| Name | Thomas CAMP |
| Birth | 20 Nov 1665, Nazeing, Essex, England |
| Death | 1711, King George Co., VA Age: 45 |
| Father | Thomas CAMP (1633-1703) |
| Mother | Sarah WILLIAMSON (1643-) |
| 1 | Catherine BARRON  |
| Birth | 1672, Essex, England// James City, Co., VA |
| Death | 1715 Age: 43 |
| Marriage | 1689, James City Co., VA |
| Children | Thomas B (1691-1751) |
| Mary (1708-) |
England & Virginia
Thomas Camp
b. 1661 Nasing Parish, Essex, England d. 1711 King & Queen Co., Virginia
1m. 1689 Catherine Barron
b. 1672 James City, VA d. 1715 King & Queen Co., Virginia
her father: Andrew Barron b. Jun 1615 wife: unknown
his father: unknown but some conjecture
his mother: unknown
Children
Thomas Camp b. 1691 d. 1751 m. Mary Marshall before 1761
Mary Camp b. 1708 d. m.James Tarpley
Thomas Kemp or Camp was a self-sufficient farmer in early Virginia. His first appearance in records in New Kent county, Virginia, as early as 1679. This was when a Thomas Kemp came to the colonies. This section of Virginia is now King and Queen County. He was brought here along with four other persons by John Joy who gained 220 acres for his efforts on 23 Sept 1683.
Russ Williams believes he was not an indentured servant when he came here because he built up such a sizeable land holding by 1687. [Williams. p.5]
As a large farmer he probably made many trips to Jamestown where Catherine Barron was born in 1672. Her father, Andrew Barron lived near Jamestown which was also still a very small community.
See more on Jamestown and earlier Camp connections.
Thomas had land on the Mattpony River on and before Oct. 21, 1687, when John Walker received a 560 acre patent for land in New Kent located on the north side of the river. This land is described as "beginning at Lt. Col. Thomas Walker, to Mr. John Starke in Jones' Meadow, on John Adkins; close to William & Thomas Camp's land; adj. Sylvester Alsworth, and Robert Splencer, on Tommacoican maine Sw., &c." He received this land for transporting 12 persons. [Nugent. C&P, II p. 317 and VA Patent Book7 p.624]
This same land is mentioned in other land records. One in a patent to Benjamin Arnold on April 23, 1688. [Nugent. C&P, II p. 320 and VA Patent Book7 p.635]
1689 about- Thomas marries Catherine Barron. They make their home on the Mettapony River in New Kent County, Virginia where they tend their farm and raise their children.
The county that he originally resided within was known as New Kent but was later diveded into two counties and the area where Thomas Camp lived became known as King and Queen County.
1704 - He is listed in the "True Accounts of Lands.." as it was taken my Rob't Bird Sherriff..." with 250 acres in King and Queen County, Virginia. [Williams. p.5]
sources:
Ancestral Rolls, South Carolina Daughters of the American Revolution, Compiled 1938 by Mrs E. T. Crawford, State Registrar.
Mann, Col. Robt. Neville and Catherine Creek-Mann, Camp-Kemp Family Hist., Vol. I, 1969
Landrum, Dr. L. B. O. . History of Spartanburg County, South Carolina 1900, reprinted 1954.
Williams, E. Russ, Jr. The Kemp,Turner and Roberts Families on Little Silver Creek, Washington Parish Louisiana. 1992, Williams Genealogical Pub., 514 Cole Ave, Monroe, LA 71203
Camp Family History Virginia, South Carolina, and Arkansas This particular family is was instrumental in the Battle of Kings Mountain and Cowpens in South Carolina during the RevolutionaryWar. Families connected to John Camp have become members of the DAR and SAR. Sara Camp (b c1770 d. 21 Oct 1854 Greenville Dist., S.C.) m. Thomas Graydon (b. c 1770 d. c20 Feb 1840Laurens Co., S.C.) John Camp (b. 13 Oct 1743 d. 1818 Georgia) Rev. Soldier(DAR) m. Mary Tarpley (b.30 Oct1740 Va ) Thomas Camp (b. 8 Feb 1716-7 d. 8 jan 1798 Ireland Ford, NC) twenty four children - twelve by each wife 1m Winifred Starling (b.1720 Accomac Co., VA - d. Rutherford Co., NC) 2m Margaret Carney(20 Jun 1744 ?Limerick, Ireland d. 1824 Rutherford Co.,NC) Thomas Camp (b. 1691 d 1751 VA) m. Mary Marshall (1697 -1757) Thomas Camp (c1661 Nasing Parish, Co Essex, England) m.Catherine Barron (b. 1672 James City Co., Virginia)