Husband James Babcock
Born: 1612 at: Wivenhoe, Essex, Eng 1
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Died: June 12, 1679 at: Stonington, Connecticut 2
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Father: James Babcock (Rev) (1580-1660)
Mother: Mary (Abt 1584-Abt 1650)
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Other Spouse: Sarah Vose (Abt 1616-1665) Date:
Events
1. resided 3, February 25, 1641/42, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island
2. Freeman 4, July 1648, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island
3. resided 3 5, March 1661/62, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island
Wife Elizabeth
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Children
1 M Nathaniel Babcock
Born: 1666 6 at:
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Died: January 2, 1718/19 6 at:
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2 M Joseph Babcock
Born: 1670 6 at:
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3 F Elizabeth Babcock
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Husband's Notes
James Badcock, born in 1612, probably in Essex County, England, died in Stonington, Connecticut, June 12, 1679. He was admitted an inhabitant of the "towno, of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, February 25, 1642, and at a town meeting held October 5, 1642 he and Richard Moris were ordered "to look up all the armes in the Towne within the month above writ" and "to mend any which were defective for use." At the same meeting ten acres of land were ordered to be "laide out to James Badcock at the first brooke, next the footpath eastward." At this time, too, every man was ordered to have "four pounds of shot and two pounds of powder lying by him in readiness by the 24th of this month and to be ill readiness to assemble at the boat of the drum." James Bad- eock was made a freeman, July 10, 1648, and was appointed a mem- ber of a largecommittee "for the tryall of the general officers." December 28, 1648, it was granted "to have four acres added to his house lot." He was'chosen a jurymall November 21, 1649, June, 1653, August 11, 1656, March 2, 1657, and October, 1661; and an assessor February 19, 1650. May 2, 1650, James Badcock with five others, was ordered by the "General Courte, all excuses set aparte, to mende and make all locks, stocks, and pieces which by order from the warden of each towne shall be presented to them." If this duty was not performed a penalty of ten pounds was levied, and men who failed to bring in their arms forfeited ten pounds each. He was appointed an appraiser of the estate of John Wood, May 7, 1655, and on April 8, 1656, he and seven others were "ap- pointed to go over to the mayne to treat with the Indian Sachems to inform them of the mynd of the towne, that they come not upon the Island but according to order given." January 6, 1657, "James Badeoek and John Sanford are again authorized to meet with New- port men according to former order." James Badcock and six others were chosen a committee to meet with committees appointed from other towns. On November 30, 1657, James and four others were "appointed to apportion land to those that want land." He was a member of the General Court of Commissioners of Rhode Island for Portsmouth in 1657, 1658 and 1659; was appointed with others to lay out highways; December 27, 1660, and May 11, 1661, was appointed to settle disputed land boundaries; August 8, 1661, was one of a coroner's jury. James Badcock moved to Westerly in March, 1662, but the last record which refers to him in Portsmouth is dated December 19, 1662.
1 Cd Rom 100 Automated Archives.
2 M.M. Lewis, Babcock and Allied Families Americana 1927 243-250.
3 ibid. Page 244.
4 ibid. Page 248.
5 James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England, (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1860 reprinted 1998), The Library of John D. Warren. Volume 1 Page 86.
6 John Osborne Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island Families Comprising three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690, (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1995), From the library of John D. Warren.
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