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From: Carole Johnson <>
Subject: [CAMP-L] CAMPs in Gone to GA
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 10:16:36 -0500


Hi List,
I've just purchased _Gone to GA_ by William C. Steward off of eBay.
This will probably open up a whole new can of worms, but I thought
those of you with Georgia connections might be interested in what
is in the book. The subtitle to this book is "Jackson and Gwinnett
Counties and their Neighbors in the Western Migration". I have been
to Jackson County to research and got pretty confused with the sheer
numbers of land records involving CAMPs, particularly Hosea. Also,
since the county boundaries shifted there is some duplication. I
will attempt to type this verbatim, so if something doesn't agree
with what you have, let's DISCUSS it. I am very anxious to find more
information regarding John Camp, married to Mary (supposedly) Tarpley
and their son James. Here goes:

"559. Nathan Camp000001_10001_4

Thomas Camp Sr. was born in Virginia c1717, married Winifred Starling,
was a Revolutionary soldier, and died in North Carolina 1798: he had son
John, also a Revolutionary veteran, born in Brunswick County, Va., married
Mary
Tarpley, and died in Jackson County, Ga., 1818; and son Thomas Jr., married
Susannah Wagner, was a Revolutionary soldier, died in South Carolina. Thomas
Jr., had a daughter Elizabeth who married Joseph Camp (1779-1854) in 1799.
Joseph was son of still another Revolutionary soldier, Benjamin Camp, born
1757 in Virginia, married 1776 Elizabeth Dykes, and died in Jackson County,
Ga., 1832. (Georgia Roster, p.46) Benjamin and Nathan Camp were enumerated
1790 in Laurens district, S.C., where the Rev. Hosea Camp was born 1774.
William Camp of Jackson County sold Jan. 3, 1801 to Philip Awtrey of
South Carolina, land on the Middle Fork of Oconee River. A deed from
John Shields to John Evans Oct. 12, 1801, noted that Shields' land adjoined
that of Nathan Camp on the Big Pond Fork of Oconee. Hosea came to Georgia
as a youth and settled on the Mulberry Fork. He bought land of Drury
Strickland later, in 1807. In 1803, Thomas, Benjamin and John Camp had
land together in Capt. Joseph McConnell's Mulberry Fork district, Hosea's
land at that time adjoining Spruce's in Capt. Alexander Reed's company. In
1804, Hosea's
Mulberry land was in Capt. Key's district. Thomas obtained headright land
in 1804. In the 1805 lottery, Burwell, Joseph, Abner, Sterling, John, Thomas,
Sherwood, Andrew, Hosea, Hosea Jr., Benjamin, Benjamin Jr., Thomas and Nathan
were listed. Abner, Hosea Sr., Benjamin Jr. and Sherwood were in Cochran's
district in the 1807 lottery. Benjamin married Rachel Hogg. In 1820,
besides Nathan above, these member of the family were enumerated in Jackson
County: Hosea (No. 641); Hosea (Sr). (No.656): Mary (No. 724; William
(No. 910); and Aramis Camp (No. 1010) In Gwinnett County 1820 were Abner
(No. 615), Andrew (No. 427), James (No. 447), John (No. 449), John Sr.
(No. 601), Robert B. (No. 417) and Solomon (No. 54); in Hall County, Abner
and Susannah: in Walton County, Burrell (who appears to have lined in Jasper
County in 1815 and Henry County in 1827), John, Joseph, Sherwood and
Thomas; in Clarke County, Edmund; and in Warren County, Gerrard, Samuel and
Shadrack. In 1820 James, a Revolutionary soldier in Gwinnett County, drew
Gwinnett and Early Counties land granted April 6, 1826 and Sept. 1, 1831.
The Rev. Hosea, a Methodist minister, moved to Gwinnett County shortly
after 1820 and lived there until his late years, when he moved to Polk
County, Ga.,. He had 12 children. Joseph, a Revolutionary soldier, was
living in Franklin County, Ga., in 1827, and drew Muscogee County land
granted Oct. 2, 1827."

I attempted to type this as written, with typos and punctuation errors and
all. There was no seperation of paragraphs.

Which brings the questions I have: Was the John Jr. my "Big-Headed"
John? Was the James enumerated in the Gwinnett 1820 census "my" James,
the son of John and Mary Tarpley Camp?

The Elias Camp of Larry's ancestry was in Polk County and according to his
obituary, the son of James Camp, a Revolutionary soldier. Elias was the
minister at Bethleham BAPTIST church at Fish Creek, Polk County (which land
for
the cemetery another of my lines donated). That Hosea would be a Methodist
minister would make sense, seeing that John and Mary Tarpley Camp, and I
believe Benjamin, helped found the first Methodist Church in S.C. (Lebanon).
I have seen a copy of Abner (later of Clayton County) Camp's will and know
that he owned slaves. John Wesley (who with his brother, Charles, began the
Methodist Church) and his American Bishops, Asbury and Coke, condemed
slavery. Is this what caused the seperation from Methodist to Baptist? Or
was it
just due to a change in geography?

Sorry for the ramblin', but my head is spinning. Any discussion?
Carole

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