Ancestors of Joseph GATCHELL
John GATCHELL
(Abt 1611-1694)
Wiberough WIBERA
(Abt 1611-)
Joseph GATCHELL
(Abt 1652-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
JUDITH

Joseph GATCHELL 1

  • Born: Abt 1652 1
  • Marriage: JUDITH
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<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>
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Joseph married JUDITH.

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Sources


1 Dean G. Newhouse, Newhouse-Getchell Family Home Page.


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