Sarah Camp

Bef 1782 - 1818  (> 36 years)

• Name	Sarah Camp  [1]
  Birth	Bef 3 Feb 1782  [2, 3]
  Baptism	3 Feb 1782	Ridgebury, Fairfield, Connecticut   [3]
  Gender	Female
  Death	9 Aug 1818  [4, 5]
  Burial	Harvard Grove Cemetery, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio   [4]
  Person ID	I39789	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LD
  Last Modified	7 Jan 2024

  
  

  Father	Rev. Samuel Camp,   b. Dec 1744, Canaan, Lichtfield, Connecticut d. 10 Mar 1813, Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut (Age ~ 68 years)
  Mother	Lucretia Barker,   b. 18 Mar 1747, Branford, New Haven, Connecticut d. 2 Feb 1782, Ridgebury, Fairfield, Connecticut (Age 34 years)
  Marriage	28 Oct 1778  [6]
  Family ID	F23370	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Samuel Smith Baldwin,   b. 5 Jul 1777, Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut d. 12 Jul 1822, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio (Age 45 years)
  Marriage	10 May 1796	Ridgebury, Fairfield, Connecticut   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Lucretia Baldwin,   b. 18 Dec 1805, Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut d. 13 Jun 1873, Aurora, Portage, Ohio (Age 67 years)
  Family ID	F23369	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Jan 2024

  
  

• Notes

  familysearch.org has a birth record stating that Sarah Camp was born 15 Jan 1782, daughter of "Rev. Samuel and Hannah." This is linked, not to a contemporary record, but to a typed index card marked "Ridgefield, Vital Records, Vol. 1, Page 30." This record of Sarah Camp's birthdate and of her parentage cannot be correct, for the following reasons: First, Sarah Camp's gravestone says that she died 9 Aug 1818, aged 36 years. This would place her birth in 1782. Second, the only wife of the Rev. Samuel Camp named Hannah was Hannah Garnsey, who died in 1777. Third, Samuel Camp's wife who was alive in early 1782 was his second wife, Lucretia Barker. Fourth, a transcription of Ridgebury church records on familysearch.org, taken from dunhamwilcox.net, says that Lucretia, second wife of Rev. Samuel Camp, died on 2 Feb 1782, and that Sarah, daughter of Rev. Samuel Camp, was baptized 3 Feb 1782 (by the Rev. William Wetmore of Bethel). Quite obviously, Lucretia (Barker) Camp, second wife of the Rev. Samuel Camp, died of complications from the birth of Sarah Camp, because she, not someone named "Hannah", was the mother of Sarah Camp.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1044] The Baldwin Genealogy from 1500 to 1881 by Charles Candee Baldwin. Cleveland: Leader Printing Company, 1881. [S7134] Find a Grave page for Sarah Camp Baldwin., year only. [S7135] Ridgebury church records, on familysearch.org. [S7134] Find a Grave page for Sarah Camp Baldwin. [S7151] Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, at Case Western Reserve University., year only. [S7140] Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College by Franklin Bowditch Dexter. Six volumes. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1885-1912.