Family of Nathaniel * BATCHELDER and Deborah * SMITH

Husband:	Nathaniel * BATCHELDER (1630-1709)
Wife:	Deborah * SMITH (1642-1675)
Children:	Deborah BATCHELDER (1657- )
	Nathaniel BATCHELDER (1659-1745)
	Ruth BATCHELDER (1662-1751)
	Esther BATCHELDER (1664-1714)
	Abigail * BATCHELDER (1667-1736)
	Jane BATCHELDER (1670- )
	Stephen BATCHELDER (1672-1672)
	Benjamin BATCHELDER (1673- )
	Stephen BATCHELDER (1674-1748)
Marriage	10 Dec 16561,2,3

Husband: Nathaniel * BATCHELDER

Wife: Deborah * SMITH

Name:	Deborah * SMITH
Sex:	Female
Father:	John * SMITH (1621-1687)
Mother:	Deborah * PARKHURST (1619-1675)
Birth	1642
Death	8 Mar 1675 (age 32-33)	Hampton, Rockingham, NH, US5

Child 1: Deborah BATCHELDER

Name:	Deborah BATCHELDER
Sex:	Female
Birth	12 Oct 1657

Child 2: Nathaniel BATCHELDER

Name:	Nathaniel BATCHELDER
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Elizabeth FOSS (1666-1746)
Birth	24 Dec 1659	Hampton Falls, Rockingham, NH, US
Death	1745 (age 85-86)	Hampton Falls, Rockingham, NH, US

Child 3: Ruth BATCHELDER

Name:	Ruth BATCHELDER
Sex:	Female
Birth	9 May 1662	Hampton, Rockingham, NH, US
Death	11 Jan 1751 (age 88)	Dorchester, Suffolk, MA, US

Child 4: Esther BATCHELDER

Name:	Esther BATCHELDER
Sex:	Female
Birth	22 Dec 1664	Hampton, Rockingham, NH, US
Death	24 Jan 1714 (age 49)	Hampton Falls, Rockingham, NH, US

Child 5: Abigail * BATCHELDER

Child 6: Jane BATCHELDER

Name:	Jane BATCHELDER
Sex:	Female
Birth	8 Jan 1670

Child 7: Stephen BATCHELDER

Name:	Stephen BATCHELDER
Sex:	Male
Birth	31 Jul 1672	Hampton Falls, Rockingham, NH, US
Death	7 Dec 1672 (age 0)	Hampton Falls, Rockingham, NH, US

Child 8: Benjamin BATCHELDER

Name:	Benjamin BATCHELDER
Sex:	Male
Birth	19 Sep 1673

Child 9: Stephen BATCHELDER

Name:	Stephen BATCHELDER
Sex:	Male
Birth	8 Mar 1674	Hampton Falls, Rockingham, NH, US
Death	19 Sep 1748 (age 74)	Hampton Falls, Rockingham, NH, US

Note on Husband: Nathaniel * BATCHELDER

It has been assumed that Nathaniel came to America with his grandfather as an infant in 1632, but that is highly incredible. He was in Hampton before April, 1647, when Rev. Stephen deeded Hapton property to his grandson John Sanborn, who was to pay 20 pounds each to Nathaniel Bachiler and two other Sanborn grandchildren. I think it much more probably he came to this country after his father's death in 1645, and joined his Hampton relatives.

There is no probate record of his estate. He left a will, but it was considered defective, and his heirs signed an elaborite agreement, which reads as though it embodied terms copied from the will, disposing of his estate. This was dated 17 Mar 1709/10, and was signed by his widow, sons and sons-in-law (naming latter's wives in the body of agreement), as follows: - Elizabeth Bachelder, Nathaniel Bachelder, Benj. Bachelder, Stephen Bachelder, Joseph Palmer (wife Deborah), Samuel Shaw (wife Hester), John Dearbon (wife Abigail), Benjamin Lamprey (wife Jane), Samuel Dearbon (wife Mercy), Maurice Hobes (wife) Theodata), Samuel Bachelder, Jonathan Bachelder, Thomas Bachelder and Joseph Bachelder. A receipt of the same date to Stephen Bachelder is signed by Nathaniel, Benj., Samuel, Thomas and Joseph Bachelder, Joseph Palmer, Samuel Shaw, John Dearbon, Benjamin Lamprey, Samuel Dearbon and Maurice Hobes, and they and Stephen are designated as "children & children in law of Nathaniel Bachelder.

The agreement also gives a bequest to a Mary Palmer (no relationship stated) who does not sign, so probably not an heir. Ruth Balake is not mentioned at all, but her heirs gave a deed of release in 1755 (NH Prov. Deeds 47-149).

Note that the children here definitely and personally signed their names as Bachelder, although the preceding generations, including their father, spelled it Bachiler

 

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son of Nathaniel and Hester (Mercer), place and date of birth unknown, came to this country before 1647, certainly, as in that year his grandfather, Rev. Stephen, gave property at Strawberry Bank to him in partnership with his cousins John and William Sanborn. He was then and for the rest of his life a resident of Hampton, N. H. Planter, yeoman, so he was designated in deeds; constable and otherwise in public business. He owned considerable land. Mortg. a tract 22 March, 1664, to his father in law John Smith and his brother in law, John, Jr., to secure to them the payment of their legacies by the will of Mrs. Ruth Dalton, of whose estate he was executor.

 

He m. 10 (10) 1656 Deborah, dau. of John and Deborah Smith; ch. Deborah b. 12 (8) 1657, (m. Joseph Palmer,) Nathaniel b. 24 (10) 1659, Ruth b. 9 (3) or (6) 1662, (m. James Blake, of Dorchester, Mass.) Hester b. 22 (12) 1664, (m. Samuel Shaw,) Abigail b. 28 (10) 1667, (m. John Dearborn,) Jane b. 8 (11) 1670, (m. Benjamin Lamprey,) Benjamin b. 19 (7) 1673, Stephen b. 8 (1) 1675-6, Mercy b. 11 (10) 1677, (m. Samuel Dearborn,) Mary b. 18 (7) 1679, Samuel b. 10 (10) 1680-1, Jonathan, Theodate, (m. Morris Hobbs,) Thomas, Joseph b. 9 (6) 1687, Mary b. 17 (8) 1688.

 

His first wife d. 8 (12) 1675-6; he m. 2, 31 (8) 1676, Mary (Carter) widow of John Wyman of Woburn, Mass.; he m. 3, 23 Oct. 1689, Elizabeth, widow of John Knill.

 

He d. 17 (10) 1710, "aged about 80 years."

 

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Stephen Bachiler (1561- 1657 or 1660) was born in England, and immigrated to America on William and Francis in 1632, into Boston. An early graduate of St. John's College, Oxford, he was vicar of Wherwell, Hampshire in 1587 and was removed from office as a Puritan. In 1630 he became involved in one of Sir Ferdinando Gorges' settlement attempts and was named as minister to the Plough Company (also known as the Company of Husbandmen), which received a 1600 square mile grant on the coast of Maine to be named as the Province of Lygonia. Bachiler's own departure from England was delayed when the Company's ship Plough sailed in 1631, and when he arrived in Boston found that the first immigrants had foregone settlement in Maine, choosing the Bay Colony instead. Bachiler himself first went to New Town (now Cambridge) and then to Saugus (now Lynn), establishing a church there of remnants of the Plough settlers. Frequently at odds with the Puritan theocracy of Massachusetts Bay, he went on to settle Hampton, New Hampshire, and eventually lived in Portsmouth. He returned to England in 1653 or 1654 after being denied a divorce from an adulterous young wife, and died in Hackney, north London, about 1657.

 

Reverend Bachiler married (1) Ann Bate (1551-1603) in England, by whom he had all of his six children; (2) Christian Weare in 1622; (3) Helena Mason, 1627; and (4) Mary Beedle, 1648. His grandson Nathaniel (1630-1709/10) accompanied him to America, and married in 1656 Deborah Smith, probably in Hampton, New Hampshire.^8,9

Note on Wife: Deborah * SMITH

Birth: 1640HamptonRoc kingham CountyNew Hampshire, USA

Death: Mar. 8, 1674HamptonRockingham CountyNew Hampshire, USA

Deborah Smith was born 1640 at Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire. She was the daughter of John Smith and Deborah Parkhurst . Deborah Smith married Nathaniel Batchelder on 10 December 1656, son of Nathaniel Bachiler and Hester Mercer, at Rockingham County, New Hampshire. Deborah died on 8 March 1676 at Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. Children:Deborah Batchelder b: 12 OCT 1657 Ruth Batchelder b. May 09, 1662 Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire-d.January 11, 1751 Dorchester, Suffolk Co.Massachusetts m. James Blake Esther Batchelder Abigail Batchelder Jane Batchelder Stephen Batchedler Benjamin Batchelder Family links: Spouse: Nathaniel Batchelder (1630 - 1710)* Children: Ruth Batchelder Blake (1662 - 1752)* Jane Batchelder Lamprey (1669 - 1740)* *Calculated relationship

Burial:Unknown

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Sources

1	"US and International Marriage Records, 1550-1900" (on-line, Yates Publishing, Provo, UT).

2	"US New England Marriages prior to 1700".

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4	"NH Census, 1790-1890".

5	"NH Death and Burial Records Index, 1654-1949".

6	"NH Birth Records, 1659-1900 Record".

7	"Find a Grave".

8	"ME Pioneers, 1623-1660".

9	Peter A Hutchinson, "Immigrants to America: Some Founders of Maine's Campbell and Packard Families".