| Daniel /Batchelder BIRTH 16 FEB 1765 Sandown, New Hampshire DEATH 6 MAY 1833 Cincinnati, Ohio BAPTISM 24 FEB 1765 Sandown, New Hampshire Daniel Batchelder of Sandown deeded to John Judkins of Candia land in New Chester February 20, 1787, and Judkins deeded to Daniel Bachellor of Sandown February 12, 1787, one half of lot 55 in the 2nd Range in Unity, New Hampshire, laid out to his grandfather, Samuel Judkins of Kingston. Daniel Batchelder of Unity deeded land in this same numbered lot to William Long of Unity November 29, 1788. Long re-conveyed to Daniel March 20, 1792. Daniel Batchelder (wife Phebe) of Unity sold it August 13, 1796, and sold other land in Unity June 12, 1797. Stephen Long had a son William born July 12, 1763. The deeds and the wife Phebe are sufficient to identify Elder Daniel as from Sandown. Daniel lived in Sandown until 1787 or 1788, when he moved to Unity. He sold out there 1796-7 and moved to Corinth, Vermont. Here he was an original member of the Free Will Baptist Chruch at West Corinth organized by Elder Ballard of Unity in 1798, and became the first pastor, after having been ordained October 4, 1799. He continued to preach more or less during the rest of his life. He was of Corinth in 1806, but moved to Bradford, Vermont before 1811, and was there 1814. He was of Piermont, New Hampshire in 1815, but of Corinth again in 1819. He lived in Coventry (now Benton), New Hampshire from 1823 to 1831. He was of Bradford in February 1832, but in that year or early in 1833 went to Ohio to "stay with" his daughter Asenath. On learning of the death of his son Chase, he went to Cincinnati from Asenath's to look after his effects, and died there. - from the Corrections to Pierce's Work by Charles Batchelder Benjamin Frank /Bachelder BIRTH 1841 Perry, New York B. Frank Bachelder enlisted in the 24th Independent Battery of Light Artillery, New York State Volunteers, which mustered at Buffalo on 30 August, 1862. This unit was stationed at Kingston, Whitehall, Goldsboro, and new Ber, North Carolina. The 24th had six detachments. Frank was at first in the Second Detachment under J.W. Merrill, Sgt. and E.T.M. Hurlburt, gunner, along with 15 other men. Later, Frank Bachelder was serving in the 4th Detachment and was promoted to Corporal on 4 April 1864. The 24th had the distinction of being selected to pioneer the new "Rocket Gun" technology. Multi-barreled launchers were developed to send out whirling, flaming, projectiles. These were expected to cut a swathe through massed troops and to ignite flammable targets. Field tests revealed, however, an unfortunate tendency of the rockets to "boomerang" on their launchers. Although testing continued, the 24th was sent off with conventional light artillery. Rockets were never perfected in time for Civil War service. The 24th was stationed at Plymouth, North Carolina, a village of about 1,500-2,000 people on the Roanoke, when confederate forces attached. The defending union forces were surrounded on 17 April, 1864 after being outnumbered 12,000 to 1,900. In the two hour battle, 180 union troops were killed. Facing annihilation, the union commander surrendered. Other units given up were the 85th N. Y. Inf., 101 and 103 Penn. Vols., 16th Conn., one company of the 12th N. Y. Cav. and two companies of the 2nd Mass. Heavy Artillery. Confederate losses were estimated at 2,200. Under the "black flag", negro soldiers were shot. Of the 59 men from Perry in the 24th, 46 died in southern prisons. Of the total 4 officers and 213 men in the 24th Light Artillery, 3 were killed in action, 2 died at home while in service, 10 died of disease in service, 2 died in the Charleston prison, 12 in the Florence prison, and 53 in the Andersonville prison. Frank Bachelder had developed fever while still at Plymouth. He was placed in the hospital at Andersonville. Sgt. Merrill wrote that, "we thought he would recover, since, up to the day of his death, he was able to walk about. . . In his camp life and prison life, his christian character was manifest. . . he kept his Testament and conversed on it with his tentmates. Suffering with a "congestive chill", Frank died on 16 July 1864. The cause of death was listed as "intermittent fever". Merrill wrote that he would surely have survived with proper treatment and medicine. His grave at Andersonville was #3447. There is also a marker in the Hope Cemetery at Perry, New York., "Frank Bachelder, NYS Vols., d. Andersonville, 7-16-1864, 22 yrs." He was single; there is no pension record. In addition to parents, Frank left sisters; Harriet, Amanda and Maranda (twins_; aunts and uncles: James and Lydia Bachelder, Sylvanus and Mary Cemantha Bachelder; Clark and Hannah Sanford; Horace (and the late Mary) Havens; C. and Permelia Wheeler; Elnathan and Malvina Millspaugh; Alpheus and Eliza Simmons; Rufus; and Thomas Lowell Bachelder. - from "Records of the 24th Independent Battery, J. Wheat Merrill, (Ladies Cemetery Association of Perry), 1870 Davis B. /Bachelder BIRTH BEF. 1 SEP 1734 North Hampton, New Hampshire DEATH 5 OCT 1816 1770 Settled in Northwood BAPTISM 1 SEP 1734 OCCUPATION Farmer Davis lived in North Hampton in his early life, but sold out there in June, 1768 and the next month bought land at East Northwood. He moved to Northwood about 1770, as his son Simon deposed in 1837 that he had lived in Northwood since he was twelve years old. The Nottingham town meeting of March 27, 1770, elected Davis a highway surveyor. Davis was taxed in Northwood to 1793, but not in 1794. He was not financially prosperous in his later years. He was one of the organizing members of the Baptist church July 27, 1779. He deeded a lot of land to the church in 1781. - from the Corrections to Pierce's Work by Charles Batchelder |
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