Sunday, July 28, 2019

THE FAMILY OF JAMES AND JANE (BROWN) BABCOCK


These sixth great grandparents got left behind somehow, therefore we are backing up here to include them in our ancestral history. James Babcock was born in 1641 at Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island.  He married Jane Brown in 1665 when he was twenty four years old.  James and his family resided in Westerly, Kings County, Rhode Island. Here is the list of their nine children, all born in Westerly:

1665 Jane
1666 James, our ancestor
1669 Sarah
1670 Mary
1671 Hannah
1676 Elizabeth
1678 William
unk  Peter
unk  Job

James died in 1698 when he was only age 57. Jane lived to be age 75, outliving five of her children. 

JAMES BABCOCK
BORN: 1641 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI
MARRIED: 1665
DIED: 1698 in Westerly, Kings, RI

JANE BROWN
BORN: 1644 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI
DIED: 4 Feb 1719 in Westerly, Kings, RI
SOURCES: Brøderbund Software, Inc., Family Archive #17, Ed. 1, Birth Records: United States/Europe, Birth Records AAI Birth Records Extraction (Release date: December 23, 1993), Internal Ref. #1.17.1.1537.4.