Rev Samuel BATCHELLER

Male 1707 - 1776  (68 years)


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  • Name Samuel BATCHELLER  [1, 2
    • He was born in Reading, Mass., educated at the public schools and fitted for college. He was graduated at Harvard in the class of 1731, being the first person born in Reading to graduate at a college. In 1732-4, he was master of the Reading school. He was settled in 1735 as pastor of the church in the West Parish in Haverhill. In 1769 and 1770 he was the representative to the General Court. He removed to Royalston, mass., where he died. Chase, in his history of Haverhill, refers to him as "a man of superior talents and attainments." He owned his father's homestead and also the Cordis farm, both of which were purchased by his father of Timothy Nichols. In 1777 Rev. Samuel Batchelder disposed of the homestead to Nathan Appleton and Oliver Wendall, of Boston, both men of wealth, who purchased it, it is said, as a place of safety and resort in case Boston should be destroyed by the British during the Revolutionary War. They sold the property to Thomas Evans in 1784 for $2000. He d. intestate. The inventory of his estate was filed May 18, 1797; his son John was administrator of the estate. He d. in Royalston, March 19, 1776. [1]
    Prefix Rev 
    Birth 11 May 1707  Reading, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Death 19 Mar 1776  Royalston, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I23680  Main Tree
    Last Modified 21 Jul 2021 

    Father John BATCHELDER,   b. 23 Feb 1666, Reading, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Nov 1732 (Age 66 years) 
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    Mother Sarah POORE,   b. 27 Oct 1671, Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Apr 1744 (Age 72 years) 
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    Marriage 10 Nov 1696  [1, 2
    Family ID F42599  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Hannah ? 
    Marriage 29 Jan 1734  Reading, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Children 
     1. William BATCHELDER,   b. 13 Feb 1750, Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Sept 1825, Hatborough, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)  [Birth]
    Family ID F42603  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 6 May 2021 

  • Sources 
    1. [S2452] Frederick Clifton Pierce, Batchelder, Batcheller Genealogy Descendants of Rev. Stephen Bachiler, of England and Joseph, Henry, Joshua and John Batcheller of Essex Co., Massachusetts.

    2. [S4959] Alfred Poore, Genealogist, "A Memoir and Genealogy of John Poore" Ten Generations: 1615-1880, (Alfred Poore, Salem Mass. 1881).