Person:John Champe (2)

Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley's:

• Vol. 1 - MARCH, 1770 (B). Peter How vs. Grant.--Chancery. Bill filed 1767. Peter How, Esq., late of town of White Haven, in Great Britain, orator. In 1764, John Grant, of King George, mortgaged slaves to How for a debt. Deposition of Wingfield Wright, brother of John Wright, in King George, 1764-5, certified before John Stewart, in Spottsylvania County, 14th October, 1767. Each of the Wrights married a sister of Grant's. Letter of William Templeman, of Fredericksburg. Mortgage was executed by Colonel John Champe, agent of How, witnessed by Joseph Herndon, William Templeman, David Briggs and Charles Yates, and recorded in General Court, 29th October, 1764. William Templeman's deposition: After death of Col. John Champe, with whom he had lived as a clerk, he was employyed by Charles Yates of Fredericksburg, merchant, to collect the debts due to the store kept by the said Col. Champe for Peter How of Whitehaven.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project.

   !20 Jul 1732: John Champe the elder and John Champe the younger sold for 185 pounds lawful money to Edward Barradall all the land where John Champe the elder lived in Cople Parish, Westmoreland County, VA. and all those plantation or tracts in Westmoreland and Richmond Counties. 624 acres in total. Deed Book 8-1, pg 539.
   
   !1757: Col. John Champe, Sr. was appointed one of the commissioners to settle accounts of militia lately in actual service. Hening, Vol. Vii, p. 121.
   
   !1761: Col. John Champe was one of the trustees of the town of Dumfries, VA. Hening Vol Vii, p. 427.
   
   !1762: Lamb's Creek willed to John Champe Jr. and his wife Jane from his father. The plantation is 5.6 miles northwest of King George, VA. From King George go 5.6 miles northwest on Route #3. The house in on the north side of the highway. The house was built in 1854. Lamb's Creek Plantation, LIbrary of Virginia.
   
   http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=thamm&id=I25910&ti=%2C

2.   Geni.com: (not a reliable primary source).

   John Champe of Lamb’s Creek was a wealthy planter in King George County, Virginia. [1]One of his six daughters, Mary Champe married[2]Lewis Willis. [3][4][5]
   
   ".......of "Lamb's Creek", King George Co, VA. "There are many references to John Champe of Lambs Creek in the public records of King George, Stafford, Essex and other counties on both sides of the Rappahannock river, prior to 1763, the year of his death, and for long after, which show that he was a man of large affairs, and of great wealth, and that he was held in high honor; he was appointed sheriff of King George in 1731; Lieut. Colonel of the County in 1752. Col. John Champe was appointed one of the executors of the will of John Spotswood, one of the second set of trustees of the town of Dumfries; one of the trustees of the town of Falmouth; appointed to settle the accounts of the militia in 1757; church warden, Lambs Creek Church, 1739 (Meade).[7][8]
   
   Col. Champe had six daughters, all noted beauties. Elizabeth married Judge Flemlng; Jane married Col. Samuel Washington; Mary married Col. Lewis Willis; Lucy married Austin Brockenbrough; Ann married Col. John Tallaferro; and Sarah married Col. Edward Carter of "Bleinheim," Albemarle County. [9]
   
   https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Champe-30