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Post by arduinna on Aug 10, 2006 8:26:00 GMT -5
If anybody who has the heirship papers of
Margaret Menager Campbell
and has the willingness, and time, could look up the descendents of her son Scott Campbell Sr., in particular
the children of Scott Campbell Jr. (baptised as Mathias Scott), his wife(s) (if available), the birthdates and places of his children - this would be very much appreciated!
Thank you very much for taking your time.
arduinna
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Post by Barbara on Aug 10, 2006 8:56:34 GMT -5
Hi- several of us have the heirship papers. If you would like I can mail them or scan a copy to you. Please provide me with your email or snail mail address.
Barbara
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Post by peacekeeper on Aug 10, 2006 9:11:21 GMT -5
Scott Campbell Sr. was the husband of Margaret Menager Campbell. He died in 1851. Scott Campbell Jr. died in 1874. I am sending you a document at your email address. I hope it helps. The testimony in Margaret's states that Scott had one daughter, now deceased, that had married an Augie, no children.
Jackie
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Post by arduinna on Aug 10, 2006 9:18:35 GMT -5
Barbara Thank you so much for your kind offer! That was a quick answer  I have sent you an e-mail with our address information. Once again: You researchers, and this board, including all the members, are G R E A T, may all your sharing and your efforts be blessed! THANKS AGAIN! arduinna |
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Post by arduinna on Aug 10, 2006 9:25:47 GMT -5
Jackie
Thank you very much.
This daughter might be the one we are looking for.
It is very difficult to find reliable papers on her. We are still searching for her birth, baptismals, marriage and death records.
arduinna
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Post by hermin1 on Aug 10, 2006 13:34:29 GMT -5
arduina, try the Wisconsin State Historical Society. Mr. James Hansen/Hanson Genealogical Reference Librarian may be able to help you.
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Post by arduinna on Aug 10, 2006 16:09:30 GMT -5
hermin1 Thanks alot for your hint! Every pointing to a direction is helpful to us. We'll try and let ya know. arduinna  |
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Post by peacekeeper on Aug 10, 2006 16:46:22 GMT -5
i believe her children are listed under the scout annuities for scott campbell
jackie
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Post by arduinna on Aug 10, 2006 19:21:44 GMT -5
yes, they are, but we need more detailed/accurate evidence. the scout list is not very detailed - no ages, relations, places, etc.
thanks, jackie
arduinna
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Post by peacekeeper on Aug 10, 2006 19:35:46 GMT -5
did you get the email I sent to you?
jackie
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Post by tamara on Aug 10, 2006 21:57:09 GMT -5
Sept 29, 1837
My dear Sir,
The treaty has been signed.* Amount allowed for claims 90. M. It is not yet settled when or where the claims are to be audited. You recollect that I told you when here, that I thought Scott Campbell† had received something by way of bonus, or he would not be so pliant in the hands of our friend the Major. It has turned out so, for to day when the treaty was read to the Indians, Scott. C. was found to have been provided for from the Indian's money $450. annuity for 20 years -- $9000! a very snug sum! Apart from this the Treaty provides that he shall have 500 acres of the land of the Indians on theWest of the Miss., just belowNew Hope, our Estabt, I wonder they did not grant him our point buildings & all. The whole treaty is but one series of iniquity & wrong, and the half breeds here are so exasperated that they declare they will not move a step with the Indians, but will go by themselves. This is the boasted paternal regard for the poor Indians, "O shame, where is thy blush!" I will write you again. Gov. Dodge is expected to night.
[Note : * The treaty referred to is the Sioux treaty of 1837, by which a large tract of land lying south of the Chippewa-Sioux line of 1825 was ceded to the whites. Taliaferro was in charge of the Indians, who were taken to Washington for the negotiations. Folwell,History of Minnesota, 1:160.]
[Note †: † Scott Campbell held the post of interpreter at Fort Snelling. His somewhat eventful career is sketched in Hanson,Old Fort Snelling, 71.]
Very respectfully Yrs.
H.H. Sibley
The above is a letter from Sibley and mentions Mr Campbell.
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Post by tamara on Aug 10, 2006 21:57:43 GMT -5
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Post by tamara on Aug 10, 2006 22:08:20 GMT -5
Page 27 { page image }
for Green Bay, which town we reached about the middle of October 1834, thence I ascended the Fox River to the Portage of the Wisconsin, where I was fortunate enough to board a very small stem wheel steamer, navigated by the two Harris brothers of Galena, which was on the point of leaving for Prairie du Chien. The accomodations for the few passengers the small craft could carry were of the rudest description, and the water so low in the Wisconsin River, that our progress down the tortuous stream with its innumerable sandbars was painfully slow. Our tiny boat seemed to have a strong attraction towards them obstacles, for it would ground at some points a half dozen times in an hour, but there was no difficulty in getting the light vessel back into the channel, the strength of two or three men being sufficient for the purpose. We arrived at Prairie du Chien of the fifth day, and I was cordially welcomed by my partner Col. Dousman and other friends. I remained with them several days, and as I had before me a trip by land of three hundred miles through an unexplored wilderness, it was necessary to make ample provision for any emergency.
I was fortunate enough to fall in with Alexis Bailly Esquire, a gentleman who was in charge of four trading stations, that were within my district, with headquarters at St. Peters, (since called Mendota, or M'dota, signifying in the Dakota or Sioux language, "Meeting of the Wafers," it being situated at the junction of the Mississippi, and Minnesota Rivers.)* Mr. Bailly's destination being the same with my own, we formed a party of five, each of us being attended by a Canadian voyageur, and at the request of Col. Dousman I took with me a half breed boy named Duncan Campbell,† about sixteen years old, who had relatives in the upper country
[Note : * Alexis Bailly was Sibley's immediate predecessor in charge of the American Fur Company's business at St. Peter's. He later established himself as a trader at Wabasha, where he died in 1861. Some details concerning Bailly's removal from St. Peter's in 1835 are given in Folwell,Minnesota, 1:165, and in Major Lawrence Taliaferro's manuscript journals, in the possession of the Minnesota Historical Society, under the date of June 23, 1835.]
[Note †: † Duncan Campbell was a brother of the better-known Scott Campbell, the interpreter at Fort Snelling, and a son of Archibald Campbell, an early fur-trader. M. M. Hoffmann, "New Light on Old St. Peter's and Early St. Paul"Minnesota History, 8:41 and note. It will be noted that in this paragraph Sibley gives evidence that the latter part of his sketch was written in 1886.]
More from the same... interesting remarks about the Campbells
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Post by tamara on Aug 10, 2006 22:10:04 GMT -5
Mr. Bailly's destination being the same with my own, we formed a party of five, each of us being attended by a Canadian voyageur, and at the request of Col. Dousman I took with me a half breed boy named Duncan Campbell,† about sixteen years old, who had relatives in the upper country he wished to rejoin. He is still living (1886), on one of the Sioux reservations in Dakota Territory.
forgot the last section of this
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Post by arduinna on Aug 10, 2006 23:41:25 GMT -5
thanks alot, tamara - this are the famous sons of ol' man Archibald Campbell, father of Scott Sr., Duncan Sr. and Colin. Archibald had a fur trading business together with Col. R. Dickson, another ancestor of my family. They worked together for a long time. interesting stuff. I wished I could make it one time to the MNHS, and dig into all the fur trade papers of that time... (Alexander) Duncan Campbell Jr. was later affiliated in the fur trade and other business with Henry Ange, also an ancestor of our family.
what we need now is still some clarification about Scott (Mathias Scott) Campbell Jr, his wife(s), and children.
thanks for posting those interesting quotes.
arduinna
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Post by arduinna on Aug 10, 2006 23:42:42 GMT -5
did you get the email I sent to you? jackie not yet - thanks! arduinna |
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Post by jazzdog on Sept 6, 2006 19:57:24 GMT -5
Jackie
can you please revisit your reply #2 in this thread? I would like it if you could email the source and document(s) you were referring to in your response to Arduinna on her question on the heirs of Margaret Menager Campbell. It looks like you were referring to some sort of document and testimony. Could you please email that to me at my email address as soon as you possibly can? thank you so much for what you do and for the entire staff and posting gang here. take care.
Jazzdog
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Post by denney on Sept 7, 2006 17:49:16 GMT -5
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Post by denney on Sept 7, 2006 17:56:04 GMT -5
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Post by arduinna on Sept 7, 2006 19:55:33 GMT -5
great post, denney, thank you very much!
arduinna
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