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Doctor Isaac Bassett, Sr.

Male 1763 - 1809  (46 years)


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  • Name Isaac Bassett 
    Prefix Doctor 
    Suffix Sr. 
    Born 8 Mar 1763  Wilmington, Delaware Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    _UID 21B56EDB71F11A4F971F47E3206CB38E97A2 
    Died 6 Jul 1809  Baltimore, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Isaac Bassett received one-seventh of his father's estate.

      Land records show that Isaac Bassett was in Baltimore County on 6 Jun 1801 when he had 1.5 acres from Charles Constable in a tract called Huntington resurveyed and adjoining said Constable's garden and on the east side of the old York Road, etc. $316. Likewise in 1802/1803/1804 he had one or more leases on York Street near Exeter Street. In 1810 Ann Bassett of Baltimore County made assignment of lot on West side of Milk Lane near Pitt Street - rent $15 per year. Soon after she also had assignments from Charles R. Waring of lot38, Potter Street $575. On 2 Oct 1817, Ann Bassett, widow, made assignment in trust to Hugh Allen of lot on W. side of Milk Lane for benefit of Elizabeth Rice, wife of James Rice of Baltimore, she, Elizabeth to occupy for life without husband control or for debts of such $1000. This was her last appearance on records.

      1800 Federal Census of Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Maryland
      Isaac Bassett 30010-10010
      3MU10, 1M26-45, 1FU10, 1F26-45

      Federal Gazette, Friday, July 1809
      Died Yesterday morning in the 46th year of his age, Mr. Isaac Bassett for many years a respectable citizen of Baltimore. He has left a widow and seven children to deplore his irreparable loss.

      WILL OF ISAAC BASSET
      Will Book 8 Fol. 452. New 422.
      In the name of God Amen, I Isaac Bassett of Baltimore Co in the state of Maryland, being sick and weak on body and of sound and disposing mind, memory & understanding, considering the certainty of death & the uncertainty of the time thereof, and being desirous to settle my worldly affairs and thereby be better prepared to leave this world when it shall please God to call me hence, do therefore make & publish this, my last Will & Testament in a manner & form as follows that is to say First & principally I commit my Soul unto the hands of Almighty God & my Body to the Earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executrix here in after named and after my debts & Funeral charges are paid, signed, sealred, published & declared by the above named testator as and for his Last Will & Testament in presence of us who at his request in his presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnessed there to.
      (Signed) Jacob Rogers, Richard Bensen.

      Baltimore Co. Md. in the nineteenth day of July 1809 came Jacob Rogers & Richard Bensen subscribing evidence to the forgoing last will & testament of Isaac Bassett late of said county deceased and made oath that they did see the testater sign & seal this will that they hear him publish once and declare the same to be his last will & testament, that at the time of his so doing he was to the best of the apprehension of sound and disposing mind memory and understandng, that they subscribed their names as witnesses to this will in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other.
      Sworn to that court
      I devise and bequeath as follows. I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Naniela Bassett all my estate real & personal to her for her disposal. And lastly I do hereby constitute & appoint my dearly beloved wife Naniela Bassett to be the sole Executrix of this my last Will & Testament revoking & annuling all former wills by me heretofore, ratifying this to none other to be my last will & testament. In testimony there of I have hereunto set my hand & affix my seal this 14th day of June in the year of our Lord 1809. The full name of Daniela Davidson Basset was here inserted between the 17th & 18th line of this instrument before the same was signed.
      (Signed) Isaac Bassett, Sr.

      DICTIONARY OF ALABAMA BIOGRAPHY
      Bassett, John Young, physician in America and France, was born June 12, 1805, at Baltimore, Md., and died at Huntsville, November 2, 1851, son of Dr. Isaac and Nancy (Davidson) Bassett, the former born March 8, 1763, in the state of Delaware, was a physician, served as ensign in company from Delaware, in American Revolution.
    Person ID I5  8B John Bassett of Hunterdon County, New Jersey
    Last Modified 25 May 2012 

    Father John Bassett,   d. Hunterdon County, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Daniela aka (Ann) (Nancy) Davidson,   b. Feb 1769, Philadelphia, PA or Baltimore, MD Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Sep 1832, Huntsville, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 63 years) 
    Married Abt 1790 
    Children 
     1. Isaac Bassett, Jr.
     2. Richard Bassett
     3. Margaret Bassett,   b. Abt 1800, Baltimore, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Feb 1851  (Age ~ 51 years)
    +4. Henry Willis Bassett,   d. 30 Aug 1830
    +5. Doctor John Young Bassett,   b. 12 Jun 1805, Baltimore, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Nov 1851, Huntsville, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 46 years)
     6. William Davidson Bassett
     7. Frances Bassett,   b. 1807, Baltimore, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Jan 1830, Huntsville, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 23 years)
    Family ID F3  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart