| Notes for JOB CAMP: Job took an oath of Fidelity to the State of Connecticut on August 26, 1777. He was listed as a Captain. "A Roll of Names of those inhabitants of Durham who have taken the oath of Fidelity to the State of Connecticut with the time of the taking of said oath, kept in the Town Clerk's Office in said Durham." History of Durham by William Chancey Fowler, LLD.The following was published in "Pioneer and Patriot Families of Bradford Co., Pa." by Clement F. Heverly, Vol 1, Pages 225-26:"Job Camp was born Nov 16, 1749 at Milford, Conn. During the Revolutionary War he served as a Capt. of a company, bearing his name, in Lt. Col. Thomas Seymour Regiment of Light Dragoons,Conn. Mil. In 1792, Job Camp came to what is now Camptown, Bradford Co., selected lands, planted a piece of corn, and,after it was harvested, returned to Connecticut for his family,which moved in the next year, and settled at Camptown, which was then a dense, unbroken wilderness. At this time there were,besides Jones Ingham, two or three families above him on the creek....Mr. Camp started from Connecticut with a yoke of oxen,which were used to transport his family and goods. Taking the usual course of the emigrants--across the country from the Hudson to Stroudsburg, and through the great swamp-- they reached the Susquehanna at Pittston. The route was a slow and toilsome one, but thus far there was a road along which they could drive a team, but up the river there was nothing but then arrow Indian path. They were therefore compelled to unyoke their oxen and drive them along singly. The cart, younger members of the family, and household goods were then placed on a keel boat, and two men were hired to push it up the river to Wyalusing. The progress was slow and the labor severe, and several days were necessary for the trip. It took all of Mr.Camp's crop of corn raised the preceding year to pay the boatmen, and the family were obligated to get along as best they could until another crop was harvested. Mr. Camp was by trade a carpenter and, the year he moved in, built a barn for himself,which is still standing. This barn is covered with boards splitout of pine logs, which are fastened on with wrought nails, made by Salmon Bosworth, who had moved up the Wyalusing. Mr. Camp had a large family of children, and the name is one of frequent occurrence. The village of Camptown, five miles up the Wyalusing, is named in honor of him. His wife was Anna Oviatt,and her brother Thomas came about the same time with him, and lived on the farm now owned by Benjamin Ackley. Mr. Camp died Jan 17,1822. His wife, born Jan 27, 1749, died Nov 25, 1825. Both are buried at Merryall Cemetery near Camptown. Their children were: Albert, Polly, Isaac, William, Clark, Elijah, Garry, and Israel, all born in Conn. but Israel." Job was listed in the 1800 and 1810 Census for Luzerne Co., WyalisingTownship. This part of Luzerne Co., later became Bradford Co.Job was listed in the 1796 and 1812 Taxpayers list for WyalusingTownship (Camptown). Notes for JOB CAMP, REV.: Job Camp was born at New Milford, CT on 16 Nov. 1747. (See New Milford Record Vol LR12, Page 15) He was named after his mother's brother (JobClark). He in turn named a son after his mother's family (Clark Camp). Job was listed in his grandfather's will (Enos Camp) as a grandchild. He married Anna Oviatt on 22 Feb. 1773 in NewMilford, CT. They had eight children; three of whom settled and were buried in Camptown: William, Elijah and Israel. He was a carpenter by trade. In 1793 he built a barn for Thomas Lewis ofMerryall; he then built several houses in what was to become Camptown. In 1795 he built a barn for himself. In Camptown,there is a house known as "the old Atwood House" which was built by Job Camp and may have been his own house. It is considered the oldest house in Camptown. It was moved from the "Brickhouse" (built by William Camp) property to a different location for one of Israel's children. |
| Notes for ANNA OVIATT: "June 30, 1793: The first Presbyterian church in the county, organized in a log school house at Wyalusing by Rev. Ira Condit. The organizations consisted of the following thirteen members: Uriah Terry, Lucrecia York, Justus Gaylord and his wife Lucretia, Zachariah Price and his wife Ruth, Mary Lewis, Abigail Wells, Sarah Rockwell, Anna Camp,James Lake, Thomas Oviatt, and Hannah Beckwith." " From Pioneer and Patriot Families of Bradford County." by Clement Heverly,Vol. 1, 1913. |