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Nov 1, 2014 · In 1651, while married to the elderly Stephen, Mary was convicted of adultery with her next door neighbor, widower George Rogers by whom she became pregnant. George received flogging of "forty stripes save one" and, following the birth of their child which adulteress Mary named as Mary Bachiler instead of Mary Rogers, Mary was flogged with 40 ...
Dec 31, 2022 · He was constantly harassed and chastised by foes and government authorities and forced to move to new settlements where he attempted to preach in peace. He may have even been one of the real-life figures which inspired the character, Rev. Dimmesdale, in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.
May 1, 2006 · Mary accepted a job as housekeeper for the 83 year old reverend who came to Kittery from Lynn, Massachusetts in 1644, the widower Stephen Bachiler (Batcheler). He was recently excommunicated by the Puritans for allegedly attempting to seduce a neighbors wife in nearby Hampton, New Hampshire, a town that he helped found in 1638.
At the same time, beginning to form in his head was a tale parallel to the real-life Mary Magdalene Bachiler: This would become one of his most successful novels, The Scarlet Letter.
A Red-hot 'A' and a Lusting Divine: Sources For The Scarlet Letter, New England Quarterly article from 1987 which examines the possibility that Bachiler's fourth wife was the inspiration for Hester Prynne in Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter.
Jan 3, 2023 · After arriving in New England, Stephen settled near his daughter Theodate and her husband, Christopher Hussey, at Lynn in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Lynn was founded three years earlier in in the summer of 1629. It was known by the Native American name of Saugus for eight years before the present name was adopted in November 1837.[i] Lynn is now part of the greater Boston area, located ...
Jan 2, 2023 · Stephen Bachiler began his journey to Massachusetts when he was 71 years old. He sailed on the William and Francis with his third wife Helena, daughter Deborah, seven grandsons*, and some of his Hampshire church followers.
