{"id":526,"date":"2015-07-26T18:42:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T01:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/?p=526"},"modified":"2015-07-26T18:42:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T01:42:28","slug":"mayhew-bassett-family-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/mayhew-bassett-family-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayhew-Bassett Family Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Bassett descends from William Bassett of Plymouth as follows:<\/p>\n<p>William Bassett and wife Elizabeth<br \/>\nWilliam Bassett (b. 1624) and wife Mary Raynesford<br \/>\nNathan Bassett (b. 1667) and wife Mary Huckins<br \/>\nJohn Bassett (b. 1706) and wife Jane Mayhew<br \/>\nBenjamin Bassett (b. 1752) and wife Abigail Nickerson<\/p>\n<p>Shiwei Jiang of Virginia sent the images from a Mayhew-Bassett family bible in his possession.<\/p>\n<p>It was originally owned by Gov. Thomas Mayhew. In the 1700\u2019s it was passed to Jane (Mayhew) Bassett, wife of John Bassett It was then passed down to their son Benjamin Bassett.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MayhewBassettBible1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-527 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MayhewBassettBible1.jpg\" alt=\"MayhewBassettBible1\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The fading notes at the bottom of one page reads: \u201cAbner Mayhew his book.\u00a0 Given to him by Benjamin Basset, Esq., August 1814, five days before set out for Ohio.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MayhewBassettBible2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-528 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MayhewBassettBible2.jpg\" alt=\"MayhewBassettBible2\" width=\"471\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MayhewBassettBible2.jpg 471w, https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/MayhewBassettBible2-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/a>Benjamin Bassett Junior: October in the Year of our Lord 1803. Born in the year of our Lord 1788. Aged 16 years the 2 day of this Month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Bassett descends from William Bassett of Plymouth as follows: William Bassett and wife Elizabeth William Bassett (b. 1624) and wife Mary Raynesford Nathan Bassett (b. 1667) and wife Mary Huckins John Bassett (b. 1706) and wife Jane Mayhew Benjamin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/mayhew-bassett-family-bible\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","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=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}