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- 3B33. Mercy Bassett, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Baldwin) Bassett, was born about 1693 in Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut. She married Azariah Canfield, son of Jeremiah and Alice (Hine) Canfield, on 26 Feb 1719/20. He was born about 1692/3 in Milford, Connecticut.
BIRTH, MARR., & DEATH: From: Nathan Grier Parke II, THE ANCESTRY OF LORENZO ACKLEY & HIS WIFE, EMMA ARABELLA BOSWORTH, Donald Lines Jacobus, ed. (Woodstock, Vermont, 1960), p. 246: (FHL Film # 1015822 item 9) "Mercy, b. [say 1694]; d. after 1766; m. at Milford, 26 Feb. 1719/20, Azariah Canfield, b. abt. 1693, d. at New Milford in 1769."
IDENTITY: From the Donald Lines Jacobus "ACKLEY - BOSWORTH" book referenced above, p. 244 we note: "... when the marriage of Mercy Bassett to Azariah Canfield was entered, the recorder plainly wrote her name as Baldwin, although deeds in Milford prove conclusively that she was a daughter of Thomas Bassett. The presumption would be that she was a young Baldwin widow in 1720 when she married Canfield. However, no Baldwin husband for her is disclosed in the Baldwin Genealogy, nor in the intensive research conducted in Milford records by Nathan G. Pond and later by George C. Bryant, the two well-known genealogists who worked for years on Milford families. Hence it seems quite possible that the Milford recorder made a slip and wrote Mercy Baldwin in error for Bassett, and such a slip is understandable if he knew her mother and was thinking of her Baldwin mother when he wrote the name."
LAND: Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Land records; V. 12, p. 6. Thomas Bassett's (1660) land is deeded by his children [including Azariah Canfield and Mercy (Bassett) my wife of ye town of New Milford] to eldest son, John Bassett, on 7 Feb 1736/7. (See Thomas' notes for full record.)
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Bassett Family Association Database
Abt 1693 - Aft 1766 (~ 74 years)