Reverend Stephen Bachiler (M)
b. 23 June 1561, d. October 1656
Relationship=9th great-grandfather of Seth Alexander Moore.

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     Reverend Stephen Bachiler was born on 23 June 1561 at Wherewell, Hampshire, England.¹ He graduated on 3 February 1586 with a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. John's College, Oxford University, Oxford, England.^2,3 He married Ann Bate about 1587 at England.⁴ Reverend Stephen Bachiler married second Christian (--?--) on 2 March 1623 at Abbotts Ann, Hampshire, England.⁵ Reverend Stephen Bachiler married third Helena (--?--) on 26 March 1627 at Abbotts Ann.⁵ Stephen arrived on the William and Francis in 1632 at Saugus, Essex County, Massachusetts.⁶ He was admitted as Freeman on 6 May 1635.⁵ He lived from October 1638 to 1647 at Hampton, Norfolk County, New Hampshire.⁷ He married fourth Mary Bailey before February 1647.⁸ Reverend Stephen Bachiler returned to England after 1651.^9,10 He died in October 1656 at London, England, at age 95.¹¹ He was buried on 31 October 1656 at London.¹² The Lane Memorial Library web site has several articles about Reverend Bachiler.

Children of Reverend Stephen Bachiler and Ann Bate

Nathaniel Bachiler b. c 1590, d. c 1645⁵
Deborah Bachiler b. c 1592⁵
Stephen Bachiler b. c 1594⁵
Reverend Samuel Bachiler b. c 1597⁵
Ann Bachiler b. c 1601⁵
Theodate Bachiler b. c 1611, d. Oct 1649⁵

Notes and Citations:

1. [S22] Horace A.l Abell, Ancestors of Robert Abell (Rochester: Privately printed, 1933; reprint Fremont, California: Genealogy.com). Viewed online., page 9 "REV. STEPHEN BACHILER, born 1561, in Hackney, near London, England."
2. [S28] Stephen Bachiler, An Unforgiven Puritan, online http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/biog/bachilerunforgiven.htm, Victor C. Sanborn, Originally publication: New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, 1917, page 3 "At Oxford Bachiler continued until February, 1586, when he proceeded B.A.".
3. [S263] Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-33, (database online), The Generations Network Inc., Provo, UT, http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=4714, original source of data: Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-33 (Farmington, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995-2004). Page 3 "EDUCATION: Matriculated about 1581 at Oxford from St. John's College, and received his B.A. 3 February 1585/6."
4. [S27] George Freeman Sanborn, Jr., "Rev. Stephen Bachiler of Hampton: Some Additional Information", The New Hampshire Genealogical Record vol. 8, No. 1 (January 1991). Viewed online at http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/biog/bachilerdeath.htm.
5. [S263] Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-33, (database online), The Generations Network Inc., Provo, UT, http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=4714, original source of data: Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-33 (Farmington, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995-2004). Stephen Bachiler entry.
6. [S29] John Putnam Demos, Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England (New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 1982), ISBN: 0-9-503378-7, page 316 "In 1632, when he was already past seventy years old, the Rev. Bachiller sailed for New England accompanied by a number of relatives, friends, and ecclesiastical followers.
   Accepting a call to preach at Saugus (later Lynn) in theBay Colony, he became at once a center of contention there."
7. [S24] Frederick Clifton Pierce, Batchelder, Batcheller Genealogy, Descendants of Rev. Stephen Bachiler, of England (Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company, 1898; reprint Fremont, California: Genealogy.com). Viewed online., page 30 "His next removal was to Newbury, where, on the 6th of July, 1638, the town made him a grant of land, and on the 7th of October, 1638, the General Court of Massachusetts, in order to be rid of a troublesome pastor, and also to strengthen their claim to the territory, more than three miles north of the Merrimac, granted Mr. Stephen Bachiler and his company, who had petitioned therefor, liberty to begin a plantation at Winnicunnet, now called Hampton, N. H. On Tuesday, October 16, 1638."
8. [S302] Eleanor Campbell Schoen, "Our Fascinating Ancestor, Stephen Bachiler - A Presentation by Eleanor Campbell Schoen" (Presentation, Solomon and Naomi Cox Reunion, May 22, 1999). Hereinafter cited as "Our Fascinating Ancestor, Stephen Bachiler".
9. [S25] Alonzo Lewis and James R.l Newhall, History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts (Boston: John L. Shorely, 1865; reprint Fremont, California: Genealogy.com). Viewed online., page 159 "Soon after this, in 1651, Mr. Bachiler left the country and returned to England, where he married his fourth wife, being himself ninety years of age, and his third wife, Mary, being still living."
10. [S263] Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-33, (database online), The Generations Network Inc., Provo, UT, http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=4714, original source of data: Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-33 (Farmington, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995-2004). "Stephen Bachiler returned to England after these events, and most secondary sources claim that he made that trip in 1654 when his grandson Stephen Samborne returned to England."
11. [S27] George Freeman Sanborn, Jr., "Rev. Stephen Bachiler of Hampton: Some Additional Information", The New Hampshire Genealogical Record vol. 8, No. 1 (January 1991). Viewed online at http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/biog/bachilerdeath.htm., "That Mr. Bachiler returned to England in old age, after the collapse of his fourth marriage, has long been known. Reports that he died in Hackney, Middlesex, in 1660, aged 100 years, appeared in print, but were long ago disproved. These were based partly on tradition that he lived to a great age and died in England, and partly on a hasty conclusion made in error by someone reading material published in the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. vol. VIII. - Fourth Series."
12. [S27] George Freeman Sanborn, Jr., "Rev. Stephen Bachiler of Hampton: Some Additional Information", The New Hampshire Genealogical Record vol. 8, No. 1 (January 1991). Viewed online at http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/biog/bachilerdeath.htm., "Steeven Batchiller, minister, that died at Robert Barbers, was buried in the new churchyard Oct. 31, 1656."