WILLIAM CAMPBELL (GENERAL)

'William Campbell' (1745–August 22, 1781) was an United States farmer, pioneer, and soldier in western Virginia. In 1775 he was one of the 13 signers of the Fincastle Resolutions, the earliest statement of armed resistance to the British Crown in the American Colonies. He was an important militia leader of the American Revolutionary War. He fought at King's Mountain and Guilford Courthouse as a Colonel, and was later a Brigadier General supporting LaFayette's Virginia battles.
Campbell was married to Elizabeth Henry, the sister of Governor Patrick Henry, and represented Hanover County in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1780 and 1781.