The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
State of Service: NJ
Qualifying Service: Private
Birth: 12 Feb 1759 / Monmouth / NJ Death: 03 Feb 1825 / / OH
Qualifying Service Description:
Private in Captain Daniel Hampton's Company, Monmouth County Militia, New Jersey
Additional References:
SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004
"Roster of the People of Revolutionary Monmouth County, Nerw Jersey by M. S. Adelberg;
Author: Jerry Ray Sayre
Thomas Babcock Jr. was born 12 Feb 1759 in Monmouth County, New Jersey. He was the only son of Thomas Sr. and Judith (Davis) Babcock. He lived most of his early life in Monmouth County, NJ. There, he married in 1781, Martha Davis third daughter of Thomas William (P-145044) and Tacy (Crandall) Davis. She was a 1st Cousin.
His Father-in-law was Captain of the local Company of Monmouth County Militia. The Davis family made up more than ½ of the members of the Company. They were all members of the Seventh Day Baptist Church, and after the War they, as a group, moved west together. (Source: Davis Family Genealogy – Susie Davis Nicholson 1992)
This fact becomes more important in light of the following: After long months of research, the only direct reference to his service was records from a Court Marshal where he and others were fined for delinquency. (Sources: National Archives, New Jersey State Archives, and Monmouth County Historical Society)
The fines were small and reporting late from furlough was still delinquency, but with his whole family in the same company it is doubtful that he was late very often.
Thomas and his family moved from New Jersey to Monongahela County, Va. in 1789. He then moved to New Salem, Va., thence to two different places in Ohio. Each of these four homes was comparatively in the wilderness, with wild beasts and wild Indians for neighbors. At one place they settled twelve miles from any white settlers.
Thomas was baptized Dec. 13, 1786, at Shrewsbury, N. J. He was deacon of the Little Bethel (Mad River) S. D. B. Church of Greene Co., Ohio. (Sources: Davis Genealogy - Susie Davis Nicholson, 1992 Page: 11, 14, 25, Babcock Genealogy - Stephen Babcock, 1903 Page: 50, 96, Crandall Genealogy - John Cortland Crandall, 1949 Page: 24)
Thomas Babcock Jr. died in 1825 in Mad River, Clark, OH. He was 65 years old. No grave has been found.
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