De Camp Genealogy: Laurent De Camp of New Utrecht, N.Y., 1664, and his descendantsMorrison, George Austin
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De Camp Genealogy: Laurent De Camp of New Utrecht, N.Y., 1664, and his descendants
Morrison, George Austin
DeCamp family; DeCamp, Laurent, approximately 1645-; New Utrecht (New York, N.Y.) -- Genealogy
NOTE.—It has been stated that he was related to that Nicholas Camp who
went from Wethersfield to Milford, Conn., in 1639, and had a son or a
grandson, William Campe, who removed to Newark, N. J., about 1665. Not
the slightest proof of such relationship exists, and upon none of the
Milford, Conn., or Newark, N. J., records dealing with this Camp
family does the prefix “De” appear. Moreover, it is well established
that the Milford Camp family was of English origin.
Footnote 4:
NOTE.—There were several of the early inhabitants of New Amsterdam who
were called “Laurens Jansen” on the records, none of whom can be
identified with our “Laurens Jansen De Camp.” It is interesting,
however, to trace out such of these “Laurens Jansen” worthies as can
clearly be followed.
(A.) In a list of early immigrants the following appears: 1659
February, In the Faith, “Laurens Janssen from Wormer” (Documentary
History of New York, vol. III.) The same man appears on the N. Y.
Dutch Church records as follows: “1666 May 6, Laurens Janzen j. m. van
Wormer in Noorthollt en Annetje Jans wed^e van Lucas Elderzen.”
(B.) On the same church record also appears one Laurens Jansen who had
a wife Marritie Aldrichs, and children baptized Maritje, 1672 April
16; Annetje 1674 July 8; Albert 1676 November 11; Wyntje 1679 April
23; Neeltje 1682 May 20; Jan 1685 April 29; Belitje 1693 June 18.
(C.) In a list of those who took the oath of allegiance at New
Utrecht, N. Y., on 26th September 1687, appears one “Laurens Janse,
natur” who also appears later in a list of inhabitants of New Utrecht,
1698, as having a wife, three children, and two slaves. (Hist. of
Kings Co.) He it is who, on Brooklyn Dutch Church records appears as
follows: “1696 Jannetje, child of Laurens Janse and Hendrikje Jacobse;
Witnesses Stoffel Gerritse and Annetje Jans,” and also in a deed
“Laurens Jansen and Hendrickse, his wife, both of the Yellowhook, Town
of New Utrecht, Kings Co. N. Y. to William Matysen of Brooklyn N. Y.,”
dated 8 May 1708, consideration £412–0 Acknowledged 21 March 17¹⁸⁄₁₉
recorded in Liber 4 of conveyances page 207 Kings Co. Registers Office
conveying land on Yellowhook consisting of 66 acres. It is this
Laurens Jansen that Mr. Tunis G. Bergen confounds with our Laurens
Janz (de Camp) in his work (Early Settlers of Kings Co.), and has
erroneously attributed to him several of the children of our Laurens
Janz de Camp. A careful examination of the names of parents and
witnesses on the original Flatbush and Brooklyn Dutch Church records
(Onderdonk’s copy, in Long Island Hist. Soc.) shows the excusable
error of Mr. Bergen. It is a curious fact, however, that our Laurens
Janz de Camp and this Laurens Jansen should both live at New Utrecht
between 1670–1700.
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