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 | | When Campbell arrived at Fort George in September, 1782, he came from an organic, extraordinarily complex network sustained by endogamy, loyalty, trust, tribalism, shared intelligence (often illegally gained), multiple and "sleeping" or inactive partnerships, influence peddling, and transgressions of legal public/private boundaries-in short a mercantile arena virtually independent of external economic, political and social forces. |
 | | Colin John Campbell, who returned to Scotland in the fall of '83 and then, with his family, resettled in St. Andrews in 1784, quickly separated himself from the Pagan clique, e.g., he steadfastly refused to borrow money from them unlike virtually everyone needing capital for developing and expanding their business ventures in western New Brunswick. |
 | | Campbell Sr.'s final "scheme of business," completing the development of the St. Croix at the head of the tide, would be fully realized by his youngest son, Colin Jr. |
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