Family of Nathaniel * BATCHELDER and Mary CARTER

Husband:	Nathaniel * BATCHELDER (1630-1709)
Wife:	Mary CARTER (c. 1635-c. 1688)
Children:	Mercy BATCHELDER (1677-1720)
	Mary BATCHELDER (1679-bef1688)
	Samuel BATCHELDER (1680-aft1731)
	Jonathan BATCHELDER (1683- )
	Theodate BATCHELDER (1684- )
	Thomas BATCHELDER (1685-1774)
	Joseph BATCHELDER (1687-1750)
	Mary BATCHELDER (1688-1688)
Marriage	31 Oct 16761,2

Husband: Nathaniel * BATCHELDER

Wife: Mary CARTER

Name:	Mary CARTER
Sex:	Female
Father:	-
Mother:	-
Birth	1635 (est)
Death	1688 (est) (age 52-53)

Child 1: Mercy BATCHELDER

Name:	Mercy BATCHELDER
Sex:	Female
Spouse:	Samuel DEARBORN (1670-1746)
Birth	11 Dec 1677	Hampton, Rockingham, NH, US
Death	1720 (age 42-43)	Hampton, Rockingham, NH, US

Child 2: Mary BATCHELDER

Name:	Mary BATCHELDER
Sex:	Female
Birth	18 Sep 1679	Hampton Falls, Rockingham, NH, US
Death	bef 1688 (age 8-9)

Child 3: Samuel BATCHELDER

Name:	Samuel BATCHELDER
Sex:	Male
Birth	10 Jan 1680	Hampton Falls, Rockingham, NH, US
Death	aft 1731 (age 50-51)	NH, US

Child 4: Jonathan BATCHELDER

Name:	Jonathan BATCHELDER
Sex:	Male
Birth	1683

Child 5: Theodate BATCHELDER

Name:	Theodate BATCHELDER
Sex:	Male
Birth	1684

Child 6: Thomas BATCHELDER

Name:	Thomas BATCHELDER
Sex:	Male
Birth	1685	Hampton, Rockingham, NH, US
Death	10 Feb 1774 (age 88-89)	Hampton, Rockingham, NH, US

Child 7: Joseph BATCHELDER

Name:	Joseph BATCHELDER
Sex:	Male
Birth	9 Aug 1687	Hampton, Rockingham, NH, US
Death	26 Oct 1750 (age 63)	Hampton, Rockingham, NH, US

Child 8: Mary BATCHELDER

Name:	Mary BATCHELDER
Sex:	Female
Birth	17 Oct 1688	Hampton, Rockingham, NH, US
Death	1688 (age 0)	Hampton, Rockingham, NH, US

Note on Husband: Nathaniel * BATCHELDER

It has been assumed that Nathaniel came to America with his grandfather as an infant in 1632, but that is highly incredible. He was in Hampton before April, 1647, when Rev. Stephen deeded Hapton property to his grandson John Sanborn, who was to pay 20 pounds each to Nathaniel Bachiler and two other Sanborn grandchildren. I think it much more probably he came to this country after his father's death in 1645, and joined his Hampton relatives.

There is no probate record of his estate. He left a will, but it was considered defective, and his heirs signed an elaborite agreement, which reads as though it embodied terms copied from the will, disposing of his estate. This was dated 17 Mar 1709/10, and was signed by his widow, sons and sons-in-law (naming latter's wives in the body of agreement), as follows: - Elizabeth Bachelder, Nathaniel Bachelder, Benj. Bachelder, Stephen Bachelder, Joseph Palmer (wife Deborah), Samuel Shaw (wife Hester), John Dearbon (wife Abigail), Benjamin Lamprey (wife Jane), Samuel Dearbon (wife Mercy), Maurice Hobes (wife) Theodata), Samuel Bachelder, Jonathan Bachelder, Thomas Bachelder and Joseph Bachelder. A receipt of the same date to Stephen Bachelder is signed by Nathaniel, Benj., Samuel, Thomas and Joseph Bachelder, Joseph Palmer, Samuel Shaw, John Dearbon, Benjamin Lamprey, Samuel Dearbon and Maurice Hobes, and they and Stephen are designated as "children & children in law of Nathaniel Bachelder.

The agreement also gives a bequest to a Mary Palmer (no relationship stated) who does not sign, so probably not an heir. Ruth Balake is not mentioned at all, but her heirs gave a deed of release in 1755 (NH Prov. Deeds 47-149).

Note that the children here definitely and personally signed their names as Bachelder, although the preceding generations, including their father, spelled it Bachiler

 

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son of Nathaniel and Hester (Mercer), place and date of birth unknown, came to this country before 1647, certainly, as in that year his grandfather, Rev. Stephen, gave property at Strawberry Bank to him in partnership with his cousins John and William Sanborn. He was then and for the rest of his life a resident of Hampton, N. H. Planter, yeoman, so he was designated in deeds; constable and otherwise in public business. He owned considerable land. Mortg. a tract 22 March, 1664, to his father in law John Smith and his brother in law, John, Jr., to secure to them the payment of their legacies by the will of Mrs. Ruth Dalton, of whose estate he was executor.

 

He m. 10 (10) 1656 Deborah, dau. of John and Deborah Smith; ch. Deborah b. 12 (8) 1657, (m. Joseph Palmer,) Nathaniel b. 24 (10) 1659, Ruth b. 9 (3) or (6) 1662, (m. James Blake, of Dorchester, Mass.) Hester b. 22 (12) 1664, (m. Samuel Shaw,) Abigail b. 28 (10) 1667, (m. John Dearborn,) Jane b. 8 (11) 1670, (m. Benjamin Lamprey,) Benjamin b. 19 (7) 1673, Stephen b. 8 (1) 1675-6, Mercy b. 11 (10) 1677, (m. Samuel Dearborn,) Mary b. 18 (7) 1679, Samuel b. 10 (10) 1680-1, Jonathan, Theodate, (m. Morris Hobbs,) Thomas, Joseph b. 9 (6) 1687, Mary b. 17 (8) 1688.

 

His first wife d. 8 (12) 1675-6; he m. 2, 31 (8) 1676, Mary (Carter) widow of John Wyman of Woburn, Mass.; he m. 3, 23 Oct. 1689, Elizabeth, widow of John Knill.

 

He d. 17 (10) 1710, "aged about 80 years."

 

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Stephen Bachiler (1561- 1657 or 1660) was born in England, and immigrated to America on William and Francis in 1632, into Boston. An early graduate of St. John's College, Oxford, he was vicar of Wherwell, Hampshire in 1587 and was removed from office as a Puritan. In 1630 he became involved in one of Sir Ferdinando Gorges' settlement attempts and was named as minister to the Plough Company (also known as the Company of Husbandmen), which received a 1600 square mile grant on the coast of Maine to be named as the Province of Lygonia. Bachiler's own departure from England was delayed when the Company's ship Plough sailed in 1631, and when he arrived in Boston found that the first immigrants had foregone settlement in Maine, choosing the Bay Colony instead. Bachiler himself first went to New Town (now Cambridge) and then to Saugus (now Lynn), establishing a church there of remnants of the Plough settlers. Frequently at odds with the Puritan theocracy of Massachusetts Bay, he went on to settle Hampton, New Hampshire, and eventually lived in Portsmouth. He returned to England in 1653 or 1654 after being denied a divorce from an adulterous young wife, and died in Hackney, north London, about 1657.

 

Reverend Bachiler married (1) Ann Bate (1551-1603) in England, by whom he had all of his six children; (2) Christian Weare in 1622; (3) Helena Mason, 1627; and (4) Mary Beedle, 1648. His grandson Nathaniel (1630-1709/10) accompanied him to America, and married in 1656 Deborah Smith, probably in Hampton, New Hampshire.^5,6

Sources

1	"US New England Marriages prior to 1700".

2	"US and International Marriage Records, 1550-1900" (on-line, Yates Publishing, Provo, UT).

3	"NH Census, 1790-1890".

4	"NH Death and Burial Records Index, 1654-1949".

5	"ME Pioneers, 1623-1660".

6	Peter A Hutchinson, "Immigrants to America: Some Founders of Maine's Campbell and Packard Families".