John Champion, Sr.

“Perhaps an older son of Charles Champion & Ann Champion.” The chronology does not seem right.

Will

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Champion-1643

Will of John Champion Senr. Granville Co., NC, WB 2 (1787-1792), pp. 40-41, written 15 Dec 1778, proven Nov Court 1787. Digital image at Ancestry.com - https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9061/images/007639...

• my son Charles Champion
• my daughter Susannah Allin (sic); her son Champion Allin
• my two sons Richard Champion & Joseph Champion
• my son John Champion
• my son William Champion
• my daughter (sic) Sapphira Vincent, Sarah Heffernon, Elizabeth Priddy
• Exrs: John & Charles Champion
• Wit: James Blackwell

Sources

• See: Abstracts of Granville County, North Carolina Wills - P.124 1778, December 15th proved Nov. Court 1787 John Champion wills to son Charles 350 acres on Horse Creek and all my wearing apparel; to daughter Susanna Allen, for her lifetime 350 acres on Cedat=r creek and at her death, to her son Champion Allen, also a feather bed; t my two sons Richard and Joseph Champion, the manor plantation whereon I live, 462 acres; to Joseph Champion all my working tools, my still, the bed I lie on; all moveable Estate left to go to son John Champion and my son William, my daughter Sapphira Vincent, daughter Sarah Heffernon, daughter Elizabeth Priddy. Exrs: John and Charles Champion
• A Champion lineage : an informal family history. Page 11. <AncestryImage>