I have documentation that Sarah Camp 30 Sep 1750 Wallingford, New Haven, CT, Died May 1789 Middletown, Middlesex, CT,buried Mortimer Cemetery, Middletown, Middlesex, CT and Samuel Camp 14 May 1753 Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut were full brother and sister and children of Ichabod Camp and Content Ward. The other children were children of Ichabod and wife Ann Oliver . I have them as John died soon after birth, George died 1784, Mary Ann 1762-1779, Stella, Catherine b. 1765, Charlotte , Louisa and Caroline 1770-1778.
Camp recorded the important events of his life in a journal. Several histories and a published family genealogy have biographical material about him and his family.
The Reverend Ichabod Camp, First American Preacher on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers
Filson Historical Society, The Filson Club History Quarterly Vol. 65, No. 3, July 1991 pp. 358-386
Some Factors discouraged Camp's removeal from Amherst to the wilds of Natchez......The illness of his eight-year old daughter Caroline may have delayed his decision to depart: she died on 28 Jaunuary 1778. His family did not want to exchange the comforts of home and the enjoyment of friends for the distant, primitive West. Son Samuel and his wife Mary would not go with the family. Mary Ann, the eldest of his last six daughters, was "engaged to be married to a gentleman of worth" in Amherst and was extremely unwilling to leave. But, as noted by descendants, Camp expected "extreme reverence" and total obedience from his children. The parson's contemporaries informed Hening that Camp had been so totally adverse to independence and the resulting social order that he "compelled his wife... and family ... to accompany him to the savage settlements of the western world.
footnote 47. T. 79/92, 39-40, T. 79/95, 42-43, British Public Record Office: Carter, Camp, Jones, 24, 34-35.
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