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 1561 - 1660 (99 years)
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Stephen BACHILER [1, 2] |
- He entered St. John's College, Oxford in 1581 and some years later on 17 July 1587 became the Vicar of Wherwell, a village in Hampshire, being presented there, by Lord de la Warr. Apparently Stephen Bachelder had religious ideas not in accord with the Church of England for in 1605 he was forced to give up his church at Wherwell and went to Holland. The son of Lord de la Warr, who presented him, was on the commission appointed by James I that deprived him of his church. There is no record of his stay in Holland, but we do know that his son-in-law John Wing was a minister there in 1620 and that in June 1631 Stephen Bachelder was granted permission with his wife Helen and widowed daughter Ann Sandburn to visit his sons and daughters in Holland. Some sources believe they may have lived on the Island of Walcheron.
By June 1621 Stephen Bachelder was back in England as there is a record he dined with John Winthrop and his wife Margaret there. Between 1622 and 1631 Stephen Bachelder was living at Newton Stacy not far from Wherwell where he had been Vicar. There are records that he and his wife Helen bought and sold land there and in such records he was listed as a clerk. Apparently his religious beliefs were such that he could not be accepted in England as a minister. In 1629 he was selected as the pastor of a colonizing society "Plow Company" but the company failed due to some false dealing or lack of interest in their Patent after the first group arrived in Uuly 1631. In 1630 and 1631 he and his wife sold their lands presumably because of his intentions to come to America.
Stephen Bachelder came to America on the ship William and Frances, leaving England on 9 March 1632 and arrived at Boston on 5 June 1632. Although his wife Helen was not mentioned as coming she must have accompanied him as she died later in this country about 1642 aged 60 years. His group included six or seven people among whom were his widowed daughter Deborah Wing, her children and an Edward Dillingham. Helen was his second wife who was born in 1583 and died in 1642. Later about 1648 he married again. On Sunday 8 June 1632 he began preaching at a church in Lynn which he formed.
Stephen Bachelder went to Lynn because his daughter Theodate and her husband Christopher Hussey resided there. By October of that year the General Court of the Colony ordered him to cease preaching except to those who came over with him so he very early came under discussion for his independent ideas. Five months later the prohibition was removed. On 6 May 1635 he was admitted a freeman. In 1635 he was agin in difficulty with his church and agreed to remove from the town which he did in February 1636, moving to Ipswich where he was given a grant of fifty acres. For some reason this did not work out for in 1637/8 he with others attempted a settlement at Yarmouth, Massachusetts, but this in turn failed. On 7 October 1638 the General Court of the Colony granted him and his companions land for a settlement at what is now Hampton, New Hampshire possibly to be rid of a troublesome minister. Apparently he still had friends at Ipswich for in 1639 the people there voted to give him 80 acres of land if he would return to them for three years. The new settlement at Hampton was more attractive to him and in that same year he and his son-in-law Christopher Hussey sold their holdings at Ipswich for 120 pounds.
At Hampton Stephen Bachelder was granted 300 acres by the town. Everywhere Stephen Bachelder went, church difficulties appear to have arisen and Hampton was no exception. the church there, of which he was pastor, became divided into two factions, the other headed by Rev. Timothy Dalton. Stephen Bachedler apparently was of a very positive type and unyielding. Dalton succeeded in excommunicating Bachelder and at last the latter agreed to leave Hampton and received a call to go to Exeter, but that was prevented and he remained at Hampton, but not as a minister. By this time he was very aged having been 71 years old on arriving in America. InApril 1647 he was living in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, then called Strawberry Bank, as he then gave all his property at Hampton to his grandson. His third marriage to Mary was most unfortunate and he returned to England probably in 1654 and died there. [1]
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1561 |
England  [1, 2] |
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Male |
| Death |
1660 |
Hackney, England [1, 2] |
| Person ID |
I102871 |
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| Last Modified |
8 May 2021 |
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| Sources |
- [S10254] Ancestry.com: North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000.
- [S2452] Frederick Clifton Pierce, Batchelder, Batcheller Genealogy Descendants of Rev. Stephen Bachiler, of England and Joseph, Henry, Joshua and John Batcheller of Essex Co., Massachusetts.
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