Miss Mary Ellen Phillips, d/o John Phillips and Olive Babcock
Source: Lineage Book, National Society Of The Daughters of the American Revolution, Volume XXX, 1899;
Pg. 59
MISS MARY ELLEN PHILLIPS29172
Born in Exeter, New York.
Descendant of Corp. Jonas Babcock.
Daughter of John Phillips and Olive Babcock, his wife.
Granddaughter of Jonas Babcock and Elizabeth Chester, his second wife.
Jonas Babcock, (1764-1847), enlisted from Berkshire county, Mass., at seventeen, and 1832, applied for a pension in Otsego Co., N.Y. It was allowed for service as corporal, Massachusetts militia. He was born in Peru, Mass.; died in Westford, N.Y.