Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameJob BABBITT Jr.
Birth Date5 Feb 1783
Birth PlacePequannock, Morris County, New Jersey
Death Date6 Jun 1850 Age: 67
Death PlaceFulton County, Illinois
Burial PlaceUnion Township, Fulton County, Illinois, Babbitt Cemetery
OccupationWar Of 1812 Soldier, Capt James Crothers Co., Of Inf., 3rd Reg., Ohio Militia
Spouses
Birth Date1785
Birth PlaceIreland
Death Date6 Dec 1864 Age: 79
Death PlaceFulton County, Illinois
Burial PlaceUnion Township, Fulton County, Illinois, Babbitt Cemetery
Family ID2160
ChildrenEleanore “Ellen” (1808-1892)
Notes for Job BABBITT Jr.
Job, a son of Job and Sarah Parkhurst Babbitt, married Nancy Menaugh 1 Sep 1801 in Washington Co., PA. He served in the war of 1812 as a private in Capt James Crothers Co., of Inf., 3rd Reg., Ohio Militia
Gravestone;Babbitt, Job h/o Nancy (Menaugh) d 6-6-1850 aged 67y5m 1d

Job Babbitt ... removed with his family to Indiana in a flat-boat in 1818, thence to Springfield, Ill., in 1829, and to Fulton Co. in 1830. Job Babbitt was one of the first pioneers of Union township, and helped carry the chain for General Stillman while the latter was surveying the State road from Farmington to Burlington in 1835.
In 1832 he, in company with the other members of the family and neighbors, left their log huts during the Black Hawk war and went to the Fort at Canton.
[History of Fulton County, Illinois; Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 885-886]

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