MARY BASSETT

(1709-1793) - Lynn, Essex co., MA

(Fifth Generation - Bassett Family)

FATHER	MOTHER
JOHN BASSETT	ABIGAIL BERRY

BIRTH	Mary was born on 13 August 1709 in Lynn, Essex co., MA
DEATH	She died in Lynn, Essex co., MA on 24d:6m(August):1793; she was 83. Mary is buried in The Friends' Burying Ground in Lynn, Essex co., MA.
ESTATE	Mary's will was written on 14 March 1782 and probated on 6 August 1793. The Will of Mary Bassett Breed ...to my beloved daughter Hannah Mower 1 silver pepper box / 2 large silver spoons, 1 round spring table and one GRISSET gown. to my beloved daughter Anna Burrill one silver cream post, 1 large silver spoon, 1 pair silver tea ton[g]s, 1 brown silk gown. To my beloved daughter Alice Newhall, 5 shillings. To my beloved daughter Mary Sawyer one silver can, one large silver spoon, one silver snuff box. to my beloved grandson William Breed, son of Nehemiah, one large sivler spoon. to my beloved grandson Albert Gray, 2 large silver spoons and one pair of stone sleeve buttons set in silver. to my beloved granddaughter Abigail Mower, 3 silver tea spoons. to my beloved granddaughter Allice Burrill 2 silver tea spoons. The remainder of my wearing appearal unto my 3 daughters, named above, to be equally divided. Whatever estate left I may be possessed of at the time of my death and not herein before disposed of I give to my 3 sons, Ezra, Zephaniah, Daniel, and to my daughters (above) together with my grandson Albert Gray to be equally divided. *Lastly I ordain my beloved son Ezra sole Executor. Witnesses: Richard Pratt, Samuel Breed, Nathan Breed. [Essex Probate 3234; Book 362, p. 484]
MARRIAGE	On 28 October 1728 when Mary was 19, she married Nathan BREED, son of Samuel BREED & Anna HOOD, in Lynn, Essex co., MA^[71].

CHILDREN (surnamed BREED)	i.	Hannah1 BREED
	ii.	Hannah2 BREED	Please see her own page.
	iii.	Ezra BREED
	iv.	Abigail BREED
	v.	Zephaniah BREED
	vi.	John BREED
	vii.	Daniel BREED
	viii.	Alice BREED
	ix.	Anna BREED
	x.	Mary BREED
	xi.	Enoch BREED

GENERATION

Great-great-great-great-great-great (G6) Grandmother

FAMILY NUMBER

507

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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