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Joseph GATCHELL 1
- Born: Abt 1652 1
- Marriage: JUDITH
General Notes:
<head> <title></title> </head> <body> <div align="left"><span style="font-size:12pt">He was a tailor and fathered a baby in 1680. He was charged with fathering a child to Bethiah Gatchell, wife of his brother Samuel.</span></div> <div align="left"><span style="font-size:12pt">It appears Joseph Gatchell was not Christian in his beliefs and spoke freely about it. As a result, in the times of puritan justice, he ended up in the public "pillory" and had his tongue pierced/branded with a hot iron, as evidenced by the narrative below. He was tried for heresy, and the main witness against</span></div> <div align="left"><span style="font-size:12pt">him was his sister-in-law, Elizabeth, wife of his brother Jeremiah Gatchell. In July 1879, Henry F. Waters wrote in the New England Historical and Genealogical Review: In the Suffolk County Court files, that in July 1684, Joseph Gatchell of Marblehead was presented "that he not hauing the feare of</span></div> <div align="left"><span style="font-size:12pt">God before his eyes being instigated by the divill at the house of Jeremiah Gatchell in discourse abt generall Salvation (wch he sd was his beleife) & that all men should be saved, being answered that our Saviour had sent forth his disciples and gaue them comission to preach the Gospell and that</span></div> <div align="left"><span style="font-size:12pt">whosoever Repents and beleives shall be saued; to which Joseph Gatchell answered if it be so he was an Imperfect saviour and a foole. And this was a yeare agoe and somewhat more, as p' the evidences of Elizabeth Gatchell and since in the moneth of March last past and at other times and places hath</span></div> <div align="left"><span style="font-size:12pt">uttered seuirall blasphemous speeches saying ther was no God divill or hell as in and by their presences may appeare contrary to the peace of our Souiraigne Lord the King his croune and dignity the law of God & of this Jurisdiction." He was "sentenced to be returnd from this place to the pillory to haue his head and hand put in, have his toung drawne forth out of his mouth and peirct through wth a hott Iron then to be returnd to the prison there to Remayne until he sattisfye and pay all ye charges of his tryall and ffees of Court wch came seuen pounds."</span></div> <div align="left"><span style="font-size:12pt">According to the Massachusetts & Maine Family Histories, 1650s-1930s, a Martha Wiles (Wild) and John Putnam testified in 1682 in a case in which Joseph Gatchell was accused of "presumptuous evils which are next door to forgery."</span></div> </body> </html>
Joseph married JUDITH.
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