In 1660, the legal proceedings against Jean Campbell were recorded under the case reference C/EGD/2413. While the exact circumstances surrounding her trial remain tethered to the complexities of archival classification, her case is noted for a persistent geographical ambiguity. Christina Larner, a foundational scholar in the study of Scottish witch trials, identified Jean as a resident of Bute. However, this attribution is complicated by the presence of a reference to her case within a printed secondary source focused on the history of Kirriemuir, an inland town in Angus, far removed from the island of Bute.
Because the project archival research did not verify this specific secondary source, the primary details of the accusations brought against Jean remain elusive. The sparse documentation leaves her case as a point of scholarly intersection, where the limitations of seventeenth-century record-keeping meet the challenges of modern historical interpretation. Consequently, Jean remains a figure defined by the brief, formal administrative entry of 1660, her experience serving as a reflection of the broader, often fragmented landscape of the Scottish witch-hunting era.