Re: More about Kaskaskia
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Re: More about Kaskaskia
John Hendon 12/02/03
Some additional info on Ichabod
1753 to 1760, Icabod Camp an Episcopal minister divided his time between Middletown and Wallingford, Connecticut.
1760 Ichabod moved to Louisburg, Virginia with his wife and family.
1778 Went with Georges Rogers Clarke's secret "Ranger"expedition. He went as far as Louisville, Kentucky. There Rev. Camp left the the expedition and went on to Natchez. The Rangers went on to defeat the British at Vincennes, Cahokia and Kaskasia.The following year he returned to Kaskasia and was reunited with his family.
Ichabod Camp a patriot who had a great influence with the Indians and was instrumental in obtaining a peace pact between the Indians and the Revolutionists. Ichabod was baptized in Milford, Connecticut.
D.A.R. #72759
1786, June 6
A letter by Father P. Gibault to the Bishop of Quebec. Father Gibault is reporting on his activities and the condition in Kaskaskia, [ later to become part of Illinois ] as he perceives them.
" You know neither the regions nor the manners of those who inhabit them. In Canada all is civilized, here all is barbarous. You are in the midst of justice, here injustice dominates...... I could name a great number of persons assassinated in all the villages of this region, French, English and Spanish without any consequence whatsoever; but I shall satisfy myself in naming two recently murdered: M. Guyon the younger, who studied in Montreal killed his father-in-law with a gun in Kaskaskia; and yesterday evening one named Bellerose killed another man with a knife"[ the father-in-law was Ichabod and Guyon was the husband of Ichabod's daughter Catherine ] ref; LDS Film #097843
1786, Sept. 17
Father De St. Pierre to Barthelemi Tardiveau
" In regards to the faults which he has objected me in his letter to the inhabitants of this parish, I must enter into some eclairecissments. I have married Mr. Reihl a Catholic with Miss Camp on St. Joseph's Day. He finds fault with it because the latter was a Protestant. But, as I am from a country where Catholics and Protestants live together,as likewise in some Provinces of France where I'd lived. I think I have more knowledge of such marriages. By Pragmatic Sanction, "the Dutch' Catholic Priests are obliged to marry persons of different religions without any difficulty......." [ Stella Camp is the daughter of Ichabod and Ann Oliver Camp residents of Kaskaskia ]