Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v1p355

Parker, Wheeler, or other designat. of office or employm. was so wide.
diffus. in our mo. country, that it must be vain to attempt trac. of
relationsh. in various pts. of this contin. In 1834, Farmer found the
gr. of this name were three at Dart. one at Harv. one at Yale, and five
at other N. E. coll.

    CHAMBERS, ROBERT, Marshfield 1643, came in the Hopewell, capt.
Babb, late in 1635, from London, aged 13; but where he had liv. after
coming, or later than 1643, is unkn. THOMAS, Scituate 1640, may have
come that yr. from New Haven, and rem. as Deane says, 1658, to
Charlestown. If so, he was, perhaps, f. of the Hon. Charles, wh. d. at
C. 27 Apr. 1743, in his 83d yr. says the gr.stone. WILLIAM, Ipswich
1649.

    CHAMPERNOON, FRANCIS, Kittery 1639, Portsmouth 1646, York
1665, a neph. of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, was a capt. 1640, maj. and
after July 1674 m. Mary, wid. of Robert Cutts, bec. one of the couns.
of the Prov. for New Hampsh. 1684, d. at K. early in 1687. His will,
of 16 Nov. 1686, pro. 28 Dec. of next yr. shows that he left no ch. In
Co. Devon this is an ancient name, and the gent. of the present generat.
has fine est. at Dartington. See Hubbard, 584; Belkn. 83, 102;
Hutch. Coll. 500, 556; Folsom, 66.

    CHAMPION, HENRY, Saybrook, m. Aug. 1647, had Sarah, b. 1649;
Mary, 1651; Henry, 1654; Thomas, Apr. 1656; Stephen, 1658, d.
1660; and he m. 21 Mar. 1698, sec. w. Deborah, and d. at gr. age, 17
Feb. 1709. Sarah m. 27 Jan. 1673, Henry Bennett. HENRY, Saybrook,
s. of the preced. m. 1 Apr. 1684, Susanna De Wolf, perhaps d.
of Balthazar; had Henry, Joshua, Samuel, Stephen, and five ds. and d.
July 1704. ROBERT, New Haven 1639. THOMAS, Lyme, s. of Henry
the first, m. 23 Aug. 1682, Hannah, d. of Woolstone Brockway, had
Thomas, b. 21 Jan. 1691; Henry, 2 May 1695; and five ds. (of wh. one
was Mary, wh. bec. sec. w. of Timothy Fuller of East Haddam) and
he d. 1705.

    CHAMPLIN, CHRISTOPHER, Westerly 1669, was s. prob. youngest, of
Jeffery, had Christopher; b. 26 Sept. 1684, beside Jeffery, William,
Joseph, and John. His sec. w. was Elizabeth wid. of capt. Joseph Davon.
JEFFERY, Portsmouth, and Newport 1639, was adm. freem. 14 Sept.
1640, prob. was of Westerly in 1661, with s. Jeffery, William, and
Christopher, d. bef. 1695. JEFFERY, Westerly, s. prob. eldest of the
preced. rem. early to Kingstown, had s. Jeffery, perhaps William, and
rep. 1681, 2, 4, 5, an Assist. from 1696 to 1715. WILLIAM, Westerly
1669, s. of Jeffery the first, m. Mary, d. of the first James Babcock, wh.
in his will, 12 June 1679, names d. Mary C. He had ch. Mary, Ann,
and William, was often rep. betw. 1691 and 1713, and d. 1 Dec. 1713,
aged 61. This has been a name of celebr. in R. I.