Burrell Marion Camp

From Col. Robert Neville Mann and Catherine Creek-Mann, Camp-Kemp Family History (Cedar Bluff, Alabama: 1967), vol. I, p. 28 [under Addenda and Errata]:

" The following information was extracted from a Camp and Kemp manuscript prepared in 1947 by Mr. Leonardo Andrea, professional genealogist of Columbia, South Carolina; and is given as a matter of interest to those who may be interested in further research on this family in England. "William Campe in London married Mary Farmer in 1584, and they had issue: Lawrence Campe, Richard Campe, Nicholas Campe, and Thomas Camp. The marriage of the son, Richard Campe was recorded in the Church of St. Margaret in London in 1615. In 1637 in Nasing Parish, Essex County, England, Nicholas Camp and Thomas Camp, brothers were listed to Jury Duty. These two brothers came to America. Nicholas Camp settled in New England and became the ancestor of the Camps of that area.. Thomas Camp came to Virginia and became the ancestor of the Camps of the main part of the Camp families in the South. One branch of the southern Camps spring from Nicholas Campe who came to New England.

"Lawrence Camp was a member of the Great Charter of the Virginia Company granted by King James I, May 23, 1609 and was of the Company of the Honorable Drapers and Weavers. He made many donations to this infant Colony at Jamestown in Virginia and also took four shares in the company and then later took three other shares and each share allowed him to take lands of 100 acres per share. He took 700 acres in Gloucester County, Virginia. He also took shares in the New England Company.

"In England he endowed a fund in Cambridge University for the maintenance of poor scholars. He also gave 7000 pounds to found an Alms House in the parish of Friam Barnet in his home county in England. He was also the builder and patron of the church of All-Hallows-In-The-Wall where he was buried inside a vault in that church. Lawrence Camp was never married and upon his death, his estates came into the hands of his three brothers - Richard Campe got the estate in England; Thomas Campe the estate in Virginia; and Nicholas Campe the estate in New England. This Lawrence Campe had a special coat of arms.

"Mr. Andrea believed that Thomas Camp (born 1691), was a great nephew of Lawrence Camp."