Family:Jacob Van Camp and Annatie Buis (1)

The will of Jacob Vancamp^[3] (1798) gives these children: Peter, Catharine, Jacob, William, John, Tunas, Joshua and Elisabeth. This list follows the phrase "to all my sons & Daughters to be divided equally between" which could be taken to suggest that these might be all his living children as of 1798. However two additional daughters, Rachel and Mary, appear in later land petitions presumably naming Jacob as their U.E. loyalist parent, according to Reid's work.^[4] Hence it seems the word "all" in the will should be ignored. (The phrasing is odd in any case, as it uses an explicit list as well as the word "all").

1. ↑ Versteeg, Dingman; Reformed Dutch Church of Schaghticoke (New York); Abraham H Meyers; and New York) Dutch Reformed Church (Schaghticoke. Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of Schaghticoke, N.Y., 1750-1868. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1977).
2. ↑ Land petition of Elizabeth Varnam to Lt. Governor of Upper Cannada. (dated 16 Sep 1815).
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Will of Jacob Van Camp, 1798.
4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 Reid, William D. The Loyalists in Ontario: the sons and daughters of the American Loyalists of Upper Canada. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1994], c1973).