Re: Camfield/Canfield, Revolution, Berkshire Co. militia, Massachusetts, etc.
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Re: Camfield/Canfield, Revolution, Berkshire Co. militia, Massachusetts, etc.
Diane Tuck 8/09/12
Sorry, Diane. That was an older posting of mine, and I've moved on . . . however:
I don't really research CANFIELDS, as I have the original English name of CAMFIELD, which immigrant ancestor Matthew Camfield bore in the 1630s. There are no CANFIELDs in my family line--other than sibling lines along the way, of thosewho slipped into that spelling that illiterate record-keepers insisted on foisting upon them. And my immigrant ancestor also had a contemporary (Thomas Canfield, I believe) who settled elsewhere in Connecticut. I'm a New Haven Camfield.
I often post to Canfield as well as Camfield because later Canfields still insist on changing my immigrant ancestor's name to match theirs. Same as many do in responding to my e-mail, for God's sake, or sending me snail mail.
So 1838 in any case is a bit late in history for any of my searching. I already have my Camfield's back to the early 1500s in England. I was doing the Revolution searching because one was a Massachusetts Minute-Man. He and his father retained the Camfield spelling; siblings all had their name changed to Canfield apparently by a gravestone carever . . . and most of them are buried in New Marlborough, Mass.I did have my Camfield line in New York in the late 1700s, but they were out of there by the very early 1800s and left no children behind when they moved on.
Good luck. I'm sure you'll turn up Charles E. Canfield--and Charles Parks Canfield, who was born six years after my great grandmother Warner who actually was born in New York--and whom I knew quite well before she died in 1952 at age 98. She had memories of the Civil War and of traveling west by wagon train about the time it broke out.
I love to ramble on . . . sorry.
More Replies:
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Re: Camfield/Canfield, Revolution, Berkshire Co. militia, Massachusetts, etc.
Diane Tuck 8/12/12
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Re: Camfield/Canfield, Revolution, Berkshire Co. militia, Massachusetts, etc.
Tom Camfield 8/21/12
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Re: Camfield/Canfield, Revolution, Berkshire Co. militia, Massachusetts, etc.