1st wife of Henry Champion

No evidence to support as daughter of Edmonde Bennett & Kathryn Bennett

Perhaps the name “Sarah Bennett” is seen as a mixup with a later Sarah (Bennett) Champion, but there is no record of the name of this Henry Champion’s wife.

Biography

Henry was at least twice married. According to the Saybrook, Conn. records, Henry m. 1) an unnamed wife in "Aug. ---, 1647", but her name remains unknown. In 1891 Francis Bacon Trowbridge pub. The Champion Genealogy, being principally A History of the Descendants of Henry Champion of Saybrook and Lyme, Connecicut. Well documented, Trowbridge could not find any extant document that included the given name of Henry's wife. By due diligence, the present writer also failed to uncover any document that includes her identity including when she died. Any claim that the name of his wife, the presumed mother of his known children, was a Sarah Bennett has no basis in fact. It is likely some writer after Trowbridge erroneously extrapolated and confused the married name of Henry's eldest dau. Sarah (Champion) Bennett as being the name of Henry's wife.

At near 86 years of age, Henry m. 2) of record Mar. 21, 1697/8 at Lyme, the widow Deborah (Palmer) Jones, who outlived him.

The six known children of the immigrant Henry Champion, as recorded in the earliest town records of Saybrook, Conn., are:

• • i. Sarah Champion, b. in "---, 1649"; d. May 31, 1727 at Lyme, Conn.; m. of record Dec. 25, 1673 at Lyme, Conn., Henry Bennet(t), who d. Jan 17, 1726/7 at Lyme. Seven recorded children at Lyme.
• • ii. Marah (q.v. Mary) Champion, b. in "---, 1651", d. Dec. 10, 1732 at Lyme, Conn.; m. of record Feb. 26, 1676/7 at Lyme, Conn., Aaron Huntley, who d. May 24, 1745 at Lyme. Their marriage record at Lyme erroneously calls Marah by the surname of Chamberlain, but multiple documents associated with the estate of Marah's father clearly indicate dau. Marah Champion was the wife of Aaron Huntley of Lyme. Eight recorded children at Lyme.
• • iii. Steven (q.v. Stephen) Champion, b. in "---, 1652"; d. young in May 1660 at Saybrook.
• • iv. Henry Champion, Jr., b. in "---, 1654", d. in July 1704 (day missing) at Lyme, Conn.; m. Apr. 1, 1684 at Lyme, Susan "De Wolfe" (q.v. DeWolf.) Nine children recorded at Lyme.
• • v. Thomas Champion, b. in "April 1656," d. Apr. 5, 1705 at Lyme; m. of record Aug. 23, 1682 at Lyme, Hannah Brockway, dau. of Wolston Brockway and Hannah Briggs, b. of record Sept. 14, 1664 at Lyme. Eight children of the family. Soon after Thomas' death, the widow Hannah m. 2) the widower John Wade.