Person:Joseph Bachelor (3)

Estate of Joseph Batchelder of Wenham

"Administration granted Mar. 31, 1657, to Marke Bachelour on the estate of his father. Referred to Salem court for further orders. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 1, page 60.

Mark Bachelour brought in to the court 1 : 5 : 1657 an inventory of his father's and mother's estate, amounting to 84li. 10s. 4d. To be paid to his brother John, under twenty one years, and to his sisters, Elizabeth and Hannah, each under eighteen years. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 4, leaf 15.

Inventory of estate of Joseph Batchelder, deceased about ten years ago, taken Mar. 30, 1656-7 by James Moulton, Robert Gowing and Tho. Fiske: The Dweling house with 70 Akres of Land Lyeing to it wherof there is 6 Akres of it broken up: with an oarchard: & 7 Akres 1-2 of middow & thirtie Akers of Land more, 70li.; one father bed & two bolsters & one pillow, 4li.; one bedstead, 8s.; one Rugg, 14s.; one Blanket, 8s.; Curtaines ft Cnrtaine Rods, 10s.; one payre of Sheets, 8s.; one flock Bed, 10s.; one flocke Bed more with a flock Bolster, 8s.; an Iron pott & pott hooks, 9s.; one hake, 3s. 4d.; one Kittell, 16s.; one Brass pann, 5s.; one warmeing Pann, 3s.; one Iron Kittill, 6s.; one Iron Skilit, 5s.; one frieing pann, 2s.; Three Table cloathes & two Nappkines, 1li.; three pillowbeers, 12s.; one pewter platter, 5s.; one pewter Chamber pott, 2s.; other old pewter vessels, 6s.; earthang ware, 1s. 6d.; one Cubboard & Cubboard Cloath, 10s.; one Chist, 8s.; one Cheese press & Cheese fatt, 3s. 6d.; one Sword & belt & Bandilers, 17s.; two Tables, 7s.; one Chayer, 6d.; 4 Trayes, 2s.; one Beetle Ringe & three wedges, 2s. 6d.; Chafeing Dish & Candlestick, 2s.; Books, 15s.; one Cowe & one heifer, 5li. 15s.; total, 90li. 13s. 4d. The Widdow Batchelder is Debt^r to be paid out of the estate 7li. 10s. Received in Ipswich court 31 : 1: 1657 and administration granted. Essex Co. Probate Files, Docket 2,089."^[3]

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Willcox, Doris Schreiber. Massachusetts Descendants of the Rev. Thomas Wilson, Author Of The Pilgrims' Christian Dictionarie: Theophilus Wilson, Martha (Wilson) Bachelor, Mary (Wilson) Treadwell, and Their Nephew Samuel Taylor. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan 2009)
   163:13.
2. ↑ Putnam, Eben. Two Early Passenger Lists. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   75:223-24.

   Bachelor, Joseph, of Canterbury, co. Kent, and of Salem and Wenham, Mass., tailor, whose name appears on the second passenger list …, was of the parish of St. George. Canterbury, and was a bachelor, aged about 24 and upwards, on 22 Dec. 1628, when a licence was granted for his marriage with Elisabeth Dickinson, of the same parish, virgin, aged about 15, daughter of Susan Dickenson, of the same parish, widow. In this licence he is called Joseph Batcheler. The marriage was to be solemnised at Thanington. (Cowper's Canterbury Marriage Licences, Second Series, column 74.) The printed "Register Booke of the Parish of St: George," Canterbury, p. 24, contains the record of the baptism of Elizabeth Dickenson, daughter of Robert Dickinson, 10 Apr. 1614. The same parish register also shows that John, son of Joseph Bacheler, was buried 1 May 1631 (p. 184), that Mary and Martha, daughters of Joseph Bachelor and Elizabeth Diconson his wife, were baptized 20 June 1634 (p. 32) and were buried the same day (p. 185), and that Mark, son of Joseph Bacheler and Elizabeth Dickinson his wile, was baptised 4 Oct. 1635 (p. 32). Joseph Bachelor settled at Salem, whence he removed to Wenham. He died in 1 mo. 1647/8. (Cf. Pope, Pioneers of Massachusetts, p. 26.) He was probably a brother of Henry and John Bachelor, whose names appear on the same passenger list.

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Massachusetts, Probate Court (Essex County). The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts. (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1916, 1917, 1920)
   1:252-53.