George Badcock - Immigrant, Indentured Servant, Land Owner
8th great-grandfather of Ruth Ann Bradley
Okay, let's deal with the name spelling right away. The initial immigrants in this family spelled and pronounced the family name as Badcock, but around the time of the Revolutionary war, most family members were using the name Babcock instead. As this person was born in 1608, he used the spelling Badcock.
George was born in England in 1608. There is some confusion in the genealogy community about who his parents were, but DNA is being used to test the descendants, which over time, will straighten out who begat whom. There were three Badcock men who appear in the colony records, George, Robert, and James, and it was always assumed that they were brothers, but DNA studies of their descendants have proven that George and Robert were brothers, but James, an early settler of Rhode Island, was not.
George immigrated to the New Haven Colony in about 1638. The first mention of him is a record in 1640 confirming his status as an indentured servant to the colony Governor, Theophilus Eaton. It was not an uncommon arrangement - men indentured themselves for a period of six years to be able to pay for passage.
The next record is also from the New Haven Colony, in a ruling in 1642 that Jervas Boykin is ordered to pay George Badcock 20 shillings for using his canoe without permission.
By 1646, George is living in Dorchester, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It's worth noting that although Dorchester is now a part of Boston, at this time in history the two towns were separated by water.
In 1656, George is named supervisor for highways in Dorchester. His brother Robert is also a resident of Dorchester during this time. In 1661, George is fined one pound for killing a wolf.
In 1665, George was deeded about one hundred acres of upland in the town of Milton by Richard Mather, leader of the Church in Dorchester, when the town of Milton was split from Dorchester.
In 1669, George purchased land in Milton from Edward Gray, That part of Milton was beginning to be called the Town of Dartmouth.
George married Mary Shepherd some time around 1647. They had eleven children:
Mary b. 1647
Benjamin b. 1649
Dorothy b. 1651
Return b. 1653
Enoch b. 1655
George b. 1657 died in childhood
Rachel b. 1660
Leah b. 1662
George (2) b. 1665
Samuel b. 1668
Joseph, b. 1670
George died in September 1671. Among the bequests, he provides for his wife Mary and the raising of the children still at home. He gives land in Milton and Dorchester to his son Benjamin. Return receives a mill located in Dartmouth. George receives land in Dartmouth, and Joseph receives land located in "the Rocks of Dartmouth".
Bonus fact: George Badcock's brother Robert had a daughter, Elizabeth Babcock, who married Henry Vose, a 5th great-grandfather of Edward Elihu Hazen Jr.
George Badcock > Benjamin Badcock > William Babcock > William Babcock > Reuben Babcock > James Babcock > John M. Babcock > Charles Sydney Babcock > Jesse Louise Babcock > Charles Stuart Bradly > Ruth Ann Bradley
George Badcock is on the second ring from the outside, green area, at the bottom edge of the top chart. James Babcock, the center of the top chart, is in the second ring from the outside, blue section, nearest the green section in the bottom chart.
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