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THB1861 Savannah, GA Indenture, Champion/Jewett Family.
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[ANTEBELLUM / CIVIL WAR-ERA, SAVANNAH, GA]. A marital indenture document signed by Francis Champion and Eliza Ann Champion (daughter of Savannah businesswoman, Eliza Ann Jewett), transferring considerable wealth to their son and daughter-in-law. Dated April 2, 1861, Chatham County, Georgia, and recorded in the Clerk's Office, Chatham County Superior Court, April 20, 1861; the signing and recording straddling the start of the Civil War. Witness signatures include Whylly J. Roash (Loash?); Thomas M. Norwood, Notary Public, Chatham; George(?) Adams, Notary Public, Chatham County. Single sheet; 15 1/4" x 20" (sight); in a double-sided frame, 20 1/4" x 24 1/4". Condition: overall Very Good; with horizontal and vertical folds; small fold tears and losses; light toning and soiling. The Champions bestow a large gift of stocks, investments, cash, and Savannah real estate to their son Francis Jewett Champion and his betrothed, Annie/Ann Eliza Cole, for their "provision... maintenance and support" upon their marriage. Notably, the indenture specifies that the "Bank Stock, Rail Road Stocks, ready money and real estate and improvements therein" are from Eliza Ann Champion's "separate estate and property given and devised in the Last-Will of her mother, Eliza A. Jewett." Jewett was a prominent Savannah real estate investor/developer, also known to have owned enslaved people (per her will, see below). GENEALOGY/HISTORY. CHAMPIONS and JEWETTS: The groom FRANCIS JEWETT CHAMPION (1831-1897), was the son of FRANCIS CHAMPION (1801-1875) and wife ELIZA ANN (DISCOMBE) CHAMPION (1811-1893). Eliza Ann Champion was the daughter of ELIZA ANN (CLARY/CLEARY DISCOMBE BOWLS[?]) JEWETT (1779-1856) and JAMES HAYDEN DISCOMBE (1777-1813), her stepfather being JASPER JEWETT (1791-1819), and stepbrother JASPER W. JEWETT (1819-1838). Eliza Ann Jewett, born in North Carolina, was a prominent female property investor of the antebellum era in Savannah, developing significant blocks in the city. She also owned enslaved people, as listed in her will dated November 3, 1956. However, Francis and Eliza Ann Champion's marital indenture for their son and daughter-in-law does not appear to reference slaves. EARLIER CHAMPION HISTORY: Francis Champion (1801-1875) was the son of Reuben Champion, Jr. (1760-1832) of Saybrook, CT, and SILENCE MORGAN ELY (1760-1852) of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Champion Junior was the son of REUBEN CHAMPION, SR. (1727-1777) of Lyme, CT, and LYDIA INGRAHAM DUNCAN (or DUNK) (1730-1809). Reuben Champion, Sr. served (and died) as the surgeon to the American Revolutionary War forces at Ticonderoga, 1775. THE COLES: The bride, ANNIE/ANN ELIZA COLE CHAMPION (1829-1906) of Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, was the daughter of JUDGE CARLETON BICKNELL COLE (1803-1876) of Amherst, MA, who came to Macon, GA in 1826, and SUSAN UMSTEAD TAYLOR (1807-1881). Carleton Bicknell Cole was granted the judgeship of the Macon Circuit, post-Civil War. [Sources: Ancestry.com, including birth/death, marriage, and other available documents, including History of the Champion Family, Eliza Ann Jewett's Last Will and Testament; and Eliza Ann Jewett entry on Society of Architectural Historians site, sah-arhipedia.org.] FROM THE FAMILY OF CAPTAIN CARLETON COLE CHAMPION, JR. (1896-1971), the grandson of Francis Jewett Champion and Ann Eliza Cole Champion, the beneficiaries of the indenture.
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