Mary (Carter) Batchelder (1648 - 1688)

Born 24 Jul 1648 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Died 16 Dec 1688 at age 40 in Hampton, New Hampshire

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Biography

Mary Carter was born July 24, 1648 at Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.^[1] She was a daughter of Rev. Thomas Carter and Mary Parkhurst.^[1]

Mary came to Hampton with Nathaniel Batchelder once they were married.^[2] Nathaniel was born in England, but came to Hampton in early life.^[3] She remained there with him and her large family for the rest of her life.^[3]

Mary died in 1688 at Hampton, New Hampshire.^[3] Nathaniel died January 17, 1719, at 80 years of age.

Family

Mary married twice.^[1]

She married (1) 23 April 1671 to John Wyman, Jr.^[1] He was killed 19 December 1675 at the Narraganset Fort Fight, as one of Captain Prentice's troops.^[4]

Mary married (2), probably at Woburn, 31 October 1676, as his 2nd wife, Nathaniel Batchelder.^[3].^[3] After Mary died, he married Elizabeth, widow of John Knill,^[3] as his third wife.

Child of Mary and John Wyman, Jr:

• John Wyman

Children of Mary and Nathaniel Batchelder:

1. Mercy Batchelder
2. Mary Batchelder
3. Samuel Batchelder
4. Jonathan Batchelder
5. Theodate Batchelder
6. Thomas Batchelder
7. Joseph Batchelder
8. Mary Batchelder

Mary was said to have been a cousin of Nathaniel's first wife, Deborah Smith,^[1] daughter of John and Martha Smith of Martha's Vineyard.^[3] Mary hesitated to marry Nathaniel, because he brought eight children with him from his first marriage^[3] She apparently left her son, John, with his grandparents, as his "education was attended to by her father."^[3] Mary and Nathaniel had nine more children together, for a total of seventeen, said to be the largest family in Hampton (as of 1910)^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Batchelder, Charles H. Batchelder and Carl W. Brage, Batchelder/Bachilder Genealogy Through Rev. Stephen Bachiler's son Stephen Bachilder: (A correction of the work on this family by Pierce), Carl W. Brage, ed., [manuscript] (1985), p. 6-8 (in particular part). This manuscript has been published as downloadable content (in five parts) to the [Lane Memorial (Hampton, New Hampshire) Library site, "Genealogy of the Batchelder Family of Hampton, New Hampshire."
2. ↑ Dow, Joseph, editor, History of the Town of Hampton, New Hampshire, From its Settlement in 1638 to the Autumn of 1892 Volume: 2, (page 589-590) Salem, MA: L.E. Dow, 1893, Archive.org, accessed December 3, 2014
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9} Quimby, Henry Cole, "Batchelder Family" New England Family History, Vol 3 Pages 421-24, New York: H. C. Quimby, 1910, Archive.org accessed December 3, 2014
4. ↑ Sewall, Samuel, with Sewall and Thompson, The History of Woburn, Middlesex County, Mass. from the Grant of Its Territory to Charlestown, in 1640, to the Year 1860 (pgs 118, 597) Boston: Wiggen and Lunt, 1868, OpenLibrary.org accessed December 3, 2014

See also:

• Wentworth, Edward Norris, The Genealogy of Edward Norris Wentworth Junior [Chicago : Printed by Hillison and Etten Co.], 1928. Project Submitted in Courses in Community Life and Advance Biology at the University High School, University of Chicago
• Johnson, Edward. Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Marriage Intentions, from 1640 to 1900 (Woburn, Mass., 1890) Part 1, Page 43