Right.
That seems to be against our constitution.
A man is innocent until proven guilty by a jury of his peers, not by
somebody 100 - 200 years later. If it hadn't been established that he had
some patriotism for the cause of the new country that wanted to be formed,
then he (John Camp, et al) probably wouldn't have been considered a patriot
in the first place. (Am I getting the terms right this time?)
Personally, I still don't care because I have lots of ancestors on which I
could enter, if I wanted to pay that much as a "reward" for my ancestors
having fought and / or given goods, as one of my ancestresses even did from
that same area of SC.
And regardless of what one thinks about the dilution of the possible numbers
of members by the influx of immigrants, all one has to do is look at the
numbers of ancestry and descendancy to see that nearly all of us with any
ancestors in our blood back that far (which happens to the children when the
emigrants marry someone born in this country), the numbers of descendancy
are astronomical since I have 512 possibilities as patriots through my 7th
great grandparents' generation alone. Then we're not just doubling their
descendants each generation.
Probably about 99% of my relatives would be eligible.
Elaine Blackman
----- Original Message -----
From: <Peg957(a)aol.com>
To: <CAMP-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 9:24 PM
Subject: [CAMP-L] Re: CAMP-D Digest V00 #174
In a message dated 10/29/2000 7:16:40 AM Pacific Standard Time,
CAMP-D-request(a)rootsweb.com writes:
> I learned an interesting little item....Betty and I were talking to Dr.
Bobby
> Moss
> internationally known author and historian told us at one time the DAR
was
> accepting gifts
> of needed finances to close family lines so no one else could come in
on
> their family. It is a possibility
> that this happened on the Camp Family...they wouldn't even talk to
Betty
> about anyone coming in
> under Joseph Camp who served as a minister in the area of the battle of
both
> Kings Mountain and
> Cowpens...after the Battle of Kings Mtn. a deposition in the pension
file
of
> William Bradley, soldier told
> of him coming there after the battle to be doctored.....they got the
pension,
> ,,,,Histories of the area tell
> of Rev. Joseph being taken prisioner after the battle of Cowpens and
held
> three days....they were trying
> to make him tell where the prisioners were taken...he was a prisioner
of
> Cornwallis.....People have been
> given kingdoms for doing less......this according to them is no good
because
> his elderly father who lived
> miles away was charged with treason....evidently his lands weren't
taken
> away...even though his house
> was burned....he had properties in his will to leave all of his
children.....
> I plan to go to NC Archieves in
> Raleigh soon....any idea what I need to look under to find something to
> clear this up........even though I
> personally don't care all that much about belonging to the DAR....I
feel
> that I have the right.....
>
Good for you, Elizabeth. I'm glad you are willing to try your hand at
finding out the reason the DAR is so unbending on our Camp line. If what
you
were told is true, I think every Camp in the country needs to bombard
the
DAR
with letters of complaint and someone also needs to inform the media.
This
would be interesting to a LOT of people. I've talked to the DAR
myself
(several years back) and they didn't seem to be interested in considering
any
new evidence at all. It's not fair for them to make decisions on
just
part
of the evidence.
Peggy Puckett