Person:John Camm (2)

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Rev. John Camm
b.1718 Hornsea, Yorkshire, England
d.1779 Virginia
Parents and Siblings
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  1. Rev. John Camm1718 - 1779
Spouse and Children
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m. 1769
  1. Nancy Camm1770 - 1800
  2. Rev. Thomas CammAbt 1772 -
  3. Robert CammAbt 1774 - Abt 1792
  4. John Camm1775 - 1818
  5. Elizabeth CammAbt 1777 -
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Facts and Events
Name Rev. John Camm
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1718 Hornsea, Yorkshire, England
Marriage 1769 Williamsburg, Virginiato Elizabeth Hansford
Death[1] 1779 Virginia
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Descendants of John Camm, President of William and Mary College", in William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. (Omohundro Institute)
    vol 4 (1896), pg 61.

    DESCENDANTS OF JOHN CAMM, PRESIDENT OF WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE.

    By The Editor.

    1. John Camm was the son of Thomas Camm, of Hornsea, in county York, England. Born in 1718, educated in the school at Beverley, near Hornsea, admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, June 16, 1738, elected to a scholarship April 10, 1741, and took B. A. 1741-42.1 In the Faculty-records of William and Mary College he is termed Master of Arts. In 1745 he was minister of Newport parish in Isle of Wight county. On September 18,1749, he took the usual oaths as professor of divinity in William and Mary College, and subscribed in York County Court the abjuration test. Previously, on August 4, 1749, he subscribed before the Faculty his assent to the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England, and took the oath de fideli. He was selected as agent by the clergy to represent their side in England in the celebrated " Parson's causes." He became president of the College in 1771, and continued such until he was removed in 1777 by the Board of Visitors. He died in 1779.2 He married, in 1769, Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Hansford, of York county, whom he had baptized as an infant. She was a great grand-daughter of Charles Hansford, who was a brother of Thomas Hansford, famous in Bacon's Rebellion. Issue: 2, Anne; 3, Thomas; 4, Robert; 5, John y 6, Elizabeth.

    1 Trinity College records. 2 York county records.
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  2.   Will of John Camm, 1766. (Fleet, Beverley (comp.). Virginia Colonial Abstracts (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988; Baltimore: Clearfield Co., 2000.). King and Queen County. pp. 337-38.).

    Rev. John Camm was left a mourning ring by the will of his uncle, John Camm of Northbank, King and Queen County, Virginia.

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