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Personal data Elizabeth Bassett 

  • She was born in the year 1626 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts.
  • She died in the year 1670 in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, she was 44 years old.
  • A child of William Bassett and Elizabeth Unknown

Household of Elizabeth Bassett

(1) She is married to Thomas Burgess.

They got married on November 8, 1648 at Sandwich, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America, she was 22 years old.


(2) She is married to William Hatch.

They got married in the year 1661, she was 35 years old.


Notes about Elizabeth Bassett

== Biography ==
Elizabeth Bassett was born about 1626.Cape Cod Library, Vol. 1, The Bassett Family of Yarmouth (C. W. Swift, Publisher and Printer; The "Register" Press 1912), pg. 1260
She married first 8 Nov 1648 at Sandwich, Thomas Burgess, Jr. of Sandwich, MA. They were divorced June 10, 1661. He moved to Rhode Island and married Lydia Gaunt.
Thomas Jr., and Elizabeth Bassett had no children though they were married 12-1/2 years. Then on June 10, 1661, Elizabeth was granted what is reputedly the first divorce in Plymouth Colony. Adultery was the only grounds for divorce at the time, and Thomas was found guilty of the act with a woman named Lydia Gaunt. He was punished by being whipped and forced to give up one-third of his net worth. He then married Lydia, and the couple moved to Newport, Rhode Island, where their only known child, a son, Thomas III was born in 1668.

Elizabeth was said to have married 2nd to William HATCH.

== Sources ==
* Burgess, Ebenezer. ''[[Space:Burgess Genealogy, Memorial of the Family of Thomas and Dorothy Burgess|Burgess Genealogy, Memorial of the Family of Thomas and Dorothy Burgess]]'' (T.R. Marvin & Son, Boston, 1865) [https://archive.org/stream/burgessgenealog00burggoog#page/12 Page 12]* ''[[Space:Bassett Family Association of America|Bassett Family Association of America, Report of The Proceedings of the Second Reunion]]'' (Price, Lee & Adkins Co., New Haven, Conn., 1898) [https://archive.org/details/reportofproceedi02bass/page/n18 Page 13]* Buell Burdett Bassett,[https://archive.org/details/onebassettfamily00bass/page/n43 ''One Bassett family in America : with all connections in America and many in Great Britain and France'' (New Britain, CT: F.A. Bassette Company, 1926), p. 10].*New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1568/i/21174/248/426916740*Vital Records from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB522/i/21073/313/1427086195*Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/14077/4/254650490
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Ancestors (and descendant) of Elizabeth Bassett

Elizabeth Unknown
± 1595-1663

Elizabeth Bassett
1626-1670

(1) 1648

Thomas Burgess
± 1627-1717

(2) 1661

William Hatch
1620-????


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