Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

46 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
wich, Sept. 29, 1721, in the 65th year of his age.
Elisha Basset, a grandson of Col. Basset, removed to
Dennis, then a part of Yarmouth. He was a captain in the
Provincial militia ; had three commissions, each signed by a
different Royal Governor. At the commencement of the
lievolution he was a zealous whig and surrendered his commission,
and was offered a captain's commission in the Con-
tinental Army ;
but the circumstances of his family obliged
him to decline accepting it. He was the representative from
Yarmouth at the Provincial Congress, as it was called, which
assembled at Cambridge and Watertown in the years 1774
and 75.
Nathaniel Basset, son of the tirst William, is the ancestor
of the Yarmouth, Chatham and Hyannis, and some of the
West Barnstable families of the name. On the 2d of March,
1651-2, "Nathaniell Basset and Joseph Prior, for disturbing
the church of 'Duxburrou,' on the Lord's day, were
sentenced each of them to pay twenty shillings fine, or the
next towne meeting or training day both of them to bee
bound unto a post for the space of two hours, in some public
place, with a paper on their heads on which theire capital
crime shall be written perspecusly, soe as may bee read."
Whether they paid the fines imposed, or suffered the novel
mode of punishment to which they were sentenced, does not
appear.
Nathaniel settled first in Marshfield, but removed to
Yarmouth where he was an inhabitant in 1664,. and perhaps
earlier. He resided near the first meeting-house, and his
descendants still enjoy his lands. Notwithstandino- the trifling
irregularity in his conduct when a young man at Duxbury,
he was a very worthy and respectable citizen, had a
large family—ten of whom lived to mature age. He died
January 16, 1709-10, aged 82.
No record of the family of the first William Basset has
been preserved. It appears that he was married but had no
children at the division of the land in 1623 ; but at the division
of the cattle in 1627, he had two, William and EHzabeth.
His wife was named Elizabeth, and it is stated by Jndo-e
Mitchell that she was probably a Tilden.* His children,
His wife Mary presented the inventory of his estate. May 13 1667
and took the oath required. The names of Mary and Elizabeth were
formerly considered synonymous, and it may be that Maryj was not ^^ his uio
second wife.