Thirteenth Generation

4610. Rev. Stephen BACHILER/BATCHELDER^391,392 was born in 1561 in England. He was educated and received a Bachelor of Arts degree on 3 Feb 1585/86 in St. John's College, Oxford University, Oxford, England.³⁹³
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There is record Stephen Bachiler's entry to St. John's College, Oxford University on 17 November 1581 at the age of twenty-one. He was admitted as a Bachelor of Arts, 3 February 1585/6. The leading profession for college graduates in that day was that of Clergyman and Mr. Bachiler determined to study for the ministry, at that time being a member of the established church. Apparently the time between his graduation from Oxford in February 1585/6 and 17 July 1587 was spent in preparation for his lifework. On the day last named, the death of Edward Parret, vicar of Wherwell in Hampshire, made a vacancy. Mr. Bachiler was presented with the placement by William West, Lord de la Ware and became vicar of The Church Of Holy Cross and St. Peter (This Lord de la Ware was the father of the Lord for whom Delaware was named). He immigrated on 5 Jun 1632 to America and arrived in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.³⁹³
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On 9 March 1632, the Bachiler's boarded the ship "William and Francis" from London; Rev. Bachiler and his third wife, Helena; his widowed daughter, Deborah Wing, and her three sons, Daniel, John, and Stephen; also three Sanborne grandsons (Stephen, John, and William).

From the "Planters of the Commonwealth", passengers and ships, page 96 -- "ship: William and Francis". Mr. ----- Thomas, Master. Left London 9 March 1632. Arrived New England 5 June 1632, with about sixty passengers (per John Winthrop, Journal I, pp. 80,81). Rev. Stephen Bachiler of Newton Stacy, County Hampshire, England; Mrs. Helen Bachiler; John Sanborn, William Sanborn, Stephen Sanborn. (no mention of Deborah and her three sons. Perhaps they were listed separately or came on another ship).

The crossing was difficult. They were at sea for eighty-eight days. At this time, Mr. Bachiler was seventy-one years of age.

The cargo Mr. Bachiler brought with him is as follows:

Four hogsheads of peas,
Twelve yards of cloth,
Two hundred yards of list,
Oaken furniture,
and a collection box.

Upon arrival in New England, Mr. Bachiler and his party proceeded to Saugus (now Lynn), Massachusetts, where his daughter, Theodate, and her husband, Christopher Hussey resided. He received land grants in 1638/39 in Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.³⁹⁴
"...Only five or six grants, farm style, were made at an early perios. These were made to Mr. Steven Bachiler, Mr. Timothy Dalton, Mr. Christopher Hussey, Mr. John Cross, and John Brown; and none of them lay in that part of town where the earliest inhabitants principally lived. A farm was also granted to Mr. John Moulton but he soon 'resigned it to the freemen'. Mr. Bachiler's farm was afterwards owned by Mr. John Wheelwright."
He died on 31 Oct 1656 in London, England.
Bachelder Family
The name is spelled in different ways

" Rev. Stephen Batchelder/Bachiler was the ancestor of most, if not of all, of this name. He was the first minister of Hampton, New Hampshire where he preached some three years, ending in 1641. He was born in England in 1561; arrived at Boston, June 5, 1632, having sailed with his family in the ship William and Francis. He immediately went to Lynn, where on the following Sabbath, June 8th, he preached his first sermon in America. From Lynn, February, 1636, he removed to Ipswich, and soon after to Yarmouth, and in 1638 to Newbury. On the 6th of September, it would appear, the General Court gave him permission to settle a town at Hampton. Hither, with his family and some personal friends, he came, and was installed the first minister of Hampton.He lived in Portsmouth from 1641 to 1650, and afterwards returned to England, and died at Hackney, aged about 100 years. He left in this country two sons, Henry, who is believed to have settled in Reading, Mass., and Nathaniel, who remained in Hampton, from whom descended the Batchelders who earliest came to Northwood; for he had a son named Samuel, and his sons settled here. He had (9) children."

Rev. Stephen BACHILER/BATCHELDER and Ann BATE were married about 1586 in Wherwell, Hampshire, England.

4611. Ann BATE was born about 1565 in Wherwell, Hampshire, England. She died before 1623 in Wherwell, Hampshire, England. Children were:

	i.	Nathaniel BACHILER was born in 1586. First married Deborah Smith 10 Dec 1656. Second marriage was to Mary Wayman. He had 17 children.
	ii.	Theodate BACHILER was born in 1588. She died in 1649.
	iii.	Frances BACHILER.
	iv.	Deborah BACHILER was born in 1592.
	v.	Stephen BACHILER Jr was born in 1594.
	vi.	John BACHILER.
	vii.	William BACHILER.
	viii.	Henry BACHILER.
2305	ix.	Ann BACHILER.