certained that he visited Campbell at his residence. Not long
afterwards the governor's secretary asked the Provincial Congress "to
give Sanction and Safe Conduct to the removal of the most valuable
Effects of Governor Martin on Board the Man of War and his Coach and
Horses to Mr. Farquard Campbell's." When the request was submitted to
that body, Mr. Campbell "expressed a sincere desire that the Coach and
Horses should not be sent to his House in Cumberland and is amazed that
such a proposal should have been made without his approbation or
privity." On account of his positive disclaimer the Congress, by
resolution exonerated him from any improper conduct, and that he had
"conducted himself as an honest member of Society and a friend to the
American Cause."[36]

He dealt treacherously with the governor as well as with Congress. The
former, in a letter to the earl of Dartmouth, October 16, 1775, says:

"I have heard too My Lord with infinitely greater surprise and
concern that the Scotch Highlanders on whom I had such firm reliance
have declared themselves for neutrality, which I am informed is to be
attributed to the influence of a certain Mr. Farquhard Campbell an
ignorant man who has been settled from childhood in this Country, is
an old Member of the Assembly and has imbibed all the American
popular principles and prejudices. By the advice of some of his
Countrymen I was induced after the receipt of your Lordship's letter
No. 16 to communicate with this man on the alarming state of the
Country and to sound his disposition in case of matters coming to
extremity here, and he expressed to me such abhorence of the
violences that had been done at Fort Johnston and in other instances
and discovered so much jealousy and apprehension of the ill designs
of the Leaders in Sedition here, giving me at the same time so strong
assurances of his own loyalty and the good dispositions of his
Countrymen that I unsuspecting his dissimulation and treachery was
led to impart to him the encouragements I was authorized to hold out
to his Majesty's loyal Subjects in this Colony who should stand forth
in support of Government which he received with much seeming
approbation and repeatedly assured me he would consult with the
principles among his Countrymen without whose concurrence he could
promise nothing of himself, and would acquaint me with their
determinations. From the