Person:Mary Sprigg (2)

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Name[1][2] Mary Belt Sprigg
Gender Female
Birth? Abt 1778 Montgomery, Maryland, United States
Marriage 8 Jan 1793 Montgomery, Maryland, United Statesto Henry B Camden
Death? Harrison, West Virginia, United States
References
  1. 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)
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    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. ...
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    A National Register of the Society, Sons of the American Revolution, Volume 2, p 265

    WILSON LEE CAMDEN, Baltimore, Md. (15201). Son of JOHN ALLEN CAMDEN and Mary Nelson ; grandson of GIDEON DRAPER CAMDEN and Sallie A. Hoffman ; great-grandson of HENRY CAMDEN and Mary Belt Sprigg ; great2-grandson of Frederick Sprigg, Captain Maryland Militia.

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    History of West Virginia and the People
    (The Tucker Line).

    (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.