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- Goerge Washington Bassett was from Eltham, Farmington, and Clover Lea. He married his cousin, Betty Burnet Lewis, daughter of Robert Lewis and Judith (Carter) Browne. Judith was a sister to Betty. Robert Lewis was a son of Fielding Lewis and a nephew of George Washington.
From "Lewis of Warner Hall, 1935" - "George Washington Bassett attended Princeton University, but was called home because of the death of his uncle, Burwell Bassett of Eltham, whose estates he inherited. Like his ancestors, George Washington Bassett took an active part in the political and ecclesiastical life of the community in which he lived. It was largely due to the untiring efforts of himself and his wife that the Parishes of the Episcopal Church were re-established in the lower part of Hanover, King William and New Kent counties, where they had been prostrate for nearly fifty years."
Irish American Weekly, August 26, 1876
Mr. and Mrs. George Washington Bassett, of Clover Lea, Hanover county, Virginia, celebrated their golden wedding on the 1st inst. Bassett is a grand nephew of Martha Washington and Mrs. Bassett a grand-niece of General Washington. They are probably the oldest living relatives of the Father of his Country, and are aged respectfully seventy-six and sixty-nine years.
Richmond Dispatch, Virginia, Wednesday, 2 August 1876
An Interesting Centennial Event
Golden Wedding of Lineal Descendants of General and Lady Washington
On yesterday afternoon there was celebrated at Clover Lea, in Hanover county, about three miles from Old Church, an event of unusual interest in this the centennial era. It was mothing more nor less than the golden wedding of Colonel and Mrs. George Washington Bass, perhaps the nearest living relatives of General and Lady George Washington. Colonel Bassett is a grand-nephew of Lady Washington, and Mrs. Bassett is a grand-niece of General Washington. After fifty years of a happy wedded life, full of the reminiscences of the better days of a grand old Commonwealth, this venerable couple have been permitted to gather around them their relatives and descendants, who unite in the prayer that many a year of mutual peace and contentment may be left them.
The occasion drew together many friends from the neighborhood, and the jollification was one that carried the spectator back to the time when General Washington used to open wide his hospitable doors and bid all honest men and women to enter and be of good cheer.
Colonel Bassett is seventy-six years of age, and ?Lady? Bassett sixty-nine, and both are remarkably well preserved, and love each other with the same devotion that prompted them to unite their lives fifty years ago. This statement would appear indelicate if they had only been married fifteen or twenty years, but when people have been together for fifty years it seems that you can say what you please about them.
Many handsome presents in gold were tendered the venerable couple, among others a hundred dollars in Tilden Centennial gold, tendered by Major John H. Claiborne, whose first wife was a daughter of the golden bride and groom. The children of Colonel Bassett are scattered about the country ? as follows: Two in Texas, one in South Carolina, one in Illinois, one in West Virginia, one in New Jersey, and one in Virginia. May he and his lady live to see their diamond wedding in the same health and happiness that have surrounded them on this happy occasion.
1850 Federal Census of Hanover County, Virginia (22 Nov 1850)
George W. Bassett - 49 - M - Virginia - Farmer 120,000
Betty B. - 41 - F - Virginia
George W. Jr. - 19 - M - Virginia
Anna Virginia - 17 - F - Virginia
Ellen More - 15 - F - Virginia
J.F.C. - 13 - F - Virginia
Mary B. - 10 - F - Virginia
Annetta L. - 9 - F - Virginia
Robert L. - 6 - M - Virginia
Louisa A. Dwight - 22 - F - Massachusetts - Governess
R.L. Shelton - 30 - M - Virginia - Bricklayer
1860 Federal Census of St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Virginia (29 Sep 1860)
G.W. Bassett - 60 - M - Virginia - Farmer 139,830 88,729
B.B. - 52 - F - Virginia
G.W. - 29 - M - Virginia - Teacher (languages?)
S.M. - 25 - F - Virginia
J.F. - 22 - F - Virginia
M.B. - 21 - F - Virginia
A.L. - 18 - F - Virginia
R.S. - 16 - M - Virginia (or maybe 10)
W.A. - 6 - M - Virginia
Jas. Slaughter - 30 - M - Virginia - Overseer
1870 Federal Census of Lower Revenue District, Hanover County, Virginia (9 Aug 1870)
George Bassett - 69 - M - Virginia - Ret. Lawyer 7000 200
Bettie - 61 - F - Virginia
George - 39 - M - Virginia - Farmer 2250 2000
Annette - 26 - F - Virginia
William - 16 - M - Virginia
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1800 - 1878 (78 years)