Rev. Stephen Bachiler

Abt 1561 - Bef 1656  (~ 95 years)

• Name	Stephen Bachiler  [1]
  Prefix	Rev.
  Born	Abt 1561  [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Died	Bef 31 Oct 1656	London, England   [2]
  Buried	31 Oct 1656	Allhallows Staining, London, England   [2]
  Person ID	I2658	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	20 Nov 2020

  
  

  Family	(Unknown first wife of Stephen Bachiler),   d. Between 1610 and 1624
  Married	Bef 1590  [2]
  Children	+ 1. Deborah Bachiler,   b. Abt 1592, Wherwell, Hampshire, England ,   d. Bef 1680  (Age ~ 87 years)
  Last Modified	21 Sep 2015
  Family ID	F5015	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Emigrated 1632 on the William and Francis. First at Lynn, then Ipswich 1636 (supposedly), Yarmouth 1637/8, Newbury 1638, Hampton 1639, Portsmouth 1644. Returned permanently to England by late 1650 or early 1651. Early proponent of the separation of church and state; Wikipedia article here. Although he was 70 years old when he arrived in Boston in 1632, he immediately managed to outrage the theocrats of the Bay Colony by casting the only dissenting vote against the banishment of Roger Williams. "Along with Nathaniel Ward of Ipswich, Stephen Bachiler was one of the few Puritan ministers active in Elizabethan times to survive to come to New England. As such he was a man out of his times, for Puritanism in Elizabethan times was different from what it became in the following century, and this disjunction may in part account for Bachiler's stormy career in New England. But Nathaniel Ward did not have anything like as much trouble, and most of Bachiler's conflicts may be ascribed to his own unique character." [Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins]

  
  

• Sources

  [S2132] Genealogical Gleanings in England, Vol. I, With the Addition of Genealogical Gleanings in England (New Series) A-Anyon (1907) by Henry F. Waters. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1969. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England,1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S2906] Puritans and Pedigrees: The Deep Roots of the Great Migration to New England by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2018.