Oliver BABCOCK, Jr.

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• Fact: Son of Col. Oliver Babcock and Susanna Clarke

Oliver married Patience PENDLETON in 1744. Patience (daughter of Col. Joseph PENDLETON and Sarah WORDEN) was born on 13 Jun 1726 in Westerly, Washington Co., Rhode Island; died in Leyden, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Son of John Babcock and Mary Lawton

Oliver married Susannah CLARKE in Jan 1705. Susannah (daughter of Joseph CLARKE and Bethia HUBBARD) was born on 31 Aug 1683 in Westerly, Washington Co., Rhode Island . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Mary LAWTON. Mary died on 8 Nov 1711 in Westerly, Washington Co., Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He must have removed from Newport to Westerly early in life, for in 1669 he became Town Clerk of Westerly, retaining the position until 1700. In July, 1625 (?) he and his family went to Newport for fear of the Indian War then raging, and remained in the home of rev. Samuel Hubbard until the war closed. In 1680, he having been taken from his house in Westerly, situated two miles east of Pawcatuck River, was carried by force to Hartford, Conn., and fined L10, by authorities of that colony. He was however, reimbursed by Rhode Island Assembly, in sum of L13 10s., for this compulsory payment. On 20 May 1696, Benedict Arnold, of Newport, deeded Joseph Clarke, of Westerly, 200 acres of land at South Kingstown, Rhode Island. Recorded 22 Dec 1707, at South Kingstown.

On 30 November, 1696,Joseph Clarke, of Westerly, deeded John Seagar 100 acres of land at South Kingstown. Recorded at South Kingstown 22 December, 1707.
He was Deputy to the General Assembly in years 1698. 1700-2-4-6-8.
In 1710 Joseph Clarke and Joseph Clarke Jr., were invited by Sabbatarian Church at Westerly, Rhode Island.

On 20 July 1715, Joseph Clarke, of Westerly, deeded to his son Samuel Clarke, "a tract of land, situate at Westerly, of 6 acres bounded East by a highway, North by a highway, West by a highway and South by land formerly of Edward Richmond."

Joseph married Bethia HUBBARD on 16 Nov 1664 in Newport, Rhode Island. Bethia (daughter of Samuel HUBBARD and Tacy COOPER) was born on 19 Dec 1646 in Springfield, Massachusetts; died on 17 Apr 1707 in Westerly, Washington Co., Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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JAMES BABCOCK, born in 1612, who was the progenitor of the Babcock family of Westerly and the region roundabout, first appears in Portsmouth, R.I., in 1642. He held the office of Commissioner from1656 to 1659 and was by occupation a blacksmith and gunsmith. he came to Westerly with his family soon after 1664, after having sold his house and land in Portsmouth to Thomas Fish. During the year 1670 he gave testimony, calling his age 58 years, his son James 29, and his son John 26.

James married Sarah ?. Sarah died in 1665. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He must have left England about 1637, and settled immediately in Rhode Island,for he was admitted an inhabitant of the island of Aquidneck, at Newport, in 1638.

In 1640 he present at the General Court of Election, and became a freeman on 17 March 1641. In 1644 he was made one of the original members of the First Baptist Church of Newport, and in 1648 became a member of the General Court of Trials. In 1655 he became a freeman of the colony and acted as Commissioner in 1655, 57-58-59. he was an Assistant in 1658. 63-64-65, 78, 80, 90. On 8 July, 1663, his name appears in the charter granted to Rhode Island by King Charles II. In 1668 he was made a freeman at Westerly and acted as deputy to the General Assembly 1668-69-70-71-72, 90. On the 18 May 1669, his name appears in the list fo Westerly inhabitants, and in 1677 he was a member of the Court of Justices of the Peace to attend to the matter of injurious and illegal acting of the Connecticut Colony. In 1679, he, with thirty-two others of Westerly, gave the oath of allegiance. In 1680 he, as of Newport, was taced L 1 13s. 3d. On 25 September 1685, he and his wife Margaret, as of Newport, R.I., sold Francis Brinley of Newport an 1/154 part of Conanicut Island (89 acres), and an 1/154 part of Dutch Island. In 1690 he, with others, was empowered to proportion the taxes to the respective towns. He appears to have lived some time at Westerly, but to have returned to Newport during the later years of his life......

Joseph married Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Samuel Hubbard, youngest son of James and Naomi (Cocke) Hubbard, was born in Mendlesham (a market town about eighty miles northeast of London), Suffolk County, in 1610. he arrived in Salem, Mass., in October, 1633, and probably came in the ship James. Grant, master, which left Gravesend, England, late in August, 1633, and arrived in Massachusetts Bay October 10, 1633. he says in his Diary, "I was born of good parents. My Mother brought me up in the fear of the Lord, in Mendlesham, in catechizing me and hearing choice ministers," &c. March 4, 1634-5, he was admitted a freeman, and shortly moved to my faith." This same year he went o Dorchester (Windsor) Ct., with the overland migrators. He was arrived there by Mr. (Roger?) Ludlow, to Tacy Cooper, who was born in England in 1608 and came to Dorchester, Mass., June 9, 1634, and to Dorchester (Windsor) Ct., in 1635. She had brothers Robert, of yarmouth, Norfolk, and John of London, Eng. Robert returned to England from America in 1644. SAMUEL HUBBARD went to Wethersfield, Ct., in 1637, and May 10, 1639, removed to Springfield, Mass, which he left for Fairfield, Ct., in 1647, through staying there but a short time on account of church disagreements. SAMUEL was now with his wife imbibing freely and preaching ardently the doctrines of Anabaptism. He says in his diary; "God having enlightened both (but mostly my wife) into his holy ordinance of baptizing only of visible believers, and being very zealous for it, she was mostly struck at, and answered two terms publicly, where I was said to be as bad as she, and sore threatened with imprisonment to Hartford jail, if not to renounce it or to remove; that scripture came into our minds: "If they persecute you in one place flee to another; and so we did a day of October, 1648. We went for Rhode Island and arrived there the 12 day. I and my wife upon our manifestation of our faith were baptised by brother Joseph Clarke, 3 day of November, 1648."

SAMUEL HUBBARD spent the remainder of his life in and about Newport, or "Mayford" as he termed it. He was a zealous Baptist and public religious disputant. For twenty-three years he belonged to the First Baptist Church of Newport, which sent him August 7, 1651, to boston "to visit the bretherin who was imprisoned in Boston Jayl for witnessing the truth of baptising believers only, Viz: Brothers John Clark, Obadiah Holmes, and John Crandall." In 1657 he went with Holmes on a preaching tour on Long Island. In 1664 he was appointed General Solicitor of the Colony. April 7, 1668, he went to Boston with Joseph Torrey and William Hiscox "to publicly dispute with those baptised there." December 23, 1671, with his wife, one daughter, and four other persons he formed the first Seventh Day Baptist Church in America. In July, 1668, he worte a letter to his cousin John Smith, of London, detailing his worldly possessions "through God's great mercy." In 1675 in his diary he refers to a "testament of my grandfather's Cocke's, printed in 1549, which he (Cocke) hid in his bed straw lest it should be found and burned in Queen Mary's days." In 1676 he corresponded with Dr. Edward Stennett, Pastor of the Seventh Day Baptist Church in Bell Lane, London. John Thornton and Roger Williams of Rhode Island, and Governor Leete of Connecticut were his friends. He died between 1688 and 1692, and his wife after 1697, but no traces of their burial places have been found.

Samuel married Tacy COOPER on 4 Jan 1636. Tacy was born in 1608; died after 1697. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]