A soldier in the Parliamentary army during the Civil Wars, Camm was a man of considerable property, being a successful yeoman.
The principal object of their journey, however, was to "declare the message of the Lord to Oliver Cromwell, then called Protector", in favour of toleration.
[2] After revisiting the North, Camm spent a considerable time in London, and in 1654, in company with John Audland, visited Bristol.
It is said that they were favourably received by the inhabitants until the clergy incited a mob to illtreat them and the magistrates to issue a warrant for their apprehension.
His bodily ailments rapidly increased, and, according to the register preserved at Devonshire House, Bishopsgate, he died of consumption at the end of 1656.