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- Early Settlers for the Town of Barrington
History of Yates County, New York
published 1892, by L.C. Aldrich
John Boyce married the widow of Justus Bassett, and came to make their future home in this town in 1812. Polly, Julia and Allen Bassett, children of Justus Bassett, came with them. Their settlement was made on Lot 16, in the eastern part of town. John Boyce and Beulah (Bassett) Boyce had three children: Clorinda, Chauncy, and Harriett.
Allen Bassett moved to Yates County, New York where he lived on the same farm for sixty years. He died in Yates County, New York in 1875, aged 80 years. He married Druzilla W. Eddy and settled near the maternal homestead, where she died in 1829, leaving four surviving children. Mr. Bassett's mother died the same year.
Excerpt from HISTORY AND DIRECTORY OF YATES COUNTY, NEW YORK by Stafford C. Cleveland published in 1872 in Penn Yan, New York, pages 155-159 as well as additional excerpts from the other pages indicated in brackets.
The father of Allen Bassett was Justus Bassett of Connecticut, and his mother Beulah Tuttle of the same State. In 1800 the father died in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where they had taken up their abode, leaving their children, Polly, Julia and Allen. The widow afterwards married John Boyce of Hillsdale, Columbia County, New York, wither the family removed. They came to Barrington, (then Wayne), in 1812. Three children were added to the family by the second marriage, Clorinda, Chauncey and Harriet. They settled on lot 16 where Mr, Boyce died three years later, leaving the mother's oldest son, Allen, the dependence of the family. He has therefore had a large experience of life in a new country, and has borne himself bravely and well in the battle of life.
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