NameMary BABCOCK
Birth20 Sep 1695, Westerly, Kings Co., RI
Deathabt 1745
BurialHopkinton, Washington Co., Rhode Island
Spouses
Birth8 Feb 1696, South Kingstown, Washington Co., Rhode Island
Death8 Jan 1773, Hopkinton, Washington Co., Rhode Island
Burial1773, Hopkinton, Washington Co., Rhode Island
Marriage19 Mar 1717, North Kingstown, Washington Co., Rhode Island
Notes for Mary BABCOCK
THE HISTORY OF STONINGTON CT, by Richard Anson Wheeler, page 213.
"Babcock Genealogy", by Stephen Babcock, M. A., Eaton & Mains, New York, 1903, p 45.
Notes for Thomas (Spouse 1)
BABCOCK AND ALLIED FAMILIES, by M.M. Lewis, Brooklyn, New York. page 27.
Remains of Mary Babcock and her husband were removed about one hundred years later by Judge William H. Potter of Mystic, CT, to First Hopkinton Cemetery near Potter Hill, RI. Mary Babcock married March 19, 1717, Thomas Potter, son of Thomas and Susanna (Tripp) Potter, of North Kingston, RI, who was born February 8, 1695, and died in Hopkinton, January 8, 1773.
ARNOLD: VRRI; Vol. 5.
CANFIELD, Rosemary: "Some Descendants of Nathaniel Potter of Rhode Island";
private; Pacific Grove, CA; 1989; pp 11-12.
"Diary of Joshua Hempstead"; New London Historical Society; New London, CT;
1901; p 508.
"Babcock Genealogy", by Stephen Babcock, M. A., Eaton & Mains, New York, 1903, p 45.
Gravestone reviewed 20 Aug 2001. The printed genealogies give his birth year as 1695 but his gravestone says 1696.
Mary Babcock was Thomas' 2C1R related through Thomas Hazard and Martha Potter.