G2G: Amy (Babcock) Gibbs (1808 - 1862) Vermont and New York 19th Century

Question

Amy (Babcock) Gibbs was born in 1808 in Alburgh, Grand Isle, Vermont to Ichabod Babcock Jr. (1777 - 1821) and Sarah Garlick (Pike) Darrow (1787 - 1865) She married Samuel E. Gibbs January 10, 1825. Her sons all served together in the civil war except the eldest son Ichabod Gibbs (cause of death unknown) who died and his brother John C. Gibbs married his widow Mary Jane Race. We need more sources for her and any info about her in more depth than already obtained. She died during the civil war April 8, 1862 in Bangor, Franklin, New York. Any help is appreciated.

See F.A.G. Link

Note: she is mentioned in the Babcock genealogy book pg. 144

She descends from the Washington County Rhode Island Babcock lineage 

Thank you wikitree family

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Ichabod, my 5th cousin 6 times removed. Thanks

Answer 1

One ancestral line:  Amy is most likely a descendant of Private Ezra Pike,

Private Ezra Pike, born March 29, 1761 at New Marlborough, Berkshire, Massachusetts Bay, died April 14, 1840 in Isle La Motte, Grand Isle, Vermont,, and his wife Mary Garlick, born 28 Feb 1768 , are honored for service: 1) CAPTS TALLMADGE, SHEPHERD & SCHERMERHORN 2) COLS HOPKINS & VAN RENSSELAER^[1]

A second ancestral line for Amy:

Amy Gibbs is a descendant of Job Card, of Gloucester, Massachusetts, born 1721.  His father William Card died at sea in 1722. (See Card-358)

Job Card’s  daughter Amy Card, born @1744 married Ichabod Babcock, who served as a soldier in the American Revolution. Ichabod was born in Rhode Island and died in Alburgh, Grand Isle County, Vermont,, according to the Daughters of American Revolution records

Ichabod Babcock, a soldier, born @1745 in Kingston, South Kingstown, Kings County, Rhode Island, died April 30, 1813 in Alburgh, Grand Isle County, Vermont, and his wife Amy Card, born @1744, married @1765 , are honored for service:1) CAPT AMOS GREEN, COL JOSEPH NOYES, MILITIA^[2]

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Thank you so well put together!! Love it!

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Always looking for help on my Vermont Babcock David Joseph Babcock Sr. 1759 and his brother Robert Babock 1754- 1863..

Andrew has helped me prior and I appreciate the help. Wondered if Janine Barber had any information for them.

Answer 2

Amy might have been Anna

"Michigan Deaths and Burials, 1800-1995", database, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHDB-2FN : 16 January 2020), Anna Babcock in entry for Mary M. Jones, 1900.

https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/20384787?h=07012a&utm_campaign=bandido-webparts&utm_source=post-share-modal&utm_medium=copy-url

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Hi Marion,

Thank you

This is their daughter and have seen this source and it’s a good one. See Mercy Marie (Gibbs) Jones.  I know this family well as Amy is my 4th great grandmother. My brick wall starts at Jeremiah Gibbs (British Loyalist) my 5th as we are unsure of his parents. So I can go back to him after that it gets uncertain 

It’s possible Amy middle name is Anna or just a typo  

Amy was most likely named after her grandmother Amy (Card) Babcock (1757- abt. 1783. (ship captain families)

I was able to use this excellent source for Mercy Marie (Gibbs) Jones profile as it’s her death record. Thanks 

Answer 3

There are many records of the Babcocks in "Vermont, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005" at FamilySearch.org. They are not indexed, but the town books have indexes (sort of!) I know these books well; I have ancestors from Alburgh. Vols 1-3 cover town records from June 1792 to January 1807 with the exception of the first page, last 14 pages and a few inbetween, which are random records of cattle marks as late as 1824 and a few random land records from 1817-1818 at the end.

Example of index with many Babcocks listed: Grand Isle, Alburg, 1792-1824 Vol. 1-3, image 242 of 602. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89ML-XF59?i=241&cc=1987653

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Oh I didn’t know about this ! Maybe they will have info about Amy Babcock Gibbs and family

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I wish you luck! The books can be frustrating. I found I had to just go through them all page by page. Here's some advice: as you go, make your own index/list of everything you find. You'll want to refer back to it many times. Have patience; this will probably take you months!

I'm a bit hesitant to suggest a source for Gibbs, because it is also badly indexed and takes months to sort through... My Alburgh ancestors also lived in Caldwell Manor Quebec. I solved a brick wall because of the documents at Library and Archives Canada in the "Land Petitions of Lower Canada, 1764-1841." I see there are eleven items about Jeremiah Gibbs. (Each item usually has many pages of documents.) Have you ever done research in this collection?