Sarah Babcock

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1666

Sarah married James Lewis in 1687 in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island. James (son of John Lewis and Dorcas) was born on 3 Jun 1664 in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island; died between 6 Mar 1740 and 30 Sep 1745 in Exeter, Washington, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. James Lewis was born about 1689 in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island; died between 4 May 1752 and 23 May 1752 in Richmond, Washington, Rhode Island.

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• Alternate death: 1698, Woodville, Washington, Rhode Island

Notes:

Blacksmith and farmer. "[H]e manufactured iron from bog ore and from black sand gathered upon the seashore." [The Babcock Genealogy]

Constable of Providence Plantation in 1671. Westerly grand jury, 13 Dec 1687; Selectman, May 1688 and May 1689; Town Councilman 2 Jul 1693 and again in 1696.

James and his wife Jane are recorded in 1692 as members of the Seventh Day Baptist Church of Newport and Westerly.

James Babcock (1641-1698) = Jane Brown (d. 1718)
James Babcock (~1665-~1721) = ?
Jonathan Babcock (b. 1703) = Elizabeth Larkin (~1702-1784)
Mary Babcock (b. 1724) = John Casey (1724-1794)
Sarah Casey (1755-1813) = John Rathbun (1750-1810)
Phoebe Rathbun (1797-1848) = Jeremiah Phillips (1800-1848)
Whipple Van Buren Phillips (1833-1904) = Rhoby Alzada Place (1827-1896)
Sarah Susan Phillips (1857-1921) = Winfield Scott Lovecraft (1853-1898)
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937)
James Babcock (1641-1698) = Jane Brown (d. 1718)
James Babcock (~1665-~1721) = ?
Jonathan Babcock (b. 1703) = Elizabeth Larkin (~1702-1784)
Mary Babcock (b. 1724) = John Casey (1724-1794)
Sarah Casey (1755-1813) = John Rathbun (1750-1810)
Sarah Rathbun (1787-1868) = Stephen Place (1783-1849)
Rhoby Alzada Place (1827-1896) = Whipple Van Buren Phillips (1833-1904)
Sarah Susan Phillips (1857-1921) = Winfield Scott Lovecraft (1853-1898)
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937)

James married Jane Brown about 1665 in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island. Jane (daughter of Nicholas Brown) died between 30 Apr 1718 and 4 Feb 1719 in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 30 Apr 1718
• Alternate death: 1719
• Alternate death: Bef Feb 1719, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island

Notes:

"On August 7, 1699, she was convicted of selling drink by retail, contrary to order, and was fined forty shillings for it, but the fine was remitted on her petition." [Babcock and Allied Families, citation details below]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 12 Jun 1679, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island
• Alternate death: 12 Jun 1679, Stonington, New London, Connecticut
• Alternate death: Aft 12 Jun 1679, Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island

Notes:

Also called James Babcock.

First appears in Portsmouth, Rhode Island in 1642; came to Westerly with his family in March 1662. One of the initial freemen of Westerly. He was a blacksmith and a gunsmith.

"In 1678 he was baptized by Elder William Hiscox and he joined the Seventh Day Baptist Church of Newport and Westerly." [Ancestral Lines, Third Edition, citation details below.]

James married Sarah about 1640 in England. Sarah died after 1664. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1665

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1694, Monmouth County, New Jersey

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Admitted an inhabitant of Aquidneck in 1638. One of the twenty-eight founders of Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

"1639, Apr. 30. He and twenty-eight others signed the following compact: 'We, whose names are underwritten, do acknowledge ourselves the legal subjects of his majesty, King Charles, and in his name do hereby bind ourselves into a civil body politicke, unto his laws, according to matters of justice." [The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, citation details below.]

The identity of his children's mother is unknown. He married, second, between 1657 and 1659, Frances, widow of George Parker.

William S. Hornor's statement (citation details below) that he died in Monmouth County, New Jersey is probably due to confusion of this Nicholas Brown with his son Nicholas Brown. This Nicholas Brown's will was made and proved at Portsmouth, Rhode Island.