Robert Campbell

Slave-owner in Jamaica, owner of Greenwich in Hanover. LBS has not yet traced him in Britain, where he had aimed to move in 1794.

1. 1794, June 11 Hanover To Be Leased for the term of twelve years. Greenwich Plantation … to be settled into a Sugar plantation at the option of the leasers … 320 acres … 60 of which are at present in coffee … twenty five Negroes … several Carpenters, Sawyers, Coopers, Masons … to be included … an elegant dwelling house, almost finished. Most advantageous terms will be given … by the subscriber who, from his very indifferent state of health, is desirous to leave the island in the July fleet. Robert Campbell.

Robert Campbell of Fulmer Buckinghamshire nominated the London West India merchant Duncan Davidson as one of his executors in his will proved in 1796, but the will had been made in 1793 and had no reference to Jamaica property, PROB 11/1274/213.

1. Notice in the Cornwall Chronicle & General Advertiser transcribed by Pieter Dickson and carried on Dan Byrne's website, http://www.danbyrnes.com.au/networks/periods/1775after/campbellduncan.htm [accessed 04/05/2020].