Reverend John Campbell was a native of the north of Scotland, born in the year 1690. The precise time when, and the circumstances which induced Mr. Campbell to come to New England, do not appear in any written evidence. he died May 25, 1761 at the age of 71, in Oxford, MA. He was ordained in Oxford, in 1721. He married Esther Fairchild, of Boston, who died at Oxford in 1777. There children were: Mary, born Feb. 11, 1723, married Jacob Town, who are the ancestors of General Salem Town and his father, of Charlton, MA; John, born Feb. 7, 1724, his descendants were of Otesgo county, NY; Isabella, born Mar. 27, 1726, died Mar. 21, 1728; Duncan, born Mar. 27, 1727, married Elizabeth Sterns, of Worcester, daughter of Thomas Sterns, his descendants include Captain Sterner and Colonel Alexander De Witt, of Oxford, and also Archibald Campbell; Elizabeth, born August 14, 1730, died Jul. 12, 1732; Alexander, born Feb. 12, 1732, married Lydia Sterns, of Worcester, daughter of Thomas, was the first physician in Oxford, and died there; but two of his sons, both physicians, settled in Vermont, and as understood, one in Putney, and the other in Rockingham; William, born Apr. 2, 1734, became captain, removed to Vermont; his daughter Sarah, married a son of Dr. Shaw, of Castleton, and was the mother of the Hon. Henry Shaw, of Lanesborough, she later resided in Poughkeepsie, NY; Archibald, born Aug. 6, 1736, was a clergyman, and for a time, minister at Charlton, MA, removed to Vermont.

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