Samuel Bassett

1692 - 1764  (71 years)

• Name	Samuel Bassett  [1]
  Birth	28 Nov 1692	Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	15 Sep 1764	Derby, New Haven, Connecticut   [3]
  Person ID	I18888	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB
  Last Modified	11 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	Robert Bassett   d. 5 Aug 1710, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut
  Mother	Elizabeth Riggs,   b. 13 Jun 1668, Derby, New Haven, Connecticut d. Bef 2 Oct 1758 (Age < 90 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1687  [4]
  Family ID	F11451	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Deborah Bennett,   b. 28 Feb 1696   d. Jul 1773, Derby, New Haven, Connecticut (Age 77 years)
  Marriage	5 Jan 1719	Derby, New Haven, Connecticut   [3]
  Children	+ 1. Benjamin Bassett,   b. 1740, of Derby, New Haven, Connecticut d. 1824 (Age 84 years)
  Family ID	F11450	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Sep 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Came to Derby in 1716-17 to occupy the farm given to him by his father. Held many responsible offices, but his death dates is unknown.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1044] The Baldwin Genealogy from 1500 to 1881 by Charles Candee Baldwin. Cleveland: Leader Printing Company, 1881. [S2510] The History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880: With Biographies and Genealogies, Volume 2, by Samuel Orcutt and Ambrose Beardsley. Springfield, Massachusetts: Springfield Printing Company, 1880., date only. [S474] History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield by Donald Lines Jacobus. Fairfield, Connecticut, 1930-32. [S2998] Robert Charles Anderson and Alvy Ray Smith, "The Genealogy of Edward Riggs of Roxbury, Massachusetts, Revisited." The Genealogist 23:131, 2009; 24:72, 2010.