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Daniel Bassett

Male 1773 - 1861  (88 years)


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  • Name Daniel Bassett 
    Born 31 Mar 1773  Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    _UID 724B3C1F7FBE60439BBD242520E55C817B95 
    Died 27 May 1861 
    Buried Wolfborough, Strafford County, New Hampshire Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Daniel Bassett moved with his parents to Wolfborough, New Hampshire in 1790. He accompanied his son, Daniel Bassett Jr. to Minnesota later in life.

      Friends Records
      Dover, New Hampshire Monthly Meeting
      Daniel Bassett, of Wolfborough, in the county of Strafford, and state of New Hampshire, son of John Bassett, of said Wolfborough, and Ruth his wife, and Abigail Bean, daughter of Joel Bean, of Alton, in state and county aforesaid, and Mary his wife, married in Gilmanton, December 29, 1808.

      Friends Records
      Dover, New Hampshire Monthly Meeting
      Daniel Bassett, of Wolfborough, son of John Bassett, of said town, in the county of Strafford, and state of New Hampshire, and Ruth his wife, both deceased, and Susanna Jones, daughter of Richard Jones, of Gilmanton, state and county aforesaid, and Anna his wife, deceased, married in Gilmanton, January 2, 1840.

      1860 Federal Census of 1st W., Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota (10 Nov 1860)
      Danl Bassett Jr. - 41 - M - New Hampshire - Gentleman 5000 5000
      E.J. - 35 - F - New Hampshire
      Danl - 89 - M - Massachusetts - Gentleman
      Abby J. - 13 - F - Massachusetts
      Maria J. - 10 - F - Massachusetts

      Wolfborough New Hampshire Cemeteries
      Lakeview Plot #165
      Joseph Varney - d. Sep 9 1852 age 81 years
      Hannah h/w - d. Nov 30, 1853 age 57 years
      Isabella D. t/d - d. Oct 10, 1810 age 21 years
      Susan t/d - d. Nov 30, 1824 age 21 years
      Augustus C t/s - d. Nov 26, 1821 age 11 months
      Joseph E. t/s - d. May 13, 1826 age 8 months
      Richard D. t/s - d. Feb. 21, 1819 age 4 years
      Charles Wheeler s/o David C. & Mary B. Breed - d. Feb. 17, 1812 age 5 months
      Huldah H. d/o Paul H. & Sarah Varney - d. Dc. 21, 1826 age 12 years
      Huldah B. w/o Lindley M. Hoag - d. Jun. 17, 1843 age 42 years
      Jonas C.M.. Varney - d. Nov 13, 1825 age 27 years
      Daniel Bassett - d. May 27, 1861 age 88 years
      Abigail h/lw - d. Nov. 8, 1838 age 54 years, 2 months, 20 days
      Susanna J. h/w - d. Sep. 5, 1849 age 66 years 3 months
      John Bassett - d. Mar. 14, 1811 age 71 years
      Ruth h/w - d. Sep 1821 age 81 years

      History of Wolfeborough, New Hampshire
      Parker (1901)
      John Bassett came from Lynn, Mass., in 1790, and settled on a lot of land which has ever since been known as the Bassett farm. The buildings were erected at a considerable distance from the main road, the location where they stood being now approached by Mill Street, which has been somewhat recently opened. During the management of affairs by his grandson, Daniel Bassett Jr., the two-story part of the house was removed to North Main Street, and is now, with a portion of the farm, owned and occupied by the heirs of the late Abel Haley. The one-story part still remains with another portion of the farm where the buildings were first erected. Mr. Bassett's children were: Daniel, married Abigail Bean; John, married Ruth Wiggin; Lydia, married Samuel Newell; Hannah, married Joseph Varney; Sally; married Jonathan Buffum; Rebecca, married William Lyons.
      Daniel, the eldest son, succeeded his father in the management of the farm, becoming a successful farmer. He spent most of his active life in Wolfeborough, but in old age accompanied his son, Daniel Bassett, Jr., to Minnesota, whither some of his children had previously emigrated. Following is a list of his children: John, went west when a young man; Hannah, married Amos Jones, of Gilmanton; Joel, went to Minneapolis and accumulated a large property; Daniel, married Jane Campney; Philip, went west; Ursula, married Joseph Canney, of Dover.
      Daniel Bassett Jr.'s children were Abbie Susan, born Feb. 14, 1846, and Maria Jane, born Sept. 22, 1849. Mr. Bassett remained in Wolfeborough until middle age, and was thrifty; he then went to Minneapolis, and became wealthy. He was quite active in his adopted home politically and financially. His decease occurred in 1899.
      John Bassett, second son of John the settler, was a farmer and school-teacher. For twenty-eight successive years he had charge of winter district schools, and during that period taught a few terms in the summer. He became the owner of a farm on the borders of Wolfeborough and Tuftonborough, the dividing line between the two towns passing through his house. Here he resided a number of years, but afterwards purchased the Thomas-Townsend-Fox-Tuttle farm, now occupied by his son George W. Bassett. His son John Newell Bassett then took possession of the Wolfeborough-Tuftonborough farm, where he reared a family consisting of one son, Charles S., who now lives on the farm, and two daughters. Mr. Bassett married Ruth Wiggin, a daughter of James Wiggin, and had children as follows: Daniel W., born Feb. 5, 1812, died young; John N., born March 2, 1815, married Lydia Langley; Charles D., born May 13, 1816, went west; Ruth, born May 7, 1820, married Isaac Lovering, of Freedom; Gulielma, born Jan. 28, 1822, married Jacob K. Purington, of Dover; James, born Sept. 23, 1825, west to Boston; George W., born March 28, 1829, married Roxanna Fullerton. George W. Bassett has three children, James A., Emma, and Clara.

      History of the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota (1893)
      Joel B. Bassett.
      The Bassett family belongs to the French Huguenot stock. After St. Bartholomew, some of its members passed to the British islands, whence they joned the emigration which brought exiles from religious intolerance and persecution to the American colonies. The town records of Lynn, Mass., show the name among the citizens of that town as early as 1640, and the family records indicate that they remained there some years after the close of the Revolutionary war, whence they removed to New Hampshire.
      In the early part of the present century Daniel Bassett, Sr., was a resident of Wolfboro, Stafford County, N.H. He cultivated a farm, and having been raised with religious principles promulgated by George Fox, he cultivated the gift within him, as the spirit gave him utterance, in the earnest but simple worship of the Society of Friends. He was uncompromising in his religious and political opinions. He was an early anti-slavery man, manumitting by a formal deed a slave that the laws of his state allowed him to hold as a chattel. In politics he was a Federalist, firmly supporting the Adams, and when the Whig party took the sucession, followed the fortunes and teachings of Clay and Webster, until it in turn was merged into the Republican organization.
      The state of New Hampshire was Democratic from its organization until the year 1850. Franklin Pierce and John G. Atherton had full control of the Democratic party in the state, and distributed the federal and state patronage among their supporters. The question of slavery entered largely into political discussions. When John P. Hale, Mason W. Tappan and Daniel Bassett, Jr., with their associates, undertook to wrest the state from the Democratic party, and succeeded in electing a Republican governor and sent John P. Hale to the United States Senate, no man in the state did more to bring about the political revolution than the last named of the above.
    Person ID I600  4B William Bassett of Lynn, Massachusetts
    Last Modified 4 Jul 2012 

    Father John Bassett,   b. 22 Jan 1739, Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Mar 1811  (Age 72 years) 
    Mother Ruth Newhall,   d. Sep 1821 
    Married 14 Oct 1772 
    Family ID F116  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Abigail Bean,   b. 18 Aug 1785,   d. 1 Mar or 8 Nov 1838  (Age 53 years) 
    Married 29 Dec 1808  Gilmanton, New Hampshire Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Children 
    +1. John Bassett,   b. 14 Jan 1812, New Hampshire Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Apr 1891  (Age 79 years)
    +2. Hannah Bean Bassett,   b. 18 Mar 1816
    +3. Joel Bean Bassett,   b. 14 Mar 1817, New Hampshire Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Feb 1912, Orange County, California Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 94 years)
    +4. Daniel Bassett, Jr.,   b. 10 Jan 1819,   d. 1899  (Age 79 years)
    +5. Philip C. Bassett,   b. 15 Dec 1821, Wolfborough, Strafford County, New Hampshire Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 May 1884, Cinnabar, Montana Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 62 years)
     6. Ursula Bassett,   b. 23 Feb 1824
     7. Mary Ann Bassett,   b. 9 Nov 1826,   d. 19 Feb 1827  (Age 0 years)
    Family ID F210  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Susanna Jones,   d. 5 Sep 1849 
    Married 2 Jan 1840  Gilmanton, New Hampshire Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F213  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S4] DMM - Friends Records - Dover, New Hampshire Monthly Meeting.