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GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 41
Lynn. Instead of this, he remained and formed another
church of his friends, that is of those who came over with
him.
This conduct gave great offence to "the most and chief
of the town" of Lynn, and they entered a complaint against
Mr. Bachiler to the assistants who forbade him to proceed
in the organization of his church until the subject was considered
by other ministers. Still he goes on. The magis-
trates require his attendance before them. He refuses to
obey; they send the marshall who brought him into their
presence. He submits and agrees to leave the town in three
months.
Mr. Bachiler was admitted a freeman May 6, 1635, and
removed from Lynn to Ipswich in Feb. 163H, where he received
a grant of fifty acres of land, and had the prospect
of a settlement ;
place.
but some difiiculty arose and he left the
Gov. Withrop in the first volume of his history, under
the date of March 30, 1(338, has the following passage :
"Another plantation was now in hand at Mattakeese
["MOW Yarmouth," \s written on the marginjsix miles beyond
Sandwich. The undertaker of this was one Mr. Batcheller,
late pastor at Saugus, (since called Lynn) being about 76
years of age ;
season."
yet he walked thither on foot in a very hard
"He and his company, being all poor men, finding the
difiiculty, gave it over and others undertook it."
Mr. Bachiler settled in the easterly part of Mattakeese,
at a place which is known to this day as "OW Town." The
names of his associates are not given ; probably the company
consisted of persons who belonged to, or were connected
by marriage, with the family of Mr. Bachiler, namely,
sons, sons-in-law and grand-sons, with their families.*
Bachiler probably obtained the consent of Mr.
Mr .
Collicut, to whom the lands at Mattakeese had been granted,
before he undertook to establish a plantation ; for without
*There is a remarkable parallelism between the character of Mr.
Bachiler and thatof Mr. Wm. Nickerson, the ancestorof the family of
that name. Both were, or assumed to be, i-eligious men; bi>th were
stiff-necked and wayward; both were often involved in difHculties;
both were undertakers of uew plantations, and in both their families,
the same clannish feeling prevailed. Bachiler had more wives and
Nickerson more law suits; the former "undertook" several plantations;
the latter only or.e; otherwise their histories were parallel.