George Austin Morrison

“ The unfortunate woman was supported by a family named “Van Robais” and her daughter “Charlotte” later married one of that name.
Daniel de Camp, son of Paul de Camp, a merchant at Sedan and Marthe de La Croix, was born about 1643, and became minister at Laon. He married at Charenton on 11th June 1673, Marie, daughter of Mathew Roguin and Margarite Bolduc. He was a member of 9the Synod of Ile de France on 26th August 1677, and minister of the church at Roncy 1677–79.
Moses de Camp, of Montauban, was a student at the faculty of the town in 1657. He became pastor of Mazamet 1659–68 ”

“ Elizabeth De Camp, at Hudson, N. Y., and Ann De Camp, a minor under 14 years. His widow Mary (Miller) De Camp, died 1847, leaving a will dated 13 Oct. 1847, proved 29 Dec. 1847, and recorded in Book 10 of Wills, 69page 463, in which she mentioned a son William M. De Camp, daughter Ann, and daughter Elizabeth, a lunatic now at Utica Insane Asylum. These De Camps are buried in Trinity Cemetery at Manhattanville, N. Y. city. The daughter Ann was alive and unmarried in 1893; Elizabeth married A. Conklin, but had no issue and was living in 1893. ”

“ The purpose of the present work is to trace and record the descendants of “Laurens Jansen De Camp,” [3] a French Huguenot, who arrived in this country about 1664, and appears to have been the first and only one of his name who came to the shores of the New Netherlands.
1 Laurence2 De Camp, the son of John1 De Camp, was probably born either in the province of Picardie or Normandy about 1645. He arrived at New Amsterdam in 1664, in company with other Huguenots, from Holland; but the name of the vessel in which he crossed the ocean is unknown. Dr. ”

“ George Austin Morrison, Jr.
691 Fifth avenue, New York, N. Y.
5 THE DE CAMP FAMILY. When the Catholic party, headed by Catherine di Medici, culminated years of cruel persecution with the massacre of the French Protestants on St. Bartholomew’s Day, 24th August, 1572, a number of the surviving Huguenots fled for safety to the Netherlands and England. In many cases the name of illustrious families disappear forever from the records of France only to reappear in and flourish under the protection and religious toleration of the Dutch and English nations. ”

“ At the close of the war he learned the trade of a carpenter, and commenced business at Troy, N. Y., at which place he settled when there were only six or seven houses there. He built the first Presbyterian Meeting House erected there. He would have been astonished could he have visited Troy to have seen to what it had grown. For the last twenty-five years he has resided at Greenport, L. I. Out of a large family only four children survive him, and fourteen grand, twenty-three great grandchildren, and one great great grandchild.” Henry De Camp’s wife was a sister of Mary Frear, who married Dr. ”

“ Arms: On a shield azure two towers silver, jointed sable, accompanied in point by a dog, gold, running after a hare, gold, on a meadow, silver, and a chief gules charged with three gold stars. (Provence, vol. 29, pt. i., fol. 818.)
Bertrand de Camps, Procureur Audit of Parleement; Capitoul (municipal officer of Toulouse) . Arms: On a shield azure a chevron gules, accompanied in chief by dots azure, and in point by a lion of sable, tongued and armed gules and a chief, azure, charged with three silver stars. ”

“ 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. ”

“ In 1715 “Johannes Van Campen and Saara Van Namen” were witnesses at baptism of Tys, child of Johannes Sweem, at Staten Island.
The children of John De Camp were:
3 Henry3 De Camp (Laurence2, John1) was born at New Utrecht, N. Y., about 1682. He married on 17 Apl. 1704, at Dutch Church in New York City Maria de Lamars. The record runs “1704 Mar. 30, Hendrik de Kamp j. m. van N. Utrecht wonende of Staten Ylandt met Maria de Lamars j. f. van de Bowery: Getrouvt 1704 Apl. 17.” ”

“ His children were as follows:
24 Henry5 De Camp (Gideon4, Gideon3, Laurence2, John1) was born at New Brunswick, N. J., and baptized there 1764, Sept. 9. He died 1853, July 26, at Greenport, L. I., N. Y. State, and is buried in the Stirling Cemetery there. He married Elizabeth Frear, also written “Fryer” and “Frair,” daughter of John and ——. She was born about 1768 and died at Troy, N. Y., 1830, aged 3862 years. Her family is said to have owned land above Troy near the Mohawk river, and a home on the Hoosack road. ”