This financial and mercantile activity enabled Champion to purchase land and by June 1639 he was living at Shannock, County Fermanagh.
In 1639 he was appointed High Sheriff of Fermanagh, and following year he was made a justice of the peace and purchased the manor at Coole.
The rebels also killed several of Champions guests, including Thomas Ironmonger, Humphrey Littlebury and Christopher Lynas, and refused to allow their bodies to be buried for several weeks.
News of the murder quickly spread in Ulster, enabling some Protestant settler communities to prepare to resist the rebels.
[1] Champion had married Alice Allen at the Church of St. John the Evangelist, Dublin on 27 May 1621.