Josiah William Bassett descends from William Bassett of Plymouth as follows:
William Bassett and wife Elizabeth
Joseph Bassett (b. 1635) and wife Mary Lapham
William Bassett (b. 1667) and wife Sarah Sweetland
Nathan Bassett (b. 1702) and wife Hannah Washburn
Joseph Bassett (b. 1747) and wife Hannah Lothrop
William Bassett (b. 1777) and wife Abiah Williams
Williams Bassett (b. 1806) and wife Sibyl Pattie Howard
Josiah William Bassett (b. 1843) and wife Ella Cornish
I received the following pictures and email from a company in Maine.
Pictures from the Josiah Williams Bassett Collection
We have recently acquired a collection of letters written by members of the Bassett family that include a number addressed to or written by Josiah Bassett, William Bassett, Ella S. Cornish (later Ella Bassett), George Bassett, Alice Bassett, Colby Bassett, and Charlotte Bassett. Items in the collection include a series of approximately 389 letters from Colby Bassett to home, mostly in the 1900-1910 date range; 8 Civil War era letters; 97 letters from 1866 to 1899; 267 letters from 1900 to 1905; 148 letters from 1906 to 1909; 10 letters from 1910 to 1919; 47 letters from 1920 to 1935; 70 letters from 1936 to 1938; 13 letters from 1944 to 1946; 60 letters with no obvious year; 53 miscellaneous cards, invitations, report cards, and ephemeral notes; a collection of WWII era envelopes addressed to Phillys Swanson from S. Swanson; and a handful of photographs, most of which are unlabeled.
We will be putting it up for sale and would like to offer you first dibs on it if you (or any other genealogists pursuing the same research) are interested and are asking $2500 for the entire collection. Please find photographs attached.
Thank you for your time.
Liberty Tool Company
57 Main St.
Liberty, ME 04949
Letters from the Josiah Williams Bassett Company