Ebenezer CHAMPLIN

• General Notes
  • b. abt. 1770 in Newport, RI
    residing in Newport, RI in 1780
    m. (NY) est. < May 1798 to Margaret SMITH
    residing in Hoosick, Rensselaer Cty, NY in 1800
    among first settlers in Homer Twp, Athens Cty, OH in 1805
    
    from researcher Bob CHAMPLIN:
    
    Ebenezer Champlin, son of Joseph Champlin and his first wife, was born at Newport, Rhode Island c1770.
    
    In the 1780 Census, he was enumerated at Newport, Rhode Island.
    
    In the 1800 Census, he was enumerated with his stepmother Anna (Prentice) Champlin at Stephentown (Rensselaer County) New York. He was also enumerated at Hoosick, Rensselaer County with his wife, one boy and one girl both less than 10 years old.
    
    Later in 1800, he and Anna removed to Washington County, Ohio.
    In 1804, he was recorded as a subscriber to the "Coonskin" Library, which was organized in 1804 as the first library west of the Alleganies. He lived at Ames (Athens County) Ohio at the time.
    
    Ebenezer, who was a farmer, and his family were among the first settlers of Homer Township, Athens County, Ohio in 1805. In 1817, Morgan County was organized and Homer Township became a part of this new county in 1843.
    
    (Ebenezer's) unnamed daughter married a Mr. Brooks.
    
    There have been reports that Ebenezer's lineage was: Jeffrey (1), Christopher (2), William (3), Michael (4-5), Ebenezer (6) but this has now been shown to be erroneous.
    
    In the 1810 Census, Ebenezer was enumerated at Washington County, Ohio. The household consisted of:
    
    - 2 males less than 10 years old
    - 1 male aged 10-16 years
    - 1 male aged 26-45 years (Ebenezer)
    - 3 females less than 10 years old
    - 1 female aged 10-16 years old
    - 1 female aged 26-45 years (his wife)
    
    Note Morgan Cty is in eastern OH, next to Washington and Athens Counties.
    
    1810 US Census, Ebenezer CHAMPLIN, Washington Cty, OH, 21010-31010-00
    
    record citation:
    Record Type:    Tax List 
    Database:    OH 1810 Washington Co. Census Index
    
    There is an Ebenezer CHAMPLIN among the founding subscribers of the first library in the Northwest Territory, in Ames, Athens Cty, OH in February 1804:
    
    Note that Athens Cty, first settled around the 1790's, borders Washington Cty, OH and WV on the east and Vinton Cty on the west.  Ebenezer's son Francis settled in Vinton Cty, and Francis' wife Rachel came from Wood Cty, VA (today WV).
    
    from Laws and regulations of the Western library association, founded at Ames, February 2, 1804:
    
    The preamble to the articles sets forth that, "considering the many beneficial effects which social libraries are calculated to produce in societies where they are established, as a source both of rational entertainment and instruction, we, the subscribers, wishing to participate in those blessings, agree to form ourselves into a society for this purpose, under the title of the Western library association, in the town of Ames. Furthermore, at a meeting of the said association, at the house of Christopher Herrold, on Thursday, the 2d of February, 1804, agreed that the following articles be adopted as the rules of the society." The shares were $2.50 each, and each share paid a tax of twenty-five cents a year. Among the founders and original stockholders, whose names are subscribed to the articles, were the following, viz.: Ephraim Cutler, four shares; Jason Rice, two; Silvanus Ames, two; Benjamin L. Brown, one; Martin Boyles, one; Ezra Green, one; George Ewing, one; John Brown, Jun., one; Josiah True, one; George Ewing, Jun., one; Daniel Weethee, two; Timothy Wilkins, two; Benjamin Brown, one; Samuel Brown, 2d, one; Samuel Brown, Sen., one; Simon Converse, one; Christopher Herrold, one; Edmund Dorr, one; George Wolf, one; Nathan Woodbury, one; Joshua Wyatt, one; George Walker, one; Elijah Hatch, one; Zebulon Griffin, one; Jehiel Gregory, one; George Castle, one; Samuel Brown, one, etc. Among the subscribers in later years appear the names of Dr. Ezra Walker, Othniel Nye, Sally Rice, Nehemiah Gregory, Thomas Ewing, Jason Rice, Lucy Ames, John M. Hibbard, Seth Child, Ebenezer Champlin, Elisha Lattimer, Cyrus Tuttle, Pearly Brown, Robert Fulton, R. S. Lovell, Michael Tippie, James Pugsley, and others among the early residents of Ames."
    
    source:
    http://www.ohiogenealogy.org/athens/ames.htm
    
    1800 US Census, living in Hoosick (town), Rensselaer, NY, head of h/hold, 10010-11010-00 (youngest male could be Francis Cole CHAMPLIN)
    
    record citation:
    Roll:    M32_26 
    Page:    742 
    Image:    18
    
    See also New York Genealogical Records 1675-1920:
    Name:    Ebenezer Champlin
    Event:    Lived 
    Year:    1800 
    Place:    Bush, Greenbuck 
    County:    Rensselaer 
    Province:    New York 
    Source:    Reel 26, 1800 Federal Census of New York, Microfilm Series M32 
    Additional info:    See Family History Library, in Salt Lake City, Utah. 
    Page:    17
    
    Athens county history link:
    http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Eohathens/Athenscountyhistory.htm
    

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