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From: "Bassarch" <>
Subject: Re: [BASSETT-L] Nathaniel BASSETT, son of William of the Fortune
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 19:36:56 -0500
References: <3C8A8809.71107C78@ix.netcom.com>


Al and all others, here is what I have on Nathaniel and Dorcas Joyce.

Steven Bassett

Descendants of Nathaniel Bassett




Generation No. 1


1. NATHANIEL4 BASSETT (WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2 BASSET, WALTER1) was born 1628 in
Plymouth, Massachusetts, and died 16 January 1710/11 in Yarmouth,
Massachusetts. He married (1) HANNAH FREEMAN. She died 12 November 1709 in
Yarmouth, Massachusetts. He married (2) DORCAS JOYCE Abt. 1661, daughter of
JOHN JOYCE and DOROTHY COCHET. She was born Abt. 1640 in Sandwich, Cape Cod,
Massachusetts1, and died 14 November 1707 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts1.

Notes for NATHANIEL BASSETT:

One of William Bassett's seven children, born in Plymouth about 1628. He
lived in Duxbury and later settled in Marshfield and then Yarmouth in 1684,
where he died 16 January 1709/10 aged 82. His will, dated 10 January 1709/10
mentions nine children living, among them his son Nathan Bassett to whom he
gave a small amount of property.

From "Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families", Volume 1, 1888:

Nathaniel Bassett, son of the first William, is the ancestors of the
Yarmouth, Chatham and Hyannis, and some of the West Barnstable families of
the name. On the 2nd of March 1651-2, "Nathaniel Basset and Joseph Prior,
for disturbing the church of Duxburrou, on the Lord's day were sentenced
each of them to pay twenty shillings fine or the next towne meeting or
training day both of them to bee bound unto a post for the space of two
hours, in some public place, with a paper on their heads on which theire
capital crime shall be written perspecusly, soe as may bee read." Whether
they paid the fines imposed or suffered the novel mode of punishment to
which they were sentenced does not appear.

Nathaniel first settled in Marshfield, but removed to Yarmouth where he was
an inhabitant in 1664, and perhaps earlier. He resided near the first
meeting house and his descendents still enjoy his lands. Notwithstanding the
trifling irregularity in his conduct when a young man at Duxbury, he was a
very worth and respectable citizen, had a large family, ten of whom lived to
mature age. He died January 16, 1709/10, aged 82.

The record of his family is lost. His will, dated January 10, 1709/10, six
days before his death, is carefully drawn instrument, witnessed by Rev.
Daniel Greenleaf, Experience Rider, and his nephew Col. William Bassett, an
furnishes much genealogical information. He manes his nine children then
living, says he is "aged and under much decay of body", being then 82 years
of age. To his son William he gave meadow and upland, which was John Joyce's
drying ground ... He names the eldest son of Thomas Mulford of Truro, who
married his daughter Mary; the eldest son of his son Nathaniel; the eldest
on of his son Joseph; to Nathaniel he gave property that was his grandmother
Joyce's and his lands in Middleboro. he names his daughter-in-law Jonnanh,
perhaps wife of Nathaniel, who removed to Windham, Connecticut, and his
daughter Ruth. He gives certain property unto six of his children, Mary
Mulford, Samuel Bassett, Hannah Covell, Joseph Bassett, Sarah Nickerson and
Nathan Bassett, Thomas Mulford of Truro, and his son Jseph of Yarmouth,
Executors. Estate appraised at 228,11 pounds. One of the oldest monuments in
Yarmouth grave yard is that of Dorcas Bassett, who died June 9, 1707, aged
31. She was probably a daughter of Nahtaniel Bassett. Though William is
first named in the will, he was probably the youngest.



More About NATHANIEL BASSETT:

Military service: Constable of Yarmouth, Mass.

Record Doc.: J. Bassett Rec'd - first settled in Marshfield, Mass.

Record Doc. (2): 1664, J. Bassett Rec'd - moved to Yarmouth, Mass.


Children of NATHANIEL BASSETT and DORCAS JOYCE are:

i. NATHANIEL5 BASSETT, b. Abt. 16641; d. 1750; m. JOANNAH BORDEN, 10
December 1695; b. Abt. 16701; d. 03 December 1740, Mansfield,
Connecticutt1..

ii. SAMUEL BASSETT, b. Abt. 1670, Yarmouth, Massachusetts; d. March 1760,
East Greenwich, Kent County, Rhode Island; m. ELIZABETH JONES, 1699; b. Abt.
1695; d. Bef. 1742.

More About SAMUEL BASSETT:

Probate: 23 February 1760, East Greenwich, Kent County, Rhode Island

Will: 13 July 1751, East Greenwich, Kent County, Rhode Island

iii. WILLIAM BASSETT, b. Abt. 16761; m. (1) MARTHA GODFREY, 23 February
1709/10, Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts2; b. Abt. 16903; d. Abt.
17353; m. (2) SARAH JENKINS, 30 January 1721/22, Barnstable, Cape Cod,
Massachusetts4.

iv. DORCAS BASSETT, b. 1676; d. 10 June 1707, Yarmouth, Massachusetts.

v. NATHAN BASSETT, b. 25 September 1677, Yarmouth, Barnstable Co.,
Massachusetts5; d. 1728, Chatham, Cape Cod, Massachusetts; m. MARY CROWELL,
07 March 1701/02; b. 02 December 1688, Yarmouth, Barnstable Co.,
Massachusetts; d. 1741.

vi. HANNAH BASSETT, b. 1678; m. JOSEPH COVELL, 01 March 1702/03, Eastham,
Massachusetts; d. 1741.

vii. MARY BASSETT, b. Unknown; m. THOMAS MULFORD; b. Truro, Barnstable Co.,
Massachusetts.

viii. RUTH BASSETT, b. Unknown.

ix. JOSEPH BASSETT, b. Unknown; d. 06 January 1749/50, Yarmouth, Barnstable
Co., Massachusetts6; m. (1) SUSANNAH HOWES, 27 February 1706/07, Yarmouth,
Barnstable Co., Massachusetts6; d. 27 February 1718/19, Yarmouth, Barnstable
Co., Massachusetts6; m. (2) THANKFUL HALLET, 03 December 1718, Yarmouth,
Barnstable Co., Massachusetts6; d. 12 August 1736, Yarmouth, Barnstable Co.,
Massachusetts6.

x. SARAH BASSETT, b. Unknown; m. JOHN NICKERSON, 1709.



Endnotes


1. TAG, Vol. 43, No. 1, January 1967, NEHGS 11/13/1998

2. "The Bassett Family of Yarmouth", No. 85, Lib. of Cape Cod Hist. & Gen.,
NEHGS

3. TAG, Vol. 43, No. 1, January 1967, NEHGS 11/13/1998

4. "The Bassett Family of Yarmouth", No. 85, Lib. of Cape Cod Hist. & Gen.,
NEHGS

5. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1971, "The Family of Nathan
Bassett of Chatham" , Pages 7-21.

6. "The Bassett Family of Yarmouth", No. 85, Lib. of Cape Cod Hist. & Gen.,
NEHGS



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