I was thinking that the only way for that to be would be if they had been
sent back to school in England, which was a common practice back then. In
those cases, you can find someone emigrating several times to this country.
Elaine
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From: <TFarris268(a)aol.com>
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Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: [CAMP-L] Camp immigration info
Wasn't Thomas Camp born 1691, born in Virginia - he could not be
the
emigrant
the article is talking about.
Barbara Farris
Carrie Camp Memorial Library
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> Just prior to 1717 six young men, Thomas Camp; two younger brothers
> from England and their cousins, Samuel, Edmond and John DeCobbs from
> Wales landed at Charleston SC and went on foot throught the Carolinas
> into Virginia. Thomas Camp, Edmond and John DeCobbs settled in
> Halifax and Bedford Counties Virginia, the others going farther north.
> Thomas Camp, the emigrant, born 1691, married a Miss Marshall of
> Virginia and had three sons, born Feb. 8, 1717, John and Marshall.