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Peter Van Camp
b.Abt 1721
Facts and Events
| Name |
Peter Van Camp |
| Baptismal Name |
Petrus Van Kampen |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth? |
Abt 1721 |
(twin) |
| Christening[1] |
2 Apr 1721 |
Kingston, Ulster, N.Y. |
| Marriage |
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to Phoebe Bergen |
| Residence[5] |
1743 |
Crum Elbow, Dutchess, New York |
| Residence[5] |
1766 |
Newtown, Halfmoon, Albany Co., N.Y. |
| Immigration[5] |
1781 |
Canada |
| Death[2][3] |
1783 |
Montréal, Île-de-Montréal, Québec, Canada |
Peter and his brother John inherited substantial land from their father and, in 1745, their grandfather, although it was to some extent encumbered by debt. Peter had a grist mill until it was sold in 1747. He and his brother John were sued for debts several times in the 1750s. Probably about 1761 Peter moved his family up the Hudson (just past the Mohawk) to "Newtown" in the Halfmoon district of then Albany (now Saratoga) county. At least his last two children were probably born there, as they were christened just across the Hudson River at the Dutch Reformed church in Schaghticoke. During the American Revolution he had loyalist sympathies (four sons were in British military units), and was eventually driven off his farm. About 1781 he moved to Canada, and died in Montreal in 1783.[5]
During the Revolutionary War, Peter was interviewed and this report of it was sent to New York's Governor Clinton:
Extract of Peter Van Campen's Examination taken on oath the 20th July 1780.
Who saith that John Buys who went off to Canada with Sir John Johnson in 1776, and has lately been with him at Johnstown is a Serjeant in his Regiment; that this Buys came to the Examinant's House last Friday evening a week, to see his wife, who is a Daughter of the Examinant and lives with him; that this Buys in conversation informed the Examinant that Sir John has gone down to Quebec for the Purpose of obtaining a Flag to fetch the women at Saragtoga; that they expected in Canada daily to hear of the Reduction of the Forts in the Highlands, when an Army would instantly move down from the Northward and Westward; that if this failed, Parties would come down the Mohawk and North Rivers immediately after the Harvest was gathered, to destroy the grain which would effectually knock up our Army, as they had Information that Provisions were very scarce here and that the Crops below were very bad.[6]
References
- ↑ Dutch Reformed Church (Kingston, New York), and Roswell Randall Hoes (ed.). Baptismal and marriage registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston: Ulster County, New York (formerly named Wiltwyck and often familiarly called Esopus or 'Sopus), for One Hundred and Fifty Years from their commencement in 1660. (New York, 1891).
- ↑ Reid, William D. The Loyalists in Ontario: the sons and daughters of the American Loyalists of Upper Canada. (Lambertville, New Jersey: Hunterdon House, c1973).
- ↑ Palmer, Gregory, and Lorenzo Sabine. Biographical sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution. (Westport, Connecticut: Meckler Publishing, c1984).
- The Old United Empire Loyalists List. (Toronto, Canada: Rose Publishing Co., 1885).
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 A Sketch of Peter Van Camp (1721-1783).
Robert Scott Shaw, "A Sketch of Peter Van Camp (1721-1783)", Annals of Genealogical Research Vol. 1, No. 1 (2005) at http://www.genlit.org/agr/viewarticle.php?id=2
- ↑ State of New York. Clinton, George. Public Papers of George Clinton: Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of New York 1777-1795-1801-1804 Vol V. (Albany, Albany, New York, United States: State of New York, James B Lyon, State Printer, 1901)
Vol 6, p 44.
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