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from GREAT MIGRATION: ORIGIN: South Stoneham, Hampshire MIGRATION: 1632 on William and Francis [ WJ 1:93] FIRST RESIDENCE: Lynn REMOVES: Ipswich (supposedly) 1636, Yarmouth 1637/8, Newbury 1638,Hampton 1639, Portsmouth 1644 RETURN TRIPS: To England permanently by late 1650 or early 1651 OCCUPATION: Minister CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Member of Lynn, Newbury and Hampton churches duringhis ministry in those places (but see COMMENTS for furtherdiscussion). FREEMAN: 6 May 1635 [ MBCR 1:371]. EDUCATION: Matriculated about 1581 at Oxford from St. John's College,and received his B.A. 3 February 1585/6 [ Foster 1:53]. OFFICES: On 28 June 1641 at Saco four men were chosen as arbitratorsin a dispute between GEORGE CLEEVE and JOHN WINTER , and in case thosefour men could not agree, Stephen Bachiler was to be "an umpire forthe final ending of the said controversies" [ Trelawny Papers 269-72,319]. ESTATE: Many secondary sources state that Bachiler was granted fiftyacres at Ipswich in February 1636, but evidence of this has not beenfound in the town or colony records. On 6 July 1638 Bachiler wasgranted land at Newbury [Newbury Town Records]. "Steven Bachiler sometimes of Hampton" was granted seven parcels ofland at Hampton: nine and a half acres of upland for a houselot; fiveacres of upland added to the houselot; four acres of swampy ground;eleven acres of meadow; four acres of meadow; two hundred acres ofupland, meadow & marsh for a farm; and eight acres of upland in theEast Field [ NEHGR 46:160-61, citing Hampton town records]. On 20 April 1647 "Steven Bachiler late of Hampton in the County ofNorfolk in New England & now of Strabery Bank for ... love andaffection towards my four grandchildren John, Stephen & WilliamSamborn & Nathaniell Batchiller all now or lately of Hampton" deededto grandson John Samborne "all of my dwelling house & land or groundwhether arable, meadow & pasture or other ground with theirappurtenances together with all the buildings, commons, profits,privileges & immunities whatsoever to the same or any part thereofbelonging or in any wise appertaining, the greater part thereof beingnow or lately in the tenure, possession or occupation of the said JohnSamborn & other part thereof not yet particularly appointed by thetown &c. (excepting out of this grant the land with the appurtenanceswhich I formerly sold to William Howard & Thomas Ward)," said JohnSamborne to pay £20 apiece to each of the other three grandchildren[NHPLR 13:221]. BIRTH: About 1561 (aged 70, 23 June 1631 [ Waters 520]; aged 71, 5June 1632 [ WJ 1:93]; about 76, late March 1636/7 [ WJ 1:313]). DEATH: Buried 31 October 1656 at All Hallows Staining, London [ NHGR8:14-17]. MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1590 [Anne?] _____, who was closely related insome way to Reverend John Bate, Bachiler's successor as vicar ofWherwell [see COMMENTS]; she died sometime between about 1610 and1624. (Although this first wife's given name is stated to be "Anne" bymany authorities, there is no record evidence to support this.) (2) Abbots Ann, Hampshire, 2 March 1623/4 Christian Weare, widow [GDMNH 81]; she died before 26 March 1627. (3) Abbots Ann, Hampshire, 26 March 1627 Helena Mason, widow (ofReverend Thomas Mason) [ GDMNH 81]; she was aged 48 in 1631, so bornabout 1583 [ Waters 520]; died by 3 May 1647 [ WP 5:153]. (4) by 14 February 1648 Mary (_____) Beedle, widow of Robert Beedle [Kittery Hist 95-96]; she soon left her husband, and cohabited withGeorge Rogers at Kittery (see below). CHILDREN: With first wife i NATHANIEL, b. say 1590; m. (1) Hester Mercer or LeMercier [Batchelder Gen 110-15; NEHGR 27:368, 47:510-15]; m. (2) by 1645Margery _____ (on 9 April 1645 "Margerie Batchellor" the widow ofNathaniel Bacheler of Southampton, Hampshire, was grantedadministration on his estate [ PCC Admon. Act Book 1645, f. 22]); hedid not come to New England, but his son Nathaniel did, and resided atHampton. ii DEBORAH, b. about 1592 (aged 32, 22 June 1624 [ Waters 520]); m. by1611 John Wing [ Waters 519-20]; she and her children came to NewEngland in the late 1630s and resided at Sandwich. iii STEPHEN, b. about 1594; matriculated at Oxford 18 June 1610 fromMagdalen College, aged 16, son of a minister, from Southampton [i.e.,Hampshire] [ Foster 1:53]; "Stephen Bachiler of Edmund Hall" wasordained deacon at Oxford 19 September 1613 [Bishop's Register,Diocese of Oxford]; with his father, accused in 1614 of circulatingslanderous verses [see COMMENTS]; no further record. iv SAMUEL, b. say 1597; lived at Gorcum in Holland, where he was aminister, and had a wife and children. v ANN, b. about 1601 (aged 30 in 1631 [ Waters 520]); m. (1) by about1620 _____ Samborne; m. (2) Strood, Kent, 20 January 1631/2 HenryAtkinson. vi THEODATE, b. say 1610; m. by about 1635 CHRISTOPHER HUSSEY . ASSOCIATIONS: RICHARD DUMMER of Roxbury and Newbury married first JaneMason, a daughter of Reverend Thomas Mason, and resided late in hislife at North Stoneham, Hampshire; Stephen Bachiler married as histhird wife Helena Mason, widow of Reverend Thomas Mason, and residedjust before his departure for New England at South Stoneham,Hampshire. These marriages made Bachiler the step-father-in-law ofDummer, and explains their close connection in the activities of thePlough Company. COMMENTS: Stephen Bachiler led a most interesting life, filled withunusual twists and turns far beyond the norm. In the ensuingparagraphs we take a chronological tour of his nine decades,attempting along the way to resolve certain problems ofinterpretation. As noted above, Stephen Bachiler entered college about 1581, andreceived his B.A. in 1586. On 17 July 1587 he was presented as vicarof Wherwell, Hampshire, and remained at that parish until he wasejected in 1605 [ NEHGR 46:60-61, citing Winchester diocesan records].Bachiler began his long career of contrariety as early as 1593, whenhe was cited in Star Chamber for having "uttered in a sermon atNewbury very lewd speeches tending seditiously to the derogation ofher Majesty's government" [ NEHGR 74:319-20]. Upon the accession ofJames I as King of England, nearly a hundred ministers were deprivedof their benefices between the years 1604 and 1609, and among these,as noted above, was Stephen Bachiler [Kenneth Fincham, Prelate asPastor: The Episcopate of James I (Oxford 1990), p. 326]. Bachiler was living at Wherwell late in 1606 when he was a legatee inthe will of Henry Shipton [ NEHGR 74:320]. A case in Star Chamber in1614 still refers to Bachiler as of Wherwell, and adds much otheruseful information about the family. George Wighley, a minster andOxford graduate, accused Stephen Bachiler of Wherwell, clerk, StephenBachiler, his son, John Bate of Wherwell, clerk, and others oflibelling him, by means of verses ridiculing him. In the course of thecomplaint Wighley quotes John Bate as saying he would keep a copy ofthe poem "as a monument of his cousin's the said Stephen Bacheler theyounger his wit, who is in truth his cousin" [Star Chamber Proc. JamesI 297/25, 1614]. Another suit, this time in the Court of Requests, although not entereduntil 1639, bears directly on many points in Stephen Bachiler's lifein England, and will be treated here, out of chronological order. In1639 Henry Atkinson of London, gent., complained that five or sixyears before John Bate, gent., living in Holland, had borrowed £4 from"Samuel Bachiler late of Gorcem [i.e., Gorcum] in Holland aforesaidMinister," after which Bate instructed Bachiler to collect the debtfrom Dorcas Bate, mother of John, and widow of Reverend John Bate,minister, deceased. Bachiler assigned the debt to Atkinson, who hadmarried Bachiler's sister, and Atkinson was unable to collect the debtfrom Dorcas Bate. John Bate had also borrowed money from "NathaniellBachiler of Southampton Merchant (one other of the brothers of yoursubject's wife)" and this debt had also been assigned to Atkinson tocollect from Dorcas Bate. The latter was abetted in avoiding paymentof the debt by her son Gabriel Bate, and her son-in-law and daughterRobert and Anne Southwood. Atkinson noted that his wife's father[i.e., Reverend Stephen Bachiler] had obtained the living of Wherwellfor John Bate the father, and that the latter had refused to pay tothe former twenty marks a year out of the living or benefice, as hadbeen agreed [ PRO REQ2/678/64]. On 28 April 1614 Stephen Bachiler was a free suitor of Newton Staceyat the view of frankpledge of the Barton Stacey Manorial Court, andwas a free suitor of Barton Stacey at the court of 2 October 1615. On 19 February 1615[/6?] Edmund Alleyn of Hatfield Peverell, Essex,bequeathed £5 to "Mr. Bachelour," and Stephen Bachiler was one of thewitnesses [ Waters 518-19]. On 11 June 1621 Adam Winthrop, father ofGovernor JOHN WINTHROP , reported that "Mr. Bachelour the preacherdined with us" at Groton, Suffolk [ WP 1:235]. Although this mightconceivably be the younger Stephen Bachiler, who had been ordained asa deacon late in 1613, the man referred to in these records is morelikely the elder Stephen. Since he is well recorded as a resident ofNewton Stacey both before and after this time, he must have madeoccasional visits to East Anglia. The Hampshire feet of fines show that "Stephen Bachiler, clerk,"acquired land in Newton Stacey in 1622 and 1629, and sold it in 1630and 1631 [ Batchelder Gen 76-77]. While at Newton Stacey (a villagewithin the parish of Barton Stacey) Bachiler had managed to incite theparishioners of Barton Stacey to acts that came to the attention ofthe sheriff, who petitioned for redress to the King in Council; thecomplaint described Bachiler as "a notorious inconformist" [ NEHGR46:62, citing Domestic Calendar of State Papers, 1635]. In summary,while there are gaps in the English career of Bachiler, it wouldappear that he lived at Wherwell for most of the years from hisinduction there in 1587 until 1614, and that he then resided in NewtonStacey from 1614 until 1631, shortly before his departure for NewEngland. Bachiler apparently lived briefly at South Stoneham, Hampshire, afterdisposing of his land at Newton Stacey, for that is the residence hegave for himself and wife on 23 June 1631 when he was applying forpermission to travel to Flushing in Holland "to visit their sons anddaughters" [ Waters 520]. At about this same time Stephen Bachiler allied himself with a groupof London merchants to form the Plough Company, which had obtained agrant of land in the neighborhood of Saco. The Plough Company managedto send two groups of settlers to New England, in the Plough in 1631and the William & Francis in 1632, but they were never able to occupytheir patent, and the company soon failed. (For a full account of thisill-starred enterprise, see V.C. Sanborn, "Stephen Bachiler and thePlough Company of 1630," The Genealogist , New Series, 19[1903]:270-84, and the sources cited there.) Shortly after his arrival in New England in 1632, Stephen Bachilersettled at Saugus (later to be called Lynn), where he immediatelybegan to organize a church. Over the next four years Bachiler and aportion of his congregation were repeatedly at odds with the rest ofthe congregation and with the colony authorities, and by early 1636Bachiler had ceased to minister at Lynn [ GMN 1:20]. In addition to this ongoing conflict (which became a recurring featureof Bachiler's career in New England), two stories of dubious validityare associated with his stay at Lynn. First, a fictional diarydescribes at length Bachiler's physical appearance, to the extent ofinforming us that he had "an unseemly wen on the side of his nosewhich presses that member in an unshapely way"; this is just part ofthe imaginative invention of Obadiah Redpath (a pseudonym of James R.Newhall, whose non-fictional writings were not much more reliable)[Lin: or, Notable People and Notable Things in the Early History ofLynn ... (Lynn 1890, earlier editions of which carried the title Lin:or, Jewels of the Third Plantation), p. 65]. Second, this same source, and others, relate the following story: "Onthe first Sunday at Lynn, four children were baptized. Thomas Newhall,the first white child born in Lynn, was first presented. Mr. Bachilerput him aside, saying `I will baptize my own child first,' meaningStephen Hussey, his daughter's child, born the same week as ThomasNewhall" [ NEHGR 46:158]. There is, in the first place, nocontemporary evidence for this event. Then, in the brief list ofbaptisms apparently performed by Bachiler at Lynn, Newbury, and in hisearly days at Hampton, the earliest entry is for John Hussey, son ofChristopher and Theodate (Bachiler) Hussey, whereas if the above storywere true we would expect Stephen Hussey to be at the head of thislist. This story would seem to be a typical nineteenth-centurycreation. After his departure from Lynn, Bachiler is supposed to have resided inIpswich, and to have received a grant of land there in 1636 or 1637,but no contemporary evidence for this has been found. Bachiler's nextadventure occurred in the winter of 1637/8, for Winthrop tells us inhis journal, in an entry made in late March of that year, that"Another plantation was now in hand at Mattakeese [Yarmouth], sixmiles beyond Sandwich. The undertaker of this was one Mr. Batchellor,late pastor of Sagus, (since called Lynn), being about seventy-sixyears of age; yet he walked thither on foot in a very hard season. Heand his company, being all poor men, finding the difficulty, gave itover, and others undertook it" [ WJ 1:313]. Bachiler then resided for about a year at Newbury, where he received agrant of land on 6 July 1638. Bachiler also seems to have been able toorganize a church at Newbury (or to keep in existence the church thathe had earlier organized at Lynn). In a letter dated 26 February1643/4 the minister, recounting his various experiences in NewEngland, told how "the Lord shoved me thence [i.e., after his arrivalin 1632, and the failure of the Plough Company] by another calling toSagust, then, from Sagust to Newbury, then from Newbury to Hampton" [WP 4:447]. Later in 1644 Winthrop pointed out that "Mr. Batchellor hadbeen in three places before, and through his means, as was supposed,the churches fell to such divisions, as no peace could be till he wasremoved" [ WJ 2:216-17]. These records indicate that Bachiler headedchurches in three towns (Lynn, Newbury and Hampton), or possibly thatthe church organized in Lynn had a continuous existence as it moved toNewbury and then to Hampton [see GMN 4:20-21 for a more detaileddiscussion of these possibilities]. In the summer of 1639 Stephen Bachiler and some other families, manyof them from Newbury, began the settlement of Hampton, and Bachilerwas soon joined there by Reverend Timothy Dalton, who shared thepulpit with him. As had happened throughout his life, controversy soonarose. In 1641 Winthrop reported that Bachiler "being about 80 yearsof age, and having a lusty comely woman to his wife, did solicit thechastity of his neighbor's wife" [ WJ 2:53], and this led to an attackon him by Dalton and a large portion of the Hampton congregation.These charges were apparently not resolved at the time, but in 1643-4,when the town of Exeter invited Bachiler to be their minister, theaffair was raised again, and this was sufficient to prevent hisremoval to that church [ GMN 4:21-22]. At about this time Bachiler's ministry at Hampton ceased, and he soonmoved to Strawberry Bank [Portsmouth], where he remained until hisreturn to England. On 9 April 1650 at a Quarterly Court held at Salisbury, "Mr. StevenBacheller [was] fined for not publishing his marriage according tolaw." At the same court it was ordered "that Mr. Bacherler and Maryhis wife shall live together, as they publicly agreed to do, and ifeither desert the other, the marshal to take them to Boston to be keptuntil next quarter Court of Assistants, to consider a divorce.... Incase Mary Bacheller live out of this jurisdiction without mutualconsent for a time, notice of her absence to be given the magistratesat Boston" [ EQC 1:191]. On 15 October 1650 at a court at York "George Rodgers & Mrs.Batcheller [were] presented upon vehement suspicion of incontinencyfor living in one house together & lying in one room" [ MPCR 1:146].At a court at Piscataqua [i.e., Kittery] on 16 October 1651 the grandjury presented "George Rogers for, & Mary Batcheller the wife of Mr.Steven Bacheller minister for adultery"; George Rogers was to haveforty strokes, and Mary Bachiler "for her adultery shall receive 40strokes save one at the first town meeting held at Kittery six weeksafter the delivery & be branded with the letter A" [ MPCR 1:164]. Thischild born late in 1651 or early in 1652 was apparently the MaryBachiler who later married William Richards, and even though the DoverCourt on 26 March 1673 awarded him administration of the estate ofStephen Bachiler [ NHPP 40:287], she would not have been his daughter.(See MA Arch 9:28 and NHGR 8:14 for more on Bachiler's fourth wife.) Stephen Bachiler returned to England after these events, and mostsecondary sources claim that he made that trip in 1654 when hisgrandson Stephen Samborne returned to England. On 2 October 1650"Steven Bachiler" witnessed a deed between Christopher Hussey(grantor) and Steven Sanborn and Samuel Fogg (grantees) [ NLR 1:19];this is the last certain record of Bachiler in New England (unless the"Mr. Batchelder" who was presented at court on 28 June 1652 for beingillegally at the house of John Webster is our man [ NHPP 40:87-88]). Although a number of records in New England between 1651 and 1654mentioned Stephen Bachiler, none of them necessarily implies thatBachiler was still in New England, and a few indicate that he was notin close proximity to the courts in question. In a court held atHampton on 7 October 1651, Francis Pebodie sued Tho[mas] Bradbury for"issuing an illegal execution, for or in behalf of Mr. Batcheller,against the town of Hampton" [ EQC 1:236]. On 14 October 1651 theMassachusetts Bay General Court ordered that "in answer to a petitionpreferred by several of the inhabitants of Hampton, for relief inrespect of unjust molestation from some persons there pretending powerfor what they do from Mr. Batchelor, it is ordered, that whatsoevergoods or lands have been taken away from any of the inhabitants ofHampton, aforesaid, by Edward Calcord or Joh[n] Sanbourne, uponpretence of being authorized by Mr. Batchelor, either with or withoutexecution, shall be returned to them from whom it was taken, & theexecution to be called in, & no more to be granted until there appearsufficient power from Mr. Batchelor to recover the same, to the CountyCourts, either of Salsbury or Hampton" [ MBCR 3:253]. Apparently JohnSanborn and others were pursuing the interests of Stephen Bachiler inhis absence, but without a proper power of attorney. It might beargued that he was in Strawberry Bank [Portsmouth], but unable to cometo Hampton, but there is no indication that he was ill or unable totravel at any time in his long life, and the more likely explanationis that he was already in England by October of 1651. At a court heldat Hampton on 3 October 1654 "Mr. Batcheller's letter of attorney toMr. Christopher Hussie [was] approved" [ EQC 1:372]. Most secondary sources state that Bachiler died at Hackney in Englandin 1660, but more recent research has shown that Stephen Bachiler diedin London and was buried on 31 October 1656 [ NHGR 8:14-17]. Among many remarkable lives lived by early New Englanders, Bachiler'sis the most remarkable. From 1593, when he was cited before StarChamber, until 1654, when he last makes a mark on New England records,this man lived a completely independent and vigorous life, neveracceding to any authority when he thought he was correct. Along withNathaniel Ward of Ipswich, Stephen Bachiler was one of the few Puritanministers active in Elizabethan times to survive to come to NewEngland. As such he was a man out of his times, for Puritanism inElizabethan times was different from what it became in the followingcentury, and this disjunction may in part account for Bachiler'sstormy career in New England [Simon P. Newman, "Nathaniel Ward,1580-1652: An Elizabethan Puritan in a Jacobean World," EIHC127:313-26]. But Nathaniel Ward did not have anything like as muchtrouble, and most of Bachiler's conflicts may be ascribed to his ownunique character. Savage includes among the children of Stephen Bachiler sons Francisand Henry, for whom there is no evidence. These phantom sons derive inpart from a misinterpretation of a 1685 letter from Stephen Bachilerto Nathaniel Bachiler [ Batchelder Gen 110-11], which refers to "ourbrother Francis Bachlir." As the two correspondents are grandsons ofthe Reverend Stephen (sons of his son Nathaniel) and not sons, itfollows that Francis Bachiler was also a grandson. Of the known children of Stephen Bachiler, only Theodate and Deborahcame to New England. CHRISTOPHER HUSSEY is supposed to have marriedTheodate Bachiler in England and to have sailed to New England in 1632with his father-in-law, but, as will be analyzed in more detail in thetreatment of Hussey himself, there is no evidence that he was in NewEngland before 1633, and it may be that his marriage to Theodate didnot occur until 1635. Deborah Bachiler married John Wing, and afterhis death came to New England with her children, in the late 1630s.Ann Bachiler married a Samborne, and eventually her three Sambornesons joined their grandfather at Hampton, although the date of theirarrival is not known. Stephen's son Nathaniel did not come to NewEngland, but Nathaniel's son Nathaniel did. The Reverend Stephen's twoother sons, Stephen and Samuel, did not come to New England, nor,apparently, did any of their children. BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1892 Charles E. Batchelder published afour-part study of Reverend Stephen Bachiler [ NEHGR 46:58-64, 157-61,246-51, 345-50]. For the most part this is a simple chronologicalpresentation of the evidence available at that date. In the thirdinstallment, however, the author devotes much space to a spirited butunconvincing defense of Bachiler against the claim made by Winthropthat one of the grounds of the Hampton church's dispute with Bachilerwas an attempt "to solicit the chastity of his neighbor's wife." In 1898 Frederick Clifton Pierce published Batchelder, BatchellerGenealogy. Descendants of Rev. Stephen Bachiler, of England, a LeadingNon-conformist, Who Settled the Town of New Hampton, N.H. and Joseph,Henry, Joshua and John Batcheller of Essex Co., Massachusetts (Chicago1898), cited in this sketch as Batchelder Gen. This volume includes along sketch of Stephen Bachiler (pp. 75-115 [including the accounts ofhis children]), which, as is typical with this author, contains muchinformation of dubious validity, very poorly organized. Embedded inthe list of the immigrant's children, between the daughter Deborah andthe son Stephen, are several accounts of Reverend Stephen Bachilerprepared by other authors, mostly published in various town histories[ Batchelder Gen 95-109]. Since the three Samborne brothers of Hampton and all their descendantsare also descendants of Reverend Stephen Bachiler, V.C. Sanborn, whenhe compiled the Sanborn genealogy, included an account of Bachiler'slife [Genealogy of the Family of Samborne or Sanborn in England andAmerica. 1194-1898 (n.p. 1899), pp. 59-66]. Like all of his work,Sanborn's writing on Bachiler is careful and accurate. A curious book published in London in 1661 included a supposed coat ofarms for Stephen Bachiler, which included a punning reference to thePlough Company (Sylvanus Morgan, The Sphere of Gentry: Deduced fromthe Principles of Nature, An Historical and Genealogical Work, of Armsand Blazon ..., pp.102-03). This was certainly not a properly grantedcoat of arms, but something invented by the author for his ownliterary purposes. === from BATCHELDER: Name is also spelled BATCHELDER, BATCHELLER, BATCHILLER or BATCHELOR. BATCH, BACHE - Old English boece, stream, valley [OES]. A noted English divine of Hampshire. Came in the "William andFrancis," arrived at Boston, Thursday, 5 June 1632. "An unforgivenpuritan". B.A. from Oxford University in 1586. Emigrated from Hampshire, England to Boston in 1632; lived at Lynn,Mass.,where his daughter Theodite lived, for 4 years; removed toIpswich, MA, 1636; Yarmouth, 1637; Newberry, 1638 [DG]; toWinniscunnet, New Hampshire, 1638, which was named Hampton at hisrequest. In 1641 was dismissed and was heard of at Saco. Removed toCasco, ME in 1647; returned to England in 1654, leaving third wife Mary, wherehe died. Henry of Reading, probably his son, was persecuted in 1660 as aQuaker. Nathaniel of Hampton, eldest son, born about 1611, marriedDeborah, daughter of John Smith. He had 17 children, 9 by Deborah, onewas named Nathaniel. Married 2nd 31 Oct 1676, Mary (Carter) Wyman.Married 3rd, Elizabeth _______. Burial date provided by [RH]. The name BACHILER is variously spelled in the old records, and notless variously at the present time by descendants; quoted from earlysettlers of Nantucket in which the name has been variously spelled, i.e., BACHELOR; and from which thefollowing has been extracted: Reverend Stephen BACHELOR was born inEngland in 1561. he was well educated and had received orders in theestablished church [Church of England?] but was not in sympathy withits rites and institutions. His unwillingnesss to conform to itsrequirements had resulted in his being deprived of his ecclesiasticalcommissions. He spent a few years in Holland, but returned to London. In some recordswe read that "his eldest daughter had emigrated to America and hadsettled in the new town of Saugus, now Lynn [MA]." Here came alsoStephen BACHELOR on June 5, 1632, and here he established The FirstEpiscopal Church of Lynn, according to his own ideas. Differencesoccurred from time to time, but finally, when a Council of Ministers was called, itwas decided that, "Although the church had not been properlyinstituted, yet the mutual exercise of their religeous duties hadsupplied the defect." [sic] On May 6, 1635, he was admitted a freeman and removed first toIpswich, where he received a grant of fifty acres of land and proposedto locate; but he soon left Ipswich, and, with some friends, John WINGand others, went to Mattacheese, on Barnstable Bay, now Yarmouth, witha view to establishing a colony there. This enterprise provedimpracticable, and he went next to newbury, and on the July 6, 1638,received a grant of land from the town. On September 6 the GeneralCourt gave him permission to settle a town at Hampton, a few milesfrom Newburyport, in New Hampshire. In 1639 the town of Ipswichoffered him sixty acres of upland if he would reside with them; thishe declined. On July 5, he sold his house and lands in Newbury, and removing to Hampton, settled the townand established a church, of which he became pastor. In 1640, Hamptongranted him 300 acres of land, and he gave them "a bell for theirmeeting house." In 1647, he was at Portsmouth, where he remained threeyears. At the age of eighty nine he married and lived with this thirdwife for only a year. In 1651, he returned to England and there diedin his one hundredth year at Hackney, near London. Edwin l. SANBORN, ll.d., in his "History of New Hampshire," page 53,says: "The first churches were formed at Hampton and Exeter. Hamptonclaims precedence in time .... the first pastor of this firstbornchurch of the new state, and the father of the town, was ReverendStephen BATCHELDER, and ancestor on the mother's side of DanielWEBSTER." Lewis and Newhall's "History of Lynn," Page 141, N.E. reflects: "SusannaBATCHELDER, one of the descendants of Stephen's son Nathaniel,married, July 20th, 1738, Ebenezer WEBSTER [born at Hampton, October10, 1714], the grandfather of Daniel WEBSTER." The following information is extracted from "Founders of EarlyAmerican Families, Emigrants from Europe 1607-1657, published by theGeneral Court of The Order of Founders and Patriots of America as acontribution to the bicentennial of the United States of America,Cleveland, Ohio 1975": The Reverand Stephen BATCHELDER [may be spelledBACGEKIR, BATCHELLER, or BACHILER] came on the "William and Francis"1632, Lynn [MA], Ipswich 1636, Yarmouth 1637, Newbury 1638, Hampton1639, Strawberry Bank 1647, Hackney, Middlesex, England, died Hackney,1660. Oxford A.B. Preacher, Freeman......[New Hampshire Historical Society Proceedings 5:172 [BIG]; MNH; NER 46:58[BIOG], 74:319 n. #1026, 1040, 1137, 3398. "A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England,"containing an alphabetical list of the.......by John FARMER, asreprinted by Samuel G. DRAKE, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co.,Inc., 1979, includes the following: Stephen BATCHELOR, the firstminister of Lynn and Hampton [Mass.], was born in England, about 1561,arrived at Boston, with Rev. Thomas WELD, 5 June 1632; was the nextyear settled at Lynn, and in 1638 or 1639, became Minister of Hampton,but was dismissed in 1641. He is supposed to have returned to Englandin 1655 or 1656, leaving in America, a wife, Mary, who in 1956,petitioned the general court for a divorce, stating that her husband,Rev. S. Batchelor, upon some pretended ends of his own, had gone toEngland, and had taken a new wife, and expressing her wish to be atliberty to marry, if she should have a good opportunity, and the lordshould incline her heart. She also stated that she had two children,who were dis
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