Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

44 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
tery with George Rogers, and sentenced "to receive forty
stripes save one, at the first town meeting held at Kittery
six weeks after her delivery, and be branded with the letter
A." In October, 1656, she petitioned for a divorce from
Mr. Bachiler, because he had five years before "transported
himself to Ould England, and betaken himself to another
wife," and because she desired "disposing herselfe in the
way of marriage." Whether or not she obtained a divorce
does not appear on record.
Mr. Bachiler, atter his return to England, married a
fourth wife, his third being then living. At last he died in
the year 1660, at Hackney, near Loudon, in the one hundreth
year of his age.*
No record of his family is preserved . Four sons and
three daughters are named. Henry, settled at Reading
Nathaniel, born about 1611, "a chip of the old block," settled
at Hampton, and Francis and Stephen, both remained
in London, the latter said to have been livinsr in 1685. Of
his daughters, one as before stated, married John Sanborn,
and died before 1632. Theodate, married Christopher
Hussey, and died in Hampton in 1649. Deborah married
John Wing of Sandwich. On the Yarmouth town records I
find the following entry : "Old Goody Wing desesed the
last of January, '91 and '92," that it Jan'y 31, 1692, N. S.
This record probably refers to Deborah, widow of the first
John Wing. Her son John resided at Sawtucket (now
Brewster), then within the corporate jurisdiction of Yarmouth,
and his aged mother probably resided with him.
There is no one beside to whom the record will apply. Her
age is not given, but an approximation to it may be made.
Her son Daniel of Sandwich, if he had then been living,
would have been 70 years of age, consequently the mother
must have been about 90 years of age at her death
*In preparing this article, I have consulted Gov. Winthrop's History,
thK Ph month and Mnssachnetts Records, Felt's, Ecclesiastical History,
Savage's Genealogical Dictionary, and Lewis's History of Lynn;
the latter gives the fullest sketch of the life of Mr. Bachiler yet published.
The reading of the extraats from the records, given by Mr.
Lewis, leave the impression on the mind that Mr. Bachiler was not
suoli a man as a minister of the gospel should be, A literary friend,
who for .several years has behn collecting materials for a memoir of
Mr. Bachiler, says he is not deserving of the odium which has been
heaped on his character.