Sylvia Belcher

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Sylvia Belcher||p100033.htm|Arnold Belcher|b. c 1715|p100066.htm|Elizabeth Champlin|b. 10 Jan 1719|p100067.htm|Benjamin Belcher|b. 20 Mar 1680/81\nd. bt 14 Apr 1716 - 7 May 1716|p100132.htm|Sarah Collins|b. 13 Aug 1690|p100133.htm|Christopher Champlin|b. 26 Sep 1684\nd. 23 Oct 1734|p100134.htm|Elizabeth Denison|b. 11 Sep 1689\nd. bt 19 Nov 1749 - 4 Dec 1749|p100135.htm|
Reference 3G Grm, B33
Charts Pedigree starting with Jack (representing the grandchildren) - incorporates the branches below - largest chart
Pedigree for Guilford Carlile Babcock Jr
Father* Arnold Belcher b. c 1715
Mother* Elizabeth Champlin b. 10 Jan 1719
Birth* Babcock Genealogy gives Sylvia's father as John, but nothing has ever been found to support that, and there are things to support Arnold being her father.
Belcher book says that Sylvestre and Elizabeth are "probable" children of Arnold.
Tretheway says "an exhaustive search in the probate and land records of Washington and Newport counties was made and no mention found of a John Belcher; there is reason to believe that the Babcock Genealogy is in error stating that Sylvia Babcock was the daughter of John Belcher." Tretheway goes on to say "A Champlin manuscript in the Newport Historical Society, compiled by Henry Denison Camplin, contains the following": (then summarized some Champlin info with the note that "the following were probably their children" and listing Sylvia and Elizabeth).
NEHGS Register also says "the following children were probably theirs."1,2,3,4 
She was the daughter of Arnold Belcher and Elizabeth Champlin. 
Story*Though she was commonly called Sylvia (Scilva in husband's will), She is called Silvester in her marriage record, Sylvestre in some Rhode Island printed records, and Silvester in the acceptance of the administration of her husband's will. Silvester is certainly an unusual name for a woman. For whom was she named? The answer is probably her paternal grandmother's sibling (whose sex is not on the birth record).2 
Marriage*2 July 1761Sylvia Belcher married Oliver Babcock (RevWar Patriot), son of Stephen Babcock and Anna/Hannah Thompson, on 2 July 1761 at Westerly, Washington Co., Rhode Island, per Tretheway who cites book 2 pg 442 of the original manuscript records in the office of the Westerly Town Clerk - "July ye 2d Day 1761. Then Oliver Babcock & Silvester Belcher, both of Westerly in Kings County were Lawfully Joined Together in Marriage by me Joseph Crandal, Justice Peace."
GET COPY - try here: Town meeting and vital records vol. 2-4 1706-1819 SLC 930813
VR of RI says: "3-77 Belcher, Silvestre, and Oliver Babcock, July 2, 1761."1,2,5 
Religion*between 13 February 1784 and 18 April 1787 Between 13 February 1784 and 18 April 1787 at Hill Church (aka Babcock Church, aka 2nd Baptist Church), Westerly, Washington Co., Rhode Island, Sylvia Belcher was She succeeded her husband as pastor on his death. She supplied the pulpit and cared for the church which met in her house until her husband's cousin Elkanah Babcock was ordained.4,6 
Death*She died at Westerly, Washington Co., Rhode Island. 

Family

 Oliver Babcock (RevWar Patriot) b. 27 Jul 1738, d. 13 Feb 1784
Children 1.John Babcock b. 6 Mar 1762, d. Oct 1782
 2.Elizabeth Babcock b. 29 Jan 1764
 3.Arnold Babcock+ b. 22 Dec 1765
 4.Joshua Babcock b. 8 Jan 1771
 5.Jason Babcock b. 7 Mar 1774
 6.Stephen Babcock+ b. 26 Jul 1777
 7.Oliver Babcock+7 b. 29 Mar 1780, d. 1 Apr 1828
 8.Anna Babcock b. 1782
Last Edited 20 Dec 2011

Citations

  1. [S161] The Belcher Families in New England, Joseph Gardner Bartlett , NEHGS: Boston, 1906, pg 15 Repository or Researcher: Lineages.
  2. [S162] Report by Alberta Tretheway of Boston (Genealogist) for William Keys Jr of NYC in 1938, establishing ancestry of Sylvia (Belcher) Babcock. Onion skin copy in possession of Gwen Babcock.
  3. [S200] NEHGS Register, 60:244 is the Belcher Families in New England.
  4. [S201] Babcock Genealogy, Stephen Babcock , Eaton & Mains: New York, 1903 http://www.archive.org/details/babcockgenealogy00babc
  5. [S164] Vital Record of Rhode Island 1636-1850, Naragansett Historical Publishing Co,, 1894 SLC 974.5 V2a, v.5 Westerly pg 10 Repository or Researcher: Lineages.
  6. [S343] Westerly (Rhode Island) and Its Witnesses, Frederic Denison : Providence RI, 1878 pgs 100-107 http://books.google.com/books?id=5cD8E2eSyCoC&pg=PA101&lpg=PA101&dq=%22Babcock+Church%22+Westerly&source=web&ots=DA0bn13sJu&sig=JpXrA-_6M7GiLUMnBb_fA14Bau4&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PPA1,M1, pgs 103-4.
  7. [S201] Babcock Genealogy, Stephen Babcock , Eaton & Mains: New York, 1903 http://www.archive.org/details/babcockgenealogy00babc, pg 136.
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