Zenas Doane Bassett descends from William Bassett of Plymouth as follows:
William Bassett and wife Elizabeth
Nathaniel Bassett (b. 1628) and wife Dorcas Joyce
Joseph Bassett and wife Susannah Howes
Daniel Bassett and wife Elizabeth Crowell
Daniel Bassett and wife Hannah Bearse
Joseph Bassett and wife Zeviah Bearse
Zenas Doane Bassett
Boston Traveler, Massachusetts, Wednesday, January 4, 1865
Death of Hon. Z.D. Bassett
Hon. Zenas D. Bassett, of Hyannis, died on Friday last of lung fever. He began life as cook in a fishing schooner, was afterwards a seaman on a coaster, captain of a merchant vessel, and subsequently a merchant in this city and in New York. He retired with a competency in 1880, and settled in Hyannis. He held many important positions, at different times, was twenty-eight years a Director in the Yarmouth Bank, served two years in the State Senate, was for several years Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners, and for twenty years President of the Barnstable County Insurance Company. During the war of 1812, he was captured by the British, and was confined in the Dartmouth prison. He was a man of exemplary habits, systematic in business, cautious, prudent, and steadfast in the support of his convictions.
I first wrote about Zenas Doane Bassett in 2005 when I received a copy of journal documenting his maritime days and capture by the British in the War of 1812. You can read this original article by clicking on the link below.
http://www.bassettbranches.org/newsletters/2005/20050116/20050116.shtml