Peter Campbell

Son of Peter Campbell of Fish River and Deborah nee Woodstock (later Brisco), father Peter Campbell of Kilmory (both of whom q.v.). Died c. 1818, when he was of Abinger Hall, the address of his son-in-law James Scarlett (q.v.).

1. Peter Campbell contributed £50 to the University of Pennsylvania following Dr John Morgan's fundraising tour of the West Indies in 1772-1773.

2. Will of Peter Campbell of Abinger Hall [made in 1817] proved 26/02/1818. Under the will he left £3000 each to his daughters Louisa Scarlett, Elizabeth Campbell and Deborah Campbell, and £2000 to his three grandsons, charged on his real estate in Great Britain and Jamaica. In a codicil he left £2000 each to his two granddaughters. He specified his estates as Holland, Fish River and Petersville, and instructed that the produce from the estates be shipped to his consignees in London Milligan, Robertson and Milligan until his debt to them was repaid. The codicil also included provision of an annuity of £25 p.a. to Jacob Campbell, his 'servant of colour' then living with him, and a legacy to William Campbell, the son of a woman of colour named Mira or Mina of St Elizabeth, presumably his natural son with her. His heir was his son, unnamed in the will but known to be Peter Campbell of Kilmorey (q.v.): another son, Colin Woodstock Campbell, had predeceased him.

http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/RCampbell.htm [accessed 28/12/2016]

1. C. S. Graubard, 'Documenting the University of Pennsylvania's Connection to Slavery (2018) via archives.upenn.edu [accessed 16/01/2019].

2. PROB 11/1601/375.

We are grateful to Paul Hitchings for his assistance with compiling this entry.