Lt. Robert Campbell

From Some Kintyre Stewarts; A.I.B. Stewart; The Scottish Genealogist; Volume XLI, Journal iii; 1994; No. 3; page 97

I think there is no doubt that Rev. Charles' father was Archibald Stewart who first appears in Kintyre in 1683 when he was apparently in Tangie. He was married to Alice Campbell, the only child of Lt. Robert Campbell and his wife Isabel Dunlop. Lt. Campbell's Will is recorded in the Argyll Commissary Books on 18th March 1676. He was tacksman of the Drum and the two Ballergies situated near Kilkenzie village, about four miles north of Campbeltown on the Argyll estate.

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Family of the Stewarts, 929.241 S149c pg 38-9, 94;

Will CC2/3/1, Argyll Sheriff Court, of Lieut. Robert Campbell; Scottish Record Office, Sc54/22/8; He died intestate in Apr 1673, and his testament was given up by Isobel Dunlop Campbell, his widow, in the name and behalf of Ailis (Alice) Campbell "his only lawful chyld", who was appointed his executor dative.

The inventory concerned the stocking of his farm. He was owed nothing at his death, but he owed John Cunningham of Hill Beith money for seed oats and also sums to Archibald Campbell, Grisell Kennedy, and Jean Gray. A 19-year lease was taken out by Lt. Robert Campbell on the Kintyre farms of the Drum and Ballergies in 1671. In 1681, this lease was mentioned in an inventory of Lord Lorne's estates seized by the Crown, as follows: "Rentall of the four merks and half merkland of [Drum] and ye two Ballergies Archibald Stewart for his mother-in-law Lord Lorne". By that date, Lt. Robert Campbell had died, and his widow, Alice's mother, was running the farm, no doubt with help from Archibald Stewart.

Scottish Record Office

Archibald Stweart renewed the lease of those same properties for a further 19 years in 1691. Further, Reverend Charles Stewart, Archibald Stewart and Alice Campbell's son, took a lease of the Drum and Ballergies in 1754, futher evidence of the relationship.

Quote from notes by A.I.B. Stewart of Eskomil End, Campbeltown, Argyll PA28: GEP, Scotland:

"He (Cuthbert Campbell) was a member of the First Council of the Royal Burgh of Campbeltown in 1700, but later emigrated to America, first of all to Rhode Island, of which he became a Freeman in 1718, and later to Boston. Writing home to his brother Baron Neal McNeal of Ugadale of his intended marriage to Cuthbert's daughter Elizabeth, Capt. Hector McNeal wrote that his bride's brother George was close kin to the Rev. Charles Stewart. From this we may deduce that possibly Lt. Robert Campbell was a brother to Alexander Campbell, 1st of Lochdochart, whose wife was Barbara Campbell. Alexander and Barbara's son cuthbert was born in Campbel- town, and christened at the Lowland Church in 1661. George would be a son of Cuthbert.”

(geni shows Robert Campbell who married Jane Wallace)

https://www.kintyreforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=16584&start=15

As shown by the timeline, Archibald was tacksman of Tangy Mill (Tangie) in Killean parish, Kintyre. (Tangie means tongue and refers to the shape of the land. See A Martin, Kintyre Places and Place-Names, p. 291. Tangie was an estate that was until 1698 in the possession of a private family and did not belong to the lord of Argyll. He was tacksman of the Drum and Ballergies in the 1680s first for his mother-in-law, but in 1691 he became tacksman in his own name. In 1710 he began a lease of Drum and Ballergies.

We know that in around mid or late 1670s he married Alice Campbell (who was an only child), tackman at the Drum and two Ballergies. But we do not know whether this was just before his father-in-law dies (1676), or soon after. (To marry the only daughter of a prominent Campbell captain and take over their lease was very advantageous indeed.)

References

1. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stewart-29852
2. Some Kintyre Stewarts; A.I.B. Stewart; The Scottish Genealogist; Volume XLI, Journal iii; 1994; No. 3; page 97 # http://www.ralstongenealogy.com/number16kintmag.htm#start
3. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:GDPC-F4T
4. !Family of the Stewarts, 929.241 S149c p

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