Luxe Baxzcock was the youngest son of Chief Justice Babcock, of Rhode Island ; he was born about 17388. He graduated at Yale College in 1755, "and afvudwabd commenced the study of divinity. In 1771, the Rev. Luke Babcock was recommended by the clergy of New-York, being lately ordained by the Bishop of London as a proper person for a Missionary, and Col. Philipse having requested that the mission of Philipsburgh, formerly filled by the Rev. Harry Munro, should be renewed, they accordingly appointed Rev. Luke Babcock to the mission. King's Coll. N. Y. conferred the degree of A. M, on him in 1774. On the breaking out of the revolution, his papers were examined, and because he -answered affirmatively tothe question, whether he considered himself bound by his oath of allegiance to the King; he was deemed an enemy: to the liberties of America, and- ordered to Hartford, where he was detained from October, 1776, to February, 1777. Under this treatment his health gave way, and he was ordered to remove within the lines of the King's army. ' He got home in a raging fever and delifious," and died on the 18th of February, 1777, extremely regretted. ' Indeed, (says Mr. Seabury) I know not a more excellent man, and I fear his loss, especially in that mission, will scarcely be made up." '"' He was not only (adds Mr. Inglis) exemplary in his life and assiduous in his pastoral duty, but distinguished by his steady loyalty and warm attachment to the constitution in Church and State." His remains w2re deposited i in the family vault of the Van Cortlandts. By his wife, Grace Isaucs, a cousin of Judge Isaacs of New-Haven, he