(1) Welcome
(2) Phillippa J. Bassett Antique Sampler of St. Enoder, Cornwall
(3) Book on family of Samuel Bassitt of Allen County, Ohio
(4) Allen Albert Bassett of Monticello, Indiana
(5) New family lines combined or added since the last newsletter
(6) DNA project update
Section 1 - Welcome
I am always looking for new material to include in the Bassett family newsletter.
If you have an old picture, old document or other item of interest to share,
please let me know and we can possibly include it in a future newsletter.
Results for one DNA test came back this month and they are included below.
There are still 9 outstanding DNA tests. If you have one of these tests,
please consider sending it in soon. Several of these tests are for families
not yet represented in the DNA study. A kit went out this month to a Bassett
family that immigrated from Switzerland to the United States in the 1800's.
I am very interested to see the results of this kit.
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Section 2 - Featured Bassett: Phillippa J. Bassett Antique Sampler, St. Enoder,
Cornwall
Phillippa J. Bassett descends from the #173B Thomas Bassett of St. Stephen
in Brannel family as follows:
Thomas Bassett and wife Ann Rowe
Thomas Bassett (b. 1751) and wife Susanna Yelland
Thomas Bassett (b. 1785) and wife Mary Truscott
George Bassett (b. 1817) and wife Phillippa Osborne
Phillippa Jane Bassett (B. 1858)
The following item is currently for sale on ebay.com.au for anyone from one
of the Cornwall Bassett lines. Just be careful so you don't bid against one
of your family members!
The following comes from the e-bay listing.
ANTIQUE SAMPLER~BASSETT~1868~CORNWALL
This is an antique sampler one of four that I am listing on E-bay this week. They
all come from one family who lived in Cornwall all in the St.Enoder area.
This sampler is very similar to another one I have on E-bay – this measures
11 ½ inches by 17 inches in length. The canvas it has been embroidered
on is a light beige and is quite a course material.
She has done the work in tiny cross stitch and has embroidered the alphabet slightly
different in that she has repeated each letter i.e. AABBCCDDetc. And she has
done her numbers up to the number26.
It was worked by:-
PHILLIPPA JANE BASSETT
GOENROUNSEN ST.ENODER.
AGED 10 YEARS FEBY.1ST.1868.
“Hear instruction and be wise”.
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Section 3 - Featured Bassett: Book on family of Samuel Bassitt
of Allen County, Ohio
Samuel Bassett/Bassitt of Allen County, Ohio is descended
from William Bassett of Plymouth as follows:
William Bassett of Plymouth and wife Elizabeth
Nathaniel Bassett (b. 1628) and wife Dorcas Joyce
Samuel Bassett (b. 1670) and wife Elizabeth Jones
Samuel Bassett (b. 1700) and wife Alice Weaver
Samuel Bassett (b. 1736) and wife Tabitha Waite
William Bassett (b. 1765) and wife Susanna
Samuel Bassett (b. 1795) and wife Elsie Lewis
In conjuction with the 100th and final Bassitt-Edgecomb-Snyder
reunion, a book about the family has been published.
361.522. Samuel Bassett, son of William Bassett
Samuel Bassett, son of William
Bassett, was born 7 Apr 1795 in Rhode Island. He died 16
Apr 1865 in Bath Township, Allen County, Ohio, aged 70 years,
9 days. He married Elsie Lewis in Solon, Courtland County,
New York. Elsie was born 23 Oct 1795 in New York. She died
9 Feb 1876 in Ohio. Samuel is buried in the old Sproat Cemetery
located north of Sugar Creek Road in Bath Township, Allen
County, Ohio. Elsie was buried in the old Beaverdam Cemetery.
To see a map and information about the tour of the Bassett-Edgecomb-Snyder
historical places and cemeteries, click on the link below.
Section 4 - Featured Bassett: Allen Albert Bassett of Monticello,
Indiana
Allen A. Bassett descends from William Bassett of Plymouth
as follows:
William Bassett of Plymouth and wife Elizabeth
William Bassett (b. 1624) and wife Mary Rainsford
William Bassett (b. 1656) and wife Rachel Willison
William Bassett (b. 1681) and wife Abigail Bourne
Nathaniel Bassett (b. 1719) and wife Hannah Hall
Elisha Bassett (b. 1761) and wife Keturah West
Elisha Bassett (b. 1796) and wife Elizabeth Foster
Oliver Langdon Bassett (b. 1825) and wife Elizabeth Jane
Montgomery
William Henry Bassett (b. 1856) and wife Mary E. Robinette
Allen Albert Bassett (b. 1886)
Allen Albert Bassett Insurance Calendar
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries,
1940
The News-Sentinel
Allen A. Bassett, 54, former
resident of this city passed away at 2 o'clock Tuesday
afternoon in the Methodist hospital at Indianapolis. For
the past score of years Mr. Bassett has resided in Monticello,
Ind, where he was engaged in the insurance business.
During Mr. Bassett's residency
in Rochester, he and his brother Bill Bassett operated
a motion picture theatre and also two large passenger boats
on Lake Manitou. Mrs. Bassett was formerly Miss Mae Morningstart,
of this city. The deceased is survived by his wife, his
mother, a brother and a sister. There are no children.
Funeral arrangements had
not been announced as this issue of The News-Sentinel went
to press..
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Section 5 - New family lines combined or added since the
last newsletter
The following family lines
have been combined/eliminated since the last newsletter.
228B. The family of Alphonse Bessett/Bassett
has been combined into the #14 Jean Besset family of Quebec.
284B. Harry Bassett of Southington, CT has been
combined into the #34B Bassetts of County Down, Ireland
The following family lines
have been added since the last newsletter.
398B. Thomas Bassett of Kent, England
(born 1811 in England)
399B. Edward Bassett of Ludlow, Shropshire,
England (m. 1737)
400B. George Bassett of Ashton, Norhamptonshire,
England (born 1788)
401B Samuel Bassett of Danbury, Connecticut
(m. about 1800)
402B. George Frederick Bassett of Horndon-on-the-Hill,
Essex, England (b.1857)
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Section 6 - DNA project update.
Results from kit #87539 were received back this
month. This kit descends from William Bassett of
Plymouth through his oldest son William Bassett.
Donations of any amount can be made to the Bassett DNA project by clicking
on the link below. Any funds donated will be used to fund select Bassett DNA
tests that will further our project as a whole and benefit all Bassetts worldwide.
