General Notes

Jemima was born in 1743 and died in 1805; her husband Seth Babbitt was born in 1741 in Berkley, Massachusetts, and died in Mendham, New Jersey, in 1804. When they moved to New Jersey, he was 30 years old and already married. Savage reports a John Lindsley (or Linsley) was in Guilford, Connecticut, in 1650 and in Branford in 1667. The location of this family would strongly suggest a relationship. Atwater identified a John and a Francis Lindsley who came to Banford, Connecticut, from London, Francis later moving with his wife and three daughters to Newark in 1666. A John Lindsley died in 1698; it seems likely this is the John identified by Savage and Atwater, and the most viable lead. Another John Lindsley was born in 1703 in this line, a possibility as Jemima's father or grandfather.