Christopher Batt

Bef 1601 - 1661  (> 60 years)

• Name	Christopher Batt  [1]
  Birth	Bef 6 Jul 1601  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Baptism	6 Jul 1601	St. Edmund's, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Gender	Male
  Death	9 Aug 1661	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [1]
  Alternate death	10 Aug 1661	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [2, 3, 4, 5, 7]
  Person ID	I21117	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	10 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	Thomas Batt,   b. Bef 30 Dec 1571   d. Bef 20 Feb 1632 (Age < 60 years)
  Mother	Joane Byley   d. Bef 24 Dec 1623
  Marriage	29 Sep 1600	St. Edmund's, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England   [2, 3, 5]
  Family ID	F12700	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anne Baynton,   b. 23 Sep 1602   d. Between 14 Mar 1679 and 21 May 1679, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	12 Oct 1629	St. Edmund's, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England   [1, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11]
  Children	+ 1. Anne Batt,   b. Bef 1 Aug 1630   d. 3 Oct 1688, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age > 58 years) + 2. Jane Batt,   b. Bef 18 Dec 1631   d. 1 Jan 1710, Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts (Age > 78 years)
  Family ID	F12512	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Feb 2024

  
  

• Notes

  One of TWK's twelve proven "gateway ancestors." He and his family emigrated in 1638 on the Bevis. First at Newbury, then Salisbury, then Boston about 1651. He was a tanner, then, in Boston, a merchant. Died after being accidentally shot by his son. Ian Watson (citation details below) notes that "the additional detail that the son was 'firing at a mark in his orchard' was reported as early as 1845 by Tristram Coffin and has been repeated many times since, but we are not aware of a reliable contemporary source for it."

  
  

• Sources

  [S7376] The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1636-1638 by Ian Watson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2024. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S1791] The Ancestry of Abel Lunt, 1769-1806, of Newbury, Massachusetts by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: The Anthoensen Press, 1963. [S2665] Brandon Fradd, "A New Royal Ancestry for Christopher Batt." The American Genealogist 79:85, Jan 2004. [S4444] Brandon Fradd, "The Stafford Marriage of Edmund Lowe: An Addition to the Ancestry of Christopher Batt1, Immigrant to New England." The Genealogist 17:86, Spring 2003. [S2204] Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966) by Walter Goodwin Davis. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1996. [S4303] Lineage of the Bowens of Woodstock, Connecticut by Edward Augustus Bowen. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1897. [S1791] The Ancestry of Abel Lunt, 1769-1806, of Newbury, Massachusetts by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: The Anthoensen Press, 1963., date and town only. [S2204] Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966) by Walter Goodwin Davis. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1996., date and town only. [S2665] Brandon Fradd, "A New Royal Ancestry for Christopher Batt." The American Genealogist 79:85, Jan 2004., date only. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013., date and town only.