John Camp
John Camp was born on 13 October 1743 in Virginia, in Halifax County by a Camp family history of 1963 and in Orange County by another account. He was the third son of Thomas Camp and his first wife, Winifred Starling. His father had twelve children by Winifred and twelve more by a second wife, Margaret Carney, twenty four in all.
On 30 January 1764 he married Mary Tarpley in Virginia. The 1963 history lists ten children. Thomas was born in 1765 and married Susan Wagner "of Holland." Anna, born in 1768, married John Hill in 1782 and died in 1830. Abner, born in 1770, married Elizabeth Ragsdale, and Starling, born in 1771, married Anne Helms. Keziah, born on 20 May 1777, married Benjamin Arnold. There were also William, James and John, and Winifred, who married Thomas Kinman. The tenth was "Sarah Camp; married Thomas Grady or Grayson." Sarah was born in North Carolina about 1770 and married Thomas G. Graydon.
In the Revolution he served as a private in Col. Jones's regiment of the Virginia Continental Line. The Continental Line was the regular army raised by the states for the Continental Congress, as distinct from the local militia. The Daughters of the American Revolution list him as patriot A018503. A DAR file also names him and Mary Tarpley as the parents of Sarah Graydon.
His father's family settled on Broad River in southwestern North Carolina, two miles from the South Carolina line. Sarah was born in North Carolina, and by 1793 she was married and living in Laurens District, South Carolina. John ended his life farther south in that state. "He died in Greenville County, South Carolina, in 1813, and is buried in the churchyard of Lebanon Methodist Church, near Princeton, South Carolina," the 1963 history says. "His grave is marked by the D. A. R." The DAR magazine of 1913 gave him as "John Camp (1742-3-1813)." A government marker reading "JOHN CAMP VA. REGT. CON'L LINE REV. WAR" stands at Lebanon United Methodist Church, Fork Shoals, in Greenville County.
Another account puts his death in Georgia. It gives him dying on 24 December 1818 in Jackson County, Georgia, and calls the Lebanon stone a cenotaph, a memorial over no grave. The Georgia roster of Revolutionary soldiers has a John Camp, son of Thomas, who died in Jackson County in 1818. Two men of the same name and the same father's name may have been run together.
Sarah's own children carry the Camp names. She had sons and daughters named Sterling, Kizia and Winiford, the names of her brother Starling, her sister Keziah, and her sister Winifred and their grandmother Winifred Starling.
Children
Sarah Camp (1770-1854)
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Cite: Heirology, "John Camp (1743-1813)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/john-camp-1743-1813-0182d4.