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James Madison, president of the college, to run the Virginia and Pennsylvania boundary lines. He was a member of the legislature in 1798-99, and died in 1805. He married (first) Elizabeth Ballard, by whom he had Anne Andrews, who married William Randolph, of Wilton, and (second) Mary Blair, daughter of Judge John Blair, or Williamsburg.

Hamilton, Andrew, born in Augusta coun- ty. X'irginia, in 1741, son of Irish emigrants — Archibald Hamilton and Frances Cal- houn, his wife. He is said to have been a descendant of James Hamilton. Earl of Ar- ran. regent of Scotland during the infancy of Mary Stuart. He removed to South Car- olina, and served in the revolution as cap- tain and major under Gen. Pickens, taking part in all the important battles in Georgia. After the war he was elected to the South Carolina legislature, where he served until eld age obliged him to ask for a successor. He married Jane Magill. a native of Penn- sylvania, who died in her eighty-sixth year, ho dying January 19, 1835, in his ninety- STXth year. They left many descendants.

Campbell, Arthur, born in Augusta coun- t}. \'irginia. November 3. 1743. When four- teen years old, he volunteered to aid in pro- tccting the frontier against the Indians. He was stationed in a fort on the Cowpasture river, near where the road crosses leading from Staunton to the Warm Springs. He was captured by the Indians, who loaded him with their packs, and marched him into the forests. At the end of seven days, he was unable to travel, and was treated by the Indians with great severity. An old chief, taking compassion on him. protected him from further injury, and on reaching the

lakes adopted him, and the young man re- mained with him during his three years* captivity. Campbell made himself familiar with the Indian language, manners and cus- toms, and gained the confidence of the old chief, who took him on all his hunting ex- cursions over Michigan and the northern parts of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. In 1759, a British force marched towards the Upper Lakes, and Campbell determined to escape. While out hunting, he left the Indians, and after a fortnight's tramp, reached the Brit- ish. The British commander was much in- terested in Campbeirs account of his cap- tivity and escape, and engaged him to pilot the army, which he did with success. Short- ly after, he returned to Augusta, after an absence of more than three years. For his services in piloting the army he received a grant of one thousand acres of land near Louisville, Kentucky. In 1769, his father and family removed to the "Royal Oak." on Holstein river, and in I77'">. Arthur Camp- bell was appointed major in the Fincastle militia, and elected to the general assembly, lie was a member of the convention for framing the constitution. When Washing- ton county was formed, he was commission- ed colonel, and commanded several expedi- tions, particularly that against the Chero- kccs. In 1785 he took part in a plan of Separating the county of Washington from Virginia and uniting ii with the proposed commonwealth of Frankland. constituting the western part of N'orth Carolina, where- upon the general assembly passed an act tlrawn by John Tyler denouncing any at- tempt nf this kind as high treason. He was lall. with a dignified air. an extensive reader, and a good talker. He married a sister of Ccn. William Campbell, and left issue at

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