Some may remember the discussion several years ago about trying to identify the parents of niece Ann Bassett and nephew Carter Bassett mentioned in the will of Benjamin Harrison of Virginia. He married Elizabeth Bassett and they were the parents of President William Henry Harrison.
Excerpt from will:
I give to my Niece Ann Bassett to her and her heirs forever at the death of her Aunt Stith her choice of the negro children which the woman now has that I lent her; and I give to my nephew Carter Bassett the next choice of the said children – and whereas I omitted to give my dear wife the tools of my carpenters and the plantation tools, waggons and carts, I hereby declare it as my will that she should possess the whole of them with the millstones and every article belonging to my mills, my share in the Salt pans in Gloster and the great pot I have there for the purpose of making salt.
Benjamin Harrison (Seal) January the eighth, 1780.
Bill Orr has passed on the following from the First Census of the United States from 1782.
Note living in household with Benjamin Harrison is Miss Bassett, aged 18 years.
