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- Samuel and Tabitha first moved to Shaftsbury, Vermont for a few years, and
then moved to Otsego County, New York. Samuel was a cooper and farmer.
Samuel Bassett purchased 100 acres of land for $300 good silver
dollars on 7 Sep 1797 and 50 acres of land for $200 good silver dollars in
1797 in the County of Otsego, New York. The land was in the Town of
Pittsfield, latter to be the Town of Burlington in 1802. This was part of the
George Grophan patent and part of Lot No. 3 of the Turtle Lake Lot. Samuel
Bassett of the Town of Pittsfield, County of Otsego, New York purchased 120
acres and one quarter acre of land in the Town of Burlington, County of Otsego,
New York in 1800 for the sum of $650.
Samuel Bassett with his wife Tabitha Bassett sold the same 150 acres
of land purchased in 1797 for $700 on 16 Apr 1808. Samuel Bassett so
acres of land in the Town of Burlington, County of Otsego to Samuel Bassett
Jr. in February 1808 for $150.
1790 Federal Census of Coventry, Kent County, Rhode Island
Bassett, Samuel 2-3-4
1800 Federal Census of Burlington, Otsego County, New York
Basset, Samuel 10101-00301-00
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West Greenwich, Rhode Island, Records Book 2, page 172: Westgreenwich october the 10th 1762 This may certifie all ministers of Justice that Samuel Bassett son of Samuel Bassitt of Coventry and Tabitha Waite, Daughter of John Waite of Westgreenwich was Lawfully Joyoned together in Marriage Before Preserved Hall Justice peace.
FHL Film 000,287 = Bassett Manuscript (filmed at the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York, New York, in 1942. Author unknown)
Sergt. Samuel was a cooper and farmer. He and Dorcas Bassett -- probably his aunt -- bout a farm in Coventry a little distance east from where the creek from Quidneck Reservoir crosses the railroad, an old dam on this creek on the west line of the farm serving as a roadway, as well as the remains of a mill-race and old mill foundations were still to be seen in 1924.
Samuel removed to Shaftsbury, Bennington Co., Vermont, then to Otsego Co., New York, first settling in Pittsfield in 1797 and then in Burlington in 1800. Not long before his death, he parcelled out his farm among his children, giving deeds.
Elizabeth Stone, Waite Bassett, Tabitha Bassett, and Sarah Chapin were all named in the will of their Aunt Alice Bassett of Coventry in 1805 (1803?). Samuel Bassett III's children were probably all born in Coventry, Rhode Island.
Sergt. Samuel Bassett served in Capt. William Roy's Company in Cole Kassons Regiment of Militia, State of Rhode Island. (From page 165 of a private collection in the library of Col. Snepley of Providence, Rhode Island.)
He also served as a private in Capt. Joseph Davis's Company of North Kingston, Dyre's Regt., from 22 August to 31 August 1778.
Otsego Co., New York, Will Book B, page 178: Letters of Administration issued November 24, 1808, to Samuel Bassett, Jr., for the Estate of Samuel Bassett, dec'd. Inventory filed May 23, 1809.
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