Married Sarah Beard, daughter of the widow Martha Beard as his first wife. She died in Aug 1689. He married after August 1689, Mehitable Gunn, the widow of Benjamin Fenn.

Children with Sarah Beard, his first wife:

1. Joseph b. August 11, 1653 and d. August 16, 1655
2. Samuel b Sept 15, 1655, bapt May 18 1662
3. Joseph b. Dec 15, 1657
4. Mary b. July 12, 1660, bapt. May 18, 1662, d. March 1731. Wife of Joseph Peck
5. Sarah b. Sept 14, 1662 and baptized same day, d. Dec 16, 1710. Married Daniel Baldwin (most likely).
6. John, twin to Sarah, b. Sept 14, 1662
7. Nathan, bapt. June 25, 1660, d. March 26, 1661
8. Abigail. b. March 28 1666, bapt March 31, 1666, d. March 20, 1742. Married Robert Treat.

Source

• Early Families of Milford, Connecticut by Susan Emma Woodruff Abbott, page 182.

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Birth: Apr. 7, 1627 Essex, England Death: Jun. 10, 1706 Milford New Haven County Connecticut, USA

~MY CAMP ANCESTOR~

Nicholas Camp, Jr. came with his parents, NICHOLAS & SARAH (ELLIOTT) CAMP to America. He married 14 Jul 1652 (probably in Milford) SARAH BEARD, daughter of the widow MARTHA BEARD whose husband, JAMES BEARD, who probably died on the ship, Martin, on it's voyage to America. Nicholas started a store on the west end of Milford and became a successful businessman.

Public Records of the Colony of Conn., Vol. 3, p. 452: "In letter by Tho: Trowbridge to Gov. Andros dated Aug., 8, 1688 regarding a Justice from Milford. He writes:.. and there is one Mr. Campe of Milford, a man of good estate and many with us doe thinke him a fitt person, but leave it to yo'r Excelency's discretion."

Nicholas & Sarah were the parents of eight known children including my ancestor, MARY CAMP who married LIEUT. JOSEPH PECK.

After the death of Sarah, he married (2) Mehitable, the widow of Nathaniel Briscoe.

Family links:

Parents:

 Nicholas Camp (1606 - 1662)

 Sarah Elliott Camp (1599 - 1645)

Spouse:

 Sarah Beard Camp (1631 - 1689)*

Children:

 John Camp (____ - 1731)*

 Joseph Camp (1653 - 1655)*

 Samuel Camp (1655 - 1733)*

 Joseph Camp (1657 - 1750)*

 Mary Camp Peck (1660 - ____)*

 Sarah Camp Baldwin (1662 - 1710)*

 Abigail Camp Treat (1667 - 1742)*

Siblings:

 Mary Camp Baldwin (1623 - ____)*

 Abigail Camp Baldwin (1625 - 1648)*

 Nicholas Camp (1627 - 1706)

 William Camp (1638 - 1703)*

 Samuel Camp (1643 - 1735)*

 Samuel Camp (1645 - 1645)*

*Calculated relationship

Inscription: Mr. Nicholas Camp Died June the 10th 1706 in the 77th Year of His Age.

Burial: Milford Cemetery Milford New Haven County Connecticut, USA Plot: BURIED IN THE OLDEST PART OF THE CEMETERY

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Biography

Nicholas Camp, Jr. came with his parents, NICHOLAS & SARAH CAMP to America. He married 14 Jul 1652 (probably in Milford) SARAH BEARD, daughter of the widow MARTHA BEARD whose husband, JAMES BEARD, who probably died on the ship, Martin, on it's voyage to America.Nicholas started a store on the west end of Milford and became a successful businessman.
Public Records of the Colony of Conn., Vol. 3, p. 452: "In letter by Tho: Trowbridge to Gov. Andros dated Aug., 8, 1688 regarding a Justice from Milford. He writes:.. and there is one Mr. Campe of Milford, a man of good estate and many with us doe thinke him a fitt person, but leave it to yo'r Excelency's discretion." Nicholas & Sarah were the parents of eight known children including myancestor, MARY CAMP who married LIEUT. JOSEPH PECK.<ref name=FAG>8651577</ref> After the death of Sarah, he married (2) Mehitable, the widow of Benjamin Fenn.

Name

: Nicholas Camp

Birth

Apr. 7, 1627, Essex, England.<ref name=FAG/>

Alt. Christening

:: 7 APR 1627 Essex, England

Marriage

Nicholas Camp married:
:1. Sarah Beard Camp (1631 - 1689):2. Mehitable, the widow of Benjamin Fenn. Methitable Gunn...Mehitabel GUNN was christened 2 May 1641 in Milford, New Haven Colony. She died 1730. Mehitabel married Benjamin FENN on 21 Dec 1660 in Milford, NewHaven.

Children

Nicholas and Sarah children include<ref name=FAG/>:
:John Camp (____ - 1731)* :Joseph Camp (1653 - 1655)* :Samuel Camp (1655 - 1733)* :Joseph Camp (1657 - 1750)* :Mary Camp Peck (1660 - ____)* :Sarah Camp Baldwin (1662 - 1710)* :Abigail Camp Treat (1667 - 1742)* :*Calculated relationships

Death/Burial === Nicholas Camp Jr. died on 10 Jun 1706 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut <ref name=FAG/>. He was originally buried in the eastern end of what was then known as Rev. Peter Prudden's Garden, (also known as homelot #40), now the old part of Milford Cemetary, Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA.

Gravestone Inscription: Mr. Nicholas Camp Died June the 10th 1706 in the 77th Year of His Age.<ref name=FAG/>

Sources

<references/>* Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Oxford's Record: The First 175 Years (Oxford,CT, Oxford Record, Inc., 1973), p. 3. . http://www.oxfordpast.com/p3.htm.

• Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), p. 299. . Indian Deed - 1687 http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/....
• Colonial Connecticut Records, 1636 - 1776 (http://www.colonialct.uconn.edu/). Freemen at Milford, 1669.
• Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901.), p. 8. . "Upon a Lafull meting of the inhabetants of Pagast May : 30th : 1673... entertained Nicholas camp & john Beard To be inhabetants of Pagaset..." http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/008.html.
• Phillips, Derby Town Records, p. 30. "Agust : 22 : 1677 : The town have agreed and voted the third time to Send to Captain beard mr nickalas camp: and widow brinsmeade; And mr osbarnd to Send us there answer... whother they will come and take up lots..." http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/030.html.
• W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), pp. 88 - 89. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. "... this sixt day of Agust in ye year of our lord christ one thousand Six hundred eighty and Seaven... Between cockapatouce: John banks: Jack chebrook... indians propriewtars of wesquantack & puttatuck... Ebenezer johnson edward woster & Abell Gunn agents for the town of derby.. to be paid att MR. Nicoles Campes att Milford... sold to the sd lieut eb: Johnson, ed: Woster & Abell gunn together with the inhabetants of Derby propietors with them: one percell of land being & liing in the greatNeck: at Derb: Bounded on the South east with the four mile Brook & another littel Brook that fals into the littel River & Bounded North & North east with the little river that Runs into the nagatuck River: & Bounded north west & west with the eight mile Brook: & Bounded west & South west with the west channill of the puttatack River, & woodbury path from the six mile Brook to the four mile Brook: ... Signed b Cockapatouce John Banks, Joshua Lee, John Sristen, Jack..." http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/088.html.
• Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 6, p 1410.
• Abbott, Susan Woodruff. Families of Early Milford, Connecticut (Genealogical Publishing Co., 1979) Page 84 & Page 182.
• Anderson, Joseph. The Town and City of Waterbury, Connecticut, From the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Five (Price & Lee Co., New Haven, 1895) Ap100.
• Pond, Nathan. Inscriptions on Tombstones in Milford, Conn., Erected Prior to 1800 (New Haven, Connecticut, 1889) Page18
• Abbott, Morris W., Inscriptions on Tombstones in Milford, Conn., The American Genealogist (1950) Vol. 26, Page 36.