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- William was possibly a soldier serving in the War of 1812 from Barre County, Vermont.
1830 Federal Census of Barre, Washington County, Vermont
William Bassett 0010201-0000101
1m10-15,2m20-30,1m40-50,1f20-30,1f40-50
1840 Federal Census of Barre, Washington County, Vermont
William Bassett 000010001-010010001
1m20-30,1m60-70,1f5-10,1f20-30,1f60-70
Gazetteer of Washington County, Vt. (1889)
William Bassett, originally from Massachusetts, came to Barre from
Pomfret, Windsor county, about 1811. In his early life he was a sailor on a
merchant trader plying between Boston and the West Indies. He first settled in
the eastern part of the town, and later removed to Gospel Village, where his
grandson, C.H. Bassett, now lives, and where he died. He married Lucy Russell,
who purchased her wedding trousseau with funds she had earned at housework at
fifty cents per week. Their children were William, Jr., Lucy, Ira, George W.,
and Merrill. Ira is a natural mechanic and musician, and resides in Chicago.
Without instruction he has made three pipe organs. One of them is still in use
in the Congregational church and another in the Methodist church of Barre.
George W. read law in the office of L.B. Wheelock, Esq., and has practiced in
the courts of the state, but is not a member of the bar. Merrill married Mary
Keene, of Penobscot, Me., and now resides in Augusta, Me. Their children are
C.H. Bassett, before mentioned, who married Mary Beckley; Gerald, who w
killed by the accidental discharge of a gun in the hands of a companion;
Calvin, who married Mary J. Prescott, and is a farmer on road 41; and Amanda
(Mrs. Chester H. Beckley), who resides in Orange, Orange county.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1782 - 1850 (67 years)