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U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
Name: Thomas Camp
Gender: Male
Birth Place: ENG
Birth Year: 1661
Spouse Name: Catherine Barron
Spouse Birth Year: 1672
Marriage
Year: 1689
Number Pages: 1
Thomas Kemp or Camp was a self-sufficient farmer in early Virginia. His first appearance in records in New Kent county, Virginia, as early as 1679. This was when a Thomas Kemp came to the colonies. This section of Virginia is now King and Queen County. He was brought here along with four other persons by John Joy who gained 220 acres for his efforts on 23 Sept 1683.
Russ Williams believes he was not an indentured servant when he came here because he built up such a sizeable land holding by 1687. [Williams. p.5]
As a large farmer he probably made many trips to Jamestown where Catherine Barron was born in 1672. Her father, Andrew Barron lived near Jamestown which was also still a very small community.
Thomas had land on the Mattapony River on and before Oct. 21, 1687, when John Walker received a 560 acre patent for land in New Kent located on the north side of the river. This land is described as "beginning at Lt. Col. Thomas Walker, to Mr. John Starke in Jones' Meadow, on John Adkins; close to William & Thomas Camp's land; adj. Sylvester Alsworth, and Robert Splencer, on Tommacoican maine Sw., &c." He received this land for transporting 12 persons. [Nugent. C&P, II p. 317 and VA Patent Book 7 p.624] This same land is mentioned in other land records. One in a patent to Benjamin Arnold on April 23, 1688. [Nugent. C&P, II p. 320 and VA Patent Book 7 p.635]
1689 about- Thomas married Catherine Barron. They made their home on the Mettapony River in New Kent County, Virginia where they tended their farm and raised their children.
The county that he originally resided in was known as New Kent but was later divided into two counties and the area where Thomas Camp lived became known as King and Queen County.
In 1704 Thomas is listed in the "True Accounts of Lands.." as it was taken by Rob't Bird Sherriff..." with 250 acres in King and Queen County, Virginia. [Williams. p.5]
(Sources: Ancestral Rolls, South Carolina Daughters of the American Revolution, Compiled 1938 by Mrs E. T. Crawford, State Registrar.
Mann, Col. Robt. Neville and Catherine Creek-Mann, Camp-Kemp Family Hist., Vol. I, 1969
Landrum, Dr. L. B. O. . History of Spartanburg County, South Carolina 1900, reprinted 1954.
Williams, E. Russ, Jr. The Kemp,Turner and Roberts Families on Little Silver Creek, Washington Parish Louisiana. 1992, Williams Genealogical Pub., 514 Cole Ave, Monroe, LA 71203)
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1661 - 1711 (50 years)