{"id":1354,"date":"2018-03-15T20:22:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T03:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2018-03-15T20:23:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T03:23:29","slug":"donor-of-bassett-park-walton-ny-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/donor-of-bassett-park-walton-ny-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"Donor of Bassett Park, Walton, NY identified"},"content":{"rendered":"

Benjamin James Bassett descends from #1B John Bassett of CT as follows:<\/p>\n

John Bassett and wife Margery
\nRobert Bassett and wife Mary
\nRobert Bassett (b. 1640) and wife Elizabeth Riggs
\nCapt. Samuel Bassett (b. 1692) and wife Deborah Bennett
\nBenjamin Bassett (b. 1740) and wife Mary Hinman
\nArchibald Bassett (b. 1772) and wife Keziah Curtis
\nBenjamin John Bassett (b. 1812) and wife Mary L. Benton<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Bassett Park, Walton, New York<\/p>\n

Several people sent me articles showing that Bassett Park was donated to the city by Benjamin John Bassett. I published a picture of this postcard in the February 2018 newsletter.<\/p>\n

The History of Delaware County, W.W. Munsell 1797-1880
\nThe Town of Walton<\/p>\n

Benjamin J. Bassett, son of Rev. A. Bassett, was born September 26th, 1812 at Walton, and was married, September 18th, 1839, to Miss L. Benton, of Hudson, N.Y. He was in the Assembly in 1869 and 1874; is president of the Delaware County Bank, and fully enjoys the confidence of the people. He lives in the so-called White Griswold house on Delaware street, a spot made historic by the erection there of the first frame house of the town by Judge North<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Benjamin James Bassett descends from #1B John Bassett of CT as follows: John Bassett and wife Margery Robert Bassett and wife Mary Robert Bassett (b. 1640) and wife Elizabeth Riggs Capt. Samuel Bassett (b. 1692) and wife Deborah Bennett Benjamin … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1356,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions\/1356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}