By Arthur James Weise

The New England Kemps, ancestral kinsmen of the honorable William Kemp of Troy, New York. The name Kemp is derived from the Saxon word combat.

Samuel Kemp immigrated about 1658 from England to Billerica, Massachusetts, and married Sarah Foster in 1662. They moved to Groton, Massachusetts in 1667. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York and elsewhere. Includes William Kemp (d.1640) and Edward Kemp (d.1668), two other Kemp immigrants to Massachusetts, and a generation or two of their descendants. Also shown are military service records for the Colonial, Revolutonary, War of 1812, and more.

Related families include Blood, Gilson, Hodskin, Lyon, Parker, Seabury, White 

(193p. 1904)