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Alice Canfield

Female 1696 - Bef 1740  (~ 43 years)


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  • Name Alice Canfield 
    Christened 3 May 1696  Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    _UID 2A36A9F992657642BAC6F98395FE6D873418 
    Died Bef 1740 
    Notes 
    • Josiah Bassett ... married Alice Canfield, daughter of Jeremiah and Alice (Hine) Canfield, on 25 Apr 1717 in Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut. Alice was born 3 May 1696 in Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut. She died before 1740.

      BAPTISM & MARRIAGE: iv. Alice, bapt. 3 May 1696; m. 25 Apr. 1717, Josiah Bassett, who d. after1767, son of Thomas and Sarah (Baldwin?) Bassett. [Source: Nathan Grier Parke II, THE ANCESTRY OF LORENZO ACKLEY & HIS WIFE, EMMA ARABELLA BOSWORTH, Donald Lines Jacobus, ed. (Woodstock, Vermont, 1960), p. 241: (FHL Film # 1015822 item 9)

      LAND: Milford, NH, CT Land Records Vol. 7 p. 249,( FHL Film #4919): Jeremiah Canfield of New Milford, New Haven, in the Colony of Connecticut, husbandman, gave seven acres of land in Milford to his daughters Jeruiah [Zerviah] Terrill, wife of Daniel Terrill, and Alice Bassett, wife of Josiah Bassett on 29 Oct 1728. (See Milford Land: #3, p.17)

      INHERITANCE: See Alice's, father, Jeremiah Canfield's will in his notes for family relationships. Apparently Alice had the nickname "Els."
    Person ID I395  3B Thomas Bassett of Connecticut
    Last Modified 16 Oct 2007 

    Father Jeremiah Canfield,   c. 28 Sep 1662, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18/18 Mar 1739/40, New Milford Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 77 years) 
    Mother Alice Hine,   b. 16 Dec 1667, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4/04 Jan 1739/40, New Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 72 years) 
    Married 1687 
    Family ID F193  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Josiah Bassett,   b. say 1692, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1767  (Age ~ 76 years) 
    Married 25 Apr 1717  Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Donald L. Jacobus states that Josiah Basett and Alice Canfield were married at Milford on 25 April 1717. (CT: New Haven Co. Milford Pr. Sec. So. #2. Ackley-Bosworth Genealogy, Donald L. Jacobus, Ed., p. 246.)
    Children 
    +1. Josiah Bassett,   b. 14 Oct 1719, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Abigail Bassett,   b. 20 Mar 1722, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location
    +3. Samuel Bassett,   b. 1723, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Aug 1806, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years)
    +4. Eunice Bassett,   b. 1725, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location
    +5. Edward Bassett,   b. 1727, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 27 May 2015 
    Family ID F191  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart