ORIGIN: Unknown. CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Watertown church prior to 6 May 1635 implied by freemanship. Admitted to Dedham church, with his wife, 30 July 1641 [DeChR 25]. FREEMAN: 6 May 1635 (as "John Batchel[e]r," seventh in a sequence of eight Watertown men) [MVCR 1:370].