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Lemuel Bassett

Male 1788 - 1874  (86 years)

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  • Name Lemuel Bassett 
    Birth 18 Oct 1788  Southbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    _UID 5017145096E27949B0F59910A395FB28AE0C 
    Death 12 Dec 1874 
    Notes 
    • 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.

      Three of Lemuel Bassett's brothers preceded him to Seneca County, New York. Lemuel moved there around 1810.

      1820 Federal Census of Ovid, Seneca County, New York
      Lemuel Bassett 110110-11200

      1840 Federal Census of Ovid, Seneca County, New York
      Lemuel Bassett 100210010-0110201001

      1850 Federal Census of Covert, Seneca County, New York (4 Sep 1850)
      Lemuel Bassett - 62 - M - Connecticut - Farmer 7000
      Julia - 52 - F - Connecticut
      Eliza Jane - 14 - F - Connecticut
      Samuel P. - 13 - M - Connecticut

      1860 Federal Census of Covert, Seneca County, New York
      Lemuel Bassett - 71 - M - Connecticut - Farmer 7920 3200
      Julia - 64 - F - Connecticut
      Sarah - 16 - F - Seneca County, New York
      Frank - 8 - M - Seneca County, New York
      Purdy S. - 24 - M - Seneca County, New York
    Person ID I336  1B John Bassett of Connecticut
    Last Modified 6 Dec 2012 

    Father Daniel Bassett,   b. 26 Jun 1743, Southbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Elizabeth Bassett,   b. 3 Mar 1750 
    Family ID F61  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Julia Bennet,   b. Abt 1798, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Pierpont Bassett,   b. 21 Feb 1818   d. 18 Dec 1881 (Age 63 years)
    +2. Marietta Bassett,   b. 16 Dec 1819   d. 15 Sep 1897 (Age 77 years)
    +3. Bennett Ebenezer Bassett,   b. 13 Jul 1822   d. 4 May 1892 (Age 69 years)
    +4. Jared Beardsley Bassett,   b. 28 Sep 1824   d. 17/18 Jun 1894 (Age 69 years)
    +5. Sarah Bassett,   b. 3 Dec 1827   d. 9 Jun 1874 (Age 46 years)
    +6. Eliza Jane Bassett,   b. 13 Oct 1833   d. 4 Jan 1907 (Age 73 years)
     7. Purdy Bassett,   b. 29 Dec 1836, Seneca County, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Oct 1865 (Age 28 years)
     8. Samuel Bassett,   b. Abt 1837
     9. Sarah Bassett,   b. Abt 1844, Seneca County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location
     10. Frank Bassett,   b. Abt 1852, Seneca County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F304  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart