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     Billie Sue Camp was born on 17 June 1950 in Raton, Colfax County, New Mexico.¹

She married Walter Jay Haferty, son of Arthur Edwin Haferty and Kathyleen Robertson, in 1970 in Raton.²

     Edgar Boyd Camp was born on 30 April 1827 in Sacket Harbor, Jefferson County, New York.¹ He was the son of Col. Elisha Camp and Sophia Hale.

He married Mary E. Porter.¹

     Edward Camp was born say 1653.¹

He married Mehitable Smith, daughter of John Smith and Grace Hawley, in 1674.¹

     Col. Elisha Camp was born in 1786 in Sacket Harbor, Jefferson County, New York, son of Keziah (Durkee) Camp.¹ He was graduated in 1804 from Columbia College with highest honors, as valedictorian, as then studied law. With his brother-in-law, Judge Sackett, he bought land in Jefferson County, N.Y. and arrived in Sackets Harbor in 1804, and soon became one of the most prominent men in the north country. He became a postmaster, militia officer, lawyer, New York state district attorney, politician, newspaper owner and editor, banker, and a substantial landowner with interests in local mills, Lake Ontario shipping, and land or water transportation that might benefit Sackets Harbor and the north country.

He at one time owned all the American side of the Thousand Islands. (This is given in one of the descriptive books of the Thousand Islands, and Miss Folger, his grand-daughter, remembers hearing her mother tell the same fact.)

He wrote numerous letters to, George Hale, a member of his wife's family and a prominent merchant first in Providence, R.I., and then in Glastonbury, Conn., relating to the sale of livestock, rum, pork, sugar, and other goods, as well as giving advice to a young merchant, and giving instruction as to the printing an displaying with geographical cards.

Elisha had interest in lake shipping and the promotion of roads, a canal, and railroads. From 1819 Camp led the agitation for a canal to connect Black river with Lake Ontario at Sackets Harbor. The papers relating to this unsuccessful project "for diverting the surplus waters of the Black river into Pleasant or Mill creek and thence to Sackets Harbor" and to Camp's role as one of the surplus water commissioners include petitions to the legislature; advice from interested persons; subscription lists and receipts (1829 to 1831) for payments, with some in kind; construction contracts (1827 to 1832; accounts (1829 to 1832) for labor, excavations, supplies, complaints (1831 to 1837) by settlers, farmers, and rival interests over the flooding of roads and lands, over other mishaps, and over the surplus water taxes and threatened monopoly; contracts and leases for water rights along the canal; and drafts of speeches by Camp emphasizing local transportation needs in terms of Whig promises. Unfortunately the canal was never built.^2,3

He married Sophia Hale, daughter of Col. George Hale and Hopeful Moseley, in 1811.¹

He died in 1866.¹

     Elisha Ely Camp was born on 21 December 1824 in Sacket Harbor, Jefferson County, New York.¹ He was the son of Col. Elisha Camp and Sophia Hale.

He married Louise Kellar of Washington on 20 February 1862.¹

He died on 4 August 1867 at age 42.¹

     Elizabeth Moseley Camp was born on 2 February 1812 in Sacket Harbor, Jefferson County, New York.¹ She was the daughter of Col. Elisha Camp and Sophia Hale.

She married Rev. James Robert Boyd D.D., of Greenbush Heights, N.Y. . They lived in a staunchly-built brick house at Sackett's Harbor on the shore of Lake Ontario, New York, where he helped successfully to fight the British in the War of 1812. The lovely old home is still standing with its beautiful gardens.²

She died in 1889 probably in New York.¹

     Erskine Mason Camp was born on 26 December 1830 in Sacket Harbor, Jefferson County, New York.¹ He was the son of Col. Elisha Camp and Sophia Hale.

He married Julia L. Griffin.¹

     George Hale Camp was born on 27 March 1817 in Sacket Harbor, Jefferson County, New York.¹ He was the son of Col. Elisha Camp and Sophia Hale.

He married Mary Alice Smith in 1839.¹

He died on 16 May 1883 in Sacket Harbor, at age 66.¹

     George Hale Camp Jr. was born about 1847.¹ He was the son of George Hale Camp and Mary Alice Smith.

He died on 1 November 1872 in Houghton, Houghton County, Michigan.¹

     Harriet Camp was born in Sacket Harbor, Jefferson County, New York.¹ She was the daughter of George Hale Camp and Mary Alice Smith.

She married General Tully McCrea.¹

She died on 24 October 1917 in Hampton, Elizabeth City, Virginia.²

     Harriette Ann Camp was born on 28 November 1822 in Sacket Harbor, Jefferson County, New York.¹ She was the daughter of Col. Elisha Camp and Sophia Hale.

She married Frederick F. Folger of Hudson N.Y.¹

     Margaret Camp was the daughter of George Hale Camp and Mary Alice Smith.

She married Rodney Mason.¹

     Mary Camp was born on 21 April 1652 in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut. She was the daughter of Nicholas Camp.¹

She married Nathaniel Briscoe, son of Nathaniel Briscoe, on 29 November 1672 in Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut.

     Mary Camp was born say 1650, thought to have been a daughter of Edward Camp, of New Haven.²

She married Josiah Baldwin, son of John Baldwin Sr. and Mary ---(?)---, on 25 June 1667.¹