The house in the photograph above is the Swett-Ilsley House in Newbury, Massachusetts,
originally built about 1670 by Stephen Swett, the father of Hannah Swett, John Badger's
second wife.

6. GILES BADGER (John, John, Humphrey?, ------, Thomas), immigrant to New England,
is supposed to be identical with Giles, the son of John [and Anne (Greenwaye?)] Badger of
Wotton, parish of St. Mary de Lode in the city of Gloucester, Co. Gloucester, England,
where Giles was probably born, perhaps about 1610. ...
     The will of John Badger of Wotton was proved in January 1638/9 and his son Giles was
to receive a dwelling house in Tayton, Gloucestershire.  Tayton is a parish about five miles
west of Gloucester.  It can be presumed that Giles and his brothers Richard and Nathaniel
made use of their inheritance to book passage to New England, no doubt sailing in the
spring of 1639.
     Very little is known about immigration to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1639, there
being only record of three ships, the Jonathan, the Beaver, and the Mary Rose.  Only
a (partial?) list for the Jonathan survives, but the sailing dates are not known.  She
supposedly sailed from Southampton with passengers from Hampshire.  The Beaver, of
London, arrived 22 June with passengers unnamed.  It is also unknown when the Mary 
Rose of Bristol sailed, but she arrived in Boston with 120 passengers (Charles Edward
Banks, The Planters of the Commonwealth [Boston 1930], 201 f.).
     The Badgers' ship probably arrived in Boston and they soon headed north to
Newbury.  As shown above, Giles purchased land in Newbury on 12 July 1639, that
date being the earliest record of him there or anywhere in this country, and a date
certainly comfortable with an immigration to New England in the spring of that year.
With his brothers Richard and Nathaniel, Giles is on a list of 91 freeholders dated 12
March 1641/2, concerning certain rights on the Newbury town commons (Currier,
Hist. Newbury 53-55).  This is the earliest record of Giles's brothers in New England,
although they doubtless came with him from England.
     It was about this time, 1642, that Giles married Elizabeth Greenleaf, no doubt in
Newbury.  She was baptized 16 Jan. 1621/2 in the parish of St. Margaret, Ipswich,
Co. Suffolk, England, and died, probably in Newbury, after 10 March 1690/1 when
she was mentioned in her son John's will, the daughter of Capt. Edmund and Sarah
(Moore) Greenleaf.  Elizabeth married (2) Richard Browne in Newbury on 10 Feb.
1647/8 (Newbury VR 2:25; Essex Co. Probate # 1234; William S. Appleton,
"The Greenleaf Ancestry" (NEHGR 38 [1884] 299f); Dorothy Greenleaf Boynton,
"Sara, First Wife of Edmund Greenleaf (1588-1663)" (NEHGR 122 [1968] 28-36.
     On 20 Oct. 1642, Edmund Greenleafe of Newbury deeded "in parte of his
portion with his daughter unto Gyles Badger" his house and lot of two acres
which he purchased for eight pounds from Richard Swayne.  About this time
Giles also bought four acres of upland and four acres of marsh from John
Baker (Newbury Town Recs., # 13, p. 47).
          The names of Giles and his brothers are on a list of 91 Newbury
freeholders dated 7 Dec. 1642.  This list was evidently compiled in anticipation of
a move by Newbury settlers inland three or four miles to a place along the
Merrimack River where they could find a new supply of arable land.  A strong
minority protested the move and together with other problems, it took four years
to complete the move.  Four-acre house lots in the "New towne" settlement at the
Merrimack were assigned as early as 1645 and were made in exchange for land
which had previously been granted at Parker River.  Giles Badger was assigned
Lot 63 and received "a house lott of foure akers at the new towne joyneing to
Fish street, he [having] resigned up his house lott at the old towne, into the
towne's hands."  Fish Street is today State Street, Newburyport.  By 1 March
1651, the priviledge [sic] of Giles Bader [sic] -- then deceased -- was held by
Richard Browne (Currier, Hist. Newbury 82-90, 93; Newbury Town Recs.,
#13, pp. 50, 64).
     Giles Badger was granted by the town "an house lott of foure akers next
John Bond scituate in the old Towne" in trade for "eleven akers & a halfe of
divident land & four akers of divident land belonging formerly to Mr. Greenleafe"
(Newbury Town Recs., #13, p. 78).  This record -- unfortunately undated --
may indicate that Giles returned to the Parker settlement.  However, this thought
seems negated by his purchase on 31 March 1646 from Thomas Hale, "late of
Newbury," for thirty-five pounds, of "threescore Acres ... in Newbury between
the Land of Mr. Richard Dumer on the North, Richard Knight on the South the
hyeway [on the east and the] Merrimacke on the West" ("ibid.," missing
material about the highway boundary assumed).
     In the years 1644 and 1645 "Goodman Badger and his wife are found
mentioned in the Wenham church records.  They first attended services there
on 17 Nov. 1644, but for the next year they failed to produce letters of
recommendation from their former church in Newbury, failed to contribute
financially (because of "inability, losses, expenses to strangers and travelers in
receiving them, and takeing Goodman Allin's child"), and failed to attend
services regularly.  The differences were still unresolved when Goodman
Badger is last mentioned in the records on 18 Dec. 1645 (Robert G. Pope,
ed., The Notebook of the Reverend John Fiske, 1644-1675 Publications of
the Colonial Society of Massachusetts Vol. 47 Collections [Boston 1974],
13, 15, 22, 33-36, 38-40, 42).
     Since the first names of these Badgers are never revealed, it cannot be
known if Giles and Elizabeth are the particular couple.  Giles's brother Richard
 "was" of Wenham in July 1644 when he took the freeman's oath, but there is
no evidence he had a wife.  However, there also seems to be no evidence that
he did not have a wife.  Brother Nathaniel may have been married, but
information in his case also is likewise insuffficient [sic].  Charles Henry Pope,
"The Pioneers of Massachusetts [1900; reprinted Baltimore 1977] p. 27,
believed it was Giles who was mentioned in the Wenham church records, but
information is lacking which would place Giles in Newbury or Wenham at this
time and the identity of the Wenham couple has not been resolved.  No
Badgers at all are found mentioned in the published Wenham Town Records
1642-1706 (Salem 1930).  [The Editor would like to point out that whereas
there is no evidence to place Giles at Wenham, there is some evidence to
show that Richard was there in 1644.  That Pope thought it was Giles who
was at Wenham is no evidence at all.  The Editor now has in his possession an
interleaved copy of Pope's book which was presented to him by Mrs. F.R.
Dodge, FASG.  It contains manuscript addenda by Mrs. Dodge and her
mother, Mrs. Mary Lovering Holman, FASG, which is sometimes very
valuable for manuscript addenda inserted by these two ladies, but on this
point there is no addendum.]
     About 1646 Giles Badger supposedly was granted in Newbury a
four-acre lot of William Chandler (John J. Currier, "Ould Newbury" in
Historical and Biographical Sketches [Boston 1896], 150).  He died in
Newbury, probably in that part now Newburyport, on 17 July 1647
(Newbury VR 2:541, confirmed by original record in Newbury Town Hall,
although some accounts show other dates).  In his will dated 29 June 1647,
proved 28 Sept. 1647, Giles Badger of Newbury left two thirds of his estate
to his wife and the other third part "to be paid to my sonne when he is 18
yeares of age, the benefitt of it to be improved for bringing up untill he be 18
yeares of age."  If his wife remarried, then she and his son were to divide
equally the estate.  Giles appointed "my father Greenleff," David Pearce,
Henry Short and Richard Knight, to divide his estate and they took a detailed
inventory of it on 12 Sept. 1647, showing a value of 153.9.8 [pounds,
shillings, and pence].  After debts were paid, there remained a balance of 129
[pounds].  Of course, Elizabeth remarried, and so by a bond dated 27 March
1655, Richard Browne was to pay "his wife's son, John Bager," 34 [pounds]
at age eighteen, "besides the half of the land left by the latter's father"
(Probate Rec. of Essex Co., 1:78-80).
     By her second husband, Richard Browne, Elizabeth had five children.  He
died in Newbury on 23 or 26 April 1661 and she proved his undated will in
the Ipswich Court on 24 June 1661 ("ibid." 1:339-342).
Child:
    John, b. 30 June 1643, Newbury; d. there, probably in that
       part now Newburyport, 31 March 1691; m (1) in Charlestowne,
       16 June 1663, Elizabeth Hayden who d. in Newbury, 8 April 1669,
       dau. of James and Elizabeth Hayden; (2) in Newbury, 23 Feb.
       1670/1, Hannah[3] Swett, b. Newbury, 7 Oct. 1651, probably
       d. there, between 20 March 1690/1, and 22 April 1691, dau. of
       Stephen[2] (John[1]) and Hannah (Merrill) Swett.  Ten ch., b.
       Newbury 1664-1683.

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