| Immigrated to america aboard ship LION w/Rev. Jon Elot 1631. He was in New Haven in 1638 and settled in Milford with Rev. Peter Pruden 1639 Notes for NICHOLAS CAMP: "Nicholas Camp, immigrant ancestor, was born in England and came from Nazeing, county Essex to this country in 1638. He was at Watertown,Massachusetts for a time, then at Wethersfield, Connecticut, and in 1639 appears at Guilford, Connecticut. As early as 1646 he had a house, lot of 6 acres, one right and two parcels, in Milford, Connecticut. His name is on the list of free planters of Milford dated November 20, 1639. He joined the Milford Church November 2, 1643. He was taxed on one hundred and ninety-nine pounds of property at Milford in 1686. He died there in 1706."Quoted from "Genealogy and Family History of the State of Connecticut" Volume I, Page 816. Nicholas arrived in 1631 with wife Sarah and John Eliot at New Haven aboard the ship Lyon. DAR Magazine, Vol XLVI, 1915, pg.343. It is believed that Nicholas Jr. was born aboard the ship. |