Person:Henry Camden (2)

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Henry B Camden
b.4 May 1773 Calvert, Maryland, United States
d.9 May 1835 Lewis, Virginia (now West Virginia)
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m. 8 Jan 1793
  1. Deborah Sprigg Camden1793 -
  2. Frederick Sprigg Camden1796 -
  3. John Scrivener Camden1798 - 1862
  4. Joseph Hill Camden1801 -
  5. Lenox Martin Camden1803 - Aft 1860
  6. Gideon Draper Camden, Esq.1805 - 1891
  7. Lorenzo Dow Camden1808 - Aft 1880
  8. Richard Pindle Camden1810 - 1876
  9. Minerva Weems Camden1814 -
  10. Eliza Poole Camden1817 -
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Name[1] Henry B Camden
Gender Male
Birth[2] 4 May 1773 Calvert, Maryland, United StatesHighlands, Lyons Creek
Marriage 8 Jan 1793 Montgomery, Maryland, United Statesto Mary Belt Sprigg
Occupation[1] Minister
Death[1][2] 9 May 1835 Lewis, Virginia (now West Virginia)[Jacksonville?]
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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Atkinson, George Wesley, and Alvaro F. (Alvaro Franklin) Gibbens. Prominent men of West Virginia: biographical sketches, including politics, the law, theology, medicine, education, finance, journalism, trade, commerce and agriculture; a compendium of returns of every election, national, state, and congressional; a record of every state officer; executive, legislative and judicial. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1972)
    945.

    JUDGE GIDEON DRAPER CAMDEN is the fourth son of Henry Camden, of Anne Arundel county, Md., and Mary B. Sprigg, a daughter of Col. Fredric Sprigg, of Montgomery county, of the same States. Henry Camden was a local Methodist preacher, and about the year 1804 freed his slaves, and with his wife and small children, moved to Harrison county, Virginia, and settled in what was called "Collins' Settlement," on the West Fork river, about fifteen miles above Weston, near Jacksonville, Lewis county, where he lived until the time of his death, some thirty years ago. ...

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Miller, Thomas Condit, and Hu Maxwell. West Virginia and its people. (New York, New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1913)
    2:631.

    (I) Rev. Henry Camden, the first member of this family about whom we have definite information, was born May 4, 1773. Early in the nineteenth century he came from Maryland and settled in Harrison county, Virginia. He married, at Montgomery, Maryland, January 8, 1793, Mary Belt, born in Montgomery county, Maryland, January 9, 1778, daughter of Colonel Frederick and Deborah (Woodward) Sprigg. Colonel Sprigg fought in the revolution, and was the original owner of Chevy Chase, near the city of Washington. Children of Colonel Frederick and Deborah (Woodward) Sprigg: Margaret, born November 27, 1775; Mary Belt, married Rev. Henry Camden; Prissa Woodward, born April 27, 1780; Johonas, born June 20, 1783. Children of Rev. Henry and Mary Belt (Sprigg) Camden: 1. Debby Sprigg, born October 22, 1793. 2. Frederick Sprigg, born May 13, 1796. 3. John Scribner, born September 15, 1798; father of United States Senator Johnson Newlon Camden. 4. Joseph Hill, born February 10, 1801. 5. Lenox Martin, born March 9, 1803. 6. Gideon Draper, born August 31, 1805. 7. Lorenzo Dow, born March 24, 1808. 8. Richard Pindle, of whom further. 9. Minerva Weems, born February 4, 1814. 10. Eliza Poole, born December 25, 1817. Of these, the first six were born in Montgomery county, Maryland, the next three in Harrison county, Virginia, and the last in Lewis county, Virginia.

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