Was born in Westerly RI, Sept. 12, 1734. He owned and occupied a farm near the seashore in the town of Westerly; was admitted a freeman by the General Assembly of RI, May 1758; was justice of the peace for Westerly, 1769, 79, 83. (See Smith's Civil and Military List of RI). He was lieunant in Captain Champlain's Train Band, Westerly Militia, 1767. In 1813, three years after the death of his wife, he sold to his youngest son Asa, sixty acres of land for one thousand dollars. The same year Asa sold the land and removed to Smyrna, New York, and Christopher must have gone with him for he died at the home of his son Asa, March 15, 1815, and was buried in Smyrna, NY.
One year after his mother married Stephen Chalker, or Chaucer, Christopher Babcock married, in 1754, his step-sister, Mehitable Chalker (sometimes written Chaucer or Chalkens) who was born in Saybrook, CT., Sept. 9, 1733, and died in Westerly, RI, June 8,1810. She was buried in the Babcock or Massatuxet burying ground near Avondale, RI, but about 1884, her remains, with those of her son, Stephen and his wife Phebe, were removed from the neglected spot where they were first buried, to the First Hopkinton Cemetery, near Potter Hill, RI. This removal was directed by Phebe Babcock, granddaughter of Mehitable, daughter of Stephen and wife of Oliver. Phebe's remains were afterwards interred in the adjoining lot beside her husband.
The father of Mehitable (Chalker) Babcock was Stephen Chalker,son of Stephen Chalker, born in Saybrook, CT., July 19, 1707.He was of the fourth generation of General Alexander Chalker, who was one of the original proprietors of the town of Saybrook, CT, and was killed in the Narragansett War (Chapman Genealogy). Mehitable's mother was Mehitable Chapman, born November 17,1705, daughter of Captain Samuel and Margaret (Griswold) Chapman of Norwich, CT. Stephen Chalker and Mehitable Chapman were married December 14, 1727. An item in Stephen's will, dated 1773, mentions his daughter, Mehitable Babcock, wife of Christopher Babcock.157

One year after his mother married Stephen Chalker, or Chaucer, Christopher Babcock married, in 1754, his step-sister, Mehitable Chalker (sometimes written Chaucer or Chalkens) who was born in Saybrook, CT., Sept. 9, 1733, and died in Westerly, RI, June 8,1810. She was buried in the Babcock or Massatuxet burying ground near Avondale, RI, but about 1884, her remains, with those of her son, Stephen and his wife Phebe, were removed from the neglected spot where they were first buried, to the First Hopkinton Cemetery, near Potter Hill, RI. This removal was directed by Phebe Babcock, granddaughter of Mehitable, daughter of Stephen and wife of Oliver. Phebe's remains were afterwards interred in the adjoining lot beside her husband.
The father of Mehitable (Chalker) Babcock was Stephen Chalker, son of Stephen Chalker, born in Saybrook, CT., July 19, 1707. He was of the fourth generation of General Alexander Chalker, who was one of the original proprietors of the town of Saybrook,CT, and was killed in the Narragansett War (Chapman Genealogy). Mehitable's mother was Mehitable Chapman, born November 17,1705, daughter of Captain Samuel and Margaret (Griswold) Chapman of Norwich, CT. Stephen Chalker and Mehitable Chapman were married December 14, 1727. An item in Stephen's will, dated 1773, mentions his daughter, Mehitable Babcock, wife of Christopher Babcock.157