Born in Boston, Massachusetts
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Daughter of Adam Babcock
and Martha (Hubbard) Babcock
Sister of
William Smith Babcock [half], Eliza (Babcock) Ingersol, Martha Hubbard (Babcock) Higginson, Henry Babcock, Francis Babcock and Louisa Babcock
Wife of
John Gore
— married
1 Jun 1802 in Boston, Massachusetts
Mother of
Eliza Ingersoll (Gore) Greenough
Died
at age 54
in Paris, France
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Biography
Mary Green Babcock was born in July 1782. She was the daughter of Adam Babcock and his second wife, Martha Hubbard.[1] She was baptized in Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts, on 24 August 1782.[2]
She married John Gore in Boston on 1 June 1802.[3] Two children were born to their marriage:[4]
- John Christopher Gore
- Eliza Ingersoll Gore; baptized at Trinity Church in Boston on 13 September 1812;[5] known as Louisa; married to Horace Greenough, sculptor.
After John Gore's death in 1817, Mary married a Mr. Russell as her second husband.[6]
A portrait of Mary (Babcock) Gore, painted in about 1815 by American artist Gilbert Stuart, is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.[7]
Boston Town Records list the death of Mary A. Green Russell, age 53, in Paris, France, on 9 September 1836.[8]
Sources
- ↑ Babcock, page 68
- ↑ Records of Trinity Church, Boston, page 70: "Mary Green Daughter of Adam Babcock by Martha Hubbard his wife. Sponsors Mr. Dan Hubbard and Wife Mrs. B. Greene."
- ↑ Records Relating to the Early History of Boston, Containing Boston Marriages from 1752 to 1809 (vol. 30), Boston, Municipal Printing Office, 1903. Online publication at AmericanAncestors.org,, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2006. page 106: John Gore & Mary Green Babcock, married by Rev. Samuel Parker, June 1, 1802.
- ↑ Whitmore, page 30
- ↑ Records of Trinity Church, Boston, page 148: "Eliza Ingersoll daughter of John Gore"
- ↑ Goddard
- ↑ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Artwork: Mrs. John Gore (Mary Babcock)
- ↑ Deaths and Interments in Boston, in Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook). Online record, Ancestry.com.
- Babcock, Stephen. Babcock Genealogy. Eaton & Mains, 1903. Accessed at The Internet Archive.
- Goddard, Julia. "The Goddard House". Proceedings of the Brookline Historical Society Annual Meeting, January 28, 1903, Brookline, Mass. Brookline Historical Society, 1903; republished electronically on the Brookline Historical Society website.
- The Records of the Trinity Church, Boston, 1728-1830. The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1982. Online publication by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, AmericanAncestors.org.
- Whitmore, W. H. The Genealogy of the Payne and Gore Families. Burt Franklin: Research and Source Works Series #131. Boston, Massachusetts: The Prince Society, 1875. Prince Society Publications, Volume 8A. Published online by Google Books.
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