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Note: . In December of the same year he received from his mother a deed of a tract of land in Westerly. Dec. 31, 1706, he resided in Kingston and sold land to his brother James in Westerly. (W.T.R., book i.) In June, 1707, he was baptized by Elder William Hiscox and united with the S.D.B. [Seventh Day Baptist] Church of Newport and Westerly, R.I., in which church for the rest of his life he was a prominent member, and by his will left a legacy of 300 for his church. A few weeks later, July 20, his wife joined the same church. (S.D.B. Memorial.) June 28, 1709, he with twenty-six others bought from the Colony of Rhode Island a large tract of land in Kingston and Westerly known as the 'Shannock Purchase.' His part of the purchase was laid out in Westerly on the south side of Shannock Hill and extended west to the Pawcatuck River, in what was afterward Hopkinton and Richmond. His son Hezekiah settled on the part in Hopkinton, and had at least eight hundred acres. His son Elisha settled on the part that was afterward Richmond. In 1715 George Babcock and others assisted in circulating Rhode Island colonial money. He served as Deputy to the Legislature in 1716 and 1721. He was for many years Justice of the Peace, and was often called upon to perform marriage ceremonies. He and his wife were buried upon their own farm in a plot formerly known as the 'Babcock Burying Ground.' It is about five miles from the Kingston R.R. station, and is still used as a cemetery, is inclosed by a neat iron fence. The farm was sold in 1799 by Gideon Babcock, grandson of George and son of David, to Joshua Tucker, and the cemetery is now known as the 'Tucker Burying Ground.' Near by is a body of water formerly known as Babcock's Pond, now called Tucker's Pond. The place was visited in the summer of 1900 by the writer and his brother, Mr. Nathan Babcock, of Westerly. The graves of George Babcock and his wife were each covered with slate stone slabs about five and one half feet long by two and one half feet wide and five inches thick, lying horizontal, and on foundations so that they were about one foot from the ground. The letters were much worn and overgrown with moss, but were finally read. The two graves are side by side, about three feet apart, and the stones differ only in their inscriptions. The writing upon the husband's stone consists of eleven lines, as follows: In Memory of MR. GEORGE BABCOCK, who lived a professor with the Seventh day Baptist Church, and also his wife and eight of their children were members with him of the same church boath in faith and practice. He departed this life May the 1st, A.D. 1756, in ye 83 year of his age A notice of the death of Mrs. Babcock, written from S. Kingston after her death, appeared in the Boston Evening Post two weeks after her death, May 24, 1762. Among other things it states that 'She has left 8 children, 61 grandchildren; in all 140 descendants, which whole number live in this colony except one granddaughter, and her children.' A tradition often repeated states that soon after the marriageof George and Elizabeth Hall Babcock he threw a long rope over his dwelling house; he remained at one end of the rope, while his wife, Elizabeth, went as requested to the other side of the house and tried to pull the rope over, but without success. George called out, 'Pull, Betty, pull harder!' Again she struggled, but with no better results than before. George then called for her to come to him; the two, taking hold of the same end of the rope, easily pulled it over the house. The lesson taught was that when husband and wife pull apart no satisfactory results can be reached, but when both pull together everything is easy. The will of George Babcock, son of John and Mary Lawton Babcock, dated Nov. 13, 1750, probated May 10, 1756, is recorded in S.K.T.R. Pro. Book 5, pp. 44 to 49. To his son George he gave a farm of two hundred and fifty acres in South Kingston, besides two tracts of land previously given him, and also gave him 'one thousand pounds in bills of credit of old tenor.' Item. 'I give & devise unto my son David Babcock all my homestead farm together with ye land I bought of Mr. Ward with all houses & building thereon & orchards and all other privileges to ye same belonging, and a negro man named Bristo and a negro woman named Geney.' . . . To his son Hezekiah he gave four tracts of land, viz.: A farm of one hundred and forty acres, 'the Island I bought of James Perry,' the farm on which Hezekiah was then living, and a certain thirty acre lot. To his son Elisha he gave four certain farms containing by estimate total, six hundred and twenty acres. Item. 'I give and devise to my three sons George, David and Elisha, ye Sedge Island and all ye marsh and sedge lying between ye pond and sea.' . . He gave one hundred and forty pounds to be divided equally among the following children, of his deceased daughter Mary Potter, Jonathan Potter, George Potter, Stephen Potter, Susanna, Mary Eilizabeth and Martha; 'this is besides the land I gave to her son Thomas Potter ye land he now liveth on which containeth one hundred and seventy nine acres which I gave by her desire in lewe of her portion.' He gave to his daughter Elizabeth Sanders, 'six hundred pounds in bills of credit old tenor besides what I have given her in time past.' He gave to his daughter Abigail Hall, 'five hundred pounds in bills of credit old tenor, besides what I have given her already.' He provides that the children of his daughter Eunice Greenman shall be paid one hundred pounds apiece as they become of age. Item. 'I give three hundred pounds to ye church & society to which I belong to in Westerly and places adjacent, keeping and observing ye Seventh day of ye week for a Sabbath, to be let out for ye benefit of ye church above mentioned.' After the specific legacies are paid, 'my will is that all my estate that is moveable shall be equally divided amongst all my children sons and daughters now living or to their successors namely George, David, Hezekiah, and Elisha, Elizabeth, Abigail, Ruth & Eunice.' . . .Lastly I do hereby constitute make and ordain my loving son David Babcock to be my executor of this my last will and testament.
Note: George Babcock's mark for his cattle was recorded in Westerly, May, 1696
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