Goody

• Name	Goody
  Gender	Female
  _UID	CD79AF2055AADE45899A3243C91E3A27178E
  Notes	POSSIBLE MARRIAGE: Indication of first marriage for Thomas Bassett: "On 15 May 1651 the ‘Governor, Mr. Cullick and Mr. Clarke are desired to go down to Stratford to keep court upon the trial of Goody Bassett for her life, and if the Governor cannot go, then Mr. Wells is to go in his room' [CCCR 1:220]." [From NEHGS New England Ancestors.org.] POSSIBLE MARRIAGE: Presumably he [Thomas Bassett] married while living in Windsor, but it is doubtful that he had surviving children, as no mention of children is found in either the vital or church records of Windsor, nor in the record of children born at Windsor made by Matthew Grant. The wife may have been a woman of peculiar and unsocial temperament, for we suppose she was the "Goody Bassett" who was accused of witchcraft at Stratford in 1651, tried, found guilty, and executed. [Ref.: Donald L. Jacobus, Families of Old Fairfield, 1:34-5.]
  Person ID	I401	3B Thomas Bassett of Connecticut
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2012

  
  

  Family	Thomas Bassett,   b. Abt 1598, England, United Kingdom d. 1669, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States (Age 71 years)
  Notes	MARRIAGE (1) Indication of first marriage: “On 15 May 1651 the ‘Governor, Mr. Cullick and Mr. Clarke are desired to go down to Stratford to keep court upon the trial of Goody Bassett for her life, and if the Governor cannot go, then Mr. Wells is to go in his room’ [CCCR 1:220].” [From NEHGS New England Ancestors.org.]
  Children	1. Sarah Bassett,   b. 1646, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut d. Abt 1705/6, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States (Age 60 years)   2. Mary Bassett,   b. 1648, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut d. Nov 1673 (Age 25 years)
  Family ID	F197	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 May 2015