Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

50 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
ter of Jabez Bearae, and had sons Joseph, Daniel and Seth.
He was a Lieutenant in the Continental Army. Joseph, his
son who enlisted as a soldier, but served in the capacity of
waiter to his father, was one of the last surviving revolutionary
pensioners of the town of Barnstable. He died July
7, 1855, aged 93. He married two wives and was the father
of twenty-four children, of whom the Hon. Zenas D. is the
oldest. One of his wives had four children by a former husband,
so that in fact there were twenty-eight in his family
who called him father.
Joshua, son of Joseph, was an ensign in Col. Gorham's
llegiment in the expedition to Louisburg, in 1745. He
married in 1738, Hannah Brimhall of Hingham, and had
Sarah, Oct. 28, 1739; Susannah, May 16, 1741; Anna,
March 3, 1742-3, and Joshua, Nov. 18, 1744. The latter
probably died young.
Nathan Basset, son of Joseph, lived in the ancient
Hallet house, situated nearly opposite the Barnstable Bank.
He married first, Hannah Hallet, 1751, by whom he had
seven children, and second, Desire, widow of Prince Crowell.
He had 1st, John, Nov. 4, 1753, who has no descendants
now living; 2d, Thankful, Nov. 3,
young; 3d, Joseph, Feb. 13, 1759; 4th,
1756, who died
Ebenezer, May
24, 1761 ; 5th, Thankful, Sept. 19, 1763, married Ebenezer
Taylor ; 6th, Francis, Jan'y 14, 1766 ; 7th, Joshua, Aug. 7,
1768, father of the present Capt. Joshua Basset.
Nathan Basset, son of Nathaniel, is the ancestor of the
Chatham and Harwich families. He married March 7, 1709,
Mary, daughter of Thomas Crowell of Yarmouth, He died
in 1728, leaving seven children. She died in 1742, and
names in her will sons Nathan, Thomas, Nathaniel, who
married Sarah Chase of Yarmouth, Aug. 23, 1729, Samuel,
and daughters Mary Basset, Dorcas Nickerson and Hannah
Coveil.
Capt. Elisha Basset of Sandwich, grandson of Col.
William, married Ruhama, daughter of Samuel Jennings of
Sandwich, and removed to Dennis, then Yarmouth. His
children, born in Yarmouth, were, 1st, Lydia, Aug. 14,
1740, married Abraham Howes, 1761 ; 2d, Abigail, Jan'y
30, 1742 ; 3d, Elisha, March 14, 1744-5, who removed with
his family to Ashfield in 1797, where he has descendants;
4th, Samuel, April 17, 1747, who went to Barnstable; 5th,
William, June 22, 1750, married Betty Howes, and had one