John, eldest son of Robert and Elizabeth, was the heir to "Oakwell Hall" which was purchased by his grandfather, Henry Batte, in 1565. He was only eleven and a half when his father died and in accordance with the feudal privilegese of the county at that time, he became a ward of the crown. As was common practice, his wardship and its profits were bought by the family - his widowed mother Elizabeth and George Parry, who was his half sister Margaret's husband. He was 25 before he finally got possession of his property.
He was Captain in the regiment of Ogbrigg and Morley at the Battle of Adwalton Moor in 1643. He was a justice of the peace in West Riding. He came to Virginia with his family in 1646, but later returned to England where he died in 1652. His son John died in the Irish Sea while going back to England with his father.
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Henrico County, Virginia: Beginnings of Its Families: Part II, William Clayton Torrence
William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 24, No. 3., (Jan., 1916), pp. 202-210.
P 207 Thomas Batte, son of John Batte, Esquire, captain in the regiment of Agbrigg and Morley and justice of the peace in the West Riding, and his wife Maratha, daughter of Thomas Mallory, Dean of Chester; grandson of Robert Batte, fellow and vice master of University College, Oxford; great grandson of Henry Batte and great great grandson of Henry Batte, of Okewell in Birstall (in the West Riding, Yorkshire) who lived in the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, and until the second year of Queen Elizabeth(2).
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