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- First “white man” to settle in Barnstable.
The burial register of All Hallows Staining records that he was buried on October 31, 1656 at the 'New Churchyard', which later became known as the Bedlam or Bethlem Burial Ground.
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MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1590 [Anne?] _____, who was closely related in some way to Reverend John Bate, Bachiler's successor as vicar of Wherwell; she died sometime between about 1610 and 1624. (Although this first wife's given name is stated to be "Anne" by many authorities, there is no record evidence to support this.)
(2) Abbots Ann, Hampshire, 2 March 1624 Christian Weare, widow [ GDMNH 81]; she died before 26 March 1627.
(3) Abbots Ann, Hampshire, 26 March 1627 Helena Mason, widow (of Reverend Thomas Mason) [ GDMNH 81]; she was aged 48 in 1631, so born about 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 with George Rogers at Kittery.
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Children: (by 1st wife)
1. Nathaniel, b. c.1590, admin. 9 Apr 1645 to wid. (2nd wife) Margerie — (GMB, v.1, p.62). Merchant of Southampton, EngI., m. 1st Hester Mercer [LeMercier]. Nathaniel(2) did not come to America and only one of his 5 kn. ch. (by 1st wife), Nathaniel(3), accompanied his grfa. to Hampton where he became ancestor of most of the N.H. and Maine families bearing the name Batchelder. Nathaniel(3) ae 70 in 1700, d. 17 Dec 1710, m. 1st 10 Dec 1656 Deborah Smith who d. 8 Mar 1675/76, dau. of John and Deborah (Parkhurst) Smith, 9 ch.; m. 2nd 31 Oct 1676 Mary (Carter) Wyman who d. 1688, dau. of Rev. Thomas Carter, and wid. of John Wyman of Woburn, 8 ch.; m. 3rd 23 Oct 1689 Elizabeth (—) Knill, wid. of John.
2. Deborah, b. c.1592, m.Rev. John Wing. Ch. settled Sandwich, Mass.
3. Dea. Stephen, b. c.1594. Remained in Engl.
4. Rev. Samuel, b. c.1597, a minister, late of Gorcum, Holland, in 1640.
5. Ann, b. 1600(NLD) (c.1601[GMB]) m. 1st — Sanborn, m. 2nd at Strood, co. Kent, 20 Jan 1631/32, Henry Atkins/o London. Remained in Engl. At least 3 Sanborn sons (Lt. John; Stephen; William) who came to America with their grfa. Batchelder.
6. Theodate, b. c.1610(GMB) (h. 1588[NLD]), m. by c.1635 (GMB), Capt. Christopher(2) Hussey, s/o John(1) and Mary (Wood) Hussey, bap. Dorking, co. Surrey, 18 Feb 1599 9, d. 6 Mar 1685/86. (No proof found that he came with Batchelder on William and Francis [GMB]). Settled in Hampton, 5 ch. He m. 2nd 9 Dec 1658 wid. Ann (—) Mingay. (John(1) Hussey prob. the “early voyager Hussey cast away upon Cape Florida” [NLD]). Mary(1) (Wood) Hussey came to Hampton with, or soon aft. her son.
Child: (by 4th wife [NLD]). Study GMB, v.1, p.67 which states that Mary would not have been Rev. Stephen’s child as Mary (—) Beedle Batchelder was liv. at the time with George Rodgers of Kittery. 7. Mary?, ae 21 in 1671, had m. by 26 Mar 1673 William Richards, ch. 2 kn., 1 more poss.
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In the summer of 1639 Stephen Bachiler and some other families, many of them from Newbury, began the settlement of Hampton, and Bachiler was soon joined there by Reverend Timothy Dalton, who shared the pulpit with him. As had happened throughout his life, controversy soon arose. In 1641 Winthrop reported that Bachiler "being about 80 years of age, and having a lusty comely woman to his wife, did solicit the chastity of his neighbor's wife" [ WJ 2:53], and this led to an attack on 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, the affair was raised again, and this was sufficient to prevent his removal to that church [ GMN 4:21-22].
At about this time Bachiler's ministry at Hampton ceased, and he soon moved to Strawberry Bank [Portsmouth], where he remained until his return to England.
On 9 April 1650 at a Quarterly Court held at Salisbury, "Mr. Steven Bacheller [was] fined for not publishing his marriage according to law." At the same court it was ordered "that Mr. Bacherler and Mary his wife shall live together, as they publicly agreed to do, and if either desert the other, the marshal to take them to Boston to be kept until next quarter Court of Assistants, to consider a divorce.... In case Mary Bacheller live out of this jurisdiction without mutual consent for a time, notice of her absence to be given the magistrates at Boston" [ EQC 1:191].
On 15 October 1650 at a court at York "George Rodgers & Mrs. Batcheller [were] presented upon vehement suspicion of incontinency for 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 grand jury presented "George Rogers for, & Mary Batcheller the wife of Mr. Steven Bacheller minister for adultery"; George Rogers was to have forty strokes, and Mary Bachiler "for her adultery shall receive 40 strokes save one at the first town meeting held at Kittery six weeks after the delivery & be branded with the letter A" [ MPCR 1:164]. This child born late in 1651 or early in 1652 was apparently the Mary Bachiler who later married William Richards, and even though the Dover Court on 26 March 1673 awarded him administration of the estate of Stephen Bachiler [ NHPP 40:287], she would not have been his daughter. (See Massachusetts Arch 9:28 and NHGR 8:14 for more on Bachiler's fourth wife.)
Stephen Bachiler returned to England after these events, and most secondary sources claim that he made that trip in 1654 when his grandson 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 being illegally at the house of John Webster is our man [ NHPP 40:87-88]). [4, 5]
- On 9 April 1650 at a Quarterly Court held at Salisbury, "Mr. Steven Bacheller [was] fined for not publishing his marriage according to law." At the same court it was ordered "that Mr. Bacherler and Mary his wife shall live together, as they publicly agreed to do, and if either desert the other, the marshal to take them to Boston to be kept until next quarter Court of Assistants, to consider a divorce.... In case Mary Bacheller live out of this jurisdiction without mutual consent for a time, notice of her absence to be given the magistrates at Boston" [ EQC 1:191].
On 15 October 1650 at a court at York "George Rodgers & Mrs. Batcheller [were] presented upon vehement suspicion of incontinency for 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 grand jury presented "George Rogers for, & Mary Batcheller the wife of Mr. Steven Bacheller minister for adultery"; George Rogers was to have forty strokes, and Mary Bachiler "for her adultery shall receive 40 strokes save one at the first town meeting held at Kittery six weeks after the delivery & be branded with the letter A" [ MPCR 1:164]. This child born late in 1651 or early in 1652 was apparently the Mary Bachiler who later married William Richards, and even though the Dover Court on 26 March 1673 awarded him administration of the estate of Stephen Bachiler [ NHPP 40:287], she would not have been his daughter. (See Massachusetts Arch 9:28 and NHGR 8:14 for more on Bachiler's fourth wife.)
Stephen Bachiler returned to England after these events, and most secondary sources claim that he made that trip in 1654 when his grandson 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 being illegally at the house of John Webster is our man [ NHPP 40:87-88]).
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Piscataqua Pioneers
Selected Biographies of Early Settlers in Northern New England
BATCHELDER (BACHILER), REV. STEPHEN, b. c.1561. Matriculated St. John’s Coll., Oxford, 17 Nov 1581, B.A. 3 Feb 1586/87(NLD); (1585/86 GMB). Vicar at Wherwell, Hants, 17 Jly 1587 until deposed 1605, but liv. there 1614. Of Newton Stacey 1614 until 1631. Of So. Stoneham, Co. Hants, in 1631, he was licensed to visit his ch. in Flushing, Holland, but having become a leader with the company of merchant adventurers called the Plough Company, he came to New Engl, arriv. at Cambridge in the William and Francis 5 June 1632, ae 71. Of Lynn, Ipswich, Yarmouth, Newbury. In the fall of 1638 he led the settlement of Hampton, N.H. In Exeter briefly 1644; Strawberry Bank 1647. His 1st wife, mother of six ch., was perhaps a Bate and a relation to Rev. John Bate, vicar at Wherwell, who called Stephen Jr. his ‘cousin.’ She d. bet. c.1610 and c.1624 (GMB). Rev. Stephen m. 2nd at Abbots-Ann 2 Mar 1623/24 wid. Christian (—) Weare; and m. 3rd at Abbots-Ann 26 Mar 1627 Helena (—) Mason, wid. of Rev. Thomas Mason, ae c.48 in 1631, who d. Portsmouth, N.H. bef. 3 May 1647; m. 4th (unhappily) by 14 Feb 1648 Mary (—) Beedle, wid. of Robert Beedle of Kittery. Batchelder returned to Engl. prob. by Oct 1651 (GMB), and d. at Hackney near London c.1660 (NLD). However see NLD Correction, p.781 which questions the death date and place. Bur. 31 Oct 1656 at All Hallows Staining, London (GMB, v.1, p.62,68). Sources: NLD = [Noyes, Libby and Davis's "Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire"; DOW = Joseph Dow's "History of Hampton"; GMB = Robert Charles Anderson's "The Great Migration Begins"
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Hampton Area. Landmarks in the settlement begun by Rev. Stephen Bachiler and his followers.
Homesite: Hampton. E side Park Ave. somewhat NE of Cuss Lane and Memorial Park. He also had a grant of 300 a. bounded on the S by Rocks Rd. (Shapley Line in Seabrook). See DOW and maps therein (above). [6]
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