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- Thomas and Lucy Bassett moved to Washington County, Alabama in the 1760's. He received a Land Grant from the Governor at Pensacola, Florida in 1776 for lands near the River Tombigbee. This was later changed to a Spanish patent and then reverted to a United States grant after that portion of Alabama was made a part of the Mississippi Territory. He was killed by Indians in 1781 at Bassett's Creek in Clarke County, Alabama. His home was on Bassett's Creek in Washington County, Alabama. Both creeks were named for him.
According to Carter's American State Papers, Lucy and son Thomas were living in New Orleans in 1794.
The 750 acre plot mentioned below is the 750 acres tract at McIntosh Bluff also called Thomas Bluff. The other 1,050 acres tract (see Nathaniel Bassett) was situated on the Tombigbee River, on Bassetts Bayou, called Bassetts Creek.
"Claim: Of seven hundred and fifty acres, as administrator of Nathaniel Bassett, deceased, who was son and heir of Thomas Bassett, deceased, under a British Grant, confirmed by a Spanish warrant of survey, under the first section of the act.
The claimant exhibited his claim, together with a surveyor's plot of the land claimed, in the following words and figures, to wit: To the Commissioners appointed in pursuance of the act of Congress, passed the 3rd day of March, 1803, for surveying and adjusting the claims to lands south of the Tennessee and east of Pearl river.
Please to take notice that the following tract of lands, situated on the river Tombigbee, in the county of Washington, beginning at a sassafras, running thence north, eighty-two degrees west, one hundred and twenty-five chains and seventy-five links, to a pine corner; thence, south, eighty degrees west, fifty-nine chains and twenty eight links, to a black jack; thence, south eighty-two degrees east, ninety-two chains, to a white ash on the river; thence, with the river, to the beginning; containing seven hundred and fifty acres, is claimed by Thomas Bassett, administrator of Nathaniel Bassett, in and by virtue of a British and Spanish grant, having giveth shape, form and marks, both natural and artificial, are fully represented in the plot annexed, and is now exhibiited at the register of the land office, to be recorded as directed by said act. To all which he begs leave to (aver?), as also to a copy of the plot herewith filed.
THOMAS BASSETT,
Administrator of Nathaniel Bassett, March 19, 1804
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