CHATER, Lt. John
1618 - 1671 (53 years)
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Name CHATER, Lt. John [1] Birth 1618 Tynemouth, Northumberland, England 
Gender Male Death 19 Sep 1671 Wells, York, Maine, USA Person ID I9678 My Genealogy | Laviolette Ancestry, Laviolette Ancestry Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
Family EMERY, Alice, b. 30 Nov 1622, Romsey, Hampshire, England d. 1680, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 57 years) Marriage 5 Oct 1644 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA [3] Children 1. CHATER, Lydia, b. 12 Jan 1648, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 1657, Massachusetts, USA (Age 8 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 2. CHATER, Hannah, b. 7 Aug 1644, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 1678, Newington, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA (Age 33 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F7139 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
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Birth - 1618 - Tynemouth, Northumberland, England 
Marriage - 5 Oct 1644 - Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA 
Death - 19 Sep 1671 - Wells, York, Maine, USA = Link to Google Earth
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John Chater
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Notes - Except for two or three minor court actions, little is known about Chater's life at Newbury except an unhappy phase of his matrimonial experience. Sometime in 1652 he was lying seriously ill as was also one of his servants, Daniel Gunn, a Scotchman who had been deported and sold into servitude after the battle of Worcester. Alice Chater, carrying food to Gunn, told him that, if her husband should die, he should be her husband, of which prospect the young man took immediate advantage. Eighteen months later she confessed to her invalid husband in the hearing of William and Isabel Houldred, who were visiting them. Adultery was a capital offense and Gunn and Alice Chater were soon before the magistrates and in peril of their lives. The verdict of the jury before whom they were tried in the county court-whether it was "guilty" or "not guilty" does not appear-was not satisfactory to the judges, and the case was sent to the higher court in Boston as were the prisoners. On May 14, 1654, perhaps hesitating to inflict the death penalty, the governor and council stated that they were not guilty according to law but that, because of her shameful and unchaste behavior, Alice Chater should be severely admonished and stand tied to the whipping post for one hour and then be discharged that she might return to her husband, while Gunn, after Mr. Lunerius, the physician, had restored him to health, was to be whipped.5 The unhappy young Scot did not long survive his ordeal.
In the meantime Newbury gossip was busy with the name of Isabel Houldred who was nursing Chater during his wife's absence, but the magistrates decided that it was unfounded when the usual presentment was made.
- Except for two or three minor court actions, little is known about Chater's life at Newbury except an unhappy phase of his matrimonial experience. Sometime in 1652 he was lying seriously ill as was also one of his servants, Daniel Gunn, a Scotchman who had been deported and sold into servitude after the battle of Worcester. Alice Chater, carrying food to Gunn, told him that, if her husband should die, he should be her husband, of which prospect the young man took immediate advantage. Eighteen months later she confessed to her invalid husband in the hearing of William and Isabel Houldred, who were visiting them. Adultery was a capital offense and Gunn and Alice Chater were soon before the magistrates and in peril of their lives. The verdict of the jury before whom they were tried in the county court-whether it was "guilty" or "not guilty" does not appear-was not satisfactory to the judges, and the case was sent to the higher court in Boston as were the prisoners. On May 14, 1654, perhaps hesitating to inflict the death penalty, the governor and council stated that they were not guilty according to law but that, because of her shameful and unchaste behavior, Alice Chater should be severely admonished and stand tied to the whipping post for one hour and then be discharged that she might return to her husband, while Gunn, after Mr. Lunerius, the physician, had restored him to health, was to be whipped.5 The unhappy young Scot did not long survive his ordeal.
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Sources - [S1744] Noyes, Libby and Davis, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, (Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society;), Pg 139.
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Unknown(64).jpg - [S2646] Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F Page(s) :441-452 Volume : Vol. II, C-F.
- [S1744] Noyes, Libby and Davis, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, (Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society;), Pg 139.