Draft:Daniel Champlin

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Daniel Champlin (October 3, 1769 – 1832) was a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from May 1818 to May 1827.[1]

The North Kingston Bank was chartered in October, 1818, as the “South Kingston Bank, to be located at Little Rest” (now Kingston), but after holding a few meetings there, and being unable to get the capital stock readily taken, that location was abandoned, and the charter in 1819 was amended to the North Kingston Bank, to be located at Wickford, and was that year there established. Daniel Champlin of Exeter (well known as Judge Champlin), was elected president... Champlin was its president from its organization to 1825.[2]

In 1820, Champlin received one vote in the Rhode Island General Assembly in their election of a United States Senator, with the election being won by James DeWolf.[3]

Champlin married Penelope Allen on December 22, 1788.[4]

Of Exeter.[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Manual - the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1891), p. 208-13.
  2. ^ .R. Cole, History of Washington and Kent counties, Rhode Island (1889), p. 452.
  3. ^ "Election of Senator", The New York Evening Post (November 11, 1820), p. 2.
  4. ^ Jane Fletcher Fiske, Huling Genealogy: Descendants of James and Margaret Huling of Newport, Rhode Island and Lewes, Delaware (1984), p. 124.
  5. ^ Samuel H. Allen, "Rhode Island Judiciary", in James N. Arnold, ed., The Narragansett Historical Register (1889), Volume 7, p. 62.


Category:1769 births Category:1832 deaths Category:Justices of the Rhode Island Supreme Court


This open draft remains in progress as of July 5, 2023.