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 Colonel Campbell in a vote of thanks for their services in protecting the frontier. Throughout the war of the Revolution he was actively employed, holding important command in Southwest Virginia, and his official papers show that he was a man of more than ordinary culture. He died at Smithfield in 1783, leaving eleven children, of whom five were sons. One of his sons. General Francis Preston, was the father of William C. Preston, of South Carolina. His descendants are very numerous, and many of them have been highly distinguished.