Moses Van Campen

thumb|I was nurtured in the school of the rifle and the tomahawk Moses Van Campen (January 21, 1757 - October 15, 1849) was a Revolutionary War soldier. Quotes Sketches of Border Adventures, 1842 Moses Van Campen in: John Niles Hubbard, Sketches of Border Adventures: In the Life and Times of Major Moses Van Campen, a Surviving Soldier of the Revolution, R.L. Underhill & Company, 1842. I was nurtured in the school of the rifle and the tomahawk My good fellows we shall soon have sport--there are but five of them...we'll have something more to do--there are ten of them...we shall now, my brave fellows, have enough of it, for we are nearly equally manned. I had no orders, sir, to kill my own men. Quotes about Moses Van Campen Danger, was to him, little else than a name. John Niles Hubbard. Sketches of Border Adventures: In the Life and Times of Major Moses Van Campen, a Surviving Soldier of the Revolution, R.L. Underhill & Company, 1842. p. 139 His Christianity was pure, his views of religion sound and scriptural, and his fidelity and integrity of character were like his own well aimed rifle, true to the mark Reverend Thomas Aitken in Van Campen's obituary http://mosesvancampen.com/ Moses Van Campen's hatred for the Indians did not soften until the vespertine shadows gathered about him and his long life entered its final stage. Henry W. Clune, The Genesee, Syracuse University Press, 1963. p. 140 Believing that the only good Indian was a dead Indian, Van Campen was dedicated to an effort to effect the extinction of the race. He fought Indians. He killed a quantity of them. He strung their dried scalps on the waistband of his breaches, even as the savages themselves displayed such grisly tokens as symbols of their prowess. Henry W. Clune, The Genesee, Syracuse University Press, 1963. p. 140 External links Category:1849 deaths Category:Soldiers Category:People from New Jersey