Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 97

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York : Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 978

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GERSHOM LOCKWOOD, sixth child and fifth son of Sergeant Robert Lockwood, born at Watertown, Massachusetts, September 6, 1643, died at Greenwich, Fair- field county, Connecticut, March 12, 1718-19. He was one of the twenty-seven original proprietors and founders of Greenwich. He was Lieutenant of Militia there and filled many offices of trust and importance. He married (first), Lady Ann, daughter of Lord Millington, of England; (second), Elizabeth (Townsend) Wright. His son Gershom Lockwood, Jr., baptized at Greenwich, 1694-5, was made a Freeman of the Colony, February 7, 1693-4, and was living at Greenwich in 1708. By his wife Mary he had eight children, the sixth of whom was,

JAMES LOCKWOOD, who married Sally Ferris, of Greenwich, and had four chil- dren, the second of whom was,

PHINEAS LOCKWOOD, who married, 1763, Ann Pellinger, and had,

PHILIP P. LOCKWOOD, born 1766, died 1825; married Ann Snell, born 1772,. died 1831 ; and they were parents of Anna Lockwood, who married Capt. John Barry, before mentioned.

The paternal ancestry of Lucy (Babcock) Hoxie, great-grandmother of Jac- queline (Harrison) Smith, mentioned above, is as follows :

JAMES BABCOCK, of Essex county, England, with wife Sarah, came to Ports- mouth, Rhode Island, prior to 1642; was admitted as an "inhabitant of the towne of Portsmouth," February 25, 1641-42. On October 5, 1642, he and Richard Morris were ordered by a "Towne Meeting," "to look up all the Armes of the Towne within the Month above writ, and to mend any which are defective, for use." He was made a Freeman July 10, 1648; served as a juryman, November 21, 1649, and several times subsequently ; was chosen Assessor, February 19, 1650, etc. On April 8, 1656, he was one of those appointed to treat with the Indians, and was again selected for the same mission January 6, 1657. He was a Representative in the General Court from Portsmouth, 1657-58-59, and took a prominent part in Colonial legislation. On June 29, 1660, he purchased a large tract of land at Misquamicutt, later Westerly, Rhode Island, and was one of the sixty persons who made the first settlement there, March, 1661-62. He died at Westerly, 1679, in his fifty-ninth year ; his will, dated June 12, 1679, being proved September 17, 1679. His first wife, Sarah, died 1665, and he married ( second). 1669, Elizabeth -, who survived him and married (second), September 22, 1679, William Johnston, and settled in Stonington, Connecticut. By his first wife James Babcock had four children, James, born 1641; John, born 1644, of whom presently ; Job, born 1646, married Jane Crandall; and Mary, born 1648, married William Champlin.

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JOHN BABCOCK, second son of James and Sarah Babcock, was born in Ports- mouth, Rhode Island, 1644, and died at Westerly, 1685. He was a member of the Misquamicutt Company, who founded Westerly 1662, though only eighteen years of age; and was with the Connecticut troops in King Philip's War. He was made a Freeman of the Connecticut Colony, May 14, 1676.

He was elected to General Court of Rhode Island and Conservator of the Peace, June 12, 1678, and took oath of allegiance as such September 17; he was a Deputy to Colonial Legislature, 1682-84. He died 1685; the inventory of his estate bears date June 4, 1685, and his will was proven on June 25. John Babcock married Mary Lawton, who survived him, married (second) Erasmus Babbitt, and died at Westerly, Rhode Island, November 8, 1711. She was daughter of George Law- ton, of Portsmouth, who was a Colonial Deputy. 1665-72-75-76, and 1679-80; Assistant Magistrate, 1680-86, and 1689-90; by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Hazard, of Portsmouth, Representative to General Court, 1640.

CAPT. JOHN BABCOCK, second son and fourth child of John and Mary (Lawton) Babcock, born at Westerly, Rhode Island, 1666, was admitted a Freeman Febru- ary 13, 1689, and died there March 28, 1746. He was chosen as Assistant Sur- veyor, 1694; Tax Assessor, 1697; Town Councilman, 1699; Town Clerk, 1700; Probate Clerk, 1700; was Deputy to Colonial Assembly, 1695, 1702-13, 1715-17, 1718, 1720-6; was Captain of Militia, 1709-23; and Justice of the Peace, 1730-37. Capt. John Babcock married, 1700, his cousin Mary, daughter of Capt. William Champlin, by his wife, Mary, daughter of James Babcock (1).

Capt. William Champlin was a son of Jefferey Champlin who settled at West- erly, Rhode Island, and was Deputy to General Assembly from that town, 1681- 86. His son, Capt. William, became Deputy, 1690, served almost continuously until 1712; and was commissioned Captain 1691. He also served many years as Justice of Westerly.

ICHABOD BABCOCK, second child of Capt. John, was born at Westerly, Rhode Island, November 21, 1703. He was Lieutenant of First Company of Westerly Militia, 1734-36. He married, December 1, 1731, his cousin, Jemima, daughter of Joseph and Rebecca (Stanton) Babcock, and granddaughter of John Babcock (1), by his wife Mary Lawton, and had four children.

ICHABOD BABCOCK, JR., eldest child of Ichabod and Jemima, born December 12, 1732, was Ensign of a military company raised in Westerly, 1755, of which his cousin Henry Babcock was Captain, and which was attached to the Regiment of Col. Christopher Harris, which participated in the capture of Crown Point, and then marched to Lake George and joined Sir William Johnston. He was later Cornet of Capt. George Thurston's Troops of Horse, First Battalion, Kings County Militia, Rhode Island troops; and served as an express rider. He was Representative in Colonial Legislature prior to the Revolution, and a Justice of the Peace, 1761-65.

Ichabod Babcock, Jr., married, May 17, 1756, his cousin, Esther, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Champlin) Stanton, an account of whose ancestry follows ; and their second surviving child, Lucy Babcock, born April 28, 1760, became wife of Peleg Hoxie, before mentioned. Ichabod Babcock, her father, died at Westerly, Rhode Island, August 22, 1801.

The Stanton family, from which Esther (Stanton) Babcock descended, was one of the most prominent in New England. A writer whose investigations have

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covered the Colonial and State histories of New England, says of it: "It is worthy of note, that from the Pequot War in 1636, to the Civil War of 1861- 1865, there was no Colonial nor National War, in which this Stanton family was not represented among its country's defenders."

THOMAS STANTON, EsQ., of Woolverton, county Warwick, England, born 1595, married Katharine, daughter of Walter Washington, of Radway, county War- wick, by his wife Alice, daughter of John Morden. This Walter Washington was a brother of Lawrence Washington, the great-great-great-grandfather of President George Washington, both being sons of Robert Washington, born 1543.

THOMAS STANTON, son of Thomas and Katharine ( Washington) Stanton, born 1616 ("Aet. 3, 1619"), obtained a passport to Virginia, and, January 2, 1635-36, embarked for that Province, at London, on board the "Bonaventura," and soon after landing in Virginia, left there for Boston, where we find him before the close of 1636. He served in the Pequot War, having borne the instructions of the Massachusetts government to Winthrop, at Fort Saybrook, Connecticut. In 1637 he removed to Hartford, Connecticut, where he married Ann, born 1671, died 1688, daughter of Dr. Thomas Lord, who with his wife Dorothy, whom he had married in England, 1610, came to New England, in the "Elizabeth and Ann," arriving April 29, 1635. Dr. Thomas Lord was the first medical licentiate in the New England Colonies, the "Courte att Hartford, 30th June 1652," having granted him the following license :

"Thomas Lord having engaged to this Courte to continue his abode in Hartford for the ensueing yeare and to improve his best skill amongst the inhabitants of the toune uppon the River within this jurisdiction, both for setting of bones and otherwise at all times, occasions and necessityes may or shall require: this Courte doth grant that hee bee paid by the Coun- tey the summ of fifteen poundes for the said ensueing yeare and they doe declare that every visit or journey that hee shall take or make, being sent for, to any house in Hartford twelve pence is reasonable : to any house in Wyndsor, five shillings : to any house in ffarmington, six shillings : to any house in Mattabeseck, eight shillings (hee liaveing promised that hee will require no more); and that hee shall bee freed for the time aforesaid from watching, warding and training; but not from finding armes, according to Lawe."

Dorothy Lord died 1676, aged eighty-seven years; she sealed her will with the arms of the Lord, alias Laward, family, described as follows: "Or. on a fesse gu. between three cinque foils az. a hind pass between two pheons or."

In 1650 Thomas Stanton established a trading-post at Stonington, Connecticut ; his family, however, resided at New London, Connecticut, removing later to Stonington, where he died December 2, 1677. His wife Ann died 1688. They were parents of eight children, the fifth of whom was,

JOSEPH STANTON, born 1646, died 1714, (baptized at Hartford, March 21, 1646). He was appointed Assistant Magistrate of Stonington 1669, and held court there with his father and at New London. He served as Indian interpreter in the treaty between the English settlers and the Narragansett Indians after the close of King Philip's War, being described in the ancient records as "Joseph Stanton of Squanicut, (Westerly, Rhode Island), Narragansett county, King's Province," etc. He married (first), June 19, 1673, Hannah, daughter of William Mead, of Roxbury, Massachusetts, whose will, made at Roxbury, 1683, gave one- half his estate to his wife and one-half to Joseph Stanton, the latter being charged however with twenty pounds for clothing supplied to Hannah Stanton, daughter of the testator, during her lifetime. Hannah (Mead) Stanton died 1676, leaving

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two children : Joseph, of whom presently ; and Hannah, who married, November 13, 1695, James Yorke, of Westerly, Rhode Island.

Joseph Stanton married (second), August 23, 1677, Hannah Lord, of Hartford. buried May 6, 1681. She left issue: Thomas, who died young; and Rebecca, born April, 1681 ; married Joseph Babcock. Joseph Stanton married a third time and had three children: Thomas, Daniel and Samuel.

JOSEPH STANTON, son of Joseph and Hannah ( Mead) Stanton, born 1674. married January 3, 1705, Esther, daughter of Benadam and Esther ( Prentice ) Gallup, whose ancestry is hereinafter given, and located at Westerly, Rhode Island, where he was a Justice, 1719. They had several daughters and one son, viz :-

COL. JOSEPH STANTON, born at Westerly, Rhode Island, April 23, 1717, was Captain in Provincial forces of Rhode Island during the French and Indian War. and assisted in the capture of Louisburg, 1748; later acquiring rank of Colonel. He married, Angust 9, 1738, Mary, daughter of William, and great-granddaughter of Capt. William Champlin, before mentioned, born July 13, 1722, died 1750. They had nine children, the second of whom was,

ESTHER STANTON, born November 28, 1741, who married, March 17, 1756, Ichabod Babcock, before mentioned, and their daughter, Lucy Babcock, married July 1, 1777, Peleg Hoxie.

The ancestry of Esther (Gallup) Stanton is as follows :-

CAPT. JOHN GALLUP was one of the most intrepid mariners of the New England coast. He it was who discovered and avenged the murder of his friend and associate, Capt. John Oldham, by the Narragansett Indians at Block Island, July 20, 1636. Capt. Oldham had put into Block Island with his vessel to trade with the Indans there, and was brutally murdered. His murderers, more than a score of Pequot Indians; with the body of their victim secreted in the hold, put to sea in his vessel, but on leaving the island encountered Capt. Gallup in his little vessel with two of his sons and a seaman, coming to Block Island on a like trading expe- dition. Notwithstanding the Indians greatly outnumbered his little force, Capt. Gallup fearlessly attacked the pirates, and finally captured the vessel after slaying or driving overboard the greater part of the Indians.

Capt. John Gallup died 1649. His widow Christobel survived him until Octo- ber, 1655. The will of Capt. John Gallup, of Boston, "Merchant," dated Iomo. 20, 1649, mentions houses and lands in Boston with liberty of wharfage and the "Island called by the name of Gallup's Island;" devises to his son John, a "new shallop ;" mentions his daughter Joane Joy and her sons John and Joseph, and his two younger sons, Samuel and Nathaniel. The inventory of his estate was made Iomo. 26, 1649. The will of his widow, Christobel, 1655, names the same chil- dren, and also Hannah, wife of son, John.

CAPT. JOHN GALLUP, JR., eldest son of Capt. John and Christobel Gallup, was associated with his father in his trading operations at Boston, at a very early age, accompanying him in his trading expeditions with the Indians and at the other ports of New England. He had a grant of land at Mistick, 1653, "in con- sideration and with respect unto the services his father hath done for the coun- trey." He was killed in the "Great-Swamp" fight in the Narragansett country. December 19, 1675, while serving as Captain of a Connecticut Company, against

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the Indians; having been a resident of Stonington, Connecticut, for some years prior to his death.

Capt. John Gallup, Jr., married, 1643, Hannah, daughter of John Lake, of Erby, Lincolnshire, England, by his wife Margaret, daughter of Col. Edmund Read, of Wickford, Essex. Her ancestry traced back twenty-three generations is as follows :-

Louis IV, King of France, married Princess Gerberga, daughter of Henry the Fowler, Emperor of the Germans.

Charles, Duke of Lorraine, eldest son, excluded from the throne of France; married (second) Lady Agnes, daughter of Henry, Count de Verman dois and Troyes, by his wife, Princess Edgina, granddaughter of Alfred the Great, King of England, and had

Lady Gerberga, who married Lambert of Lorraine, first Count de Mores.

Lambert III, Count de Mores, married Ode, daughter of Gothelon, Count of Lorraine, and had

Henry II, Count of Lorraine.

Godfrey, Duke of Lorraine, Brabant and Lother, married Lady Ida, daughter of Albert, third Count de Namur, and had

Countess Adelicia, the "Fair Maid of Brabant," second wife and widow of Henry I, King of England, who married (second), William d'Albini, Earl of Sussex and Arundel, Lord of Buckingham (died 1176), and had

William d'Albini, second Earl of Arundel and Sussex, died 1222; who married Lady Maud, daughter of James de Saucto Sidonio (St. Hilary), and widow of Roger, Earl of Clare, and had

Lady Mabel d'Albini, who married Robert, Baron of Tatishill, and had

Robert de Tattishill, Lord of Buckingham, who married Lady Joan, daughter of Ralph Fitz-Randolph, and had

Lady Joan Tattishill, who married Hugh de Cayley, (Caley or Cailley) of Owlry, Norfolk, and had

William de Cayley, of Normanstown, who had

Jeanette de Cayley, who married John Lake, of Normanstown, Yorkshire, and had

John Lake, of Normanstown, who had

Launcelot Lake, of Normanstown, who married Margaret, daughter of Henry Twisloton, of Cryde-Cynge Park, and had

John Lake, of Normanstown, who married Catharine, daughter of John Pake, of Wakefield, Yorkshire, and had

Launcelot Lake, of Normanstown, who married Emma, daughter of Robert Northend, of Halifax, Yorkshire, and had

John Lake, of Erby, Lincolnshire, who married Osgarby, and had

Richard Lake, of Erby, who married Anne Morelly, of Claxby, Lincolnshire, and had

John Lake, of Erby (half-brother to Sir Edward Lake, Bart., Chancellor of Lincolnshire ; and of Thomas Lake, grandfather of Sir Bibye Lake, second Bart.). who married Margaret, daughter of Col. Edmund Read, of Wickford, county Essex, and had

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Hannah Lake, above named, who married Capt. John Gallup, Jr., of Stoning- ton, Connecticut, U. S. A., and had among others,

Ben-Adam Gallup, born at Stonington, Connecticut, 1655, died there August 2, 1727; who married Esther, daughter of Capt. John and Esther Prentice, of New London ; and granddaughter of Valentine and Alice Prentice, of Roxbury, Massa- chusetts ; and had

Esther Gallup, born at Stonington, Connecticut, November 1, 1685, who mar- ried Joseph Stanton, above mentioned.

Valentine Prentice, with wife Alice, came to Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1631, and became members of Roxbury Church, 1632. Valentine was made a Freeman August 7, 1632, and died 1633.

Capt. John Prentice, son of Valentine and Alice, born in England, came to Roxbury, Massachusetts, with his parents, 1631; removed to New London, Connecticut, 1652 ; and seven years later to Jourdan's Cove ; followed the sea, was third commander of the ship "New London," 70 tons, employed in the European trade, and was Deputy to General Assembly of Connecticut, 1668. He died 1691, and his wife Esther died 1679.

BAKER FAMILY.

August Becker, of the little village of Bonnheim, Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt, was born in 1621, died February 25, 1676. He married, February 24, 1650, Bar- bara Nuss, and had one son, Johann Joachim Becker, born March 24, 1657, died December 2, 1737, who married (first), September 27, 1687, Anna Chartas Hohlloston, of the city of Worms, who died November 30, 1701, leaving two sons, Paulus, born 1689, and Johan Christopher, born 1692. Johann Joachim Becker married (second), April 24, 1703, Susanna Helfrich, by whom he had nine chil- dren, the second of whom was,

JOHANN HILARIUS BECKER, born February 25, 1705. He received a liberal education in his native country, and is supposed to have been employed for some years there as a teacher of youth. He married at Bonnheim, September 19, 1741, Catharine Reinke, and on the records of the Bonnheim Lutheran Church appears the birth record of six of their children, the last on September 30, 1753; another child was born to them at Germantown, Philadelphia, July 27, 1756. Sometime between these dates the family emigrated to Pennsylvania, and when the Germantown Academy was projected in 1760, he had for some years been con- ducting a German school in Germantown. On January 8, 1761, the "Union School House," later Germantown Academy, having become an established fact, the minutes of the trustees recite that "Hilarius Becker who has for some time past kept a German school in Germantown to general satisfaction, being proposed to be the German Schoolmaster at the Union School House: He being willing to undertake the same, and being a capable person for said undertaking, and well approved by his employers and the Trustees present, it was agreed that he be the German Schoolmaster at the School House and that he be permitted to reside in one of the dwelling houses and to move thereto on the first of April next, or as soon as the same may be ready for him." He continued to fill the position of head-master of the German department of the School, until the time of the Revo- lutionary war. On August 12, 1777, the minutes record that he informed the trustees that an officer of the American Army had called on him and informed him that he had orders to bring and lodge some of the sick soldiers from Gen. Washington's Army in the School House, the next day. The trustees protesting, permission was obtained to lodge the sick soldiers in the Poor House of German- town, and the German schoolmaster was left in charge of his flock for six weeks more, when on September 25, 1777, the British entered Germantown, and October 4, 1777, the battle of Germantown was fought.

It is probable that the wife of Hilarius Becker had died before this date, and some of his children being settled in Philadelphia, when so rudely disturbed in his peaceful pursuit, he removed to that city, and there resided until his death, June 23, 1783. He was buried in the Burying Ground at Sixth and Race streets, and when that little graveyard was razed and formed into Franklin Square, the graves were levelled and the bones of thousands of those buried there were allowed to remain undisturbed, the tomhstones being laid horizontally and buried under several feet of earth.

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Of the seven children of Johan Hilarius and Catharine ( Reinke) Becker, or Baker, as the name now came to be spelled, three appear to have died in infancy, as we have no further record of them. The eldest child Anna Catharine, born at Bonnheim, August 10, 1742, died in Philadelphia, April 16, 1823; she became the second wife of Jacob Ehrenzeller, of Philadelphia, who died October 27, 1798. of yellow fever, as did their surviving children in the same year. Of Hilary Baker, the next surviving child, a fuller account will be given below.

JOHANN CHRISTOPHER BAKER, fourth child, born at Bonnheim, July 9, 1748, died in Philadelphia, August 5, 1795. He was a conveyancer with office at the corner of Second and Vine streets, and was secretary of the German Society of Philadelphia, 1785-6. He married, June 21, 1774, Katharine Kreider, sister to "Polly" Krieder, wife of his brother Hilary. She died June 18, 1795, aged forty- one years. All their children removed to New Orleans early in life.

GEORGE ADAM BAKER, (the only American born child), born at Germantown. July 27, 1756, entered the American Army at the outbreak of the Revolution, and was in the battles of Brandywine. Germantown and Monmouth. He was appointed Quartermaster in Col. Clement Biddle's Battalion, and Gen. Edward Hand's brigade, and served later in the Commissary General's department. At the battle of Princeton he was Lieutenant of a Rifle Company. In 1786 he engaged in mercantile business at Arch Street Ferry, and later was a conveyancer. residing at the northeast corner of Fourth and Cherry streets. He was a mem- ber of Common Council, 1801-03; City Treasurer 1803-13; became vice-president of the German Society of Philadelphia, 1801, and in 1808 was advanced to the presidency, which position he held at the time of his death, December 8, 1816. George Adam Baker married Anna Catharine Klink, and they had four sons and three daughters. One of the sons, John Christopher Baker, was a midshipman on the "Wasp" in War of 1812, and was badly wounded when that vessel cap- tured the British ship "Frolic." One daughter, Susanna Louisa Baker, born 1796, married, July 7, 1821, Charles Stockton Gaunt, of Philadelphia, afterwards a Commodore in the United States Navy, and another, Anna Maria, born Septem- ber 24, 1787, married George William Bartram, son of John Bartram, the eminent botanist.

HILARIUS BAKER, third child of the German Schoolmaster, generally known as Hilary Baker, was born at the ancestral home of his family in Bonnheim, Hesse-Darmstadt, February 21, 1746, and accompanied his parents to Pennsyl- vania, when a lad of eight or nine years. He was educated under his father at the Germantown Academy, and at the close of his school days became a clerk in the prominent mercantile house of Drinker & Company, and remained in their employ for several years. Sometime prior to the Revolutionary War, however, he engaged in the hardware business on Dock street, Philadelphia, and was the agent of or interested in the iron forge near Valley Forge, from which the historic encamp- ment of Washington's Army took its name. Tradition relates that he made almost daily trips to this forge from the city during the winter of 1777-78, and that his gig was provided with a false bottom, in which he carried despatches of import- ance to Gen. Washington, with whom he was on terms of intimacy. He later car- ried on business at No. 82 High (now Market) street, dealing in iron, oil, tar, liquors, wines, groceries, etc. He was appointed Clerk of Quarter Sessions for the County of Philadelphia, August 19, 1777, and February 4, 1779. was named

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as official interpreter of German for the several courts of the city, and on the same day was commissioned a Notary Public for the state, and it was before him that most of the Philadelphians took the Oath of Allegiance prescribed by the Act of Assembly of June 13, 1777. He was "Clerk" of Capt. Joseph Watkin's first company, Philadelphia City Artillery, Col. Marsh, being appointed or enlisted August 10, 1780. He was one of the signers of a petition to the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1785, for the enactment of legislation to encourage the production of bar-iron. He was an Alderman of Philadelphia from 1789 to 1798, was a clelegate to the State Convention of 1787 and the Constitutional Convention of 1789-90, and took an active part in the framing of the Constitution of Pennsyl- vania. He was elected Mayor of Philadelphia, 1796, re-elected 1797, and died while filling that office, September 25, 1798, from yellow fever contracted in the conscientious discharge of his duties when most of the Philadelphians who could do so had fled from the city. He was universally lamented by all who knew him, and many of the obituary notices published at the time of his death were highly eulogistic. Among these was a poem written by Hon. Alexander Dallas, published in the city papers of the time.

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Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 97

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed Publication date: 1911 Publisher: New York : Lewis Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 978

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York : Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 978