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Brigade. The Light Brigade had been organized by General George Washington to attempt the capture of Stony Point on the
Hudson. The corps was composed of men picked from all regiments and under direct command of General Washington. Major
Champion continued his career in the army until the close of the Revolutionary War. He was a member of the Connecticut Society of
the Cincinnati.
After returning home to Westchester, Gen. Champion entered the life of politics. He was Deputy from Colchester to the Connecticut
Assembly in 1789, 1793 to 1798 and 1800-1805. From 1806 to 1817 he held the office of Assistant. From 1813-1828 he was a
deacon in a church in Westchester. General Champion always celebrated July 15 which he called Stony Point Day, in due and
ancient form at his famous old country seat in Westchester. He obtained a charter
for the Phoenix Bank of Hartford, because the State Bank had refused him the
accommodation of $2,000. "Well," said he, "if this bank can't accommodate me, I
will have one that can." He was largely interested in the Connecticut Land
Company to which he subscribed over $85,000, and the towns of Champion, NY,
and Champion, OH, are named in his honor.
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After his death, in 1836, the Champion Homestead was sold to the Loomis Family
and Henry's male line had died out in 1865.
The Henry Champion House was built by Colonel Henry Champion in the Colonial
Federal style. Today the Champion house still stands and is located on
Westchester Rd in Colchester, CT. It is listed on the National Register of Historic
Places. The house in now privately owned and not open to the public.
The Chapman Family: or The Descendants of Robert Chapman, by Frederick William Chapman
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James Chapman [Jr.], b. 1720 in Connecticut, son of James Chapman, married a lady whose name is not known. He had one son,
and perhaps other children. He was a Captain in Col. Parson's Regt. of Connecticut in 1775; fought at Bunker Hill; participated in
siege of Boston. He was a major in the Revolutionary army. The following account is found in Miss Caulkins' New London, page
532. "Major James Chapman of Selden's regiment, Wadsworth's brigade, was a man of strength and stature beyond the common
standard, and as a soldier steady and brave. But what avail these qualities against the aim of the marksman, or the force of a
cannon-ball! He was slain in what was called the orchard fight, near Harlem, when the army was retreating from New York, 15 Sep
1776. His son James, a youth of only fifteen years of age, was with him when he fell," when the British invaded Manhattan Island,
and served till the end of the war
Child: James, born 23 Oct 1762.
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Lt. Col. Joel Clark, b. 1728; d. 19 Dec 1776; bur. Prison Ship Martyr’s Monument, Brooklyn, NY.
Joel Clark, Esq., was the first Master of American Union Lodge.
Major-8th Continental Infantry to December 1775
Lt. Col 17th Continental Infantry {Jedediah Huntington's Regiment}
Wounded/captured Long Island
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Cleaveland
Moses Cleaveland b. 29 Jan 1754, Canterbury, Windham, CT; d. There 16 Nov 1806; m. Esther Champion (1766-1840). He was a
lawyer, politician, soldier, and surveyor from Connecticut who founded Cleveland, Ohio, while surveying the Western Reserve in
1796. He studied law at Yale University, graduating in 1777. That same year, with the Revolutionary War in progress, he was
commissioned as an Ensign in the 2nd Connecticut Regiment of the Continental Army. In 1779 he was promoted to Captain of a
company of "sappers and miners" in the newly formed Corps of Engineers. He resigned from the army on 7 Jun 1781 and started a
legal practice in Canterbury. He took the Oath of Allegiance at Valley Forge “in the spring of '78 before that encampment was broke,
and who undoubtedly were members of the army actually in camp at Valley Forge the ever memorable winter of '77-'78.”
He was known as a very energetic person with high ability. In 1788, he was a member of the Connecticut convention that ratified the
United States Constitution. He was elected to the Connecticut General Assembly several times and in 1796 was commissioned
Brigadier General of militia. He was a shareholder in the Connecticut Land Company, which had purchased for $1,200,000 from the
state government of Connecticut the land in northeastern Ohio reserved to Connecticut by Congress, known at its first settlement as
New Connecticut, and in later times as the Western Reserve.
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