Asa Camp - Riverside Cemetery, Apalachin, NY
Posted by: ripraff
N 42° 05.094 W 076° 09.581
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Asa Camp was an early settler and had a hamlet named after him Campville, New York.
Waymark Code: WMW1PE
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 06/28/2017
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Asa Camp Find A Grave (
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"He enlisted in 1775 in Captain ____ Salbridge's Company of Colonel Daniel Brewer's Regiment of Massachusetts Troops while at South Brimfield, Massachusetts...The following year he enlisted in Colonel ____ Holman's Regiment of Massachusetts Troops and fought in the Battle of White Plains. In 1777, he served up the armed vessel "Revenge" under the command of Captain ____ Freeman and while off the Banks of Newfoundland they were engaged by a British Vessel but escaped after a severe battle...In 1778 he moved to the Town of New Concord, Albany County, New York where he enlisted into a company of the Second New York Regiment and joined his command at Valley Forge. ...He enlisted during the revolution as a Private, was promoted to Sargent, and obtained a rank Colonel with the Militia in Owego after the war. He died at his home in Campville."
Location type: Single Grave
Date of Birth: 9/14/759
Date of Death: 7/17/1848
Cause of death: Died Later
Grave Marker Text: Col. Asa Camp died Jul. 17, 1848 Aged 88 years.
Ranks: "He enlisted during the revolution as a Private, was promoted to Sargent"
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