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- ↑ National Archives, London, PROB 11/1142, will of Margaret Campbell, probated May 1786
- ↑ Westminster City Archives, Saint Anne Soho, Baptisms, Vol. 2, February 1734/5
- ↑ Argyll & Bute Archives, MacTavish of Dunardry papers, Colin Campbell letter to cousin James Campbell of Kaims, at Isle of Bute, Scotland, 22 August 1757
- ↑ Campbell, Marion, ‘Letters by The Packet’, Argyll & Bute library, 2004. John Campbell of Orange Bay to his father-in-law in Scotland, dated 4 June 1767 (Jamaica letters in the Kilberry papers)
- ↑ Westminster City Archives, Saint Anne Soho, Baptisms, Vol. 2, January 1736/7
- ↑ Westminster City Archives, St James Piccadilly, Baptisms, Vol. 3, January 1739
- ↑ National Archives, London, will of Margaret Jane Campbell, PROB 11/970, proved 12 September 1771.
- ↑ Not named in 1746 will of Henry Barham, his mother's stepfather, but named in the 1748 will of his father
- ↑ General Evening Post, London, 2 November 1793, news item
