Samuel Campbell (1738-1824)

Date1855

MediumPastel on paper

DimensionsFramed: 27 1/2 × 23 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (69.9 × 59.7 × 6.4 cm) Sight: 20 3/8 × 16 1/8 in. (51.8 × 41 cm)

Object numberN0001.1991

Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of A. Pennington Whitehead

Photograph by Richard Walker

Label Text Campbell was one of the leading residents of Cherry Valley, New York, his father having brought the first settlers in the 1740s. His home was burned and his family taken into captivity during the raid on Cherry Valley in November 1778. He fought as an officer in the Revolutionary War, was eventually reunited with his surviving family members and became the progenitor of a large and successful family. Some of Campbell's descendants remain in Cherry Valley to this day.

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