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Nathaniel /Bachelder/
BIRTH 1590 Southampton, England
DEATH 1645 Southampton, England
   Nathaniel was a merchant in Southampton, England, On Lay Subsidy Rolls there in 1627/8, 1628/9, 1640/1, 1641/2. In 1642 contributions for the relief of Ireland, Southampton, Holyroods Ward, Nathaniel Bacheler (Lay Subsidy Rolls, Hampshire (18 Charles I 175/543). He never came to America.
     - from Corrections to Pierce work by Charles Batchelder
Hester /Mercer/
BIRTH 1 AUG 1602 Southampton, England
DEATH BEF. 1631
   Hester was a neice of Rev. John Priaulx, Archdeacon of Sarum. Hester was baptized in the French or Walloon Church at Southampton. Her family belonged to the Walloon refugees driven from the Spanish Netherlands by the percecutions of the Duke of Alva (see the records of this church published by the London Huguenot Society).
Anna /Bachelder/
BIRTH Southampton, England
DEATH BEF. 1661
   Paul Mercer of Southampton left in his will - " my niece Anna, dau. of nathaniel and Hester Bachiler now the wife of Daniel du Cornet of
Middlebrough, merchant , as a marriage protion, 300 pounds current Flemish money or, in lieu therof, 100 7 4 score pounds current English money, at my executors choice. To her three younger brothers, my nephews, Francis, nathaniel and Benjamin Bachiler, 200 pounds, divided equally among them or the surviros of them. I give unto the grandchildren of my deceased sister Anna, begotton on the body of my late "niece" mary the wife of late John Bachiler, viz unto their eldest sone,
named John Bachiler, 60 pounds, unto his sisters Mary, Anna, and Margaret Bachiler and unto their brother, Paul Bachiler 600 to be by them four
equally divided."
(Ed. note: Included here, but needs documentation.)
Stephen /Bachelder/
TITLE Rev.
BIRTH 23 JUN 1561 Stoneham, Southampton, Hants, England
DEATH 31 OCT 1656
17 NOV 1581 Martriculated from St. John's College, Oxford
BET. 3 FEB 1585 - 1586 Admitted as Bachelor of Arts
15 JUL 1587 Instituted as Vicar of Wherwell,Hants by Lord La Warr
1605 Deposed of his Vicarage
5 JUN 1632 Arrived in Cambridge, MA on the "William and Mary"
    Began the first Episcopal Church in Lynn, MA
BURIED Allhallows Staining on Star Alley EC# at Mark Lane EC3, London, England
    Stephen Bachiler was born somewhere in England in 1561. At the age of
20 he entered St. Johns College, Oxford. He was matriculated November 17, 1581 and admitted as Bachelor of Arts, February 3, 1585. He determined to study for the ministry, being then a member of the established church. On the death of Edward Parrent, vicar of Wherwell in Hants, a village in Hampshire, on the river Test, on July 17, 1587 the
vacancy was filled when William West, Lord Lawarr gave it to Stephen.
    Rev. Stephen Bachelder (Bachiler) became a puritan and non-conformist. He preached against the Puritan doctrine and against the union of church and state. This is why he lost his Vicarage in 1605. He was excommunicated so no church record exists giving much information about him while he remained in England. He probably continued to preach where he could. In 1610 he appears to be a clergyman of the County of Southampton. On June 11, 1621, Adam Winthrop's diary shows that he "had
Mr. Bachelour, the preacher," to dine with him, presumably at Groton in Suffolk.
   Stephen was a loyal Hampshire man. It is certain that in 1622 he was living on a small property of his own in Newton Stacy, only a mile from his prior parish of Wherwell. He bought and sold land in the area as found in the "Feet of Fines" for Hampshire. In the State Papers of 1635
(Domestic Series) there is a petition from Sir Robert Paine, Church Warden of Barton Stacy, Hants, to the effect that some of his tenants, "having been formerly misled by Stephen Bachelor, a notorious inconformist, had demolished a consecrated chapel at Newton Stacy."
   During this time the Company of Husbandmen, also known as the Plough Company, was forming. They planned to send a band of settlers into New England to propagate their ideas. Hearing of Bachiler's fame, they asked him to become their paster, and; though seventy years of age, he accepted. Stephen's friend John Winthrup was arranging his own settlement in New England, and Stephen may have dreamed of establishing a colony of religious freedom of his own.
   On June 26, 1630, the Plough Patent was issued. A literal interpretation of the Plough Patent would include a large and valuable tract in South-Eastern Maine, taking in the present city of Portland. After a feeble attempt at settling in the area of the Sagadehock River, the troop found the land wild and sterile and moved to an area that was more fertile and prosperous near Boston.
   This was from Winthroup's History, dated July 6, 1631 "A small ship of 60 tons arrived at Natascot, Mr. Graves, master. She brought ten passengers from London. They came with a patent for Sagadahock, but, not liking the place, they came hither. Their ship drew ten feet, and went up to Watertown; but she ran on ground twice by the way. These were the Company called 'The Husbandmen' and their ship called 'The Plough.'
   After 'The Plough' visited Watertown it dropped back to Charlestown, and then went on to the West Indies, but returned after three weeks, "so broke she could not return home." So in the summer of 1631 the first colonists of 'The Plough' found themselves in the Massachusetts Bay, Their ship worthless and their ideas of settlement abandoned.
   Meanwhile the Company in London, thinking everything had gone well in New England, went on with their plans. Stephen Bachiler threw all his influence into the endeavor and enlisted some of his Hampshire parishioners and adherents as members of the Company.

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