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- Samuel Bassett's Power of Attorney From Lemuel Bassett & Others
Know all men by these presents that we Lemuel Bassett & Daniel Bassett of the Town of Ovid, County of Seneca, State of New York & Josiah Garritt & Lucy Garritt of the town of Ulysses, County of Tomkins, State of New York & Robert Clark Bassett of Catherine Town, Tioga County, State of New York have constituted and appointed in our place and stead Samuel Bassett our true and lawful Attorney in our name and stead to make and execute any Deeds or Leases or other Conveyance of any Lands or other Estate of the late Truman Bassett of the Town of Huntington, State of Connecticut and to receive any Monies arising therefrom and also of any Land belonging to or in possession of Elizabeth Bassett of the Town of Southbury, State of Connecticut hereby satisfying all that my Attorney shall do in the above mentioned promises In Witness whereof we have hereto set our hands and seals this Nineteenth day of August, One thousand Eight hundred nineteen.
Lemuel Bassett
Josiah Garritt
Lucy Garritt
Robert C. Bassett
Daniel Bassett
State of New York, County of Tomkins - On this 17th day of August 1819 came before me Edmond G. Pelton one of the Commissioners of said County to take and acknowledgments Josiah Garritt and Lucy his wife known to me to be the same persons who described in and who executed the within power of Attorney severally acknowledges that they executed the same for the uses and purposes therein mentioned & I have examined the said Lucy privately, separately and apart from her said husband she acknowledged that she executed the same freely without any fear or compulsion of her said husband.
State of New York, County of Tioga - On this 20th day of August 1819 came before me Phnieas Catlin one of the Commissioners of said County of Tioga to take and acknowledgements Robert C. Bassett known to me to be the person who executed the within power of Attorney and acknowledges that they duly executed the same for the uses and purposes therein stated.
State of New York, County of Seneca - On this 27th date of August 1819 personally came before me Allyn Boardman one of the Commissioners of the County of Seneca Lemuel Bassett and Samuel Bassett known to me to be the same persons described in and who executed the withing power and severally of Attorney and acknowledges that he executed the same as his free act and deed for the uses and purposes therein expressed.
History of Oakland County, Michigan (Supplement)
John Bassett
Novi
The father of this gentleman, Samuel Bassett, late of Bloomfield township, Oakland County, was born in New Haven county, Connecticut, in March, 1784. From thence, about 1806, he removed to Ovid, Seneca county, New York, where his son, John Bassett, the subject of this sketch, was born May 29, 1816.
In June, 1832, he removed to Michigan with his father, who settled in Bloomfield. John remained with him there until 1837, in which year - February 18 - he married Ervilla Coomer, of Farmington, and settled in Novi, on a tract of two hundred and forty acres of land purchased from government by his father in 1831, and which constitutes the fine homestead farm on which he still resides.
Samuel Bassett continued his residence in Bloomfield township until his death, which occurred in the autumn of 1873, at the age of eighty-nine years.
Portrait and Biographical Album of Oakland County, Michigan
By Chapman Brothers
John Bassett
John Bassett, one of the hard-working and prosperous farmers of Novi Township, is a son of Samuel Bassett, a native of Litchfield County, Connecticut, who was born March 29, 1784. The father was a farmer by occupation, but served his country in the War of 1812, following the patriotic example of his father, Daniel Bassett, who was one of the Revolutionary heroes. This family originated in America with William Bassett, who came from England in the "Anna", the second ship that came. He was one of the Puritans and made his home at Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
The mother of our subject was Mary, daughter of John Caywood, of New Jersey, who was a Revolutionary soldier, and moved from the latter State to Seneca County, New York,, and took possession there of a soldier's claim. The family is of Scotch descent. Mary Caywood was born August 23, 1794, and she married Samuel Bassett in Ovid, Seneca County, New York in 1810. They resided there until May, 1832, when they came to Michigan and settled in Bloomfield Township upon a heavily timbered farm which they bought from old Peter Desnoyer, of Detroit. They built a log house and having established themselves in the new home undertook to clear the farm of timber.
In May, 1831, Samuel Bassett came to Novi Township and took up one thousand and forty acres of wild land at $1.25 per acre. Four hundred acres of it were located in Novi Township, and the remainder in West Bloomfield. In the fall of 1831 he came in with Sidney Hinman and helped the latter to get a start upon some land in the center of West Bloomfield Township. He then returned home and the following spring he brought on his family and made his permanent home on the new land. He retained three hundred and twenty acres and had it finely improved long before his death, which occurred in 1873. His wife had been called from his side by death in October, 1833.
The subject of this sketch is one of ten children of his father's family, only two of whom are now living, his brother Daniel residing at Birmingham in this county. The father was a great reader and although exceedingly quiet in his manner was a tremendous worker. He was a Whig in his political views and later a Republican. He was the owner at one time of thirteen hundred and sixty acres of land, which was divided among his children. Their mother was a member of the Dutch Reformed Church.
1810 Federal Census of Ovid, Seneca County, New York
Samuel Bassett 00110-00100
1820 Federal Census of Ovid, Seneca County, New York
Samuel Bassett 110110-10101
1830 Federal Census of Ovid, Seneca County, New York
Samuel Bassett 203000100-01110100001
Samuel Bassettt 021010100-10101100000
1840 Federal Census of Bloomfield, Oakland County, Michigan
Samuel Bassett 01110001-000100
1M5-10, 1M10-15, 1M15-20, 1M50-60, 1F15-20
1850 Federal Census of Bloomfield Township, Oakland County, Michigan
Samuel Bassett - 67 - M - Connecticut
Mary - 27 - F - New York
Eunice - 25 - F - New York
George - 20 - M - New York - Farmer
Daniel - 16 - M - Michigan - Farmer
A. Cushing - 20 - F - New York
1860 Federal Census of Bloomfield, Oakland County, Michigan (30 Jul 1860)
Daniel Basset - 26 - M - Michigan - Farmer 700
Mary - 20 - F - Michigan
Lewis Baldwin - 25 - M - New York - Day Laborer
Saml Basset - 70 - M - New York - Farmer 12,800 125
George Basset - 30 - M - New York - Farmer
1870 Federal Census of Bloomfield, Oakland County, Michigan (6 Jul 1870)
William Basset - 57 - M - New York - Farmer 8000 3000
Rosanna - 50 - F - Connecticut - Keeping House
Henry - 19 - M - Michigan - Carpenter --- 200
John - 16 - M - Michigan - At School
Living next door
Daniel Basset - 36 - M - Michigan - Farmer 15,000 4000
Mary - 31 - F - Michigan
Flora - 9 - F - Michigan
Frank - 6 - M - Michigan
Samuel - 87 - M - Connecticut - Retired Farmer
State of Michigan Genealogical Death Indexing System
Samuel Bassett
Date of Death: 3 Nov 1873
Ledger Page: 265
Record Number: 1
Place of death: Bloomfield
County of death: Oakland
Sex: Male
Race: White
Marital Status: Widowed
Age: 87 years
Cause of death: Old age
Birthplace: Connecticut
Occupation: Farmer
Father's name: Not recorded
Father's residence: Not recorded
Mother's name: Not recorded
Mother's residence: Not recorded
Date of record: 9 May 1874
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Bassett Family Association Database
1784 - 1873 (89 years)