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1780 Attack, Capture & Escape
The story of the March, 1780 attack on Moses, his Father, Brother, Johan Rogers, and Peter Pence has been chronicled many times. The following version[…]
Related Works
Fiction Pattison, Eliot. Bone Rattler: A Mystery of Colonial America. Berkerly, CA: Counterpoint, 2007. Author’s Description: “Aboard a British convict ship bound for the new[…]
Sketches
Borrowing from the title of John N. Hubbard’s “Sketches of Border Adventures in the Life and Times of Major Moses VanCampen,” the following “sketches” or[…]
Descendants of Moses Van Campen
Descendants of Moses Van Campen 1-Moses Van Campen [337] b. 20 Jan 1757, d. 15 Oct 1849 +Margaret McClure [62] b. 1761, d. 1816 […]
Ancestors of Moses Van Campen
1-Gerrit Jansen Van Campen [1] b. 1640, d. 1745 +Machtelt Stoffels [81] b. 1635, d. 1688 2-Jan Gerritsen Van Campen [69] b. Bef 18[…]
Foreward – The Van Campen Family of America
Presented herein is a working genealogy of the Van Campen Family of America. It is a story whose chapters continue to be written by each[…]
His Thrilling Adventures
A revised edition of “Otzinachson: A History of the West Branch Valley of the Sesquehanna” by John Franklin Meginness was published 1889. This edition expanded[…]
“His Christianity was pure,
his views of religion sound
and scriptural, and his fidelity
and integrity of character
were like his own well aimed rifle,
true to the mark.”
– Rev. Thomas Aitken
Obituary of Moses Van Campen
"I was nurtured in the school of the rifle and the tomahawk."
- Moses Van Campen
“I hear the footsteps of coming millions.”
- Moses Van Campen
“The notes of war are hushed,
The rage of battle o’er,
The warrior is at rest,
He hears our praise no more.
The soldier nobly fought
For all we dearly love,
He fought to gain a heavenly crown,
And now he reigns above.
- Rev. Thomas Aitken
Inscription, Moses Van Campen's Headstone
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