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- Philip C. Bassett moved to Minnesota, then to California by covered wagon in the 1860's. He later moved to the Yellowstone, Montana area. He committed suicide on 1 May 1884 in Cinnabar, Montana. Cinnabar existed only from 1883 to 1903 and was located about three miles west of Gardiner, Montana.
The 1850 census shows him with his brother Joel Bassett in Minnesota.
1850 Territorial Census for Washington County, Minnesota - pages 90 and 91 - (6 Sep 1850)
Phillip Bassett - 27 - M - New York - Farmer
Hannah - 22 - F - New York
Joel B. - 32 - M - New York
Charles A. - 4 - M - New Hampshire
George F. - 2 - M - Minnesota
1860 Federal Census of Hastings, Dakota County, Minnesota (2 Jun 1860)
Phillip C. Bassett - 37 - M - New Hampshire - Laborer 1000 100
Hannah M. - 30 - F - New Hampshire
Charles A. - 13 - M - New Hampshire
George F. - 11 - M - Minnesota
William D. - 9 - M - Minnesota
Logan L. - 3 - M - Minnesota
Sally - 5/12 - F - Minnesota
1880 Federal Census of Oakland, Alameda County, California
P.C. Bassett - 60 - M - NH-NH-NH - Head - Carpenter
H.M. - 51 - F - NH-NH-NH - Wife - Housekeeper
Abbie - 20 - F - MN-NH-NH - Daughter - At Home
Asula - 9 - F - CA-NH-NH - Daughter - At School
Phillip Bassett
History of Park County, Montana 1984
Phillip Bassett and Mary Berry were married in Connecticut. They moved to California by covered wagon in the early 1860's. They farmed in the Red Bluff area, where he also worked as an architect. They raised seven children: Bill, Wayne, Charlie, George (Gene?), Hattie, Fred, and Abbie (in order). By the time the family was grown, Phillip and Mary had a fine home in Oakland.
In 1880, S.M. Fitzgerald was promoting a horse concession in Yellowstone Park. He made a trip to California to purchase horses. Bill Bassett signed on with him to drive 50 to 75 head back to Yellowstone. When the horses were delivered, Bill found work with the Mulherin family. They lived at the mouth of Mol Heron (Mulherin) Creek (near the current Trestle Ranch buildings, but down on the creek).
Fred came to Montana around 1881 (when he was 18). He built the little stone house at the head of Yankee Jim Canyon that was removed during recent highway construction. Shortly thereafter he settled at the mouth of Bassett Creek and established squatter's rights. In the meantime, Bill had married a Mulherine girl (Betty) and had started a family. So Fred traded his rights on Bassett Creek to his older brother for two saddle horses. When the Valley was surveyed, Bill filed on the homestead. At about this time, Phillip and Mary sold their home and moved to the Bassett Creek place with their daughter Hattie, where they lived with Bill and Betty. The ranch house was the current "Ranch Kitchen" restaurant.
Fred worked at various jobs, including hunting, trapping, breaking horses, and freighting from Horr (Electric) to Aldredige. He took squatter's rights on the Papesh Place.
The Upper Yellowstone country didn't meet Phillip's high expectations. He grew despondent, and committed suicide by taking poison in early May, 1884. He was buried in the cemetery at Mammoth.
History of Wolfeborough, New Hampshire
Parker (1901)
John Bassett came from Lynn, Mass., in 1790, and settled on a lot of land which has ever since been known as the Bassett farm. The buildings were erected at a considerable distance from the main road, the location where they stood being now approached by Mill Street, which has been somewhat recently opened. During the management of affairs by his grandson, Daniel Bassett Jr., the two-story part of the house was removed to North Main Street, and is now, with a portion of the farm, owned and occupied by the heirs of the late Abel Haley. The one-story part still remains with another portion of the farm where the buildings were first erected. Mr. Bassett's children were: Daniel, married Abigail Bean; John, married Ruth Wiggin; Lydia, married Samuel Newell; Hannah, married Joseph Varney; Sally; married Jonathan Buffum; Rebecca, married William Lyons.
Daniel, the eldest son, succeeded his father in the management of the farm, becoming a successful farmer. He spent most of his active life in Wolfeborough, but in old age accompanied his son, Daniel Bassett, Jr., to Minnesota, whither some of his children had previously emigrated. Following is a list of his children: John, went west when a young man; Hannah, married Amos Jones, of Gilmanton; Joel, went to Minneapolis and accumulated a large property; Daniel, married Jane Campney; Philip, went west; Ursula, married Joseph Canney, of Dover.
Daniel Bassett Jr.'s children were Abbie Susan, born Feb. 14, 1846, and Maria Jane, born Sept. 22, 1849. Mr. Bassett remained in Wolfeborough until middle age, and was thrifty; he then went to Minneapolis, and became wealthy. He was quite active in his adopted home politically and financially. His decease occurred in 1899.
John Bassett, second son of John the settler, was a farmer and school-teacher. For twenty-eight successive years he had charge of winter district schools, and during that period taught a few terms in the summer. He became the owner of a farm on the borders of Wolfeborough and Tuftonborough, the dividing line between the two towns passing through his house. Here he resided a number of years, but afterwards purchased the Thomas-Townsend-Fox-Tuttle farm, now occupied by his son George W. Bassett. His son John Newell Bassett then took possession of the Wolfeborough-Tuftonborough farm, where he reared a family consisting of one son, Charles S., who now lives on the farm, and two daughters. Mr. Bassett married Ruth Wiggin, a daughter of James Wiggin, and had children as follows: Daniel W., born Feb. 5, 1812, died young; John N., born March 2, 1815, married Lydia Langley; Charles D., born May 13, 1816, went west; Ruth, born May 7, 1820, married Isaac Lovering, of Freedom; Gulielma, born Jan. 28, 1822, married Jacob K. Purington, of Dover; James, born Sept. 23, 1825, west to Boston; George W., born March 28, 1829, married Roxanna Fullerton. George W. Bassett has three children, James A., Emma, and Clara.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1821 - 1884 (62 years)