Benajah Bassett descends from #6B William Bassett of Connecticut as follows:
William Bassett and wife Hannah (Dickerman) Ives
Samuel Bassett (b. 1654) and wife Mary Dickerman
Samuel Bassett (b. 1676) and wife Elizabeth Humiston
Samuel Bassett (b. 1728) and wife Abigail Bradley
Samuel Bassett (b. 1752) and wife Katherine Tuttle
Benajah Bassett (b. 1777)
Connecticut Herald, New Haven, Connecticut, Tuesday, July 26, 1808
Connecticut Herald, Tuesday, February 21, 1815
Mobile Gazette and Commercial Advertiser, Thursday, June 16, 1820
New York Gazette, New York, New York, Wednesday, July 19, 1820
Died
On his passage from Mobile for this port, on board the schooner Enterprise, Mr. Benajah Bassett, merchant, late of this city.