He arrived in Saint John at the end of August and after a few days proceeded to Fredericton. From there he travelled up the Nashwaak River and down the Southwest Miramichi to the Point.

While on the Miramichi, Campbell and his party were guests of James Fraser and James Thom on Beaubear's Island. There they found stores filled with merchandise, ship masts and spars ready for delivery to government, and wood of all kinds destined for shipment to foreign markets. Campbell noted in his diary that there were two ships standing at the dock. On the evening of their arrival their hosts had a party of magistrates and others for dinner which included Arthur Nicholson, Robert Reid, Otho Robichaud, Alexander Taylor, John Willson, Richard Laurence (a neighbor), Simon Kollock ("a hearty, jolly, fat Pennsylvanian"), George Andrew, and the high sheriff of Northumberland County, John Mark Crank Delesdernier ("a smart, lively, sensible little man").

The next morning, Campbell visited Sarah Davidson, the widow of William Davidson, and inspected Fraser & Thom's sawmills. After his return to Fredericton, he carried out other explorations in New Brunswick before continuing to Quebec and Ontario. Some sixteen months later, at the beginning of November 1792, he set sail from Saint John to return to Scotland. His experiences are recounted in his book, Travels in the Interior Inhabited Parts of North America in the Years 1791 and 1792.

Campbell was later attached to the army in Scotland. His name disappears from military lists after 1823, and he may have died at around that time. He had a son and a daughter.

Sources

Campbell; DCB; scrapbook #17


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