David Campbell, a son of one of the first settlers.

The Campbell family, of Presbyterian Irish stock, first came to Pennsylvania, and drifted south.

In the revolutionary war it produced good soldiers and commanders, such as William and Arthur Campbell.

The Campbells intermarried with the Prestons, Breckenridges and other historic families, and their blood now runs in the veins of many of the noted men of the States south of the Potomac and Ohio.
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The first settlers on the Watauga included both Virginians (as "Captain" William Bean, whose child was the first born in what is now Tennessee, Ramsey, 94) and Carolinians (Haywood, 37).