John BATCHELDER

John married Sarah POORE on 10 Nov 1696. Sarah (daughter of John POORE and Mary TITCOMB) was born on 27 Oct 1671 in Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts; died on 17 Apr 1744. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Joseph TITCOMB on 19 Dec 1716. Joseph (son of Benaiah TITCOMB and Sarah BROWNE) was born on 02 Apr 1691 in Newbury, Massachusetts; died on 27 Jul 1722 in Newbury, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Capt Samuel SEWALL on 29 Nov 1723. Samuel (son of John SEWALL and Hannah FESSENDEN) was born on 8 Apr 1688 in Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts; died on 28 Apr 1769 in York Village, York Co., Maine; was buried in South Side Cemetery, York Village, York Co,. Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was born in Reading, Mass., educated at the public schools and fitted for college. He was graduated at Harvard in the class of 1731, being the first person born in Reading to graduate at a college. In 1732-4, he was master of the Reading school. He was settled in 1735 as pastor of the church in the West Parish in Haverhill. In 1769 and 1770 he was the representative to the General Court. He removed to Royalston, mass., where he died. Chase, in his history of Haverhill, refers to him as "a man of superior talents and attainments." He owned his father's homestead and also the Cordis farm, both of which were purchased by his father of Timothy Nichols. In 1777 Rev. Samuel Batchelder disposed of the homestead to Nathan Appleton and Oliver Wendall, of Boston, both men of wealth, who purchased it, it is said, as a place of safety and resort in case Boston should be destroyed by the British during the Revolutionary War. They sold the property to Thomas Evans in 1784 for $2000. He d. intestate. The inventory of his estate was filed May 18, 1797; his son John was administrator of the estate. He d. in Royalston, March 19, 1776.

Samuel married Hannah ? on 29 Jan 1734 in Reading, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was a surgeon in Col. Samuel Johnson's reg't., engaged Aug. 21, 1777, discharged Nov. 30, 1777; April 19, 1775, he was lieutenant in Capt. Richard Ayer's Company, in Col.Johnson's Regiment; service eight days. "In Hatborough, Penn., September, Dr. William Bachellor, 75, a hero of the Revolution, died. He assisted in dressing the wound of those who first bled at Lexington in the cause of their country, and was present at the capture of Burgoyne. He was born in Haverhill, Mass., and for thirty years was eminently successful as a practitioner of medicine in the vicinity where he resided."

William married Lydia CHASE on 20 Feb 1771. Lydia (daughter of David CHASE and Sarah EMERY) was born in Massachusetts; was christened on 25 Oct 1741; died in Haverhill, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]