Philemon Batchelder (1773 - 1849)

Born 14 Feb 1773 in North Haven, Litchfield, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Skinner) Batchelder — married 1806 in Connecticut [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 6 May 1849 at age 76 in Montville, Geauga, Ohio, United States

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Biography

Philemon was born in 1773. Philemon Batchelder ... He passed away in 1849. ^[1]

Birth

Birth 14 FEB 1773 North Haven, Litchfield, CT^[2][3]

Marriage

Husband: Ruben Bachelor

Wife: Mary Hill

Child: Esther Batchelor

Child: Ruben Batchelder

Child: Esther Batchelder

Child: Mary Batchelor

Child: Lydia Batchelder

Child: Susanna Batchelder

Child: Philemon Batchelder

Marriage 27 MAR 1757 New Haven, CT^[4]

Both of New Haven were married by Rev. Mr. Isaac Stiles

Notes

Baptismal dates for Lynus(Linus), Matilda, Sally, and Corinne recorded in Vol I of an 1896 history of Waterbury, CT edited by Joseph Anderson. Full title is: THE TOWN AND CITY OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, FROM THE ABORIGINAL PERIOD TO THE YEAR EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-FIVE". The name was spelled Bacheldor.

Ancestry.com federal census CD with CT state census:

Name: Bachellor, Philemon Year: 1810

County: NEW HAVEN CO. State: CT

Page: 651 Location: WATERBURY 1ST SOCIETY

1820 Federal census. New Haven, Litchfield co, CT. PP. 358

Philemon shown as HH

2 males under 10

1 male under 16

1 male 45 and older

2 females under 10

1 female under 16

1 female 45 and older.

Family involved in agriculture.

1830 Federal census. New Hartford, Litchfield co, CT. PP 308

Philemon shown as HH.

1 male age 15-20

2 males 20-30

1 male 50-60

2 females 15-20

1 female 20-30

1 female 50-60

HISTORY OF GEAUGA COUNTY...:"Philemon Batchelder, and his son, Benjamin N. Batchelder, came to Montville about this time, 1835, and purchased a farm of Guy Carlton, in section number twenty three, where B.N.B now resides. Philemon died many years ago." Philemon died in 1849, and this book was published in 1880.

From BATCHELDER HISTORY:

Gives date and place of birth. He married Mary Skinner late in life, and they had seven children.

Philemon was a farmer and lived in CT until he was about sixty years old. He then moved to Ohio and settled on land 2 miles south of Montville Center which his son, Lyman, had taken up and lived there until his death.

"He had an attack of what is now called Acute Indigestion, and to get relief he took Opium. But unfortunately and unintentionally an overdose, and never came out of the lethargy, dying on May 6, 1849." He was buried on the NW corner of the farm across from the old red schoolhouse. Frank Bill owned the farm in Oct, 1922. Several of Philemon's children attended school there. The people in the area planned to make a neighborhood cemetery there.

In person Philemon was rather short and heavy, without being fleshy. He was a fine looking man with large, full, remarkably pretty blue eyes. He was an honest hard working man, who never engaged in speculation. He thoroughly disliked a horse, and could not bear to use or take care of one. The old New England type of work team was a yoke of oxen and a horse hitched ahead of the oxen. We all know that such a team would by nature be unfitted to work together as the horse walks fast, and the oxen walks moderately. Lyman being the oldest of the family had to ride the horse, while his father,...held the plow handles.

James has a very vivid impression that his mother was sitting in the south door of their house one day holding Jane and himself, when grandfather came and handed her some pears with the remark: "for the twins". He was in his shirt sleeves and his white, thick beard was of two or three weeks growth.

When Melissa was old enough she would go to see her grandfather frequently. When she was about three, she went down there and her grandfather had cider which had just commenced to turn and had that tingle, which is so palatable. He gave her a little and set the pitcher on the shelf. In a short time, Melissa pushed a chair up to the shelf and, climbed up on it and helped herself to the cider and drank until she was as full as a tick and staggered, fell down and "rolled around in regular old soak style".

A few days later she visited her grandfather again and asked for cider. He gave her a little, and she wanted more. He refused to give it to her. "She became quite wrath, and thinking to give her grandfather a body blow said, 'Yous sinks yous awsully bid man dones yous grandpa?' which pleased the old gentleman so he laughed heartily."

Sources

1. ↑ Entered by Christina Miller, Nov 20, 2011
2. ↑ Source: #S00129 Page: pp. 4
3. ↑ Source: #S00117
4. ↑ Source: #S00412 Page: pp. 402

See also:

• S00117 American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) Ancestry.com

• S00129 Author: Reed, Adeline Batchelder Title: BATCHELDER HISTORY Publication: Name: Typewritten pages in a notebook Call Number: 929.1. R323 NOTESource Medium: Book

• S00412 VITAL RECORDS OF NEW HAVEN 1649-1850 Publication: Name: Part I. The Hartford Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America. 1917 Book