(1) Il est marié avec Elizabeth Unknown.
Ils se sont mariés en l'an 1621 à England, il avait 21 ans.
Enfant(s):
(2) Il est marié avec Mary Tilden.
Ils se sont mariés en l'an 1664, il avait 64 ans.
[[Category: Fortune, sailed 1621]]
[[Category: Puritan_Great_Migration]]
{{Puritan Great Migration}}
----::'''See [http://www.wikitree.com/g2g/28195/managing-the-multiple-william-bassetts-colonial-new-england this G2G discussion topic] for distinguishing the different early William Bassetts of New England.'''
:::'''NOTE:''' This William Bassett is distinct from [[Bassett-318|William Bassett of New Haven, Connecticut]] who married Hannah Ives Dickerman).
:He is also distinct from the [[Bassett-464|William Bassett of Lynn, Massachusetts]] who was about the same age and who arrived 1635 on the ''Abigail'' and married [[Unknown-475693|Sarah (___)]].
== Merging Guidance ==The following is from Robert Charles Anderson, ''Great Migration Begins vol I-III'' (pp 126-130), which represents the most recent and most comprehensive research of early New England colonists. It is therefore being used as a guide for correcting the information about William Bassett (1600-1667), his wives and his children, and his (lack of confirmed) parents.
:COMMENTS: In 1611 a [[Bassett-18|William Bassett]], formerly of Sandwich in England, widower of [[Light-9|Cecily Light]], was twice betrothed at Leiden in Holland. His first bride-to-be died, but he succeeded the second time. Some have held that this was the man who came to Plymouth, but this seems unlikely given the ten-year gap before the arrival in Plymouth in 1621, and the lack of evidence for children of the Plymouth man born before that date, assuming that he had been married at least twice before. It is also possible that the William Bassett of Leiden in 1611 was the father of the immigrant to Plymouth in 1621, '''but there is no evidence directly favoring this hypothesis.''' (See discussion in Stratton 242-43.)
:If the two-acre grant to William Bassett in 1623 was for William and his wife Elizabeth, then the first child would not have been born until 1624, three years after William's arrival in Plymouth. It is possible (though not likely) that the marriage took place in Plymouth, and Elizabeth came on the Fortune as a single woman.
:Savage has misread the 1627 Plymouth cattle division, somehow including daughter Sarah Bassett in this list, when in fact only two children, William and Elizabeth, were included. Sarah must have been born soon after 1627, however, to have married by the end of 1648.
:Pope claims that William Bassett resided at Sandwich in 1650, but this would be the son of the same name.
:Munsey-Hopkins (p. 67) lists a "probable" seventh child, a daughter Jane who married a Thomas Gilbert. This must be a simple error in which "Rossiter" was misread for "Bassett," as there was a Thomas Gilbert of Taunton who married Jane Rossiter.
:Various secondary sources claim that William Bassett volunteered for service in the Pequot War, and in the index to the first volume of published Plymouth Colony records he is listed for the page on which such volunteers appear, but he does not actually appear in the list [PCR 1:61]; a number of the index entries for William Bassett actually seem to be for William Paddy.
:On 6 March 1648/9 William Bassett was fined 5s. "for not mending of guns in seasonable time," and on 9 June 1653 he was fined 10s. "for neglecting to publish and make known an order directed to him from the council of war, prohibiting provisions for being transported out of the colony" [PCR 2:137, 3:36]. On 9 August 1655 and 10 June 1661 the colony treasurer received payment of fines by William Bassett [PCR 3:93, 8:104].Robert Charles Anderson, ''The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633,'' Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS (1995); vol I-III (pp 126-130)
(End analysis by Anderson of what's known about William Bassett.)
== Disproven / Unproven Claims ==
There is currently no proof that:
* He was son of another [[Basset-18|William Bassett]]* The Bassett family in Sandwich, England is Huguenot per Barber's 'British Family Names'* William is of the Sandwich, England and Bethnal Green, Middlesex line. * The Leyden, Holland William Bassett initially of Sandwich, England, a master mason, and widower of Cecelia Light was the same man as he who settled in Bridgewater (see comments about Anderson, above). This claim probably came from ''The Mayflower Planters'' (Balt.: Gen. Pub .Co.) which also claims that William who arrived on the Fortune in 1621 married to Margaret Oldham and settled in Duxbury, an 'iron monger from Bethnal, Co. Middlesex,' whose father is John Bassett. '''NOTE:''' this is not the same man as he who settled in Bridgewater.* 'Pioneer' William Bassett was baptised at Stepney, 24 October 1600Charles Edward Banks, 'The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers' (Balt.:Gen.Pub.Co., 1971), p.106 The baptism has not been proven.
== About the Surname ==The surname appears in 1066--Thurstine de Bassett was Grand Falconer to William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings. The name is thereafter notable in England - in the Domesday Book as well as the Battle Abbey Roll. Thurstine built Beaupre Castle near Cambridge in Glamorgan, Wales, soon after the Conquest, and his son Ralph was Lord Chief Justice of England under King Henry I. Another Bassett castle is at Tehidy Park in Camborne, Cornwall; this line had large incomes from mining. Two Bassetts were among the King's councillors at the signing of the Magna Charta. [http://tangledwood.com/getperson.php?personID=I2283&tree=tree1''GENEALOGY OF THE WOOD AND RITTS FAMILIES'' online genealogy], this particular portion seems to be unsourced.
== Biography == William Bassett "Memoirs of Deceased NEHGS members - Josiah Colby Bassett," ''NEHGR,'' Vol. 94:198 (April 1940) Robert Ray King, ''The Family of Nathan Bassett of Chatham,'' NEHGR Vol. 125 (1971):7-11Bassett, Buell. ''[[Space:One Bassett Family in America|One Bassett Family in America]]'' (F.A. Bassett Co., Springfield, Massachusetts, 1926) [https://archive.org/details/onebassettfamily00bass/page/1 Page 1-10]Amos Otis, ''Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families'' (revised by C.F. Swift c1861 (revised ?) 1:46 was one of the thirty-five people who arrived at Plymouth in November 1621, Aboard the ship "Fortune"; He was a blacksmith and gunsmith; Freeman 1633; served in the Pequot War; Removed to Duxbury abt 1638; Deputy General to the Court 1640-43; Member of Captain Standish's Militia Company 1643; Constable 1652; Original proprietor of Bridgewater 1655. He had a large library.
Arriving in 1621, he was one of the 'purchasers', first in Plymouth with his wife, Elizabeth, and son, William, and daughter, Elizabeth, and took part in the division of cattle in 1627; then resided at Duxbury; then was among the first settlers and a proprietor of Bridgewater.
=== Chronology ===
He was born by about 1600, assuming that Elizabeth was his first wife.
He arrived 11 November 1621 on the ''Fortune''.
He first resided in Plymouth, but was in Duxbury by 1637 [PCR 1:63] then Bridgewater by 1656.
He was on the "1633" Plymouth list of freemen, among those admitted before 1 January 1632/3 [PCR 1:3]; also in list of 7 March 1636/37 [PCR 1:52]. In Duxbury portion of list of 1639 [PCR 8:174]. In Bridgewater portion of list which has been dated in 1658 [PCR 8:202].
Anderson believes his occupation was blacksmith because the first five lines of his estate's inventory included blacksmith's tools, including a pair of bellows, an anvil, a vice, tongs and hammers and coal shovels and "all the rest of the smith shop" items.
He was also literate and likely educated as evidenced by the more than twenty books listed by title, mostly theological.
He held a number of offices:
* Plymouth coroner's jury, 2 March 1635/36 [PCR 1:39];
* Committee to admit newcomers to Duxbury, 7 May 1638 [PCR 1:84];
* Plymouth grand jury, 5 June 1638, 6 June 1654 [PCR 1:87, 3:49]; * Plymouth petit jury, 7 March 1636/37, 2 January 1637/38, 6 March 1637/38, 4 June 1639, 3 September 1639 [PCR 7:5, 7, 8, 12, 13]; * Duxbury deputy to Plymouth court, 2 June 1640, 6 June 1643, 29 August 1643, 5 March 1643/44, 7 June 1648 [PCR 1:154, 2:57, 60, 68, 123]; * Committee to lay out land, 3 September 1638, 7 January 1638/39, 4 February 1638/39, 4 March 1638/39, 31 August 1640, 5 October 1640 [PCR 1:95, 109, 112, 115, 161, 163]; * Committee on bounds between Duxbury and Marshfield, 2 March 1640/1 [PCR 2:9, 42]; Council of war for Duxbury, 27 September 1642 [PCR 2:46]; * Duxbury constable, 3 June 1652 [PCR 3:8]; Committee to lay out highways [PCR 3:61, 62]. * In Duxbury portion of 1643 list of men able to bear arms [PCR 8:190].
He died in Bridgewater between 3 April 1667 (date of will) and 12 May 1667 (date of inventory). (The claim that William Bassett died on 4 April 1667 derives from a peculiar misreading of the probate documents, in which the date of probate is taken as 5 April rather than 5 June, and the assumption is made that the death must have occurred between the third and the fifth.)
=== Family ===He married first by 1623 (and probably by 1621) Elizabeth _____, probably also a passenger on the Fortune in 1621; she appears in no record after 1627, and may have died soon after the birth of the last child about 1634, or she may have lived until just before William Bassett married his second wife.
He married after 1651 and before 12 December 1664 Mary (Tilden) Lapham, daughter of Nathaniel Tilden, widow of Thomas Lapham [see TIMOTHY HATHERLEY in GMB]; she was living at Bridgewater as late as 28 March 1690 [ Bassett Gen 6, citing BridTR 1:320].
Children:# William, b. Plymouth about 1624; m. by about 1652 Mary Rainsford, daughter of EDWARD RAINSFORD [ NEHGR 139:299].# Elizabeth, b. Plymouth abt 1626; m Sandwich 8 November 1648 Thomas Burgess [PCR 8:6], from whom she was divorced on 10 June 1661 [PCR 3:221].# Sarah, b Plymouth say 1628; m by 6 March 1648/49 Peregrine White, son of William White [PCR 2:183, MF 1:101-03].# Nathaniel, b abt 1630; m abt 1661 Dorcas Joyce, dau of John Joyce [TAG 43:3-5].# Joseph, b abt 1632; m. 1. by 1660 Mary ____ (said to be his stepsister Mary Lapham, dau of Thomas Lapham [see NEHGR 115:85]; m2 Hingham 16 Oct 1677 Mary Hobart [NEHGR 121:200].# Ruth, b abt 1634; m. 1. by 1655 John Sprague, s/o Francis Sprague [TAG 41:178-81, citing PCR 6:109 for evidence of marriage]; she m2 ____ Thomas [TAG 41:179; Robert S. Wakefield suggests that this was John Thomas of Marshfield, who died before 12 jaan 1691/2, and whose first wife had died 2 jan 1682/3].
== Last Will & Testament ==The will of William Bassett was dictated by him on his death bed on 3 April 1667:[[#S911|Bassett]]: p. 7, citing PCR Vol. 2, pt. 2, p. 36:"The last will and testament of William Bassett senr exhibited to the Court holden att Plymouth the fifth Day of June Anno:Dom 1667, on the oathes of Mr. William:Brett and John Carey:
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William was born about 1610. He married the widowed Mary (Tilden) Lapham between 1651 and 12 December 1664. She married first Thomas Lapham, in Scituate, Massachusetts, on 13 March 1636/37.
== Sources ==
* [[Wikipedia: Fortune_%28Plymouth_Colony_ship%29]]
* [[Wikipedia: Passengers_of_1621_Fortune_voyage]]* American Ancestors, vol VII, T-Y, p 44, "m. (2) after 1651 and before 12 December 1664 WILLIAM BASSETT {1621, Plymouth} [GMB 1:127-30]".* Hotten, John Camden, ''[[Space:The Original Lists Of Persons|The Original Lists Of Persons Of Quality]]'' (John Camden Hotten, 1874) ::* [https://archive.org/stream/originallistsofp00hottuoft#page/n31 Page xxviii]: "William Bassite (Bassett, probably two in his family)". Arrived at New Plymouth, on the 11th of Nov. 1621 on the ship ''Fortune''.
== See Also ==
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LHGT-NZP
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