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Subject: [DeCamp] DeCamp brick walls - #7: Gideon DeCamp of PA
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 20:06:48 EST


This is one of several postings that I will make about the "brick walls" that
I have run into. These are DeCamp families that I have been unable to
connect to the known descent from Laurens Jansen DeCamp.

Gideon DeCamp was born in 1814 in PA. He married Elizabeth Dougal, who seems
to have been about 15 years younger then him. He had a total of five
children, with a gap of ten years between the second and third, suggesting a
second marriage. Descent from three of the children is known through as much
as six generations. The family appears to have located first in Erie Co.,
PA, then moving to Sac Co., IA, by the late 1860's.

We have little information on this unconnected line, other than that provided
by Carl Fredericks of Knoxville, TN. While it may be that this line will
prove to be from one of the Washington Co. families, it must be noted that
Gideon as a given name was not common among the descendants of Arendt DeCamp,
from which three brothers migrated West to Washington Co., PA, about 1790.

Carl was a former member of this list, and I have lost touch with him. If
anyone can help locate him, please let me know.

Wilson DeCamp
Vienna, VA

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