[3]. Note.—It has been stated that he was related to that Nicholas Camp who went from Wethersfield to Milford, Conn., in 1639, and had a son or a grandson, William Campe, who removed to Newark, N. J., about 1665. Not the slightest proof of such relationship exists, and upon none of the Milford, Conn., or Newark, N. J., records dealing with this Camp family does the prefix “De” appear. Moreover, it is well established that the Milford Camp family was of English origin.
[4]. Note.—There were several of the early inhabitants of New Amsterdam who were called “Laurens Jansen” on the records, none of whom can be identified with our “Laurens Jansen De Camp.” It is interesting, however, to trace out such of these “Laurens Jansen” worthies as can clearly be followed.
(A.) In a list of early immigrants the following appears: 1659 February, In the Faith, “Laurens Janssen from Wormer” (Documentary History of New York, vol. III.) The same man appears on the N. Y. Dutch Church records as follows: “1666 May 6, Laurens Janzen j. m. van Wormer in Noorthollt en Annetje Jans wede van Lucas Elderzen.”
(B.) On the same church record also appears one Laurens Jansen who had a wife Marritie Aldrichs, and children baptized Maritje, 1672 April 16; Annetje 1674 July 8; Albert 1676 November 11; Wyntje 1679 April 23; Neeltje 1682 May 20; Jan 1685 April 29; Belitje 1693 June 18.
(C.) In a list of those who took the oath of allegiance at New Utrecht, N. Y., on 26th September 1687, appears one “Laurens Janse, natur” who also appears later in a list of inhabitants of New Utrecht, 1698, as having a wife, three children, and two slaves. (Hist. of Kings Co.) He it is who, on Brooklyn Dutch Church records appears as follows: “1696 Jannetje, child of Laurens Janse and Hendrikje Jacobse; Witnesses Stoffel Gerritse and Annetje Jans,” and also in a deed “Laurens Jansen and Hendrickse, his wife, both of the Yellowhook, Town of New Utrecht, Kings Co. N. Y. to William Matysen of Brooklyn N. Y.,” dated 8 May 1708, consideration £412–0 Acknowledged 21 March 17¹⁸⁄₁₉ recorded in Liber 4 of conveyances page 207 Kings Co. Registers Office conveying land on Yellowhook consisting of 66 acres. It is this Laurens Jansen that Mr. Tunis G. Bergen confounds with our Laurens Janz (de Camp) in his work (Early Settlers of Kings Co.), and has erroneously attributed to him several of the children of our Laurens Janz de Camp. A careful examination of the names of parents and witnesses on the original Flatbush and Brooklyn Dutch Church records (Onderdonk’s copy, in Long Island Hist. Soc.) shows the excusable error of Mr. Bergen. It is a curious fact, however, that our Laurens Janz de Camp and this Laurens Jansen should both live at New Utrecht between 1670–1700.
(D.) Another Laurens Jansen appears indirectly in N. Y. Dutch Church records, viz.: “1659 June 19 Jan Gervon van Beaumont in Walslant, Soldaet en Lÿsbeth Hendricks Wede van Laurens Janzen Deenmarken” (i. e. a Dane).
Here, then, we find no less than four other Laurens Jansen in New Amsterdam living contemporaneously with our Laurens Jansen De Camp and apparently in no way related to him.
[5]. Note.—Elsie de Mandeville was the daughter of Gillis Jansen de Mandeviel from Garder, Holland, who emigrated to New Amsterdam in February, 1659, on the ship De Trouw (Faith), a private trader going to Manhattan, which sailed 13 February, 1659, with near one hundred passengers, but no French except one—“De Ruine.”
It has been suggested that this single French emigrant was Laurens Jansen de Camp “de Rouen,” i. e., that the passenger whose name is left blank or cannot be deciphered in the original list was “from Rouen,” a city in the province of Normandy, France. While there is no substantial proof of the above contention it is based upon reason as it is known that Laurens Jansen de Camp came from Normandy, and that there was a De Camp family in that city, one member of which, Jean de Camp, a saddler, was killed there during the St. Bartholomew massacre, August 1572.
The name “Gillis Janzen” erroneously appears in a list of passengers on the ship “Moesman” which sailed in April, 1659, and it was long supposed that this was another person of the same name. (Doc. Hist. of N. Y.) An examination of the original document now on file at Albany, N. Y., proves conclusively that this “Gillis Janzen” is recorded not as a passenger, but as one itemized in the ship manifest against whom a charge is made for a small sum of money advanced by the direction of the Dutch West India Company. Gillis Jansen de Mandeville brought over with him his wife Altje (Pieters or Hendricks), and four children, viz.: (1) Hendrick Gillis, born in Gelderland; (2) Gerretje Gillis; (3) Aeltje Gillis; (4) Jan Gillis; and it is presumed that two children (5) Tyntje Gillis, and (6) David Gillis, were born later at Flatbush, N. Y. He died between 1696–1701, leaving a will dated 15th September 1696, proved 1701, in New York County, Liber 2 of Wills, page 109. In it he calls himself of Greenwich, N. Y. (an outlying district of the city), and mentions his wife Elsie Mandeville, eldest son Hendrick, son David, daughter Tynte, wife of Corn Jansen De Veer (should be “van der Veer”), daughter Altje, wife of Lawrence Johnson (meant for Laurens Jansen de Camp), daughter Perette, wife of Peter Mutt; daughter Geritie, wife of John Muthel.