|
JosephSmithSr.
So shall it be with my father: he shall be called a prince over his posterity, holding the keys of the patriarchal priesthood over the kingdom of God on earth, even the Church of the Latter Day Saints, and he shall sit in the general assembly of patriarchs, even in council with the Ancient of Days when he shall sit and all the patriarchs with him and shall enjoy his right and authority under the direction of the Ancient of Days. |
You are currently anonymous
CHAMPION, Henry II[1, 2]
1611 - 1708 (96 years) 
Submit Photo / Document
Set As Default Person 
-
Name CHAMPION, Henry Suffix II Birth 17 Jul 1611 Norwich, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom 
[3] Christening 7 May 1620 Horsham, West Sussex, Sussex, England, United Kingdom Gender Male Burial Feb 1708 Duck River Cemetery, Old Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States [3] Death 17 Feb 1708 Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States WAC 9 Jun 1930 SLAKE [3, 4] _TAG Reviewed on FS Headstones 
Submit Headstone Photo Person ID I15219 Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith Last Modified 19 Aug 2021
Father CHAMPION, Henry I , c. 6 Apr 1577, Wisborough Green, Sussex, EnglandWisborough Green, Sussex, England d. 1647, Cornwall, Cornwall, England (Age ~ 69 years) Mother RAMSEY, Mary , b. 31 Jul 1580, Norwich, Norwich, Norfolk, England Norwich, Norwich, Norfolk, Englandd. 7 May 1620, Horsham, West Sussex, Sussex, England (Age 39 years) Family ID F8232 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 BENNETT, Sarah , b. 1620, Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, United Statesd. 17 Feb 1709, Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States (Age 89 years) Marriage Aug 1647 Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States 
Children3 sons and 3 daughters Family ID F5470 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 24 Jan 2022
Family 2 JONES, Deborah , b. 1626, Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, United Statesd. 17 Feb 1709, Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States (Age 83 years) Marriage 1650 Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States [3] Children3 sons and 3 daughters Family ID F5471 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 24 Jan 2022
Family 3 PALMER, Deborah , b. 5 Feb 1643, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesd. 10 Oct 1706, Saybrook Point, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States (Age 63 years) Marriage 21 Mar 1697 Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States Family ID F8231 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 24 Jan 2022
-
Photos henry-champion-coat-of-arms.jpg 
https://sg30p0.familysearch.org/service/records/storage/das-mem/patron/v2/TH-904-69837-1898-72/dist.jpg?ctx=ArtCtxPublic At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
-
Notes - The name is from the word meaning one who fights in public combats in his own or another man’s quarrel.[1] Tradition has it that this English family was of Huguenot origin, which belief is strengthened by the fact that fleur-de-lis, the emblem of France, appears on their coat-of-arms.[2]
Henry CHAMPION Sr.[edit]
Henry CHAMPION, the American ancestor, is believed to have come to New England from his home in the neighbourhood of Norfolk, England, embarking at Yarmouth. Many other prominent settlers of Saybrook, Connecticut, are known to have come from that vicinity, and the neighbouring town of Norwich, Connecticut, is supposed to have received its name in honour of the English home-town of Norwich, also in Norfolk.
Yarmouth is a seaport town of fair size and considerable age. It is nineteen miles from Norwich, which was a flourishing town in the time of Edward the Confessor, 1041 - 1066. Records of Champions in East and West Norfolk, and also Suffolk, appear at various periods during the last four or five hundred years. Several armour-bearing families of the name, with established pedigrees, are to be found in various parts of England. “A Matthew Champion who died 8 October 1793, at the age of 111 years, according to his tombstone near the church of Saint Nicholas, in Yarmouth, England, was born in Flanders, and came to England with his father, who was attorney to the army or household of the Prince of Orange.”[3]
Among well-known Huguenot families is that of Claud Champion, Lord of Crespigny, of lower Normandy, who was an officer in the French Army. At the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685), he fled into England accompanied by his wife, the Comtesse de Vierville, and a family of eight children, two of whom were carried on board the ship in which they escaped, in baskets. De Crespigny entered the British Army, and served as colonel under Marlborough.[4]
Our immigrant ancestor, however, was in America before that time, although he may be descended from some branch of the French family which had come to England at an earlier date than the one mentioned above. Henry Champion was in Saybrook, Connecticut, as early as 1647[5], thirteen years before the first town records of that place are dated. He participated in the hardships of early pioneer life, those hardships being shared by his first wife Sarah, to whom he was married in August, 1647, by the Reverend Mr. Sylvester Nash, of Saybrook.[6]. Later, when a portion of Saybrook was laid out and incorporated as Lyme, they were residents of the new town, and shared in its building and development -- "a first and most active founder."[7]
He owned considerable land both in Saybrook and Lyme, in which latter place he had his "ear mark," 1674. There his house was built on the hill just east of the old meeting house, and near the old burying-ground.[8] The lands of Henry Champion are recorded as follows: “One parsell lying on the East side of the Great River Con. Whereon a house now standeth containing by estimation six ackers, the ends abutting against the highway North East and South West, the sides abutting against the land of Morgayn Bowers South East and the land of Joseph Jarrit North West.” [9] Also: “one parsell in the planting fielde on the East side of the great River Con. By estimation four ackers, the end abuts against Blacke Halle River N. East, and against the greate Marsh South West, the side abuts against the Land of Will. Bechous North West.”[10] He was made a freeman of Lyme, on the 12 May 1670.
After having assisted in the development of Saybrook, Henry Champion removed with his family to the east side of the Connecticut River and became one of the first and most active founders of Lyme, being propounded a freeman of that town on May 12th, 1670. In 1671 he was involved in a land dispute between the towns of Lyme and New London. The dispute was with Renald Marvin and subsequently settled by an agreement dated 8 Sep. 1696.[11] In 1688 he paid taxes under Andros.[12]
After the death of his first wife, he married, 21 March 1698, Deborah JONES, who drove a rather hard pre-nuptial bargain with him, of financial advantage to herself. He died in Lyme, 17 February 1708, "aged 98 years." She married again, 26 December 1709, Captain Henry Crane. He was born about 1635 and had married (1) about 1663, Concurrence, daughter of John MEIGS, of Killingworth, Connecticut, who had died there 9 October 1708.[13] Captain Crane died 22 April 1711, and Deborah TOWNER, ancestor of Emma Hale.[14]
Colonel Henry, General Henry, and General Epaphroditus Champion all won distinction in the Revolutionary War[15], the latter of whom was commissary general of provisions for the United States Army in 1778, and in 1793 was a member of the General Assembly.[16] There have been numerous other members of the legislature among the descendants of this pioneer. Major Henry Champion of the war of 1812[17] and the Reverend George Champion, celebrated missionary to Zululand[18] are also numbered here.
CHILDREN
Sarah, born 1649; married 29 December 1673 "recorded 27 January 1673, by Leftenant Pratt", Henry Bennett, of Lyme. He died 17 January 1726, and she 31 March 1727. One of their eight children was Love, born 19 March 1685, who married John MACK of Lyme.[19]
MARY, born 1651; married Aaron HUNTLEY.
Stephen, born 1653; died "the beginning of May," 1660.
Henry, born 1654; died "the middle of July 1704," He married 1 April 1684, Susanna, daughter of Balthazar and Alice DeWOLFE, of Lyme. They were the parents of five sons and four daughters.[20] After his death Susanna married (2) John HUNTLEY, senior of Lyme.
Thomas, born April 1656; died 5 April 1705; married 23 August 1682, Hannah, daughter of Wolston and Hannah (Briggs) Brockway, of Lyme. They were the parents of five daughters and two sons[21], and ancestors of several military men of distinction by the name of Champion, and of General Stephen DeWolfe, as well. Hannah Brockway was born 14 September 1664. After the death of Thomas, she married (2), as his second wife, John Wade, of Lyme, and died 2 March 1750.[22]
Rachel, born about 1658; married John Tanner.
Mary CHAMPION[edit]
Mary CHAMPION, born in Saybrook, Connecticut, 1651, married in Lyme, Connecticut, 22 February 1676, Aaron HUNTLEY, of the same town. Upon the old records this name appears to be Nason.
↑ Directory Ancestral Heads of New England families, Holmes, xlv.
↑ Champion Genealogy, Francis Bacon Trowbridge, 3.
↑ Ibid. 5
↑ Huguenot Refugees, Samuel Smiles, 407.
↑ Champion Genealogy, 15
↑ "Records of Saybrook," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 4:22.
↑ New England Genealogies, Cutter, 4:1604 - 5; "First Settlers of Lyme," in History of New London, Calkins, 175.
↑ New England Genealogies, Cutter, 4:1604/5.
↑ Say. Rec. p. 10
↑ Ibid
↑ Lyme Town Rec. Book II, p. 130 & Genealogy of the Puritans, Hinman, 520.
↑ New England Historical and Genealogical Register 34:373 - 6.
↑ Boston Transcript, 8 January 1923.
↑ Crane Genealogy, Ellen B. Crane; History of Ancient Woodbury, Cothren, 2:1484; Genealogy of the Towner Family, James W. Towner.
↑ Ibid. 523
↑ Mack Genealogy, Martin, 2:1408
↑ Champion Genealogy, 37
↑ Connecticut Genealogy 1:137
↑ Mack Genealogy, Martin, 1:25; 2:1353.)
↑ New England Historical and Genealogical Register 23:428.
↑ Ibid. 23:428
↑ Champion Genealogy, 37.
- The name is from the word meaning one who fights in public combats in his own or another man’s quarrel.[1] Tradition has it that this English family was of Huguenot origin, which belief is strengthened by the fact that fleur-de-lis, the emblem of France, appears on their coat-of-arms.[2]
-
Sources - [S112] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM), (June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998).
- [S989] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index(R), citing microfilm 456516, downloaded 5 Jan 2010 (Reliability: 3).
- [S989] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index(R), downloaded 5 Jan 2010 (Reliability: 3).
- [S989] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index(R), citing microfilm 1553932 for batch 5029267, sheet 14, downloaded 5 Jan 2010 (Reliability: 3).
- [S112] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM), (June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998).
This site powered by The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding v. 15.0.1, written by Darrin Lythgoe © 2001-2025.
Maintained by Michael A. Kennedy.