Person:Chilion DeCamp (1)

From Isaac Jackson Allen's autobiography, published this site: Lucy Allen was the first wife of Chilion Ford Decamp, who survived her, subsequently married Lydia Brown, a sister of my wife; who thus became my aunt as well as sister-in-law; and he became my brother-in-law as well as uncle. Rather a peculiar combination . . ."

From the North Jersey History & Genealogy Center at the Morristown and Morris Township Library:

Chillion Ford DeCamp, the fourth child of Joseph and Jane Tuttle DeCamp, was born on July 9, 1793 in Rockaway. He was an iron master with an iron works at Rockaway and at Charlotteburg. Chillion had the inherited the iron interests of his mother, Jane Tuttle DeCamp. She in turn had come by these properties through her parents Moses and Jane Ford Tuttle. Chillion was married three times.

After several years Chillion turned the operation of the mines over to his son Edward. Edward was never able to make a success of the mines and when he was in risk of losing the mine Chillion attempted to save the mine by investing his entire savings though he too was unsuccessful. Chillion died in Newark on February 27, 1876 and is buried with his first wife in the Rockaway churchyard.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 North Jersey History Genealogy Center of the Morristown and Morris Township Library www.jfpl.org/HCFindingAids.

   DeCamp Family Papers, 1745-1976

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Crayon, J. Percy. Rockaway records of Morris County, N.J., families: cemetery records, church history, military records, local history, genealogies of old families, nearly 20,000 data. (Rockaway, N.J.: Rockaway Pub. Co., 1902).
3.   Autobiography of Isaac Jackson Allen transcribed and published: www.jacksonfamilygenealogy.com/pages/bioIsaacJ.
4.   Craghead, Dorothy Allen, Allen-Minton Family: Ancestry and Descendants of Captain Job Allen II (Revolutionary.