Sarah BROWN married James Badcock on 1641 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island. Their children were James, John, Job and Mary
After Sarah passed away in 1665, her husband James remarried. After he died in 1679, his probate proceedings were filed under Babcock instead of Badcock, so his children began to use the name Babcock.
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According to family lore, Sarah’s surname was Brown, and she was born in Essex County, England, around 1616. Her family were probably puritans, forced to leave England and settle in Leyden, Holland because of their beliefs. How she came to New England is unknown. By about 1638, she had married James Babcock and they were living in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. James and Sarah had several children, all born in Portsmouth by 1650. James was a blacksmith and gunsmith.
In 1660, James was a member of a company of men who bought some land called Misquamicut from Chief Sosoa. That land was to become the site of Westerly, Rhode Island. In 1665, James sold his land in Portsmouth and moved his family to Westerly, on the Connectucut side of the Pawtucket River, midway between Westerly and Watch Hill. Sarah died later that year. She was most likely buried in the James Babcock Ground in Westerly.
Sources: “A Catalogue of the Names of the First Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut”, by R. R. Hinman; “The Babcock Genealogy” by Stephen Babcock; “Babcock and Allied Families” by Louis E. DeForest; “Ancestral Lines” by Carl Boyer
(Thank you Ken Smith #46985536 for the biography)
After Sarah passed away in 1665, her husband James remarried. After he died in 1679, his probate proceedings were filed under Babcock instead of Badcock, so his children began to use the name Babcock.
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According to family lore, Sarah’s surname was Brown, and she was born in Essex County, England, around 1616. Her family were probably puritans, forced to leave England and settle in Leyden, Holland because of their beliefs. How she came to New England is unknown. By about 1638, she had married James Babcock and they were living in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. James and Sarah had several children, all born in Portsmouth by 1650. James was a blacksmith and gunsmith.
In 1660, James was a member of a company of men who bought some land called Misquamicut from Chief Sosoa. That land was to become the site of Westerly, Rhode Island. In 1665, James sold his land in Portsmouth and moved his family to Westerly, on the Connectucut side of the Pawtucket River, midway between Westerly and Watch Hill. Sarah died later that year. She was most likely buried in the James Babcock Ground in Westerly.
Sources: “A Catalogue of the Names of the First Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut”, by R. R. Hinman; “The Babcock Genealogy” by Stephen Babcock; “Babcock and Allied Families” by Louis E. DeForest; “Ancestral Lines” by Carl Boyer
(Thank you Ken Smith #46985536 for the biography)
Sarah BROWN married James Badcock on 1641 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island. Their children were James, John, Job and Mary
After Sarah passed away in 1665, her husband James remarried. After he died in 1679, his probate proceedings were filed under Babcock instead of Badcock, so his children began to use the name Babcock.
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According to family lore, Sarah’s surname was Brown, and she was born in Essex County, England, around 1616. Her family were probably puritans, forced to leave England and settle in Leyden, Holland because of their beliefs. How she came to New England is unknown. By about 1638, she had married James Babcock and they were living in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. James and Sarah had several children, all born in Portsmouth by 1650. James was a blacksmith and gunsmith.
In 1660, James was a member of a company of men who bought some land called Misquamicut from Chief Sosoa. That land was to become the site of Westerly, Rhode Island. In 1665, James sold his land in Portsmouth and moved his family to Westerly, on the Connectucut side of the Pawtucket River, midway between Westerly and Watch Hill. Sarah died later that year. She was most likely buried in the James Babcock Ground in Westerly.
Sources: “A Catalogue of the Names of the First Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut”, by R. R. Hinman; “The Babcock Genealogy” by Stephen Babcock; “Babcock and Allied Families” by Louis E. DeForest; “Ancestral Lines” by Carl Boyer
(Thank you Ken Smith #46985536 for the biography)
After Sarah passed away in 1665, her husband James remarried. After he died in 1679, his probate proceedings were filed under Babcock instead of Badcock, so his children began to use the name Babcock.
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According to family lore, Sarah’s surname was Brown, and she was born in Essex County, England, around 1616. Her family were probably puritans, forced to leave England and settle in Leyden, Holland because of their beliefs. How she came to New England is unknown. By about 1638, she had married James Babcock and they were living in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. James and Sarah had several children, all born in Portsmouth by 1650. James was a blacksmith and gunsmith.
In 1660, James was a member of a company of men who bought some land called Misquamicut from Chief Sosoa. That land was to become the site of Westerly, Rhode Island. In 1665, James sold his land in Portsmouth and moved his family to Westerly, on the Connectucut side of the Pawtucket River, midway between Westerly and Watch Hill. Sarah died later that year. She was most likely buried in the James Babcock Ground in Westerly.
Sources: “A Catalogue of the Names of the First Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut”, by R. R. Hinman; “The Babcock Genealogy” by Stephen Babcock; “Babcock and Allied Families” by Louis E. DeForest; “Ancestral Lines” by Carl Boyer
(Thank you Ken Smith #46985536 for the biography)
