• General Notes

  m. 4th (unhappi l y) by 14 Feb 1648 Mary (—) Beedle, wi d. of Robert Beedl e of Ki ttery.
  
  
  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.

Details of Mary's family with Rev1561 Stephen Bachiler