Rev1561 Stephen Bachiler

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Stephen was born in 1561.  He died at the age of 95 in 1656.

• General Notes

  Left London 3/9/1632 Arrived in Boston 6/5/1632 @ 71 years on the William Francis ship, Mr. thomas, master.  60 passengers.
  
  
  founded Hampton, NH
  left Hampton 1647 to Portsmouth
  ret. to Englnad ~1654 (1650-1656)
  
  
  
  BAT CHELDER (BACHILER), REV. ST EPHEN, b. c.1561. Matri cul ated St. John's Col l ., Oxford, 17 Nov 1581, B.A. 3 Feb
  1586/87(NLD); (1585/86 GMB). Vi car at Wherwel l , Hants, 17 Jl y 1587 unti l  deposed 1605, but l i v. there 1614. Of Newton
  Stacey 1614 unti l  1631. Of So. Stoneham, Co. Hants, i n 1631, he was l i censed to vi si t hi s ch. i n Fl ushi ng, Hol l and, but
  havi ng become a l eader wi th the company of merchant adventurers cal l ed the Pl ough Company, he came to New Engl ,
  arri v. at Cambri dge i n the Wi l l i am and Franci s 5 June 1632, ae 71. Of Lynn, Ipswi ch, Yarmouth, Newbury. In the fal l  of
  1638 he l ed the settl ement of Hampton, N.H. In Exeter bri efl y 1644; Strawberry Bank 1647. Hi s 1st wi fe, mother of si x ch.,
  was perhaps a Bate and a rel ati on to Rev. John Bate, vi car at Wherwel l , who cal l ed Stephen Jr. hi s 'cousi n.' She d. bet.
  
  c.1610 and c.1624 (GMB). Rev. Stephen m. 2nd at Abbots-Ann 2 Mar 1623/24 wi d. Christian (—) Weare; and
  
  m. 3rd at Abbots-Ann 26 Mar 1627 Helena (—) Mason, wi d. of Rev. T homas Mason, ae c.48 i n 1631, who d. Portsmouth, N.H. bef.
  
  3 May 1647; m. 4th (unhappi l y) by 14 Feb 1648 Mary (—) Beedle, wi d. of Robert Beedl e of Ki ttery.
  
  Batchel der returned to Engl . prob. by Oct 1651 (GMB), and d. at Hackney near London c.1660 (NLD). However see NLD Correcti on, p.781
  whi ch questi ons the death date and pl ace. Bur. 31 Oct 1656 at Al l  Hal l ows Stai ni ng, London (GMB, v.1, p.62,68).
  Sources: NLD = [Noyes, Li bby and Davi s's " Geneal ogi cal  Di cti onary of Mai ne and NH" ; DOW = Joseph Dow's " Hi story of
  Hampton" ; GMB = Robert Charl es Anderson's " T he Great Mi grati on Begi ns"
  
  Sailed to Boston 3/9/1631-1632 and was 71 years old when landed.
  
  
  He hired a "good neighbour" as his housekeeper, and, in 1648, at 88 years of age, he married her. The match proved most disastrous; in 1650, she was convicted of adultery with one Rogers, and sentenced to be publicly whipped and branded with the letter "A." Bachiler sued for divorce, but was met with the atrocious order that he "and his wife shall live together as man and wife, as in this Corte they have professed to do; and if either desert the other the marshall shall apprehend both and bring them to Boston, to be kept until the next Corte."
  
  Soon after this order, Mr. Batchelor returned to England, where he married his fourth wife, his third wife Mary being still living. In October, 1656, she petitioned the court, in the following words, to free her from her husband.
  
  At this time Mr. Batchelor must have been in the ninety sixth year of his age. How much longer he lived, and how many more wives he married, is unknown.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Bachiler
  

Details of Stephen's family with Christian Weare

Details of Stephen's family with Helena Mason

Details of Stephen's family with Mary Beedle

Details of Stephen's family with Ann Bate