Re: RE:DeCamp Origin/Irish?
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RE:DeCamp Origin/Irish?
7/12/98
Almost all of the DeCamp's in the U.S. today seem to be descended from Laurent Jansen DeCamp, a Huguenot immigrant who came to America in 1664 and settled first in New Utrecht, NY (now a part of Brooklyn) and later in Staten Island.There are a couple of lines in the colonial period that haven't been able to be linked to him, and these may suggest the possibility of otherearlier unrecorded immigrants.I've gone through Filby's series on immigrants without finding evidence of other early DeCamp immigrants.
As far as any Irish connection is concerned, I haven't found much to support it.The early DeCamp's seem to have kept closely associated with Dutch communities for the first couple of generations.The ship that Laurent came on has never been conclusively established.
As far as any Irish connection is concerned, I haven't found much to support it.The early DeCamp's seem to have kept closely associated with Dutch communities for the first couple of generations.The ship that Laurent came on has never been conclusively established.There are additional problems that are related to the destruction during the Revolution of many government and church records in NJ (where all of the DeCamp's seem to have moved by about 1730).All of the 1790, 1800 and 1810 census records for NJ were destroyed when the British burned Washington in the War of 1812, although some have been partially reconstructed.Even where records exist, the name is occasionally recorded as "Van Camp" or "Camp".
There are additional problems that are related to the destruction during the Revolution of many government and church records in NJ (where all of the DeCamp's seem to have moved by about 1730).All of the 1790, 1800 and 1810 census records for NJ were destroyed when the British burned Washington in the War of 1812, although some have been partially reconstructed.Even where records exist, the name is occasionally recorded as "Van Camp" or "Camp".There is a book on the family, "Laurent DeCamp of New Utrecht, NY, and His Descendants," by George A. Morrison, published in 1900.It seems to be fairly complete through about 1770, but doesn't follow the families that moved west very well, and almost ignores descent from the marriages of DeCamp daughters.Facsimile copies of this book are available.One publisher that I know of is Higginson Book Co., Salem, MA; there may be others.More Replies:
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