After a note from hotrod1963 about it, I checked on e-Bay item 3554162463,
which is an 1839 Champion family Bible with genealogical data in it, and it
comes VERY close to my direct line. She's not the seller, and neither am I.
This listing expires October 3 at 20:29:04 PDT. At any rate, I've checked in
my Ruth Crawley Champion book, "The Champion Family: 350 Years in America,"
and have found the family in question.
The Bible belonged to the family of Nathaniel Champion 1775-1849 and
Temperance Scull 1775-1894, who were married (according to this Bible) November 16,
1797. Children listed in Ruth Crawley Champion's book are David, Mark
Townsend, George Washington, Abigail, Mary, Rachel, Elizabeth Ann, Margaret, Hannah
Ann.
Children listed in this Bible are Abagail 179_; Mary, 1799; David 1801; Mark
1803; George Washington 1806; Rachel 1808; Elizabeth Ann 1810; Margaret 1812;
Hannah Ann 1819. This gives death dates and married names for some of those
children. "The Bible itself has heavy damage to the binding and water damage
through out," according to the seller.
This Nathaniel Champion is a brother to my Joseph Champion (1768-1828) and is
a son of Nathaniel Champion c1741-1775/77 and Catherine Scull Champion
Collins Ingersoll(who bound out a daughter in Burlington Co NJ and returned to Great
Egg Harbor after she was widowed a 2d time; then bound out 2 small children
and moved to Cincinnati OH in the early 1790's). One of those small children
was my ancestor Joseph Champion 1768-1828.
So the Bible belonged to Joseph's uncle and tells about the dates etc for his
first cousins.
Is anybody here part of this Nathaniel's family? I got out-bid at $55 but
wouldn't want to bid against somebody with more right to this book than I have
by dint of being closer kin to these folks.
Thanks.
Jan T