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Elder Richard Champney

Elder Richard Champney[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14]

Male 1604 - 1669  (~ 65 years)


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  • Name Richard Champney 
    Prefix Elder 
    Birth BY Abt 1604  [8, 14
    Gender Male 
    Migration About the last of Jul 1635  From London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
    To Boston
    aboard Defence 
    • The ship arrived on 8 Oct 1635.
    • Role: Family1
    • He is not on the passenger list.
    Property 8 Feb 1635/6  Newe Towne, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    had three houses
    Location:
    the Westend
    Office 4 Apr 1636  Newe Towne, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    fence viewer
    Freeman 25 May 1636  [3, 4, 21
    Property 6 Feb 1636/7  Newe Towne, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    was granted twelve acres in the Great Swamp
    Property 25 Sep 1637  Newe Towne, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    "my house & yards & all my lands, rights in the common, whatever I have in the said town & parcel of nine acres of marsh ... which the said Will[iam] bought of Edward Stebine & two acres of Edward Elmor of upland which I the said Will[iam] bought likewise"
    Property 11 May 1638  Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    was granted seven acres "on the south side of the path" to Charlestown
    Property 1 Sep 1643  Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    six and a half acres
    Property 8 Dec 1645  Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    was granted eight acres of meadow and upland at Alewife meadow
    Property 7 Jun 1647  Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    was allowed to buy 40 acres on the south side of the water near Mr. Sparhawkd' fields
    Event 21 Dec 1648  Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    one of five prominent men set to oversee the recopying of the first assessment of the cow common
    Property 23 Feb 1648/9  Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    received six acres and 18 rods in the west field
    Property 29 Jan 1650/1  [8
    "one parcel of ground containing seven acres and a half ... being partly fresh and partly salt and sometime in the possession of Joseph Isacke deceased"
    Property 12 Nov 1651  Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    "eleven acres of meadow land lying in Cambridge bounds, in a meadow commonly called Rockie Meadow ... also in another piece of Rockie Meadow five acres ... and also ten acres of meadow land in the same town, lying in Fresh Pond Meadow"
    Property 19 Mar 1651/2  Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    "eight acres of land granted unto me by the town of Cambridge, lying on the south side of the river"
    Property 4 Jun 1652  Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    received lot #83, 350 acres
    Event:
    division of Shawsheen
    Property 18 Oct 1652  Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    "twenty acres of land ..., ten acres more in the upper division appertaining to those lots on the south side of Roxbury Highway"
    Office 8 Nov 1652  Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    committee to draw up instructions
    Property 28 Dec 1653  Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    received 3½ acres of woodlot land in the 4th quandrant next to Spy Pond
    Property 10 Dec 1655  Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    "five hundred acres of land lying and being within the limits of Shawshin (alias Billerica) granted unto me the said Edward Collins"
    Property 1664/5  Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    received forty acres and two commons
    Event:
    division of the cow common
    Property 24 Nov 1665  Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    "several parcels of land, all of them being within the limits and bounds of Billerica ... and a part of the farm by us purchased of Thomas Dudley Esq. deceased"
    Property 25 Jan 1665/6  Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    seven acres of marshland on the south side of Charles River, "together with a small parcel of upland within the same bounds, reserving to myself of the said marsh one rod broad for a way or passage"
    Property 21 Apr 1666  Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    "one parcel of marshland situate, lying and being in Cambridge saltmarshes on the south side of Charles River and is part of that lot sometime Mr. Thomas Shepard's deceased containing by estimation three acres [and] a half"
    Will 30 Jun 1669  [8, 22
    Death 26 Nov 1669  Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 8, 14
    Inventory 8 Dec 1669  Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Inventory 14 Dec 1669  Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 23
    Office Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    committee to consider the setting off of Billerica
    Occupation yeoman  [8]
    Probate 21 Dec 1669  [8, 24
    Person ID I11332  Duane's Ancestors
    Last Modified 4 Feb 2020 

    Father ________ Champney 
    Mother ________ ________ 
    Family ID F14303  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Jane ________   d. Aft 30 Jun 1669  [8, 11, 12, 14, 25
    Marriage Abt 1629  England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 8, 14, 21
    Children 
     1. Sarah Champney
     2. Esther Champney,   b. 1630, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Apr 1713, Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years)
     3. Joseph Champney
     4. Noah Champney
     5. Samuel Champney,   b. Sep 1635, Newe Towne, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location
    +6. Mary Champney,   b. Nov 1639, Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Apr 1682, Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 42 years)
     7. Capt. Daniel Champney,   b. 9 Mar 1644/5, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Nov 1691 (Age 46 years)
     8. Lydia Champney,   b. SAY 1648   d. 23 Jan 1691 (Age ~ 43 years)
    Family ID F4158  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 10 Apr 2020 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - Abt 1629 - England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMigration - To Boston,aboard Defence  - About the last of Jul 1635 - London, Middlesex, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsProperty - had three houses,Location:
    the Westend - 8 Feb 1635/6 - Newe Towne, Massachusetts Bay, British America
    Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOffice - fence viewer - 4 Apr 1636 - Newe Towne, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsProperty - was granted twelve acres in the Great Swamp - 6 Feb 1636/7 - Newe Towne, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsProperty - "my house & yards & all my lands, rights in the common, whatever I have in the said town & parcel of nine acres of marsh ... which the said Will[iam] bought of Edward Stebine & two acres of Edward Elmor of upland which I the said Will[iam] bought likewise" - 25 Sep 1637 - Newe Towne, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsProperty - was granted seven acres "on the south side of the path" to Charlestown - 11 May 1638 - Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsProperty - six and a half acres - 1 Sep 1643 - Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsProperty - was granted eight acres of meadow and upland at Alewife meadow - 8 Dec 1645 - Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsProperty - was allowed to buy 40 acres on the south side of the water near Mr. Sparhawkd' fields - 7 Jun 1647 - Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsEvent - one of five prominent men set to oversee the recopying of the first assessment of the cow common - 21 Dec 1648 - Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsProperty - received six acres and 18 rods in the west field - 23 Feb 1648/9 - Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsProperty - "eleven acres of meadow land lying in Cambridge bounds, in a meadow commonly called Rockie Meadow ... also in another piece of Rockie Meadow five acres ... and also ten acres of meadow land in the same town, lying in Fresh Pond Meadow" - 12 Nov 1651 - Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsProperty - "eight acres of land granted unto me by the town of Cambridge, lying on the south side of the river" - 19 Mar 1651/2 - Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsProperty - received lot #83, 350 acres,Event:
    division of Shawsheen - 4 Jun 1652 - Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America
    Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsProperty - "twenty acres of land ..., ten acres more in the upper division appertaining to those lots on the south side of Roxbury Highway" - 18 Oct 1652 - Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOffice - committee to draw up instructions - 8 Nov 1652 - Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsProperty - received 3½ acres of woodlot land in the 4th quandrant next to Spy Pond - 28 Dec 1653 - Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsProperty - "five hundred acres of land lying and being within the limits of Shawshin (alias Billerica) granted unto me the said Edward Collins" - 10 Dec 1655 - Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsProperty - received forty acres and two commons,Event:
    division of the cow common - 1664/5 - Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America
    Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsProperty - "several parcels of land, all of them being within the limits and bounds of Billerica ... and a part of the farm by us purchased of Thomas Dudley Esq. deceased" - 24 Nov 1665 - Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsProperty - seven acres of marshland on the south side of Charles River, "together with a small parcel of upland within the same bounds, reserving to myself of the said marsh one rod broad for a way or passage" - 25 Jan 1665/6 - Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsProperty - "one parcel of marshland situate, lying and being in Cambridge saltmarshes on the south side of Charles River and is part of that lot sometime Mr. Thomas Shepard's deceased containing by estimation three acres [and] a half" - 21 Apr 1666 - Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 26 Nov 1669 - Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsInventory - 8 Dec 1669 - Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsInventory - 14 Dec 1669 - Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOffice - committee to consider the setting off of Billerica - - Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
     = Link to Google Earth 
    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Coats of Arms
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  • Notes 
    • The surname Champney is derived from the ancient district of Champagne, is listed in the Roll of Battell Abbey and seen in Domesday as Chemarnkee, Other spellings are Champness, Chamneis, Champneis and Chaumpenay. Johannes Chaumpenay lived in Yorkshire in 1379; and in 1581, William Champney and Emma Crocksall obtained a marriage license in London, England. The 1623 Visitation of Somerset lists Peter, John, William, George, Margaret and Thomasine as the youngest generation descended from Henry Champneys.

  • Sources 
    1.  1.  [S23] Genealogical History of the Clark and Worth Family, 360, 00219.

    2.  2.  [S168] Hamlin Family, 658, 00249.

    3.  3.  [S939] First Settlers of New England, Vol. 1, 356, 00190.

    4.  4.  [S219] Champney Family, 7, 00096.

    5.  5.  [S259] NEHGS Register, 4:55, 00390.

    6.  6.  [S523] Danforth Genealogy, 27, 00116.

    7.  7.  [S599] Samuel Converse, Jr., 17, 00468.

    8.  8.  [S576] TGMSP, Richard Champney, 00516.

    9.  9.  [S576] TGMSP, Nicholas Danforth, 00516.

    10.  10.  [S576] TGMSP, John Champney, 00516.

    11.  11.  [S259] NEHGS Register, 153:94, 00390.

    12.  12.  [S576] TGMSP, William French, 00516.

    13.  13.  [S1307] Middlesex County, MA Probate File Papers, 1648-1871, Middlesex Cases 4000-5999; 4240:1-7, 00609.

    14.  14.  [S1122] Find A Grave, Memorial# 37473599, 00974.

    15.  15.  [S1137] Planters of the Commonwealth, 167, 00988.

    16.  16.  [S576] TGMSP, William Read (3), 00516.

    17.  17.  [S1372] History of the Reed Family, 61, 00036.

    18.  18.  [S23] Genealogical History of the Clark and Worth Family, 278, 00219.

    19.  19.  [S1409] Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England, 1620-1650, 15, 00159.

    20.  20.  [S1410] Hotten, 89, 00299.

    21.  21.  [S23] Genealogical History of the Clark and Worth Family, 279, 00219.

    22.  22.  [S1307] Middlesex County, MA Probate File Papers, 1648-1871, Middlesex Cases 4000-5999; 4240:2-4, 00609.

    23.  23.  [S1307] Middlesex County, MA Probate File Papers, 1648-1871, Middlesex Cases 4000-5999; 4240:5-7, 00609.

    24.  24.  [S1307] Middlesex County, MA Probate File Papers, 1648-1871, Middlesex Cases 4000-5999; 4240:4, 00609.

    25.  25.  [S1122] Find A Grave, Memorial# 19531612, 00974.