John Hamlin Camp

John Hamlin Camp was born in what is now Greenville County, Virginia to John Camp and Elizabeth Wall on the 28th day of January in 1783. In 1804 before meeting and marrying his wife he obtained a medical degree from the Pennsylvania School of Medicine where he wrote his dissertation "On the Use of Mercury in Fevers". He traveled with his father and brothers between Virginia and Davidson County, Tennessee and staying there after 1810 where he served in Captain Creel's Militia Company. Before that time he married Dorothy Chamberlain Jones. This was in 1808 Her mother Martha married his father shortly after that. their relationships to their parents was brought before a court in Maury County, Tennessee when the executor of his wife's father's estate sued him as executor of his father's estate. (1,2,3)

By 1817 John Hamlin had moved his family to Giles County, Tennessee. He served as Justice of the Peace there in 1823. He was the Speaker in the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1827. He died a short time later in 1829.

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