. History of New Haven County, Connecticut . ., in 1835. They had one daughter, JuliaH., born in 1861, died in 1878. George B. Bristol has been constableof the town 25 years and selectman several years. He had charge ofthe highways for a number of years, and very many of the improve-ments in the highways were made by him. He has studied medicineand made a specialty of electricity, and has treated many cases ofparalysis, rarely failing to give relief. Robert Camp, one of the oldest and most prosperous farmers ofMiddlebury, was born July 9th, 1811, on the place now occupied byhim, to which his f
. History of New Haven County, Connecticut . ., in 1835. They had one daughter, JuliaH., born in 1861, died in 1878. George B. Bristol has been constableof the town 25 years and selectman several years. He had charge ofthe highways for a number of years, and very many of the improve-ments in the highways were made by him. He has studied medicineand made a specialty of electricity, and has treated many cases ofparalysis, rarely failing to give relief. Robert Camp, one of the oldest and most prosperous farmers ofMiddlebury, was born July 9th, 1811, on the place now occupied byhim, to which his father had removed from Milford about the begin-ning of the present century. His parents were Amos and Mehitabel(Smith) Camp, both descendants of two of the oldest families of theirnative town. The immediate ancestor of the father was also namedAmos Camp, and he was the descendant of one of the three Campbrothers who first located in this state. One settled on the Connecti-cut river near Middletown; another removed to the western part of the. 4? &>fi- HISTORY OF NEW HAVEN COUNTY. 769 state; and the third was the Milford ancestor. In that town an allot-ment of six acres of land, on Broad street, has remained in the nameof the Camp family more than 15C years. This Amos Camp, grand-father of Robert Camp, had three children: Sarah, who married Heze-kiah Clark, of Milford; Hannah, who married Gideon Camp, of NewMilford; and Amos (the father of Robert), who was born in Milford,in 1771, and died at his home in Middlebury, November 24th, wife, Mehitabel, died August 30th, 1834, aged 61 years. They made the journey to Middlebury on horseback, where theypurchased a tract of land previously owned by Amos Bronson, andwhere he had kept a public house, Both were frugal and industriousand prospered in their occupation as farmers. They had a largefamily, namely: Lyman, born August 3d, 1798, who married adaughter of Asahel Bronson, and lived in Middlebury until his deathJuly 18th, 18
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