Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

40 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
followed their pastor in all his wanderings. Mr. Savage,
whose authority is not to be rejected on light or inconclusive
testimony, thinks the Husseys came over in the same
ship with ?tlr. Bachiler. The court records, and the decisions
of the ecclesiastical councils favor his supposition, and
it will be hard to show how the ubiquitous number of six
members is made up, if he is not right.
On the 9th of March, 1632, Mr. Bachiler and his company
embarked at London in the ship \\'illiam and Francis,
Capt. Thomas, and arrived in Boston Thursday, June 5,
1632, after a tedious passage of 88 days, and on the day
next after liis arrival went to Lynn.
Mr. Lewis* states that "In Mr. Bachiler's church were
six persons who had belonged to a church with him in England
; and of these he constituted a church at Lynn, to
which he admitted such as desired to become members, and
commenced the exercise of his public ministrations on Sunday,
the 8th of June, without installation." Four months
after a complaint was made of some irregularities in his conduct
. He was arraigned before the court at Boston, Oct.
3, when the following order was passed: "Mr. Bachiler is
required to forbeare exercising his gifts as a pastor or teacher
pul)liqely in our Pattent, unlesse it be to those he brought
with him, for his contempt of authority, and until some scan-
dies be removed." Mr. Bachiler, however, succeeded in
regaining the esteem of the people, and the court on the 4th
of March, 1633, removed their injunction against him. In
1635, some of the members became dissatisfied with the
conduct of their pastor, "and doubting whether they were
regularly organized as a church," withdrew from the communion.
A council of ministers was held on the 15th of
March, and after deliberating three days, decided ."that
although the church had not lieen properly instituted, yet
after-consent and practice of a church-state had supplied that
defect. So all were reconciled," says the record. Mr.
Bachiler, however, perceiving no prospect of terminating
the difficulties, requested a dismission for himself and the
six who had accompanied him from England, which was
granted, on the supposition that he intended to remove fi-om
*The dates given by the aiithoi- of the history of Lynn are not always
reliable. He states that Hussuy settled in Lynn in 1630. The evidence
favors the supposition that he did not come over till 1632.