Series 1 - Carlile Pollock letter and Rev William Campbell memoir

113pp

Transcript excerpted from Patton, W.D. (1994), "'My Dear Uncle': a Letter from New York, 1789," Bulletin of the Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland 23, pp. 21-25. The original manuscript is in File 49, TFG Paterson Manuscript Collection, Armagh County Museum. Reproduced courtesy of the Curator, Armagh County Museum, per letter of 3 February 1998.

Materials pertaining to the Carlile Pollock letter and Rev William Campbell memoir.
W.D. Patton writes that the Pollock letter 'was written to the Rev. Dr. William Campbell, Presbyterian minister of Armagh, by his nephew Carlile Pollock in New York.' He also notes that 'Campbell (1727-1805) was a well-known and scholarly minister of the Synod of Ulster of New Light persuasion who had ministered in Armagh since his settlement there in 1764. He served as Moderator of the Synod from 1773 to 1774, and represented the Synod in various dealings with government. He was born in Newry and married his cousin Jane Carlile, also from Newry, in November 1758. Her sister Elizabeth married John Pollock of Drumcashalone (or Ashgrove), Newry. The Campbells had eleven children, seven sons and four daughters: Carlile, George and Hugh emigrated to America and settled in New York; their sister, Mary, married Isaac Corry, MP for Newry. The letter indicates that Campbell's son Robert, who was then 16 years of age, had emigrated earlier in the year to learn the Pollock family business in New York and to settle there. He died at New York on 16 June 1791.'
The series includes: photocopied pages of secondary sources related to the Pollock letter and to Francis Clements Crossle; a floppy disk labelled 'Rev Dr William Campbell, Antrim 1759-1764, Armagh 1764-1789, Clonmel O.C. 1789-1805, by Dr W. D. Patton'; a photocopied handwritten transcription of the Carlile Pollock letter sent from Pollock in New York to his uncle, Rev. Dr. William Campbell, in Armagh in 1789; a copy of an essay on Rev William Campbell; Kerby A. Miller's correspondence with colleagues, the Armagh County Museum, and Donald Patton, who has written about Rev Campbell.