Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

48 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
iel; the eldest sou of his son Joseph; to Nathaniel he
gave property that was his Grandmother Joyce's, and
his lands in Middleboro'. He names his daughter-iu-law
Joannah, perhaps wife of Nathaniel, who removed to
Windham, Conn., and his daughter Euth Basset. He
gives certain property unto six of his children, Mary
Mulford, Samuel Basset, Hannah Covell, Joseph Basset,
Sarah Nickerson and Nathan Basset, Mr. Thomas
Mulford of Truro, and his son Joseph of Yarmouth,
Executors. Estate appraised at £228,11. One of the
oldest monuments in the Yarmouth grave-yard is that
of Dorcas Basset, who died June 9, 1707, aged 31.
She was probably a daughter of Nathaniel. Though
William is first named in the will, he was probably the
youngest son.
IV. Sarah, born about 1630, married in 1648, Peregrine
\^'hite of Marshfield, the first born of the English at
Cape Cod Harbor, Nov. 1620. Her third son Jonathan,
born June 4, 1658, is the ancestor of the White
families in Yarmouth.
His other children named aie Euth, who married John
Sprague, 1655; Jane; Joseph, who settled with his father
in Bridgewater, married Martha Hobart, 1677, and died
1712. He had Joseph, William, Elnathan, Jeremiah, Lydia,
Euth and Elizabeth. The posterity of Joseph are numerous.
William, son of Nathaniel, married Feb. 23, 1710,
Martha Godfrey, and had Isaac, July 17, 1711 ; Moses,
Nov. 4, 1713 ; Fear, April 12, 1716, who married Joseph
Eogers of Harwich, Oct. 19, 1737. His second wife was
Sarah Jenkins of Barnstable, to whom he was married
Jan'y 30, 1722-3. He and his wife Sarah were dismissed
from the Yarmouth to the Barnstable Church, Aug. 1727.
His children recorded as born in Barnstable are Samuel,
Aug. 21, 1724; Experience, May 5, 1727; Mary, May 18,
1729, and Nathaniel, Sept. 4, 1732. Only the two last
were baptized in Barnstable. He had probably another son,
William, born in Yarmouth, who married May 8, 1741,
Margaret Merryfield. The Bassets of West Barnstable are
descendants of William, son of Nathaniel, and of Samuel of
Yarmouth, a great-grandson of Col. William of Sandwich.
This Samuel married June 15, 1743, Susannah Lumbard of