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DE CAMP GENEALOGY. Laurent De Camp, OF NEW UTRECHT, N. Y., 1664, AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

COMPILED BY

GEORGE AUSTIN MORRISON, JR.

ALBANY, N. Y.: JOEL MUNSELL'S SONS, PUBLISHERS, 1900.

PREFACE.

In compiling the genealogical history of Laurent De Camp, an early Huguenot emigrant to the New Netherlands, and his descendants, I have been actuated not only by the desire to perpetuate the memory of the first American ancestor of an old New Jersey family, but also to preserve for future generations manuscript records rapidly disintegrating and in many cases inaccessible to the general public. The early French and Dutch church records in New York and New Jersey have, with few exceptions, remained unprinted and have been so carelessly kept that the writings have almost faded away. To add to my difficulty the puzzling method adopted by the ignorant Dutch clerks of entering the French name "De Camp" in its Dutch equivalents "Van Camp" and "Van Campen" has necessitated a long and thorough search against each name in order that no important fact concerning the De Camp family, so erroneously recorded, might be overlooked. Throughout this search I have found no evidence to prove the "De Camp" and "Van Campen" families identical or even related in any degree. I have further had to struggle against a curious apathy among the present "De Camps" concerning their origin and in several cases an absolute refusal to furnish the slightest information about their immediate generation.

The result of six years' labor is contained in these pages, and I trust the data collected may prove of value to those interested in the subject, and spur them on to further research.

Some mistakes will doubtless be found throughout the work, but all criticism and correction will be warmly welcomed and any additional information gratefully received.

GEORGE AUSTIN MORRISON, JR. 691 Fifth avenue, New York, N. Y.

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. Between the years 1572 and 1620 the names of many of the French refugees underwent a change suitable to the environment and in some cases became so Dutch in character that it is extremely difficult to trace them back to the original French. The curious custom so prevalent in the Netherlands of using no surname and designating as "Laurence, the son of John," if such was the father's Christian name, renders the task of the genealogist still more complicated, and when added to the fact that localities and towns of the same derivative designation exist both in France and Holland , it is small wonder that the greatest confusion prevails as to the ancestral source of many early New Amsterdam families. As early as 1650 the names of "De Camp," "Van Kamp" and "Van Campen" appear on the church and State records of New Amsterdam and the surrounding towns. It was long supposed that these three families were closely related, if not identical, but a critical examination of the records not only of the parents and children, but also of the baptismal sponsors, carries the conviction that the "De Camp" and the "Van Campen" families were of different origin and nationality. Almost all the original "De Camp" settlers who can positively be identified and traced as such were recorded in the Dutch church records of New Amsterdam, Brooklyn, Flatbush, New Utrecht, and Staten Island, under the names "Van Kamp" and "Van Campen" by the clerks of the above several parishes. It is only after the year 1710 that the name begins to be written correctly as "De Camp" or "D'Camp" on the church records.

At first it was theorized that some of the early "Van Campen" settlers were originally members of the "De Camp" family, basing the presumption upon the repeated recording of the name of "De Camp" in its Dutch equivalent, but upon classifying and comparing the names of the several sponsors at the baptism of the "De Camp" and "Van Campen" children, the strongest evidence is found to sustain the statement that the two families were nowise related by blood or marriage, the one being of French and the other of Dutch origin. As a matter of general interest, however, and for the sake of more complete record some few facts concerning the "Van Campen" family are given in the foot-notes and the genealogical student can thus verify the above statement and draw his own conclusions. Every effort has been made by the compiler to trace the "De Camp" name in France, but a thorough search in the archives of the "Bibliotheque Nationale" at Paris, and of the Department du Pas de Calais at Arras, fails to disclose any information of direct bearing upon the American families of "De Camp." For the purpose of record however, the following facts may be of interest. The name "De or Du Camp, Camps and Campe," also "Decamp" appear in the records of the cities of Laon, Rosay, Rouen, Caen, Montauban, and Camp of France, and in the archives of the cities of Lausanne and Geneva of Switzerland.

TRISTAN and PIERRE DE CAMP of Lusigran de la Cab? les Pezenas, district of Beziers, were received as inhabitants of Geneva on 7th January 1555.

JEAN DE CAMP, a saddler, was killed at Rouen during the St. Bartholomew massacre, August 1572.

NOEL DE CAMP, a nobleman, Seigneur de La Boudrie, was received as an inhabitant at Geneva on 4th September 1572.

JEAN DE CAMP, a native of Montauban, setting out from Moulins with two gentlemen, was seized and hung near that city, with his companions.

JEAN DE CAMP, going from Tours, received a passport on 2d July 1590.

MARTHE CAMP de Bombelles, born of a good family of Montauban, married a Catholic officer in the "Desert," who wasted her marriage portion and then abandoned her, alleging under the then law that his marriage with a Protestant was a nullity. 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 the 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; was imprisoned several times in 1665 for refusing to salute the Sacrament when passing in the street; he died in February 1668.

MARIE DE CAMP, of La Rochelle, widow, aged 49 years, with two children, was naturalized at London as Mary de Camp on 21st November 1682, and was assisted there 1702-06.

PIERRE DE CAMP, of Pary le Monial in the Duchy of Burgundy, was received as a refugee with others at Lausanne on 21st August 1688. He was a copper-smith and died there on 1st March 1705 aged 64 years.

LAURENT DE CAMP was Seigneur of Bernoville in 1746.

There appears to have been a large family of "Du Campe" located in the neighborhood of Boulogne from 1475, but it is uncertain whether they were of same family as the Protestant "De Camps."

HUCHON DU CAMP owned a fief in the county of Boulogne in 1477.

JEHENNET DU CAMP owned an estate at Wissant prior to 1500.

THOMAS DU CAMP owned an estate at Luberg in 1505.

HENRI, JEANNE, ROBIN AND ANTOINETTE DU CAMP held fiefs at Engouasant in 1553.

FRANCOIS DU CAMP was prosecutor and counsellor in the Seneschal's Office at Boulogne in 1558.

ANTOINE DU CAMP, son of John and ANTOINE DU CAMP, son of Robert, declared their fiefs at Boulogne in 1572.

WILLIAM DU CAMP held a fief at Maninghen-les-Wimille in 1575.

MARGUERITTE DU CAMP, daughter of Guillaume Du Camp and Francoise Noel, living at Lianne, parish of Allingthun, married on 21 May, 1631, Jehan Flahaut, son of Nicholas Flahaut and Leonarde Lambert, living at Laires.

ANTOINE LE FEBURE, SIEUR DU CAMP du Rien, living at Wierre-au-Bois, son of Antoine Le Febure , married on 28 October, 1631. Suzanne Caullier, daughter of Jean Caullier and Marye Frutier, living at Boulogne.

CLAUDE LOUIS MARIE DU CAMPE, Chevalier, Seigneur de Rosamel, Chevalier of St. Louis, Major of the Royal Navarre Regiment, married Marie Armande Cecile de St. Martin, who died 17 February, 1765, aged 19 years. He was also Seigneur of Frency, Seguian, Journy, Lamotte, Courteville, and Zelucy.

CLAUDE CHARLES MARIE DU CAMP DE ROSAMEL was born at Boulogne 1774 , was minister of marine, and died 19 March, 1873.

In addition to above "Du Campes" clearly related to the great Du Campe family of Boulogne, we also find the following mentioned in the Arras archives:

JEAN DESCAMPS living at Boulogne, a son of Jean Descamps, deceased, and Margueritte Chevalier, married on 28 September, 1681, Catherine Delarre. Witness, Maurice Descamps, his younger brother.

GUILLAUME DU CAMPE and Marie Boutalle had a son Jean, who obtained a beneficiary letter on 12 October, 1705.

NICHOLAS DU CAMP and Marie Isabelle Battel, his wife, living at Cremaren, had a lawsuit at Samer with Jean Battel and Marie Duflos, his wife, on 30 October, 1733.

MARIE ANNE BARBE AUSTREBERTHE COULOMBER DU CAMP, daughter of Jacques and Angelique Rose Du Camp, living at Boulogne, married on 24 July, 1736, Antoine, Seigneur du Blaujel. Witness, Jean Du Camp, proprietor, living at Lianne.

MARIE ROSE DESCAMPS, widow of Charles Jacques, living at the hamlet of Partel, gave a donation to Marie Rose Jacques, her daughter, of furniture situated at Bienvillon-au-Bois on 11 October, 1741.

LOUISE MARIE DU CAMP, living at Brumembert, signed a contract of marriage with Adrien Gardin, laborer, living at same place, on 11 January, 1755.

In "Le Cabinet Historique" , edition 1866, may be found the names of those "De Camps" entitled to bear coat-armor about 1650. The list is as follows:

JEAN ANDR? DE CAMPS, Counsellor to the Presidial of Pamiers. Arms: On a shield azure a chevron with two roses in chief and a wheat sheaf in point, all in gold.

JACQUES DE or DU CAMP, notary in the district of Lauvan. Arms: On a shield sinople a chief fessy, gold and sable.

FRANCOIS DE CAMPS, Abbe de Ligny. Arms: On a shield azure, a lion gold holding in his two front paws a shield, sable.

LAURENT DE CAMPS, Chief Surgeon of the King's Hospitals at Maubeuge. Arms: On a shield azure three trefoils, gold, 2 and 1.

ETIENNE DES CAMPS, scribe of the king at the gallery called La Forte. Arms: On a shield azure a crescent gold between two towers silver, placed front, three stars gold ranged in chief, and three ducks, also gold, ranged in point, swimming on a river of silver.

JACQUES DE CAMPS, bourgeois. 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.

BERTRAND DE CAMPS, Procureur Audit of Parleement; Capitoul . 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.

PIERRE DE CAMPS, esquire, Seigneur de Clairbourg, and former body guard to the king, Valet of the Wardrobe to Monsieur . Arms: On a shield azure a chevron gules, accompanied by three merlets of sable.

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