Their family included four sons and four daughters, all born in Westchester:[2][3] Henry Champion entered into service in the Continental Army at the Lexington Alarm.

[1] July 15, 1779, Captain Champion was detached from his old regiment and appointed Acting Major of the First Battalion Light Brigade.

The Light Brigade had been organized by General George Washington to attempt the capture of Stony Point on the Hudson.

Champion resigned his commission in the 1st Connecticut Regiment on May 1, 1781 when he was appointed commissary general of the Eastern Department.

He served until the close of the Revolutionary War, and is today represented in The Society of the Cincinnati in the state of Connecticut, established in 1783.

General Champion always celebrated July 15 which he called Stony Point Day, in due and ancient form at his famous old country seat in Westchester.

[7] After his death, in 1836, the Champion Homestead was sold to the Loomis Family and Henry's male line had died out in 1865.