Source: Nathaniel Babcock Genealogy, pp: 11-12 Was a blacksmith and a farmer in that part of Westerly which is now Woodville, Hopkinton, RI., where he manufactured iron from bog ore and from black sand found on the seashore.

James and his wife Jane were in 1692 members of the S. D. B. Church of Newport and Westerly RI.
May 18, 1669, he and his brothers John and Job were made freemen by the Legislature; the same date he received title to a townlot in Westerly, No. 35. The same year he received another townlot, No. 48. (Westerly Records.)

"Babcock Genealogy", by Stephen Babcock, M. A.; Eaton & Mains, New York; 1903, p 7.

THE BABCOCK GENEALOGY, by Stephen Babcock, page 7.
Jane dau of Nicholas Brown.

BABCOCK AND ALLIED FAMILIES, by L. E. de Forest, page 36.
The inventory of her husband's estate was taken January 10,1699, and amounted to 97 pounds 8d. By an agreement between the widow and the children, Jane received four steers, a calf, thirty sheep, ten barrels of cider, etc.
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.
Jane's will was made April 30, 1718 and proved February 4, 1719.

Austin, GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF RHODE ISLAND, pages 8 & 28.