There is one more family worth considering as part of the Babcocks that might be closely related to Daniel S. Babcock, or at least relatively closely related, if that makes sense.

That’s because John Babcock and Elizabeth Fredericks (based on the 87year old Eleanor Fredericks living with (grandchild?) Eliza Babcock in 1850, Manchester Township, NJ) are part of the extended Daniel S. Babcock FAN club through their ties to Ringwood and Paterson, New Jersey and the to Hisor/Hyzer family, also in New Jersey.

Not much is known about John Babcock and Elizabeth, let’s call her Fredericks, for now.

Death records for a Samuel Babcock and Mary Merrigold name John and Elizabeth as their parents. In fact, Mary’s death record in Massachusetts (You gotta love Massachusetts record keeping!!!) states her mother was Elizabeth Fredericks.

With no stated relationships in the 1850 census, assumptions need to be made to form a theory. In this case, my starting hypothesis is that John and Elizabeth (Fredericks) Babcock both died before the 1850 census and that Elenor Fredericks is the grandmother of Eliza, Ellen and John Babcock.

The FamilySearch family tree has John and Elizabeth in it, but someone erred in filling in vital dates for John Babcock. They’ve entered the birth and death dates foe John’s son, Samuel Babcock, born c1816 and died on 4 February 1863.

Using Elenor Fredericks’ stated age in 1850, so born c1768, let’s say that Elizabeth Fredericks was born c1790 and that John Babcock, her husband, was born c1788.

From this starting point, we can begin to create the family unit.

John Babcock was born c1788 and died before 1850. He married Elizabeth Fredericks, c1811, perhaps in New Jersey since Elenor Fredericks’ census enumeration places her birth in New Jersey.

However, I believe that Eliza and Ellen and John Babcock were also children of John and Elizabeth (Fredericks) Babcock, so I will place them in the family based on prponderance of evidence.

Children:

1. Mary, born c1816, Ringwood, Passaic, New Jersey (per her Massachusetts death certificate); died 21 May 1899, Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts; married Robert Merrigold, c1836, probably in Passaic County, New Jersey. They lived in Paterson, New Jersey at the time of the 1850 census.
2. Samuel, born c1819, New York; died 4 February 1863, Paterson, Passaic, New Jersey; married Hannah (MNU), born c1819, Pennsylvania, c1839, probably in New York
3. Eliza, born c1820, New Jersey; died 2 April 1889, Paterson Passaic, new Jersey; married James Hinchman, 3 November 1852, Paterson, Passaic, New Jersey
4. Ellen, born c1822, New Jersey; died 15 January 1889, Paterson, Passaic, New Jersey; unmarried
5. Catherine, born c1828, New Jersey; died after 1900, when she and John Stagg lived in Paterson, New Jersey; married (1) Mr. Noble/Knobel and had one son, Charles Noble, born c1846 (2) John W. Stagg, between 1850-1850. In 1860, Ellen Babcock lived with the family.
6. John, born c1827, New Jersey

Samuel and Hannah had three children at home in 1850:

1. Ann E., born July 1839, New York; died after 1910, possibly in Englewood, Bergen, New Jersey for that census; married George E. Cooper, 18 July 1866, Paterson, Passaic, New Jersey
2. George, born c1841, New York; married Abbie Hisor, 10 March 1864, Paterson, Passaic, New Jersey
3. Sarah, born c1849, New Jersey; possibly the Sarah Babcock, born c1848 who died 20 July 1881, Paterson, Passaic, New Jersey, unmarried

The ties that bind here include the fact that Abbie Hisor was the younger sister of Sarah Hisor who married John Turner in Wayne, Passaic, New Jersey. John and Sarah Turner were the parents of Harriet Turner, who married Charles G. Babock, son of Daniel S. and Eliza Babcock.

Abbie and Sarah Hisor were children of John Hisor and Sally Hinchman of Wayne, Passaic, New Jersey. Abbie (Hisor) Babcock died in 1867 and her grandmother, Sally, was buried with her when she died in 1872. They share an original gravestone.

There are too many coincidences I’ve documented in these particular Babcock lines for them not to be fairly closely related.

At this point, not one piece of conflicting evidence has appeared to disrupt my hypothesis about the structure of this branch of the Babcock family.

Warning to all, though: This is STILL JUST a THEORY. Please don’t copy and paste it into online trees! This is a work in progress.

I’m going to take this one step further to see if I can identify the earliest generation of Babcocks that might connect to this family. They may well have lived in Rockland County, New York, which was formed from Orange County, New York in 1798.