GENEALOGY OF THE BABCOCK FAMILY - of South Jersey (NJ)
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Source: The Daily Union history of Atlantic City and County, New Jersey : containing 
sketches of the past and present of Atlantic City and county, with maps and 
illustrations specially prepared, by John F. Hall; Atlantic City, N.J.: Daily Union, 
1900


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BABCOCK FAMILY
For many years the Babcock family has been one of the best known in Atlantic County. The house is still standing 
close to the bank of Great Egg Harbor River where Joseph Babcock and Esther Giberson reared a family of twelve 
children. She was born in the year 1800 and he was a few years her senior. There home was near Catawba, then 
quite a promising town of a dozen houses, a blacksmith shop, store, church, and other buildings where now only 
a weather-worn chapel stands in a second growth of woodland.

Just above Catawba was Thompsontown, where was a school house, several fine farms and large peach orchards 
and a distillery where peach brandy was made. Joseph Babcock was a farmer and dealer in wood and timber, kept 
a store, employed men and teams lumbering before forest fires had denuded the valuable areas. In his own vessels
he carried to New York wood, charcoal and lumber to exchange for supplies and for years was prosperous. 
After his death about 1850, the widow became the second wife of Absalom Cordery, Sr., of Absecon, where 
she passed the last years of her life, dying about 1864.

The several sons early became familiar with the business of their father and most of them accumulated fortunes
 as seafaring men.
 
The Babcock children were:
1. Jonathan, married Aner Boice. They had three children, Peter and Laura and Emily, late wife of Peter Reed of Absecon
2. Job, married Anna E. Cordery, of Absecon, both deceased.
3, Hannah, who married Irving Lee, who for twenty years was the miller of the famous old grist mill at Bargaintown. 
They moved to Atlantic City in 1864 to reside permanently. He died March 2, 1900. They had eight children, four of
whom are living: Joseph, who lives in Washington, D. C.; William, at Absecon; Mrs. Joseph G. Reed, at Ocean Grove, 
N. J., and Mrs. William, Ridgeway, of Atlantic city. John was lost at sea about 1876. Reuban died in Baltimore in 1895.
Job died in Philadelphia in 1893, and Ella died when quite young, from the result of an accident.
4. Amy married Aaron Frambes. Both are deceased. They had four children: Esther, wife of Steelman Tilton; Maggie,
 wife of Jonathan Joslyn; John B. and Corena, wife of Titon Boice.
5. John married Harriet Steelman. Both are deceased. They had one child, Mrs. Deborah Tuen of Somer’s Point.
6, Joseph W. married Mrs. Hannah Smith, nee Hickman and lives in English Creek. Their only child, Frank Babcock was 
lost at sea in 1898.
7. Reuban married Elizabeth, daughter of the late Enoch Cordery , of Absecon, where they reside.
8. Esther married Baker Doughty. They live at Absecon and have three children: Baker, who married Ella Ireland; 
Joanna and Fraley, who is a member of the Board of Chosen Freeholders.
9. Sarah married Capt. Samuel Price, who died in 1878. They had five children: Louella, Emma, who married Albert Newman; 
Hettie, who married Horace Newman; William and Fred. The last two are deceased.
10. Abel married Lida, daughter of the late Felix Leeds. They live at Absecon and have two children; 
Charlotte and Reuban, Jr.
11. Almira married first Richard Garwood and lived at Bargaintown. They had five children: William, who married 
Lenora Steelman; Aura, who married Somers Leeds; Charles, who married Mabel Potter; Margaret, who married Robert Race, 
and Richard who married Maggie Boice. Almira married second, Isaac Collins, and lives at Smith’s Landing.
12. Lewis married Annie, daughter of the late Absalom Doughty, of Absecon and lived at Haddonfield 
at the time of his death. They had three children: Walter, Mary and Lewis, Jr.

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