I am seeking information on the parents of Isaac Van Camp and of Aaron Van Camp, who are listed together in the 1780 roster of the eleven man 4th class of Captain Abner Howell’s Company of the Third Battalion of the Washington Co (PA) Milia They owned adjacent and in Amwell Twp of that county near Ten-Mile Creek. It seems likely that they were brothers. Isaac Van Camp (my 4xg grandfather) was born 23 Dec 1749 in an unknown location, and married Mary Worthington 25 June 1777. He died in Monongalia Co., (now WV) 2 March 1933. Little is known about Aaron but his wife is also known to be named Mary.
Because given names were so commonly also family names in the 18th century, descendents of both the Monongalia Isaac Van Camp and the Ulster NY Van Campens have searched for Isaac Van Camp’s parents among Van Campen families in which Isaac was a common given name. Thus there is listed as # 511 (on p. 63) Vol 2 of “ Contributions to the Family History and Genealogy of the Van Campen Family of America, Ulster Co. NY Branch” by D. A. D. Ogden Jr., J. H. Van Campen, and R. A. Stowe an Isaac {Van Campen}Jr who married Mary Worthington and and died 2 March 1833 in Monogalia WV. This Isaac Jr. would have been the son of the Isaac Van Campen who married Magdelena Rosenkranz and who purchased and perhaps built the historic stone manor house in Walpack (NJ) known as the Van Campen Inn.
Ogden et al also cite Leonard Peck’s suggestion in a Sept 1996 publication of the Walpack (NJ) Historical Society that the Isaac Van Camp who died in Monongalia Co WV was baptized 5 May 1745 as Isaac Van Campen as a resident in Somerset Co NJ at the Readington (NJ) Dutch Reformed Church as the son of Cornelius and the great grandson of the Dutch solder Gerit Janszen Van Campen of Kingston (Ulster Co NY).
Both Ogden et al and Peck list their particular Isaac Van Campen‘s as being baptized in 1743 and 1745 respectively several years before the Monongalia Van Camp’s 23 Dec 1749 date of birth In the case of the Isaac Van Campen, Jr of Van Campen Inn there is the additional problem of the father’s will. The senior Isaac Van Campen in his will provides son Isaac with the use of the father’s bedroom at the Van Campen Inn in Waldack for the rest of son Isaac’s life, with provision for firewood, care of his horse, and an allowance. It is clear from the 1801 will that he is unmarried. The Monongalia Isaac Van Camp was then married and was the father of nine children.
I am looking as an alternative for an Aaron Van Campen, after whom brother Aaron might have been named. In the Ogden book only one such individual is mentioned. He is the “Arie” (Aaron) who is described as being the great-grandson of the Dutch soldier Gerrit Janszen Van Campen’s by the grandson Gerrit who settled in Hunterdon Co NJ. The authors describe this Arie (Aaron) as having an only child named Gerrit. They seem however to have uncovered little information about either his life or his family. This suggests the possibility that he could in fact have had other heretofore unknown children.
I would appreciate additional information about Aaron (Arie) (1720-1771). Beyond that, help would also be appreciated in terms of information on 18th century middle colony Van Camp(en) families which employ Isaac or Aaron as common given names, and especially a family which employs both.