Babb Families of New England and Beyond
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jgL"7>"«f -"..•)-'-r. .'"....'"-•.. "...--.... --... --J^---. --.i. "J>"-^. ••"••"••» "^ BABB FAMILIES OF NEW ENGLAND --AND BEYOND ,uy JEAN A. SARGENT yV^ <y>^ Genealogist [/ & INA BABB MANSUR Historian j FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY c\< y 35 NORTH WEST TEMPLE SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84150 QO- ^ LAUREL, A R Y L A N D First Edition © Copyright 1987. All rights reserved. Permission to reproduce in any form must be secured from the authors. Library of Congress Card Number 87-60718 International Standard Book Number 0-9611502-2-X Made in the United States of America This edition has been limited to 300 numbered copies, of which this is copy number: m DEDICATED to Our Mothers who first aroused Our interest in genealogy. CONTENTS PREFACE vii ABOUT THE AUTHORS ix BABB LINES OF THE AUTHORS xi THE NUMBERING SYSTEM xii ABBREVIATIONS xiii INTRODUCTION 1 CONNECTIONS WITH ENGLAND 3 SECTION I. 1. PHILLIP BABB OF THE ISLES OF SHOALS . 11 1-1 WILLIAM 19 1-2 THOMAS 20 1-2-1 PETER 22 1-2-2 THOMAS, JR 27 1-2-3 PHILIP 37 1-2-7 HULDA 39 1-3 PHILIP 40 1-3-1 JOSHUA 40 1-3-2 PHILIP 76 1-4 SAMPSON 78 1-4-1 MARY 78 1-4-2 SAMPSON, JR 79 1-4-3 ELIZABETH 132 1-4-5 RICHARD 133 1-4-6 WILLIAM 171 1-4-7 SARAH 182 1-4-8 SUSANNAH 183 1-4-9 ESTHER 183 1-4-10 BENJAMIN 183 1-5 PETER 184 1-5-1 PHILIP 186 1-5-2 PRISCILLA 207 1-5-3 JAMES 208 1-5-4 JOHN 310 1-5-6 SARAH 328 1-5-7 MARY 330 SECTION II. 2. BENJAMIN BABB OF MIDDLETOWN, CT. 331 2-1 JOHN 334 2-11 BENJAMIN 347 2-13 ESTHER 347 SECTION III. SOME UNCONNECTED BABBS OF NEW ENGLAND . 350 A. MAINE BABBS WITH NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA CONNECTIONS 351 B. THE REV. THOMAS EARLE BABB .... 357 C. OTHER UNRESOLVED CASES PRIOR TO 1900 359 REFERENCES 364 APPENDIX 369 INDEX OF PLACE NAMES 390 INDEX OF BABBS 397 INDEX OF OTHER SURNAMES 419 FIGURES 1. PENSION OF JEMIMA (WID. of WM) . 122 2. PENSION OF MERIBAH (WID. of MOSES) . 138 3. IMPRISONMENT OF PETER & NATHANIEL . 204 4. PETER BABB - PENSION REQUEST .... 213 5. LETTER FROM BABB, MONTANA 245 6. PORTRAIT OF E. C. BABB 292 7. PROBATE ON MORDICAI BABB 341 8. PROBATE ON S. LORENE BABB 344 MAPS SOUTHERN ENGLAND 5 ISLES OF SHOALS 10 SETTLEMENTS IN DE, PA, & VA 23 SOUTHWEST MAINE 45 MIDDLE WESTERN NH 61 MIDDLE EASTERN NH 97 BELKNAP & STRAFFORD COUNTIES, NH . 134 MAINE TO NH MOVES 176 ROCKINGHAM CO. , NH 185 CUMBERLAND & YORK COS., MAINE .... 209 MIDDLE COAST MAINE 232 ESSEX CO. AND BOSTON, MA 280 EAST COASTAL MAINE "DOWN EAST". 303 MOVE FROM CT TO MA 333 WASHINGTON CO. , MAINE 352 (The maps are adapted from maps courtesy of ME Dept. of Transportation NH Dept. of Public Works &. Highways MA Dept. of Commerce CT State Library U.S. Dept. of Interior, Geologic Survey Supt. of Documents, GPO) PREFACE Genealogy is a fascinating hobby in which people find it rewarding to discover where they came from, what their various ancestors did for a living, how they lived, what caused them to migrate to new areas, what were their fam ily characteristics. Also interesting questions arise: Were any ancestors rich or famous or talented? Were any of them horse thieves or such like? Were they mostly just plain folks who were loyal to their country, hard working, and kind to their families? This book was generated from our efforts to solve our own ancestral lines of the BABB surname, which took a lot of digging. We never intended to write a book about it, but kept accumulating and accumulating material until we both agreed that a published book would be much more useful to others than a typed manuscript donated to a New England historical society. Back in the 1960's, a Mr. Russell L. Emery of Brainerd, MN, was collecting much material on the BABB surname, and he published a "BABB Family Bulletin" for half a dozen or more issues. He was corresponding with many people, and in particular with Mr. Robert E. BABB, Jr., of Charleston, SC, who was also collecting material on BABB descendants. We corresponded with Robert in the late 1970's, but did not know about Mr. Emery until years later. Both gentle men died before they were able to formulate their materials into a published book. One could research a lifetime on a project like this, but we decided to call a halt to our numerous years of researching and to put a book into print before we both got too old to undertake this strenuous effort. It is hoped that people who read and study this book will use it as a jumping off point for further research into their own particular ancestors. We have done the best that we could to make it accurate. However, we have discov ered in researching that there is much variance between records -- people give the wrong ages to census takers, cemetery records often differ from town or state vital records, people like to use nicknames or middle names if they don't like their first names, people sometimes include only the relatives that they like in their will, some people move around a great deal, and other people never move but the name of the district or county changes. There is also the problem of missing records. Some areas were so primitive that no records were kept, and some were lost or destroyed by fire. One major obstacle for us was that the probate records of Cumberland Co., ME, were all destroyed up to 1910, and this was a county where many BABB families lived. However, we have worked around such problems and have researched as many records as we could possibly find in archives, town offices, court houses, graveyards, historical societies, and state libraries. We believe that we have come up with good results. Originally we were going to confine our research to the early BABB families of ME and NH, and then we found that many of them began to spread to MA. Then we decided to add the unconnected Benjamin BABB family from Middletown, CT, whose descendants moved into western MA. Then we discovered New England BABBs migrating westward and southward, and we began to add more and more concerning those in states out side of New England. In particular, Phillip's son Thomas became a Quaker and moved to DE. Then his sons moved on to PA and VA, and their descendants pushed on to TN, OH, NC, SC, IN, IL, MN, and other states even farther away from New England. We decided that it would be a shame not to include some material on them, since they were actually descended from Phillip of the Isles of Shoals or Benjamin of Middletown, CT. Although we have not covered these in depth because of lack of time to research records, we have included numerous family lines and references to many of them into the 1800's so that researchers may find some clues to help them continue searching. We were lucky enough to be able to get in touch with the BABB Family History Society of England, and are in debted to them for assistance in developing some clues. Throughout the book we have given names of persons who have provided information and helped in various ways. We are especially indebted to the following persons who made the research so much easier for us by supplying clues and information that would have been very difficult for us to find ourselves: Robert E. BABB, Jr., Malcolm J. BABB, Lawrence BABB, Arthur F. Brown, Del Goodwin, Betsy Houghton, J. Robert Locke, Betsy McCloskey, Neva Stiles, Robert Taylor, Nell Taylor, Mable Tracy, Verna M. Uebelacker, George 0. Whitman. We are also indebted to all the town clerks, archivists, and court house workers, who so gladly gave of their time to help us in our research. We shall appreciate correspondence from persons who find additional material in following up what is in the book. Ina is interested in the BABBs of ME and Jean is interested in those who went beyond. Jean A. Sargent Ina BABB Mansur 12217 Shadetree Lane 320 Concord Road Laurel, MD 20708 Bedford, MA 01730 ABOUT THE AUTHORS INA G. (BABB) MANSUR was born in Maine, the daughter of a farmer. She attended the local schools and was grad uated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Boston University. She was married to Lawrence Mansur shortly after her graduation. Lawrence was a physicist and assisted Robert Goddard in early rocket experiments; Ina has worked in the sciences also. Both are in retirement now. Ina's mother gave her for safe-keeping a copy of an old edition of the local weekly newspaper honoring early settlers in the town. Prominently was the story of Ina's maternal grandfather's family. To Ina, who has known some of the contemporary members, the ancestors immediately grew in stature, putting on a substantial pioneer spirit as they probably had pushed up the river valley to settle in the town and to till the intervales which had been Indian sites. Once her interest was awakened, Ina found out who her maternal grandmother's family had been. While she was compiling her share of this work, someone published a study of Ina's paternal grandmother's people. All that remained was the question of her father's father's ances tors.