De Camp Genealogy: Laurent De Camp of New Utrecht, N.Y., 1664, and his descendants — John Shaqi
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
(D.) Another Laurens Jansen appears indirectly in N. Y. Dutch Church
records, viz.: “1659 June 19 Jan Gervon van Beaumont in Walslant,
Soldaet en Lÿsbeth Hendricks Wed^e van Laurens Janzen Deenmarken” (_i.
e._ a Dane).
Here, then, we find no less than four other Laurens Jansen in New
Amsterdam living contemporaneously with our Laurens Jansen De Camp and
apparently in no way related to him.
Footnote 5:
NOTE.—Elsie de Mandeville was the daughter of Gillis Jansen de
Mandeviel from Garder, Holland, who emigrated to New Amsterdam in
February, 1659, on the ship De Trouw (Faith), a private trader going
to Manhattan, which sailed 13 February, 1659, with near one hundred
passengers, but no French except one—“De Ruine.”
It has been suggested that this single French emigrant was Laurens
Jansen de Camp “de Rouen,” _i. e._, that the passenger whose name is
left blank or cannot be deciphered in the original list was “from
Rouen,” a city in the province of Normandy, France. While there is no
substantial proof of the above contention it is based upon reason as
it is known that Laurens Jansen de Camp came from Normandy, and that
there was a De Camp family in that city, one member of which, Jean de
Camp, a saddler, was killed there during the St. Bartholomew massacre,
August 1572.
The name “Gillis Janzen” erroneously appears in a list of passengers
on the ship “Moesman” which sailed in April, 1659, and it was long
supposed that this was another person of the same name. (Doc. Hist. of
N. Y.) An examination of the original document now on file at Albany,
N. Y., proves conclusively that this “Gillis Janzen” is recorded not
as a passenger, but as one itemized in the ship manifest against whom
a charge is made for a small sum of money advanced by the direction of
the Dutch West India Company. Gillis Jansen de Mandeville brought over
with him his wife Altje (Pieters or Hendricks), and four children,
viz.: (1) Hendrick Gillis, born in Gelderland; (2) Gerretje Gillis;
(3) Aeltje Gillis; (4) Jan Gillis; and it is presumed that two
children (5) Tyntje Gillis, and (6) David Gillis, were born later at
Flatbush, N. Y. He died between 1696–1701, leaving a will dated 15th
September 1696, proved 1701, in New York County, Liber 2 of Wills,
page 109. In it he calls himself of Greenwich, N. Y. (an outlying
district of the city), and mentions his wife Elsie Mandeville, eldest
son Hendrick, son David, daughter Tynte, wife of Corn Jansen De Veer
(should be “van der Veer”), daughter Altje, wife of Lawrence Johnson
(meant for Laurens Jansen de Camp), daughter Perette, wife of Peter
Mutt; daughter Geritie, wife of John Muthel.
The original will, on file in the New York Surrogate’s Office, is
written in English, and bears a wax seal upon which a coat of arms or
crest can be traced, resembling a horse rampant.
Footnote 6:
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