Wallingford/Jarlov Family Trees

Family records state that three brothers of the Campbell family came to America from Scotland about 1740 or earlier. One brother stopped in Penn's Colony, the other two located in North Carolina, then a province of Great Britain. They lived in what is known today as Mecklenburg County, the present city of Charlotte at that time being the chief town of the state.

The first names of these brothers have not been confirmed. One writer proposed that Robert was one of the two North Carolina settlers.

There is a record of the birth of a son, William Campbell, who was born about 1759 or 1760 in the Province of North Carolina about three miles from the present city of Charlotte. The name of the mother of William Campbell has not been confirmed. Family history states that WIlliam Campbell and John Campbell fought in the same command in the Revolutionary War. One source records that William and his father were in the war together, another source has it that William and his brother John were patriots at Kings Mountain together.

So far, William and John are the only members of the early line to be identified as belonging to this Campbell family. It is conjectured without positive proof that William Campbell was the son of Robert Campbell (One John Campbell married Matilda Polk, daughter of Ezekiel Polk - but there is no proof that this is the John Campbell mentioned above.)

The History of Rocky River Church by Thomas Hugh Spence, 1954, states that William Campbell is listed as a Revolutionary Soldier.