Robert m. Mary _____; she m. (2) the Rev. Stephen Bachiler and (3) Thomas Turner. Mary is the basis for the character of Hester Prynne in Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter." Robert had a grant in Kittery, ME adjoining John Simmons from Thomas Gorges in 1641 (- "Gen. Dict. of ME & NH", p. 87). The surname Beedle or Beadle refers to an attendant.
From: CRBCC@aol.com via internet 31 Oct 1998 - Not Verified by AEM:
"Descendants of Robert Beedle - Generation No. 1
" 1. ROBERT1 BEEDLE (Source: "Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire" by Noyes, Libby, and Davis.) died Abt. 1648. He married MARY BAILEY Abt. 1641. Notes for MARY BAILEY: GDME&NH, under Stephen Batchelder, he m. 4th unhappily the widow, Mary Beedle of Kittery, with whom in 1650 he was ordered to live. The same yr. he was charged with marrying without bans. Oct. 16, 1651, she and George Rogers were convicted; 14 Oct. 1652 she was presented for entertaining idle prople on the Sabbath. She asked for a divorce 18 Oct 1656, alleg. he had gone to England many years since and mar. again, herself and two invalid ch. destitute on her hands.
"Second marriage to the Reverand Stephen Bachiler, 60 yrs her senior. While married to him she had a fling with the neighbor and for adultery was sentenced to be flogged and branded with the letter A. She eventually got a divorce from him and married a third time to Thomas Turmer in 1657.
"Source: "Staples Family History Association" Newsletter Vol. 3, No. 2, Jan 1980:
Mary Batchelder (ca 1620 - 1685) of Old Kittery, Maine, created in the community shock waves that still reverberate twelve generations later. As the third wife of the Rev. Stephen Batchelder, 87 years old, Oxford graduate, weary veteran of a lifetime of losing contests with both Church of England and Puritan hierarchies, she vaulted into the history books by adultery with next-door neighbor George Rogers and a subsequent sentence by the Georgiana (York) court to be flogged and branded with the letter "A" ("Old York", "Romance of the Maine Coast," Sylvester, Vol. II, 559-363). Not so well known is her remarkable recovery from public humiliation to a position of stature and respect in the community. Mary's triump over adversity, and her growth in character rivaled that of Hawthorne's heroine in "The Scarlet Letter", Hester Prynne.
"A Disastrous Second Marriage and Decade of Recovery. Mary was married three times: first about 1641 to Robert Beedle, fisherman-farmer, by whom she had daughter Elizabeth, wife of Peter Staples, and son Christopher; second to the Reverend Stephen Batchelder, sixty years her senior, who was the founder in 1638 of Hampton, New Hampshire, and its Congregational Church from which he was ousted after a feud with his assistant minister and the solicitation of his neighbor's wife while he was still married; third in 1657 to Thomas Turner who sold the Beedle homestead to Peter Staples in 1674. The first and third marriages were quiet, so prosaic that Mary would have died an obscure woman had she been limited to their experiences.
"Documented events of the decade between 1647 and 1657 tell the story of Mary's tempestous second marriage. In 1646-1647, the Rev. Batchelder, barred from preaching in the Massachusetts Bay Colony because of repeated dissention in former parishes, moved in with his grandson and godchild, Stephen Sanborn, two farmsteads below Mary Beedle on the Piscataqua River in Kittery. Mary soon became his housekeeper, an arrangement that disconcerted the neighbors, as Batchelder later reported to Gov. Winthrop. The situation was rectified by the two joining in marriage, exact date unknown because Batchelder, who performed the ceremony, failed to publish it, an omission for which he was fined 10 pounds, reduced later to five. On Feb. 14, 1648 the farmstead of her late husband Robert Beedle was confirmed to Mary by the Town of Kittery. On Oct. 15, 1650, at Georgeana (York) court, widower (and next-door neighbor) George Rogers and Mary Batchelder were presented for "incontinency for living in one house together and lieing in one room". A year later on Oct. 15, 1651 in the same court they were presented for adultry and were sentenced to receive 40 stripes save one, she to receive hers at the first Kittery town meeting 6 weeks after delivery of her child, and she also was to be branded with the letter "A" (worn on the garment). The court also ordered the Batchelders to live together as man and wife. Instead, the Rev. Batchelder took refuge with his grandson in Hampton. In 1651 Mary's daughter, named Mary, was born. The latter eventually married William Richards, a currier from Portsmouth, N. H., and lived a solid churchgoing life in that community.
"On Oct. 14, 1652, Mrs. Batchelder was presented at the district court for entertaining idle people on the Sabbath (possibly haeassed Quakers). On Nov. 16, 1652, Mary signed the Certificate of Submission, the only woman signer along with 40 leading male citizens. That document, which was endorsed under threats by the stronger Puritan government of Mass. to use its militia unless Maine succumbed peacefully, turned Maine over to the jurisdiction of the Mass. Bay Colony. Maine was not to regain its independence until 1820. That Mary was chosen to inscribe the treaty is some indication of her stature in the community. She penned her own signature, an act only half the subscribers could do.
"Mary, husbandless in fact if not in law, in a frontier settlement with two children, acquired land by grant in 1653, and by lawsuit in 1654. Then in June 1654 the York court ordered Thomas Hanscom, age 31, "not to live with" Mary Batchelder. Further investigation reveals Mary's plight. At the Oct. 1651 adultery trial both she and the Rev. Batchelder sought divorce but were denied it. By the time Hanscom was living with Mary, her legal husband was in England where he remained until his death at age 99.
"Mary had found an attractive man from the Hanscom shipbuilding family, but was barred legally from marrying him. Finally, in 1656 Mary solved her dilemma. In this year she appealed to the Mass. General Court to obtain a divorce and remarry. She apparently obtained it, for she married Turner a year later. The substance and eloquence of her plea is moving. She tells the court that she does not want to live on the "common charity of others", that her husband is in England married to a fourth wife, that she needs her freedom to remarry for assistance in rearing two ailing children and preserving her estate. She is saying give me liberty and I will not be a welfare case. She achieved her goals, gained a husband more her age, saw two daughters married well, and conserved her estate which she passed on to her son-in-law, Peter Staples. Connection of Mary Batchelder with Hester Prynne. For his services as a Mass. Bay Colony commissioner, Capt. William Hawthorne, immigrant ancestor of distinguished novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, was rewarded with 870 acres of prime land on the Piscataqua River three farms north of Mary Batchelders. Years later, Nathaniel Hawthorne, noted as an avid scholar of colonial history, soaked up local history during extended visits to the Kittery area. His journal does not mention the name of Batchelder, but does note a young woman doomed to wear the letter "A" on the breast of her gown under an old colony law as punishment for adultery. A book (1) published at the time of the Eliot centenniel in 1910 states that Mary Beedle Batchelder was the woman upon whom Hawthorne patterened the heroine of the "Scarlet Letter". The description of Hester Prynnes's cottage closely parallels that of Mary on what was to become the Staple property. The evidence is strong that Hester Prynne was a character derived from Hawthorn's extensive knowledge of the history of Kittery in Colonial times. Hester was a victim of Puritan intolerance in Boston, Mary of Cavalier justice at old York.
"Hester and Mary were both strong, self-reliant, and iron-willed but with different styles. Mary was an outspoken battler, active in community affairs, aggressive in managing her estate and seeking a new husband. Hester was quiet, reserved, accepting her penance of loneliness gracefully apart from the village in an isolated cottage, graciously defiant with her aristocratic bearing, calmness of speech, and pride in self-support by needlework. Both won community respect but by different means.
"Literary and social critics have assessed Hester's conduct for almost 130 years. The orthodox Puritans among them have said the stain of sin persists, its permanent effect warping. Others, notably Mark Van Doren, have hailed Hawthorne as the Homer of ancient New England, and Hester as its most heroic creature, almost a goddess. In between these extremes some have said Hester expiated her sin, gained wisdom, self-knowledge, spiritual power, and hence greatness. Others have said that society sinned more than Hester by overpunishment of one who responded to a natural urge. Others say that sin is relative, it depends on what the sinner thinks is sinful and what it does to the personality and psychic balance. Virtually all attest to Hester's heroicism in her self-reliance and calm steadfatsness. Mary likewise exhibited self-reliance and steadfastness; she, too, was of heroic proportions.
"Children of ROBERT BEEDLE and MARY BAILEY are:
i. ELIZABETH2 BEEDLE, b. 1641, Kittery, York Co. Maine (Source: Family Tree Maker user home pages "Ancestors of Nathan & Nicolas Robbins"); d. Aft. 1720, Kittery, York Co., Maine (Source: "Old Kittery And Her Families" by Stackpole.); m. (1) STEPHEN EDWARDS; m. (2) PETER STAPLES, 1673, Kittery, York Co. Maine.
"Various deeds indicate pretty plainly that she was a daughter of Robert Beedle, though absolute proof is lacking.
"The same day that the town granted to her five acres, there were granted "to Christopher Beadle ten acres of upland at ye head of ye lot, that was his father's in ye Long Reach".
"Notes for PETER STAPLES: From "Old Kittery And Her Families" by Stackpole: Peter Staple, as the name was for a long time written, had a grant of land in 1671, and he bought land of Thomas Turner on Long Reach 4 July 1674. He and wife Elizabeth deeded this to son Peter in1694. March 9, 1679, there were "measured and laid out unto Peter Staple five acres of land by town grant to his wife in her widowhood bearing date in December 13, 1669." See York Deeds, V. Part 1 fol. 87. The town records of Kittery say that 13 Dec. 1669, there were "granted to Elizabeth Edwards five acres of upland joining to ye above said Christopher Beadle's land." This shows that Peter Staple married Elizabeth, widow of Stephen Edwards. Compare page 92. Various deeds indicate pretty plainly that she was a daughter of Robert Beadle, though absolute proof is lacking. The same day that the town granted five acres to her there were granted: to Christopher Beadle ten acres of upland at ye head of ye lot that was his father's in ye Long Reach." The will of Peter Staple, dated 6 June 1718, was probated 7 April 1719. Made his will June 6, 1718, "being aged".
ii. CHRISTOPHER BEEDLE, d. Abt. 1708, Kittery, Maine."
Ancestry.com suggests the meaning of the surname: "English [variant of Beadle]: occupational name for a medieval court official, from Middle English bedele (Old English bydel, reinforced by Old French bedel). The word is of Germanic origin, and akin to Old English beodan to command and Old High German bodo messenger. In the Middle Ages a beadle in England and France was a junior official of a court of justice, responsible for acting as an usher in a court, carrying the mace in processions in front of a justice, delivering official notices, making proclamations (as a sort of town crier), and so on. By Shakespeares day a beadle was a sort of village constable, appointed by the parish to keep order."
Cf. "Tom's Genealogy Pages" at http://tomclough.com/p20.htm
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[28512] Elizabeth's ancestry is from the unverified Hicks Family Tree in Ancestry.com in 2011 but does not seem to connect with the Connecticut family. Her marriage record: "Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey" (Baltimore, MD: Family Line Publications, 1994 & 1995, Vol. 2, p. 49: " 3rd da, 10th mo, 1724: Marriage of John Milborn and Elizabeth Chapman, dau of Robert Chapman accomplished, parents present expressing consent."
[27078] Find A Grave memorial 82748924 states "Daughter of Christina Reber Cooperin and Henry Joseph Fry."
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