Person:Mary Canfield (9)

Will of Mary (Canfield) (Camp) Lane

Source cited as "New Haven Probate Records I: pt 2, 80". The boldened parts below should dispel doubts that...
1. Josiah BALDWIN married Mercy CAMP, not Mary CAMP.
2. Mercy CAMP died before the birth of Remember BALDWIN.
3. Reinforce that Mercy was older than Mary by virtue of the order in which Mary CANFIELD distributed her estate...first to Mercy then Mary.
4. That Mary (Canfield) (Camp) LANE did not die on 22 Feb 1679/80.

Mary CANFIELD's second husband was John LANE.

Will: An inventory of her will was presented Feb 22, 1680 [80/81]: (No date for the writing of the will is on the website, no longer accessible).

"The last will and testament of Mary LANE, who being very sicke of body but of a sound memory and understanding, doth bequeath as followeth: I will my body to be decently buried and my soule to God that gave it. Amen.
Item: To my son Sam'll CAMPE, one cow, one ewe & lamb, & one last years lambe.
Item: To my son Edward CAMP, my big iron kettle & one three years old steare.
Item: To my daughters Mercy BALDWIN and Mary BRISCOE, all my wearing clothes except one black searge coate which I bequeath to my daughter-in-law Sarah GUNN, five pairs of bed sheets, two pillows and two pillow-beers, three pewter platters, three porringer, one quart pott and one pint pott, three napkins, three towells & a table cloth, six yards of new linen cloth, and five shifts with all the rest of my wearing cloaths both linen and woollen & equally to be divided between them.
Item: To my daughter [in-law] Mehetabell CAMP, three silksheets, one pillow-beer, one little iron kettle & a brass skillett.
Item: To my daughter Mercy aforesd, 2 brass kettles, a two yeare old Heifer, one ram & one swine shoat, one curtaine, one box & one warming pan.
Item: To Mary my daughter aforesd, one little iron pot, one curtaine, and one chest.
Item: To my son Edward aforesd, one tramell & one sow shoate.
Item: To my son-in-law Jobaniah GUN his children, one eye lamb if ye lamb be alive. Item: To my foure children abovesd, Sam'll, Edward, Mercy & Mary, my foure bed blankets, each of them one.
Item: Finally my bed & bolster I leave to my son Sam'll & my daughter Mary equally between them. I leave brother CANFIELD and John FISKE as overseers.

Witnessed by us Thomas CANFIELD John FISKE
her mark (top half of a circle) Mary LANE

The Identity of Mary, Wife of Edward Camp and John Lane

The identification of her as Mary Canfield, sister of Thomas Canfield of Milford, is not fully proven. Jacobus has this to say:

""At Branford on 15 Nov. 1660 the testimony of John Burwell [of Milford] was taken concerning a stray horse then in possession of Josias Ward of Branford demanded by John Nash of New Haven. He stated that 'myself and my Cosen Edward Camp who was then living, this winter three years past, saw a colt with John Nash's mare.' This was John² Burwell, who must have been near Edward Camp in age, so the term 'cousin' was probably used in the sense of first cousin rather than nephew. However, it may have been Edward's wife who was the actual cousin of John² Burwell. She was Mary _____, and her will made 'Brother Canfield' an overseer. While this may have meant brother in the church, it is quite possible that she was a sister of Thomas Canfield of Milford. The Canfields, like the Burwells, were from Hitchin, Hertfordshire. If the father of John² Burwell was uncle of Thomas Canfield and of Mary wife of Edward Camp, or if his mother was their aunt, these expressions of relationship would be explained."^[2]

If she were the daughter of the elder Thomas Canfield of Hitchin, her date of birth would likely be placed after that of Jacob, say 1628. Since we (apparently) have no information on the subsequent lives of the possible father and four other siblings, it is difficult to hypothesize the circumstances under which Thomas and Mary would emigrate, although both may have come as "servants" to one of the other Hitchin families who came to Milford.--jaques1724 17:41, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Connecticut. Probate Court (New Haven District). Probate Records, 1647-1916
   Vol. I, Pt. 2, p. 80.
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Nicholas Camp, in Camp, John F. (John Frederick); N. Grier (Nathan Grier) Parke; and Donald Lines Jacobus. The Ancestry and Descendants of Frederick Tracy Camp and His Wife Marion Fee. (Vancouver, Wash.: John F. Camp, Jr., 1961)
   2-3.