Ichabod studied to become a Congregational Minister. He later converted to the Protestant Episcopal religion. He traveled to England where he was ordained a priest. He serviced several churches in Middlesex county. After his wife Content Ward died, he moved on to Boston where he married Ann Oliver. He eventually serviced the Episcopal church at Amherst, VA for 16 years. He moved his family westward to the Mississippi River and eventually settled in Kaskaskia, IL as the first Episcopal minister to reach the Mississippi.
Rev. Camp's daughter Catherine married, early in 1785, a Canadian Frenchman named Jean Baptiste Guion, who proved to be very passionate and unkind to his wife. One night when he had been drinking and being mean, she sought refuge from him in her father's house. Guion followed her; and while Mr. Camp stood in his doorway remonstrating with the infuriated man, Guion shot and killed him. This tragedy occurred on the 20th of April 1786. Another daughter had recently married in St. Louis, and there the rest of the family, consisting of the widow and three daughters, immediately removed.
Rev. Camp married twice: First he married Content Ward in 1749; they had 2 children. He married second,Ann Oliver, and they had 8 children.
Buried in Kaskaskia Church yard, now under Mississippi River.
Rev. Camp's daughter Catherine married, early in 1785, a Canadian Frenchman named Jean Baptiste Guion, who proved to be very passionate and unkind to his wife. One night when he had been drinking and being mean, she sought refuge from him in her father's house. Guion followed her; and while Mr. Camp stood in his doorway remonstrating with the infuriated man, Guion shot and killed him. This tragedy occurred on the 20th of April 1786. Another daughter had recently married in St. Louis, and there the rest of the family, consisting of the widow and three daughters, immediately removed.
Rev. Camp married twice: First he married Content Ward in 1749; they had 2 children. He married second,Ann Oliver, and they had 8 children.
Buried in Kaskaskia Church yard, now under Mississippi River.
Ichabod studied to become a Congregational Minister. He later converted to the Protestant Episcopal religion. He traveled to England where he was ordained a priest. He serviced several churches in Middlesex county. After his wife Content Ward died, he moved on to Boston where he married Ann Oliver. He eventually serviced the Episcopal church at Amherst, VA for 16 years. He moved his family westward to the Mississippi River and eventually settled in Kaskaskia, IL as the first Episcopal minister to reach the Mississippi.
Rev. Camp's daughter Catherine married, early in 1785, a Canadian Frenchman named Jean Baptiste Guion, who proved to be very passionate and unkind to his wife. One night when he had been drinking and being mean, she sought refuge from him in her father's house. Guion followed her; and while Mr. Camp stood in his doorway remonstrating with the infuriated man, Guion shot and killed him. This tragedy occurred on the 20th of April 1786. Another daughter had recently married in St. Louis, and there the rest of the family, consisting of the widow and three daughters, immediately removed.
Rev. Camp married twice: First he married Content Ward in 1749; they had 2 children. He married second,Ann Oliver, and they had 8 children.
Buried in Kaskaskia Church yard, now under Mississippi River.
Rev. Camp's daughter Catherine married, early in 1785, a Canadian Frenchman named Jean Baptiste Guion, who proved to be very passionate and unkind to his wife. One night when he had been drinking and being mean, she sought refuge from him in her father's house. Guion followed her; and while Mr. Camp stood in his doorway remonstrating with the infuriated man, Guion shot and killed him. This tragedy occurred on the 20th of April 1786. Another daughter had recently married in St. Louis, and there the rest of the family, consisting of the widow and three daughters, immediately removed.
Rev. Camp married twice: First he married Content Ward in 1749; they had 2 children. He married second,Ann Oliver, and they had 8 children.
Buried in Kaskaskia Church yard, now under Mississippi River.
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