John Campbell, wife Euphemia, served in the NC Line, widow applied Sept. 26, 1843 in Montgomery County aged 80, married in February 1781 in Bladen County, NC (soldier 31 at the time) and in 1805 moved to Montgomery County and soldier died in January 1821 John Campbell, born c. 1750, Revolutionary War Soldier

John Campbell, b. c. 1750, (possibly Bladen County), NC, married Euphemia Campbell (1763-1848) in 1781 in Bladen County (Marriage Bond). The story of his service in the American Revolution came from repeated applications for a pension by his wife and children. Pension file #18860 reads:
John Campbell, wife Euphemia, served in the NC Line, widow applied Sept. 26, 1843 in Montgomery County aged 80, married in February 1781 in Bladen County, NC (soldier 31 at the time) and in 1805 moved to Montgomery County and soldier died in January 1821.
Soldier and wife's marriage bond was signed by John Campbell Sr. and soldier John Campbell Jr. and widow was called Effey Campbell. Their children were:
Daniel, born Feb. 16, 1782 (m. Jane Downie);
Catherine, born Nov. 25, 1787 (m. Malcolm Downie);
Mary, born Mary 4, 1786;
John born Sept. 30, 1790;
Anges (sic--Angus?) born Jan. 24, 1793;
Euphamy, born June 28, 1785 (m. Angus Martin Jr.);
Archibald born March 20, 1798 (m. Nancy____);
and Ann, born Aug. 3, 1804 (m. ____McCaskill).

Pay vouchers of John Campbell in the NC Archives, Raleigh are #168, 25 Feb. 1780; 3824, 12 August 1783; 4224, 27 Aug 1783; #4369, 27 Aug 1783; and 4123, 16 May 1784.

In her petition for pension in 1837, Euphemia (Campbell) Campbell stated to the judge (printed as in the original): "that she was married to John Campbell who was taken of in the servis of these United states She think in the year 1781 she think was first caried tourming (sic) town SC and from that to Charls town S.C. she is very weak in body and mind but she think that he was in the army of the united states nine months at that time she further declars that she was married to the said John Campbell sum time in the spring of 1781 that her husband the afordsaid John Campbell died sum time in the month of January 1821. . ."
Additional information on descendants, Bible records, etc. are in "Descendants of Jeremiah Mitchell & Allied Families," Ann Mitchell Horne, 1994, in various NC libraries. "Allied Families" include Campbell and Downie families.

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