Person:Richard Camp (5)

Richard Campe of Homo not to be confused with his cousin Richard Campe of Snowes

1.   Robert Battle, Magdalen (Hall) Camp Was Not the Grandmother of William1 Curtis and Mary1 (Curtis) Ruggles of Roxbury, Massachusetts, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   173: 119+, 2019.

   Two Richard Camps buried in Nazeing within a year of each other — Richard Camp “Snowes” on 17 August 1584 and Richard Camp “Homo” on 30 July 1585. The second of these was the husband of Magdalen Hall; he made a will dated 28 July and proved 18 September 1585:
   
   “I Richard Camp of Nasing”; names sons Robert, William, Francis, and Richard,[6] daughter Elizabeth Camp, “Mr. Thomas Hall of Nasing my wyves uncle & Mr. Robert Hall of Claverinbury my wives brother”, and wife Magdalen (she to be executrix); signed by mark; witnesses Mr. Willm Hall, Andrew Richardes, Geordg Wren, and John Hopkyns (scribe); proved by Magdalene, widow and executrix.
   
   The Richard Camp of Snowes who was buried in 1584 was the husband of Elizabeth _____. His will was dated 17 August 1583 and proved 31 September 1584:[7]
   
   “Rychard Campe of Snowes in the p[ar]ishe of Nasyng . . . yeoman”; names daughters Mary and Elizabeth Campe; wife Elizabeth to be executrix; witnesses Roberte Hall gentleman, John Bannyster and Wyllm Curtes yeomen, and John Hopkyns minister; proved by Elizabeth, widow and executrix.
   
   This Thomas Camp’s will was dated 1 January and proved 1 February 1591/2:[10]
   
   “I Thomas Campe of Snowes yeoman in the Parrishe of Nasinge”; names daughter Rose, sons Thomas, Richard, and George, child wife possibly pregnant with, brother Robert, and mother Elizabeth Campe; executrix wife Elizabeth Campe; overseers brother Thomas Curtis and cousin George Campe; witnesses Edward Baker minister, Jeames Campe, William Hall, Thomas Curtes, and Thomas Camp

2.   Richard Campe (died 1585), in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department. Pre-1858 English probate jurisdictions, London. (Salt Lake City, Utah: The Department, c1977).

   In the name of God amen the xxviij day of July
   in the year of our Lord god 1585 I Richard
   Camp of Nasing in the county of Essex syck
   of body but of whole mynd & perfect memory
   God have the prayse do make & ordain this
   my last will & testament in manner &
   form following Viz First I comend my
   soule into the hands of Allmighte God
   believing to be saved by the death of Jesus
   Chryste & my body I yeald to the earth in
   hope of the resurrection with the rest in the
   last day Concerning my worldly goods I give
   & despose them as followeth Item I give
   and bequeth to my sonnes Robert, William, Frances, & Richard to every one of them
   ten pounds of lawfull mony of England
   wch sum of fortie pounds shalbe payd out
   of my lande to my sayd sonnes their several
   portions within two years next after
   my wyves deceasse Also I give & bequeath
   to my daughter Elizabeth Camp five
   pounds of lawfull English money to be payd
   unto her in like manner as her brothers
   portions aforesayd * Item my will & mind is
   *[note added at left side] if any of my children die before the payment of their legacies then my will & mind is the dead be equally among the [---] remaining alive
   that if my wife die before my youngest
   son com to the adge of xxjtie [21] years, or if
   my said son being of adge at his mothers
   decease refuse to paie the legacies in manner
   as is before expressed Then by vertue of
   this my will I give full power and
   autorythe to Mr Thomas Hall of Nazeing my Wyfes
   uncle & Mr Robert Hall of Claverin
   bury my Wyfes brother & to either of them
   to sell my house & land to the uttermost
   value & with that of the name anything therso
   to pay my children their severall legacies
   as is before expressed & the residue to remain
   to my said youngest son
   All the rest of my goods I whollie give &
   bequeath to Magdalen my wife whome I
   make my sole executixe and concerning
   my debts I apoynt Mr Thomas Hall
   my wyfes uncle aforesaid to pay the same
   so far as fourteen pounds & a noble being
   that the price of a crofte called Pake
   field lately sould unto him will extend
   Richard Campes marke
   Wytnesses to this my last Will
   Mr William Hall [this may also be one of Magdalen’s uncles] Andrew Richards
   Geordy Wren & me John Hopkyns [minister]
   Probate by Thomas Skeffington, Xiij day of September 1585 by Magdalen, Roberts executrix