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- History of Cuyahoga County, Ohio (1879)
Dover Township
(Page 437) Moses Hall, of Lee, Massachusetts, bought twenty-one
hundred acres of land in Dover in 1810, and in the same year removed with his
twelve children to Ashtabula, Ohio. Of the Dover tract, he gave to each of his
seven sons one hundred acres, and to each of his five daughters fifty acres.
Two of his sons, Barnabas and James, and one of his daughters, with her
husband, Nathan Bassett, settled in Dover in 1811. Barnabas Hall located on
lot sixty-two, now occupied by his son Charles, and remained there till his
death. James settled upon lot fifty-one, but in 1821 returned to Ashtabula,
where he has since resided, having in July, 1879, reached his eighty-eighth
year. Nathan Bassett occupied lot eighty-two. He had a turning-lathe, a
manufactured chairs, and was also known far and near as a great hunter and
manager of bees. He was killed by lightning while at work in his barn in 1842.
Nancy, another daughter of Moses Hall, married David Ingersoll, and in 1820
they settled in Dover upon lot thirty-seven.......
(Page 438) The first white child born in the township was Angelina,
daughter of Asahel Porter. The date of her birth was April 1, 181
claimed that Vesta, daughter of Nathan Bassett, was the first born, but the
best available evidence shows the date of her birth to have been June 1
1812.....
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Bassett Family Association Database
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