Thomas
Camp
I
Family
England
&
Virginia
Thomas Camp
b. 1661 Nasing Parish, Essex, England
d. 1711 King & Queen Co.,
Virginia
1m. 1689
Catherine
Barron
b. 1672 James City, VA
d. 1715 King & Queen Co., Virginia
her father: Andrew Barron
b.
Jun 1615 her mother: unknown
his father: unknown but some conjecture
his mother: unknown
Thomas Kemp or Camp
was a
self-sufficient farmer in early Virginia. His first appearance
in
records in New Kent county, Virginia, as early as 1679. This
was when a
Thomas Kemp came to the colonies. This section of Virginia is
now King
and Queen County. He was brought here along with four other
persons by
John Joy who gained 220 acres for his efforts on 23 Sept 1683.
Russ Williams
believes
he was not an indentured servant when he came here because he
built up
such a sizeable land holding by 1687. [Williams. p.5]
As a large farmer he
probably made many trips to Jamestown where Catherine Barron
was born
in 1672. Her father, Andrew Barron lived near Jamestown which
was also
still a very small community.
See more on Jamestown and
earlier Camp
connections.
Thomas had land on the
Mattapony River on and before Oct. 21, 1687, when John Walker
received a
560 acre patent for land in New Kent located on the north side
of the
river. This land is described as "beginning at Lt. Col. Thomas
Walker,
to Mr. John Starke in Jones' Meadow, on John Adkins; close to
William
& Thomas Camp's land; adj. Sylvester Alsworth, and Robert
Splencer,
on Tommacoican maine Sw., &c." He received this land for
transporting 12 persons. [Nugent. C&P, II p. 317 and VA
Patent
Book7 p.624]
This same land is
mentioned in other land records. One in a patent to Benjamin
Arnold on
April 23, 1688. [Nugent. C&P, II p. 320 and VA Patent
Book7 p.635]
1689 about- Thomas
marries Catherine Barron. They make their home on the
Mettapony River
in New Kent County, Virginia where they tend their farm and
raise their
children.
The county that he
originally resided within was known as New Kent but was later
divided
into two counties and the area where Thomas Camp lived became
known as
King and Queen County.
1704 - He is listed
in
the "True Accounts of Lands.." as it was taken my Rob't Bird
Sherriff..." with 250 acres in King and Queen County,
Virginia.
[Williams. p.5]
sources:
Ancestral Rolls,
South
Carolina Daughters of the American Revolution,
Compiled 1938 by
Mrs E. T. Crawford, State Registrar.
Mann, Col. Robt. Neville and Catherine Creek-Mann,
Camp-Kemp
Family Hist., Vol. I, 1969
Landrum, Dr. L. B. O. . History of Spartanburg County,
South Carolina
1900, reprinted 1954.
Williams, E. Russ, Jr. The Kemp,Turner and Roberts Families
on
Little Silver Creek, Washington Parish Louisiana. 1992,
Williams
Genealogical Pub., 514 Cole Ave, Monroe, LA 71203
Camp Index | Ancestor Chart #12
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