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- John Bassett Jr. received one-seventh of his father's estate. He moved to western Pennsylvania in 1790 with Amos Bassett and the Stouts but returned to New Jersey. Later he went to Brown County, Ohio, across the Ohio River from Bracken County, Kentucky, and members of that Bassett family still live in Brown County, Ohio.
According to a letter written in 1956 by S. Bassett Hamacher, "In 1722 another Arnold Bassett was married (somewhere) to Judith Thompson, and came to America, and was a Quaker, and they were the parents of Governor Bassett, in whose house my ancestor's brothers, John, died about 1793; the theory being, they were cousins. One John of Delaware enlisted for the French and Indian wars 1758, aged 26, a native of Wales, but was obviously younger than John of Hunterdon, My Line". This Mr. Hamacher is descended through John's brother Amos.
1790 Federal Census of Elizabethtown, Alleghany County, Pennsylvania
Bassett, John 2-4-2
Excerpt from Autobiography of Isaac Newton Bassett
The maiden name of my paternal grandmother was Susan Ray, but I know nothing of her family. Her husband, my grandfather, John Bassett, died when my father was three days old.
The children he left were Alexander, Amos, George, John, Sarah and Isaac, the latter being my father. When the family came to Kentucky, I am unable to tell, but it was not far from the commencement of the 19th century.
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Bassett Family Association Database
- 1790