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Note: Information supplied by Edward (Bud) Manning, Jr., from a pedigree chart for Gladys Elaine Champlin dated January 21, 2000

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Parrish, Dolly H. (b. 12 FEB 1835, d. 27 MAY 1914)

Note: Information supplied by Edward (Bud) Manning, Jr., from a pedigree chart for Gladys Elaine Champlin dated January 21, 2000

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(Young), Fannie Kingery (b. 10 NOV 1842, d. 22 OCT 1890)

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Title: Kasey's File.FTW
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Text: Date of Import: Apr 26, 2000

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Merrill, Michael Davis (b. Private)

Note: This information is from an imported WFT File. It has not been independently verified.

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McClelland, Michael Kevin (b. 10 MAY 1961)

Note: Information supplied by Diane McClelland Pape, June 2003

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Darrow, Myrtie Bell (b. 2 JUL 1881, d. 19 MAR 1954)

Note: Myrtie Bell Darrow was born in Detroit on July 2, 1881 and died there on March 19, 1954. She married Robert Roscoe Champlin sometime around 1898. According to the April 1910 U. S. Census she said she was 29 years old and had been married twelve years. She was therefore probably married in 1898. They had two children, Robert Claire, born May 12, 1899 and Gladys Elaine, born February 14, 1901. By 1910 Myrtie was either separated or divorced from Robert. Sometime after 1920 she married Tom Clemens who was a teacher at Northern High School in Detroit. He died sometime in the early 1930's.

Myrtie did not have an easy life during the time between marriages. For a period of time she and her two children, lived with her in-laws, although Robert Roscoe was not living with them at the time. City directories list at least three addresses for Myrtie from 1906 to 1912. Later in this period she owned a boarding house but we believe that she raised her children, Robert and Gladys as tenants in boarding houses owned by others. Myrtie may also have had one or two additional husbands between Robert and Tom.

Robert Roscoe Champlin continued to live in Detroit and worked all his life for the Detroit Water Department. Several members of the family, with the exception of Myrtie, had occasional contact with R.R. until the time of his death.

Later, Myrtie worked for many years at the J. L Hudson department store, retiring around five years before her death. She was a very handsome woman, who was always very dignified; could thoroughly enjoy a good party, but might rather abruptly withdraw from sociability.

Myrtie had a younger sister, Florence who married Gerald Sample and they had three daughters and a son. Two of the daughters and the son are known to be dead . The third daughter, Barbara McClellan is living in Oak Park, Michigan.

We know that Myrtie was a close relative of Clarence Seward Darrow. Supposedly he was her uncle, but we have not yet been able to document this relationship. It is possible that they were first cousins, once removed.

8/7/2000

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Darrow, Alphonso Pomeroy (b. 3 FEB 1825, d. 8 DEC 1905)

Note: Information supplied by Edward (Bud) Manning, Jr., from a pedigree chart for Gladys Elaine Champlin dated January 21, 2000

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Sample, Jared Irvin (b. 1923, d. 7 APR 1941)

Note: Information supplied by Diane McClelland Pape, June 2003

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Sample, Barbara Florence (b. 29 FEB 1920, d. 15 OCT 2000)

Note: Information supplied by Diane McClelland Pape, June 2003

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Sample, Jared Irvin (b. 18 FEB 1882)

Note: Information supplied by Diane McClelland Pape, June 2003

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Rowland, Teresa Lynn (b. Private)

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Pender, Jeff (b. Private)

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Darrow, Florence Ethel (b. 16 SEP 1883, d. 24 JAN 1975)

Note: Information supplied by Diane McClelland Pape, June 2003

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Darrow, Amaziah Pomeroy (b. 28 FEB 1856, d. 8 DEC 1905)

Note: Information supplied by Edward Manning Ju. on a pedigree chart for Gladys Elaine Champlin.

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Jarvis, Ida May (b. )

Note: Ida's father Samuel Jarvis came here from Scotland. Her mother, Mary A. Fay, was from Royal Oak. Many of the Fay family is buried in the old Royal Oak Cemetary at 12 Mile & Main, including great-great grandparents, Josiah & Polly (nee Chase) Fay, Section D. Samual & Mary Jarvis (our great-grandparents) are buried in Greenwood Cemetary in Birmingham, Michigan.

Information supplied by Barbara McClellan Pape, 28 March 2007 Email

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Compagna, Angela Michelle (b. Private)

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Title: Kasey's File.FTW
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Hastings, Polly (b. 1813)

Note: Information supplied by Edward (Bud) Manning, Jr., from a pedigree chart for Gladys Elaine Champlin dated January 21, 2000

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Champlin, Jeffrey (b. ABT. 1621, d. BET. 1688 - 1695)

Note: 1. JEFFREY CHAMPLIN

Jeffrey Champlin, the immigrant and progenitor of the Champlin name in America, is believed to have been born at, or near, Bideford (Devonshire) England circa 1621. While this date is unsubstantiated it is likely to be a fairly accurate approximation as Jeffrey's children were born in the 1650's and he died at Westerly, Rhode Island sometime between 1688 and 1695.

He is believed to have been buried with his son William in the family cemetery located on William's farm. This burial ground is known today as the Westerly Historical Cemetery #03 and/or the Wilcox Lot. The long abandoned cemetery is located in the midst of a tangled stand of bull briars along the south side of Shore Road between Westerly and Dunn's Corners. On May 5, 1995 I located this burial ground. There were many small unmarked stones scattered throughout the all but impenetrable bull briars, which made it impossible to get near most of them at that time of year. William's stone, which was made of shale, was found and a faint inscription was still readable. Other stones bore even fainter inscriptions and were usually surrounded by several other stones that appeared to be nothing more than odd shaped rocks jutting out of the ground.

During the American Revolution, many of the early vital records of Rhode Island were destroyed by fire. Other records were removed by the British and sent to New York for safe keeping. The ship that was used to transport these records sank in New York harbor before its cargo could be unloaded. Eventually, some of these vital records were recovered but most were no longer readable.

The last known recorded mention of Jeffrey during his lifetime was made in 1688. In 1695, his eldest son (Jeffrey) refers to his father in a document confirming a deed by saying: "Know all men by these presents that I, Jeffrey Champlin of Kingstown do own and acknowledge that my brother William Champlin and Brother Christopher Champlin have full power to dispose of that house and hundred akers of land which was my dissesed father's - - which Lyes in westerle for acknowledgement hereunto I have set my hand in the yeare 1695, December ye 6th".

It is not known how Jeffrey came to the New World (or when), but there are reports that he was in Boston as early as 1627. The first white settlement on Aquidneck was established in March of 1638 on the north end of that island. The settlement was called "Pocasset" until 1640 when it was renamed "Portsmouth" - the name it retains to this day.

Pocasset was founded by Anne Hutchinson and her small group of religious libertarians. They had met in the Boston home of prominent merchant William Coddington on March 7, 1638. The members of this small group was greatly at odds with and frequently harassed by Massachusetts' ruling Puritans. Hutchinson's group called themselves the "Bodie Politick" and drew up a compact in much the same way as did the Mayflower passengers. Their sworn agreement read as follows:

"We, whose names are underwritten, do here solomly, in the presence of Jehovah, incorporate ourselves into a Bodie Politick, and as He shall help, will submit ourselves, lives and estates unto our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and to all those perfect and most absolute laws of His given to us in His Holy Word of truth, to be guided and judged thereby."

This compact was signed by Anne & William Hutchinson, William Coddington, Henry Bull, John Clarke, John Coggeshall, William Aspinwall, William Dyer, Nicholas Easton, (an illegible name), William Baulstone, John Sanford, Philip Sherman, John Walker, Samuel Wilbour, Richard Carder and William Freeborn. Coddington purchased the island of Aquidneck from the Indians and the group founded Pocasset in April of 1638. The following, taken from the records of that colony, show that Jeffrey was likely there from the very beginning: "On the 28th of the 2nd month 1639 Upon the complainte of Jeffrey Champlin in the behalfe of a debt due to William Cowly and himselfe from Mr. Aspinwall, warrent was granted forth, for the attachment of his shallopp till both that debt and other actions of the case be satisfied and discharged by him". (Note: under the Julian Calendar in use at the time, the 2nd month was April and 1639 would have been 1638 today).

The Pocasset Colony quickly became a successful agricultural venture but lacked a deep water port from which to ship excess produce. In addition, a power struggle between Coddington and Hutchinson, based on religious interpretations and applications to daily life, developed soon after the settlement began. Coddington had been a wealthy man in Boston and among the religious leaders there and had been a member of the Boston Court which had expelled Roger Williams. Williams described Coddington as a "worldly man" who was more concerned about his own profit and power. Coddington would later become a Quaker.

Due to the need to have a deep water port and because of religious and political difference, Coddington and his supporters (John Clarke, Nicholas Easton, John Coggeshall, William Brenton, Jeremy Clarke, Thomas Hazard, Jeffrey Champlin, Henry Bull, William Dyer and Robert Jeffries) left Pocasset and migrated to the southern end of Aquidneck Island, establishing a new colony which became known as Newport. By the end of the year, 93 people were resident there.

Jeffrey was registered as an inhabitant of Newport on November 24, 1639, was made a Freeman there on September 14, 1640 and granted 10 acres of land. That same year, the Pocasset and Newport settlements united upon the libertarian rules of Pocasset and William Coddington was made the Colony's first governor. His name also appears on the roll of Freemen in 1641 and 1655.

At Newport, Jeffrey engaged in the buying and selling of property and was thought to have become a cordwainer. Cordwainers were leather workers who made use of cordovan (a soft, colored leather usually made of sheep, goat or dog skin, or split horse hide) to design and make custom made shoes. This was considered to be a pre-eminent profession in those days.

In the "Colonial and Land Records" the following account of Jeffrey's acquisition of land is given: "Whereas, according to certain orders, made for the Establishing and giving Assurance of the Land, Be it known, Therefore that Geoffrey Champlin and Richard Sarle, having exhibited their acquaintances, under the Treasurer's hand, of Newport, wherein appears fully satisfaction to be given, for the number of twenty Acres of Land, Lying within the precincts of such bounds as the Committee, by Order appointed, did bound it withal, together with ten acres apiece given and granted to them gratis, by the Towne, for and in consideration of Service done by them, which number, together with the former, amounting to Forty acres, is thus laid forth. Four acres apiece for homelots, lying in the Towne, and six acres apiece, lying next to William Cowly's land and adjoined upon Thomas Hazard's land, a highway passing there-through, with half a Cow's hay in harbour Marsh lying at the first Entrance, and three acres of Marsh, lying at Sachnet, next the falls, Mr. Smith's Marsh, lying on the South East side thereof, with, another parcel of Sixteen acres, more less, lying....." (remainder of entry missing - possibly burned).

Soon after the granting of this land in 1640, Jeffrey bought out the portions belonging to Richard Searle and William Cowley and sold both to Henry Bull: "Memorandum that Geoffrey Champlin of Newport, having bought and purchased of Wm Cowley and Richard Sarle their pts and ptions of land in that feeld that lay between ye Land granted to Thomas Hazard and Edward Robinson at ye South end of ye Towne, and ye sd Geoffrey had made over and soald unto Henry Bull of ye saide Towne, for a valowable consideration given and received, whereon ye sd Geoffrey doth disclaime all interest in ye sd Land and doth acknowledge full propriety to belong to Henry Bull, his heires, executors, administrators and assignes to ye world's end". This transfer took place late in 1644.

Jeffrey purchased twenty acres located on the east side of Robert Griffin's property from Adam Mott, Sr. in 1646. He sold ten acres "adjoining his house lot" (Newport) to William Brenton of Boston in 1657.

He was a witness to the sale of some property by Roger Williams to Richard Smith:

Newport the 3d of ye 7th month Soe called 1651

This writeing testifieth that I, Rog'r Williams of Providence, for and in Consideration of fifty pounds already received have Sould and Demised unto mr. Rich'd Smith of portsmouth on Road Island, his heires & assignes for ever, my tradeing house at Narragansett, together with two Iron Guns or murderers, there Lyeing as alsoe my fields & fenceing aboute the s'd House, is alsoe the use of the litle Lisland for goates which the old Sachem, deceased, Lent mee for that use, for confirmation of all which I Sett my hand & Seale ye daye and yeare aforesaid.

Roger Williams & a seale.
In the presence of
Thomas Newton, Jeffere Champlain , John Roome, William Holmes

While in Newport, Jeffrey married. Again, the destruction of vital records has prevented us from knowing the date of this union or the certain identity of his wife - although it is believed that her name was Eulalia Vladi Garde, daughter of John Garde and Rebecca Copp. She was baptised on February 5, 1632 (or 1623, depending on source) at Bideford, England and died sometime around 1656 or 1657 as references to her dowry cease as of this time in Jeffrey's various legal documents. It is believed by some (notably, Champlin genealogist William J. Hunter of Ottawa, Ontario) that Jeffrey may even have been married twice and that the marriage to Eulalia was Jeffrey's second.

According to Hunter, Jeffrey would have had to have served as an apprentice shoemaker in England before coming to the New World as there were no shoemakers among the early Rhode Island settlers for him to apprentice under. He probably married his first wife in England as there is no mention of his marrying in Rhode Island, and the laws being what they were, he would not have been granted as large an amount of land in Newport in 1640 as he did if he wasn't already married. His home lot occupied the block along the south side of Mary Street, from Spring Street west to Water Street and south to the waterfront.

Whoever she was, Jeffrey's first wife must have died prior to 1650 as she would have been rather old (for that era) and married too long to suddenly start bearing children in the 1650's. Thus, Jeffrey probably married for a second time around 1649-1650 with his second wife (presumably Eulalia) being the mother of his three sons. Both wives may have been members of the Garde family. This certainly was true of Jeffrey's brother, William Champlin. William, who never came to the New World, married sisters Rebecca (in 1641) and Mary Garde - daughters of Roger Garde of Bideford.

John Garde (son of Roger) migrated from Bideford to Fayal (Azores) and then to Rhode Island by 1638. He and Jeffrey owned land in the Pocasset area and when John Garde (1604-1665) and his wife Rebecca "Harte" Copp (born 1605) died, they were buried on Jeffrey's farm at Newport. Many years later, their bodies were removed and interred in the Newport City Cemetery by Jeffrey's youngest son, Christopher. John and Harte (-?-) Garde had a daughter, Charlotte, born in 1626. She may have been the second wife of Jeffrey Champlin. It should be pointed out that the name "Eulalia" is of Portuguese origin.

Jeffrey had three known children, all born at Newport:

03. Jeffrey (1650)
05. William (1654)
07. Christopher (1656)

In 1661, Jeffrey migrated to the region of Misquamicut along the Pawcatuck River (in the western part of what is modern day Rhode Island) with another group of dissatisfied settlers comprising 24 other families. There, they founded the town of Westerly - Jeffrey signing a document which purchased Misquamicut from Chief Socoa in 1661. About 75 people signed this document but only a few actually removed to what was to become Westerly. He took the oath of allegiance to Rhode island on May 17, 1671 and three days later he was fined 20 shillings for refusing jury duty.

Jeffrey was elected to the Westerly Town Council in 1680 and was Moderator of the Westerly Town Meetings from 1680-1684. He was Deputy in the Rhode Island Assembly from 1681-1686. In 1685, Jeffrey was assigned to survey highways".

By 1669, Jeffrey had sold all of his properties in Newport - the last seeming to be a 40 acre tract (which included his home lot and dwelling) that was purchased by Walter Clarke. In the deed of transfer, Jeffrey was called a shoemaker.

In 1675-76, during King Phillip's War, Jeffrey sought refuge in Newport, returning to Westerly after the defeat of the Pequots in 1677.

Note: While commonly referred to as "Rhode Island" the actual name of the smallest of the 50 states is: RHODE ISLAND AND THE PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS. It is comprised, for the most part, of an inverted horseshoe shaped mainland in the middle of which lies a large island known as Rhode Island. Aquidneck was the original name for RHODE ISLAND (the island); and the PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS referred to those mainland colonies or "plantations" which were founded by Roger Williams (Providence), Samuel Gorton (Shawumet) and William Arnold (Pawtucket).

Many people contend that Jeffrey Champlin was a descendent of the French explorer Samuel de Champlain. The only relationship between the two is the similarity in the spellings of their respective surnames. Samuel de Champlain's original surname was Complain - not Champlain. He was the son of Anthonie de Complain and Marguerite LeRoy. To make matters worse for those who claim him as an ancestor, Samuel had no children! In 1610, Samuel married Helene Boulle who was 31 years his junior. Born at Paris, France in 1598 Helene was only 12 years old when she and Samuel married. Marriages to 12 year old girls were legal at that time, but actual co-habitation was not permitted for another two years. Samuel and Helene probably never consummated their marriage as he sailed for Quebec shortly after the marriage and founded the settlement of Place Royal (Montreal) in 1611. In 1620, Helene also sailed for Quebec and resided with her brother at Tadousac (located on the north west bank of the meeting place of the St. Lawrence and Saguenay Rivers) for four years. She then returned to France, became a nun and eventually founded an order of nuns.

492. ANNE (MARBURY) HUTCHINSON

Anne Marbury, daughter of Reverend Francis Marbury and Bridget Dryden, was born at Alford, Lincolnshire, England and baptised there on July 20, 1591. She was murdered by a band of Indians in the summer of 1643 at Pelham Bay (Long Island) New York.

Francis Marbury was known for his Puritan leanings and more than once received the censure of the Established Church. Bridget Dryden was his second wife and the daughter of John Dryden of Canon's Ashby in Northamptonshire. In 1605 the family moved to London. Anne was exposed from birth to religious discussions of the time and no doubt absorbed many of her father's liberal beliefs.

On August 9, 1612 Anne married Thomas Hutchinson, son of a wealthy merchant, and went to his home in Alford to live. There she spent the next 22 years and bore her husband 14 children. In 1633 their eldest child, Edward, emigrated to Massachusetts Bay with John Cotton, previously vicar of St. Botolph's in old Boston, whose preaching had inclined Anne Hutchinson to attend his church. The following year, with her husband and family, she emigrated to Massachusetts on the Griffin, arriving in September. In the new colony she won respect for her vigorous intellect and was loved for her kindliness. She was a thorough student of the Bible and soon her restless and inquiring mind led her to take a strong part in the religious life of the colony. At first she held informal meetings of women in her home and would discuss the sermons of the previous Sunday. She then ventured to expound her own religious beliefs and advocated the preaching of a "covenant of grace" - a religion based upon the individual's direct intuition of God's grace and love - as opposed to the preaching of a "covenant of works" - a religion based on obedience to the laws of church and state. Inasmuch as the policy of the Massachusetts church was based on the latter, her criticisms of the clergy and assertions of her own doctrine soon stirred the colony to its foundations. She was labelled an antinomian by her opponents and was accused of advocating a religion which absolved its adherents from obedience to moral law.

At first the Reverend John Cotton agreed with her views as did her brother-in-law, the Reverend John Wheelwright and Reverend Henry Vane, but in time her support diminished. Early in August 1637 Vane sailed for England. Shortly afterward a synod of the churches was called in which her views were denounced. Cotton acquiesced to the pronouncements of the synod, leaving Wheelwright her strongest ally. In the following session of the General Court Wheelwright was banished and Anne Hutchinson was summoned to trial "for traducing the ministers and their ministry."

After the proceedings, which were a legal travesty, she was sentenced to banishment. When asked on what grounds, the governor, John Winthrop replied: "Say no more. The Court knows wherefore and is satisfied." Sentence of banishment was stayed - it was then winter and her health was delicate - and Anne was committed to the charge of Joseph Weld of Roxbury, the marshal. She was later placed in the home of John Cotton in Boston, where Cotton and the Reverend John Davenport attempted to convince her of her errors.

Twice brought before the church at Boston, she was at length induced to recant in public, but when she finally admitted that her judgement remained unaltered she was accused of lying and was formally excommunicated. In casting her out of the church John Wilson delivered her up to Satan and ordered her "as a leper" to withdraw herself from the congregation.

Thus, in the early spring of 1638 she emigrated with her family to the wilds of Rhode Island where she and her small band of religious libertarians founded the first white colony on Aquidneck Island. They had met in the Boston home of prominent merchant William Coddington on March 7, 1638. This small group were greatly at odds with and frequently harassed by Massachusetts' ruling Puritans. Hutchinson's group calling themselves the "Bodie Politick", drew up a compact in much the same way as did the Mayflower passengers. Their sworn agreement read as follows:

"We, whose names are underwritten, do here solomly, in the presence of Jehovah, incorporate ourselves into a Bodie Politick, and as He shall help, will submit ourselves, lives and estates unto our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and to all those perfect and most absolute laws of His given to us in His Holy Word of truth, to be guided and judged thereby".

This compact was signed by: Anne & William Hutchinson, William Coddington, Henry Bull, John Clarke, John Coggeshall, William Aspinwall, William Dyer, Nicholas Easton, (an illegible name), William Baulstone, John Sanford, Philip Sherman, John Walker, Samuel Wilbour, Richard Carder and William Freeborn.

Coddington purchased the island of Aquidneck ("Peaceable Island") from Miantonomah and Canonicus, two Sachems of the Narragansetts for 40 fathoms of white beads, 10 coats and 20 hoes. The group, which included Anne, her husband, their 13 children and 60 other people, founded the town of Pocasset in April of 1638. The modern day name of "Portsmouth" was given the settlement a year later.

In 1642 William Hutchinson died and Anne removed with some of her family to Long Island, later establishing a home on the mainland, on the shore of Pelham Bay. Here, in August or September of 1643, she and all but one of her household were murdered by a group of Mohegans. Her youngest daughter, Susannah, who was born in 1633, was carried off by these murderers and later ransomed by the Dutch. Susannah Hutchinson eventually married John Cole at Boston in 1651. They were the grandparents of Susannah Cole Eldred - first wife of Jeffrey Champlin's grandson, Jeffrey Champlin III.

Courtesy of Robert R. Champlin

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Champlin, William (b. 1654, d. 1 DEC 1715)

Note: 5. WILLIAM CHAMPLIN

William Champlin, son of Jeffrey Champlin and Eulalia Garde, was born at Newport, Rhode Island in 1654. He died at Westerly, Rhode Island December 1, 1715. His grave was "re-discovered" by Dwight C. Brown in what had been called the "Wilcox Lot" and is now known as "Westerly Cemetery No. 03". William's stone reads: "Here lyeth the body of William Champlin, who deceased in the 62nd year of his age December First 1715". This cemetery is located along Shore Road between Westerly and Dunn's Corners, just past the golf course. Driving west on Shore Road, the golf course is to your left. After this the road dips then curves left and uphill. Just before the next road leading off to the right, there is a small sign for the cemetery in the midst of a stand of bull briers, just behind a stone wall on the left side of Shore Road. Access to the cemetery now is by climbing over the wall. On May 5, 1995 I located this small cemetery. There are a number of small unmarked stones buried next to William's, one of which is likely that of his wife. All of the other stones seemed to belong to members of the Gavitt family.

William joined the Connecticut campaign during King Phillip's War and took part in the "Great Swamp Battle" near the present site of North Kingston, Rhode Island on December 9, 1675. In 1696, he and others, were granted (by the General Court of Connecticut) six square miles of land in the present town of Voluntown, Connecticut as a reward for their services.

He took an active part in local and colonial political affairs throughout his life. Among the highlights of William's public career were these events:

- elected twenty three times to the Rhode Island General Assembly
1679: - appointed to levy a tax in Westerly
1681: - made a Freeman
- the Westerly Town Meeting was held in his home
1683: - served on the jury
1684: - served on the jury
- elected a member of the Westerly Town Council
1685: - re-elected to the Town Council and for many years. Afterward served as the Moderator of the Town Meetings
1687: - chosen to present a petition to Governor Andros for Westerly's Town Charter
- in charge of branding cattle and horses in Westerly
1690: - appointed Captain of the Militia
1690: - Deputy for Westerly at the General Assembly (also in 1691, 1696, 1698, 1699, 1700, 1703, 1705, 1706, 1708, 1710 and 1712)
1693: - purchased 100 acres of land from Gershon Cottrell
1694: - sold 50 acres to John Davis
1695: - elected Conservator of the Peace
1696: - elected Justice of the Peace serving until 1713
1699: - one of six men (three from each colony) appointed to draw up the Connecticut - Rhode Island boundary line
1703: - his home was designated as a recruiting station at the Council of War held at Kingstown
1709: - At a Town Meeting held on April 7th, William was "voted to have the grant of 100 acres" of land and was empowered to agree with Ninecraft, sachem, for "a perpetual high road to the salt water from Queen's Rhoade".

In 1674, William married Mary Babcock. Mary, daughter of James and Sarah (-?-) Babcock, was born at Portsmouth, Rhode Island c/1648-1655 and died at Westerly in the spring of 1747 leaving an estate worth 508.13 pounds. There are references in the literature that she was William's second wife but this is unsubstantiated and the name of his alleged first wife is unknown.

William and Mary had three children, all born at Westerly:

200. Mary (1675)
157. William (1677)
201. Ann (1678)

James Babcock was born in 1612, probably in Essex County, England, and died on June 12, 1679. He married (1st) Sarah (-?-) who died in c1665 and (2nd) Elizabeth (-?-) in 1669. He was admitted an inhabitant of Portsmouth, Rhode Island on February 25, 1642 and removed to Westerly in March of 1662.

On July 6, 1682 William Champlin of Westerly sold the sloop "Tryall" to James Robertson of the Barbadoes. The "Tryall" was built by John Lewis of New London, shipwright, and weighed 18-19 tons.

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McClelland, Diane Barbara (b. 30 OCT 1942)

Note: Information supplied by Diane McClelland Pape, June 2003

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