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- "Samuel Camp was graduated at Yale College in 1764; was ordained pastor of the church in Ridgebury, Conn,. in 1770; was dismissed in 1805; and died in 1813." [Annals of the American Pulpit, citation details below]
From Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College (citation details below):
Samuel Camp, the youngest son of deacon Hezekiah and Lydia (Clark) Camp, of Milford, East Haven, and Canaan, Connecticut, was born in Canaan about 1744.
His ability was such as to secure for him a Berkeley Scholarship at graduation.
He studied theology, and was licensed to preach by the Litchfield South Association of Ministers in 1766.
From December, 1766, to November, 1767, he preached in that part of Woodbury Connecticut, which is now called South Britain, in Southbury.
In October, 1767, he was named as a candidate for the tutorship in College, in case of a vacancy, but no vacancy occurred.
Early in 1768 he was invited to settle in Mount Carmel Society, in the northern part of New Haven, now Hamden, but the negotiations were for some reason broken off. At this time he was described as of Salisbury, Connecticut.
In April, 1768, he began to preach in a very small society by the name of Ridgebury, which had been set off in the northern part of Ridgefield, Connecticut, in 1761, but had not yet maintained a settled preacher. He gave such satisfaction that he was called to the pastorate, and a church of over eighteen members was gathered and he was ordained over it by the Fairfield West Consociation on January 18, 1769. The parish was a very long and narrow ridge of land and sparsely populated, though an annual salary of 75 pounds was promised to him. After upwards of thirty-six years' service, he was dismissed in November, 1804.
His residence continued in the parish, and he died there on March 10, 1813, in his 68th year.
He was married on September 21, 1769, by the Rev. Dr. Joseph Bellamy, of Bethlehem, to Hannah Garnsey, who died on September 25, 1777, in her 34th year.
He next married on October 28, 1778, Lucretia, third daughter of James and Abigail Barker, of Branford, Connecticut, and granddaughter of Colonel John Russell (Yale 1704), who died on Feb 2, 1782, at the age of 35.
He married thirdly Mrs. Mary (Keeler) Northrop, on October 17, 1782, who died on October 14, 1800, in her 55th year.
By his first marriage, he had one son and two daughters; and by his second marriage a son and a daughter.
He contributed to the first volume of the Connecticut Evangelical Magazine a doctrinal treatise which was printed in six successive parts (January - June, 1801) with the title, "The Gospel a doctrine according to Godliness"; it is designed to illustrate the truth that the Gospel system is calculated to promote real godliness.
A prefactory note by the author, dated November 15, 1800, informs us that he has languished for many years under great bodily weakness, and that as he considers death to be now in near prospect, he offers for publication this imperfect work.
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1744 - 1813 (~ 68 years)
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