| Abraham /Bachelder/, Jr. BIRTH 4 MAR 1744 Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire DEATH 24 AUG 1836 BAPTISM 3 MAR 1745 OCCUPATION Farmer BURIED Old Cemetery at Loudon Centre Abraham lived on his father's homestead in the easterly part of Loudon. His father deeded him land in Canterbury February 8, 1773, perhaps the homestead in question. He was known as Abraham Junior up to 1805, on the Loudon tax lists, and in deeds, but not in 1806 or after. The first town meeting of Loudon was held at his house March 23, 1773. On November 17, 1815, he deeded to Jonathan Bachelder his home farm "according to deed which my father" Abraham gave me. - from the Corrections to Pierce's Work by Charles Batchelder John /Batchelder BIRTH 27 MAR 1766 Candia, Rockingham Co., NH DEATH ABT. 1802 In 1788 John was living in Candia and engaged in a small scale lumbering business. He was probably living with his father at the time of the 1790 census. He was of Protectworth (now Springfield, New Hampshire), January 25, 1794, when he and Josh Webster of New Grantham were sued by John Jones of Allenstown on a $7.00 note dated at "Pembrock" June 11, 1793. Another suit was filed by Job Winslow, of Falmouth, Maine, previously of Lewiston. The story disclosed by the papers on file shows John bought a one half of tract of land on the Androscoggin River, with a sawmill and ferry connected, giving in payment a note of $324.16 dated Lewiston, March 19, 1796, receiving a bond for a deed, and also possession of an unrecorded deed from Phineas Frost to Winslow, the seller. John took this deed to Frost, and sold him the property for $300.00 in cash on April 5, 1796, surrendering the unrecorded deed, to leave title in Frost. Winslow was left with a note to collect. John went to Carinth, Vermont after this piece of high finance, and Winslow sued him there "in the summer of 1796", but dropped the action because John had no property there. John was in Corinth in August, 1797, when he sued Thomas Calnan, and May, 1798, when he sold land in Trecothick (now Ellsworth), New Hampshire, but moved to Danville, Vermont before September of that year, when he sold another lot in Trecothick. The next year John returned nearer home, and he and Aaron Ward, both of Danville, traders, bought a place in Lee, New Hampshire, near Wadleight's Bridge. Here John started to keep a store, and his creditors went into action. First, Josiah Hook of Brentwood attached on a note dated November 27, 1792, which called for payment in 5 ewes and four lambs in three years, with a rental of 9 lbs. of wool per year. Then Job Winslow sued on his note and recovered, although Zeruiah, Dorothy and Nathan Bachelder deposed that John had left the bond for deed with Lieut. Benjamin Batchelder of Candia, and Winslow had come there and agreed to accept the surrender of the bond as payment of the note. Next John's own lawyer, William Plumber of Epping, in June, 1800, sued him for legal serviced in these and various other actions, and had him arrested on the writ. Probably he was bailed soon after, and went west again to Vermont, Washington this time, where he died in or about 1802. - from the Corrections to Pierce's Work by Charles Batchelder Hazen Kimball /Batchelder BIRTH 16 APR 1793 Loudon, New Hampshire OCCUPATION Carpenter and farmer Hazen settled in Northfield on the banks of the Merrimack River, on a part of the Austin estate. He took long journeys on foot. Even after 90 years of age he could not stop to ride and it was said he could take long tramps after a hard day's work just to "stretch his legs." - from History of Northfield, New Hampshire, Part II, p. 19 Frank E. /Batchelder BIRTH 2 JUN 1872 Exeter, Maine DEATH 15 FEB 1971 BURIED Exeter Cemetery, Exeter, Maine Obituary - Exeter's oldest resident, Frank E. Batchelder of 21 Garfield Street, aged 98, died Monday at Mitchell Memorial Hospital in Brentwood. He was born in Exeter, June 2, 1872, son of the late Joseph and Nellie E. (James) Batchelder. For 45 years he was a member of the Exeter Fire Department, and the Hook and Ladder Company, and a member of Wehanownowit Order of Redman, and was holder of the Boston Post gold-headed cane. He is survived by sex daughter. . . one son, John J. Batchelder, Exeter; 16 grandchildren; several great-grandchildren; and nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 1:30 p.m. at the Brewitt Funeral Home, 14 Pine St., Exeter, conducted by Rev. Sestino Continelli, pastor of the Methodist Church. Burial will be in Exeter Cemetery. Jethro /Bachelder BIRTH 7 JUL 1761 DEATH 10 APR 1849 OCCUPATION Farmer Jethro lived in Loudon up to 1789, although that residence may have been interrupted for a short period, as the marriage record calls him of Chichester. He moved to Strafford, Vermont in time to be listed in the 1790 census. In a deposition in support of the pension application, in October, 1843, of Sarah Blake (widow of Elijah), Jethro Bachelder of Strafford, aged 79, states he moved to Strafford in 1785. Probably 1785 was the date of his first going to Strafford, but his complete transfer of residence, or leaving Loudon, was not until 1789. Hamilton Child's Gazetteer of Orange County, Vermont.(1888) - Business Directory, under trafford lists: Root, Don C. farmer, "farm settled by Jethro Bachelder." |
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