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12938. Rev. Stephen BACHILER was born 1561 in England. He died 1660 in Hackney, London, England. Stephen married Helen BATTE BATES.
BATCHELDER, BATCHELLER GENEALOGY, by Frederick Clifton Pierce pages 75, 76,
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Matriculated at St. John's College, Oxford in 1581, and in 1586, at the age of 26, was presented by Lord de la Warr to the living of Wherwell. ("Horrell"), a pretty village in Hampshire, on the river Test.
In 1603 Mr. Bachiler was "deprived" of his benefice, presumably for Calvinistic opinions, and by order of the commission appointed by James I to investigate religious opinions. Mr. Bachiler is said to have taken refuge in Holland, as the Plymouth Pilgrims did in 1608, but no record of his life there is found. His son-in-law, Rev. John Wing, was the first pastor of an English church at Middleburgh in Holland, from 1620 onward; and it is curious to note that a Mr. Samuel Bachiler, minister in Charles Morgan's fighting regiment in Holland, was the same year called to a pastorate in Flushing, but declined. May it not be that this was a son of Reb Stephen Bachiler?
Soon after leaving Wherwell, Mr. Bachiler settled in Newton Stacy, the nearest hamlet on the east. There he bought and sold land from 1622 to 1631.
About 1629 a colonizing society (the "Plow Company") was organized in England to settle the so-called "Plow Patent" in Maine (Casco); and Mr. Bachiler, then 68 years old, was its pastor. His son-in-law, Christopher Hussey, of Dorking emigrated to New England in the summer of 1630, and settled at Lynn, where Mr. Batchliler joined the family two years later. Mr. Bachiler formed a small church at Lynn, baptising first his grandson, Stephen Hussey, born in 1630. He had come over in the "William and Francis", whith his other grandchildren, John, William and Stephen Samborne, landing at Boston June 2, 1632, when neigher his wife nor the widow Samborne seems to have come. He died Hackney, England in 1660; res Lynn, Mass., Hampton, N.H. and Hackney, now a part of London England.
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