JOHN BASSETT

(1682-1753) - Lynn, Essex co., MA

(Fourth Generation - Bassett Family)

FATHER
MOTHER
WILLIAM BASSETT, JR.
SARAH HOOD



BIRTH John was born on 8 September 1682 in Lynn, Essex co., MA[66]
DEATH He died as "Basset, John" in Lynn, Essex co., MA on 26 January 1753; he was 70[64,67].
OCCUPATION John was a Husbandman[68].
MARRIAGE On 9d:12m(February):1704/5 when John was 21, he married Abigail BERRY, daughter of Thaddeus BERRY & Hanna FARRAR, in Lynn, Essex co., MA[64,69,70]. An intention was also filed in Lynn, Essex co., MA on 13 January 1704/5 under both "John Basset of Lynn & Abigail Berry of Boston" and as "Berry, Abigall of Rumney Marsh, and John Bassett, s. William".

CHILDREN 24. i. Desire BASSETT Desire was born in 1705/1706 in Lynn, Essex co., MA.
25. ii. Zaphania BASSETT She was born in 1707 in Lynn, Essex co., MA. Her name is variously spelled as Zaphania and Gephemiah.
26. iii. Mary BASSSETT Please see her own page.
27. iv. Isaiah BASSSETT He was born in 1711/2 in Lynn, Essex co., MA.
28. v. Lydia BASSETT She was born in 1713 in Lynn, Essex co., MA.
29. vi. Daniel BASSETT He was born on 26 September 1716 in Lynn, Essex co., MA.





GENERATION Great-great-great-great-great-great-great (G7) Grandfather
FAMILY NUMBER 1014
SOURCES 1. Anderson, Robert Charles, George F. Sanborn, Jr. and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635., (New England Historic Genealogical Society), [GreatMig1634-1635], I:193.

2. Ibid. I:192.

3. Hotten, John Camden, The Original Lists of Persons of Quality., (London 1874; rpt. Baltimore 1974), [Hotten], 98.

4. Coldham, Peter Wilson, The Complete Book Of Emigrants, (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing co., Inc., 1987), [Coldham], 143.

5. Lynn, Essex co., MA Vital Records, [LynnVR], II:425.

6. [GreatMig1634-1635], I:190.

7. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686, 9 volumes, (Salem 1911-1975), [EQC], 5:367.

8. [GreatMig1634-1635], I:191.

9. [EQC], 4:158.

10. [GreatMig1634-1635], I:194.

11. [EQC], 5:61.

12. The Probate Records of Essex County, [EssexProb or EPR], 308:58-60, Case #2048.

13. Ibid. #2048.

14. [GreatMig1634-1635], I:190.

15. [EQC], 6:111.

16. Bodge, George Madison, Soldiers in King Philip's War, (1896), [Bodge], 164-66.

17. [EQC], 8:365.

18. Ibid. 8:440.

19. The Essex Antiquarian, (13 vols.)(n.p., 1897-1909), [EssexAnt], 7:77.

20. Essex co., MA Deeds, [EssexDeeds or ELR], 3:39.

21. [EQC], 2:239-30.

22. [EssexDeeds or ELR], 2:106-107.

23. Ibid. 3:51.

24. Ibid. 4:113.

25. Ibid. 5:81-82.

26. [Bodge], 406.

27. [EQC], 5:487.

28. [Bodge], 422.

29. [EssexDeeds or ELR], 9:59-60.

30. Ibid. 9:172-173.

31. Ibid. 9:11.

32. [GreatMig1634-1635], I:191-2.

33. Page, Lucius R., List of Freemen of MA, 1630-1691., [Page-Freemen], III:10-12.

34. [EQC], 6:400; 7:158.

35. Ibid. 4:429; 5:41; 8:440; 9:337,457.

36. Ibid. 2:385; 3:203; 4:66,251; 6:73; 7:1; 8:394.

37. Ibid. *:60.

38. Ibid. 5:198,356; 6:51,325; 7:124,222,319; 8:148.

39. Ibid. 3:335.

40. Ibid. 7:39.

41. Torrey, Charles, New England Marriages Prior to 1700., (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Society). [Torrey].

42. Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. 1+, (Salem, Mass., 1859+), [EIHC], 17:268.

43. Snow, Nora Emma, The Snow-Estes Ancestry, 2 vols., (Hillburn, N.Y.: privately printed, 1939), [Snow-Estes], 2:57,62.

44. Lewis, Alonzo, & James Newhall, History of Lynn, Essex County, Mass., including Lynnfield, Saugus, Swampscot, and Nahant, 16219-[1893], (Lynn: George C. Herbert, [1890]), [Lynn Hist.], 184.

45. Savage, James A., A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 1860-1862., (Boston 1860-1862; rpt Baltimore 1955), [Savage], 1:136.

46. The Register of the Lynn Historical Society, Lynn, Mass., (Lynn, Mass., 1897+), [Lynn Hist. Soc.], 1906:86; 1913:156.

47. Cooke, Harriet Ruth, The Driver Family: a Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Robert and Phebe Driver, of Lynn, Mass., With an Appendix, Containing Twenty-Three Allied Families, (New York: J. Wilson & Son, 1889), [Driver], 479.

48. Flagg, Ernest, Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England, (Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1926), [FlaggAnc], 250.

49. Reports of the Two Reunions of the Massachusetts Branch of the Bassett Family Association, (Boston: Bailey Printing Co., 1902), [BassettReunion], 1:6,7,23.

50. [GreatMig1634-1635], I:193.

51. Shurtleff, Benjamin, The History of the Town of Revere, (Boston: 1937), [Shurtleff-Revere], 68.

52. [Snow-Estes], 2:8,59,66.

53. McIntire, Robert Harry, Ancestry of Robert Harry McIntire and of Helen Annette McIntire, His Wife, (Norfolk, Va., 1950), [McIntire Anc.], 74.

54. [EIHC], 45:51.

55. [FlaggAnc], 178,252.

56. [BassettReunion], 1:24,18; 2:15.

57. Bosson, Jennie (Hood), John Hood of Lynn, Mass., (Salem: Essex Institute, 1909), [Hood], 3.

58. Bassette, Buell Burdett, One Bassett Family in America, With All Connections in America and Many in Great Britain and France; Principally an Outline of What Ancestors Did to Help Make America; Mainly From Original Records Heretofore Published, ([Springfield, Mass.: F. A. Bassette Co. 1926]), [Bassett(1926)].

59. Waters, Henry F., The Newhall Family, (Salem: Essex Institute, 1882; repr., Rutland, VT: Tuttle Antiquarian Books), [Newhall(1882)], 18.

60. [LynnVR], I:200 [Ct. R].

61. The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Documentary History of 1692, (Salem, MA: The Nova Anglia Company, 2001), [SalemWitch], 13.

62. Suffolk County Court Records (Originals), [SCCR-orig], #2701, page 24.

63. [LynnVR], 1:44.

64. [Shurtleff-Revere], 81.

65. [LynnVR], II:44 [C.R. 1].

66. Ibid. I:45.

67. Ibid. II:425 [P.R. 5].

68. Ibid. II:62.

69. ??????, "First Book of Intentions of Marriage in the City of Lynn", Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. 1+, [EIHC-LynnInt], 16:71ff.

70. [LynnVR], II:39 [C.R. 1] and II:43 [C.R. 1].

71. Ibid. II:62 [C.R. 1].

72. Ibid. I:61.

73. Ibid. II:437 [P.R. 5].




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