De Camp Genealogy: Laurent De Camp of New Utrecht, N.Y., 1664, and his descendants

A meticulous portrait unfolds of Laurent De Camp, a Huguenot refugee who arrived in New Netherlands in 1664, and the early generations of his family who settled in Brooklyn, Flatbush, New Utrecht and Staten Island. The narrator walks listeners through the turbulent backdrop of religious persecution in France, the migration to the Dutch colonies, and the tangled web of names like “Van Kamp” and “Van Campen” that Dutch clerks used, obscuring the true French lineage.

Compiled from six years of painstaking research, the work teases apart church registers, baptismal sponsors and state documents to clarify which families were truly related and which merely shared a similar name. Listeners will appreciate the blend of social history and detective‑like genealogy, offering a rare glimpse into how early settlers forged identities in a new world while preserving a legacy that many descendants have long forgotten.