I have Deerfield Town Clerk records 1766-...microfilm on loan right now, will check in the next couple of days to see if your Batchelders are listed. I've seen quite a bit of other stuff pertaining to the Batchelder name, will check for Stephen. Regards, Jeff ---------- > From: John Clement <jclement@sprynet.com> > To: NHROCKIN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: BATCHELDER; 1755-1800; No. Hampton > Deerfield, Rockingham co., NH > Date: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 2:50 PM > > Surnames: BATCHELDER, DALTON, COTTON, HUTCHINGS > > Seeking the descendants of Stephen BATCHELDER; b. 19 Jan 1755 at > North Hampton, New Hampshire; son of James BATCHELDER and > Mehitable DALTON; m. Sarah COTTON, daughter of Thomas COTTON, at > New Hampton, New Hampshire; d. 6 Mar 1847 at Exeter, Maine, at > age 92. > > He is listed in the Batchelder Genealogy as number 395, pp. 183- > 184. > > Stephen Batchelder resided in Eppingham (sic), New Hampshire and > Jonesboro, Maine (Batchelder Genealogy, pp. 183). I am convinced > Eppingham is a typo and should have been Effingham; also I can > not confirm that he was ever in Jonesboro, Maine. > > I can not find any town in NH named Eppingham. Someone > arbitrarily changed Eppingham to Epping and placed five of the > children as born in Epping, NH (Ancestral File numbers 18KM-MS6, > -MQR, -MPK, -MRO, -MTD) which will certainly confound any > researcher using Ancestral File. > > The U.S. Census schedules show Stephen living in Deerfield > (Rockingham county) (1790-1800) and Effingham (then Strafford, > now Caroll county) (1810), New Hampshire; and then Wellington, > Somerset county, Maine. > > So it is probable that at least the first five children were > born in Deerfield, NH and not Epping. > > In his 1832 pension application as a veteran of the > Revolutionary War, Stephen Batchelder stated he was born in > North Hampton, New Hampshire and after the war lived at > Deerfield, NH until 1800; then to Effingham, NH until 1827, then > to Wellington, Maine. (Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary > War Pension Files (Waynesboro, Tennessee : The Nat'l Historical > Publishing Company, 1990), 1:107). > > Children of Stephen Batchelder and Sarah Cotton were as follows. > Children i thru v listed in the Batchelder Genealogy, pp. 183- > 184. Unknown presumed daughters vi and vii picked up from the > U.S. Census schedules. > > i. Sarah BATCHELDER, probably born 1785-1790 (1800 census). > > ii. John BATCHELDER, probably born 1785-1790 (1800 census). > > iii. Cotton BATCHELDER, probably born 1785-1790 (1800 census). > > iv. Mary BATCHELDER, probably born 1790-1800 (1800 census) > > v. Stephen BATCHELDER; b. 6 Oct 1791 at North Hampton, New > Hampshire; m. Betsey HUTCHINGS 31 Oct 1819 at Wakefield, New > Hampshire. He is listed as number 950 in the Batchelder > Genealogy, p. 250. I have extracted his descendants from this > genealogy. My main interest lies in his siblings. > > vi. Presumed unknown daughter BATCHELDER, probably born before > 1790 (1790 census) > > vii. Presumed unknown daughter BATCHELDER, probably born 1795- > 1800 (1810 census) > > John Clement, 6940 E. Girard 205, Denver, CO 80224-2917 Email: > jclement@sprynet.com Voice: 303-691-0613 > Permanent Email address: johnClem@who.net > > --- > John Clement, 6940 E. Girard 205, Denver, CO 80224-2917 > Email: jclement@sprynet.com Voice: 303-691-0613 > Permanent Email address: johnClem@who.net > > > ==== NHROCKIN Mailing List ==== > RootsWeb Mailing Lists Archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > Rockingham County, NH, GenWeb: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/1706/ > List Administrator: RMarston@pacbell.net > > ============================== > Support free genealogy on the Internet! Join RootsWeb.com today! > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html >