Source: Potter-Richardson Memorial.
Memorial: Wiliam Champlin, 1654-1715, son of Jeffrey Champlin of Westerly and Newport, RI. Had Jeffrey Jr., William and Christopher.

Marriage Record, Page 143, "New England Marriages Prior to 1700" by Clarence Almon Torrey, Published 1985 by Genealogical Publishing Company Inc., Baltimore, MD. They also give the husband's and wife's birth and death years. Her last name is listed as "Babcock/Badcock" and we have chosen to use Babcock as being the more common.

"Register of Officers and Members of the Society of Colonial Wars 1897-1898," Published by Authority of General Assembly, New York, January1898; at Rowen Library, Salisbury, NC, 10/26/95. Index of Ancestors and Descendants, Page 438: "Champlin, William, 1654-1715. Royal Justice. Capt. of Militia. Member of Assembly. Soldier in King Phillip's War at Scarsborough, 1676."

"Babcock Genealogy", by Stephen Babcock, M. A., Eaton & Mains, New York, 1903, p 13.
Mary Babcock, fourth child of James, Sr., and Sarah Badcock, b. Portsmouth, RI, 1648 (?); died Westerly, 1747; m. Capt. William Champlin, son of Jeffrey Champlin, b. Rhode Island, 1654, died 1715.
The following was copied from the will of her father, James Badcock, Sr.: "He bequeathed one cow to be delivered unto his daughter, Mary Champlin."
William Champlin was Justice of the Peace for Westerly; he was also Deputy for Westerly, he was also Deputy for Westerly at the General Assembly, 1690, '91, '96, '98, '99, 1700, '03, '05, '06,'08, '10, '12. At a town meeting held Apr. 7, 1709, he was"voted to have a grant of one hundred acres" of land, and was empowered to agree with Ninecraft, sachem, for "a perpetual high road to the salt water from Queen's Rhoade."
For further records of Mary (Babcock) Champlin, wife of William, see records of her son William.
Children born in Westerly.