William Bassett

Abt 1596 - 1667  (~ 71 years)

• Name	William Bassett
  Birth	Abt 1596  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Bef 1600  [2]
  Alternate death	Apr 1667	Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [3]
  Death	Between 3 Apr 1667 and 12 May 1667	Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I14062	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of TSW
  Last Modified	12 Aug 2021

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth   d. Aft 1634
  Marriage	Bef 1623  [4]
  Children	+ 1. Nathaniel Bassett,   b. Abt 1630   d. 16 Jan 1710, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts (Age ~ 80 years)
  Family ID	F8768	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 May 2018

  
  

• Notes

  He came to Plymouth in 1621 on the Fortune. At Duxbury by 1637, then Bridgewater by 1656. He is widely said to have served as a volunteer in the Pequot war, but Robert Charles Anderson has shown that this is probably a misconception caused by a defect in the index to the first volume of published Plymouth Colony records. He did, however, serve in numerous offices in Duxbury, including the 27 Sep 1642 council of war. He was a blacksmith and sometime gunsmith. He was clearly literate; his inventory included more than twenty books, most of them theological in nature. In a sad note, when he made his nuncupative will, he "being demanded about his books which he formerly took care about, answered he could not now do it."

  
  

• Sources

  [S1647] The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New York Historic Genealogical Society, 2004. [S5881] Ancestral Lines, Fourth Edition: 232 Families in England, Wales, the Netherlands, Germany, New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2015. [S4384] George Eldridge, Hydrographer, and Eliza Jane His Wife: Their Ancestors and Their Descendants by Henry James Young. Carlisle, Pennsylvania: 1982. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011., "(and probably by 1621)".