Display Patriot - P-248304 - Samuel BASSETT

Samuel BASSETT

SAR Patriot #: P-248304

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State of Service: MA      Qualifying Service: Sergeant

Birth: 17 Apr 1747 Yarmouth / Barnstable / MA
Death: 04 Jan 1824 Barnstable / Barnstable / MA

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. Private, Capt Ebenezer Jenkins's co., Colonel Freeman's regt.; service Sept. 6, 1778 to Sept. 13 1778, on an alarm at Dartmouth and Falmouth
  2. Sergeant, Lt Ebenezer Baker's co., Colonel Nathaniel Freeman's regt
  3. Service, four days in Sept. 1779 on an alarm at Falmouth

Additional References:
  1. graves report submitting by David C. Schafer, MASSAR
  2. MA Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, Volume 1, pg 755 & 762
  3. Muster/Payrolls of the Rev War (MA & RI)
    • Volume 35, pg 226 & 239 (images 543 & 557)
    • Volume 36, pg 129 (image 181)

Spouse: (1) Mary Howland; (2) Elizabeth Luce; (3) Rachel Fish
Children: Anna; Hannah; Elisha; John; Charles; Samuel; Charles; Rachel;
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Burial:
West Barnstable Cemetery (C-0372602)
Location:
West Barnstable / Barnstable / MA / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
245129
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
5761454
Marker Type:

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:
  • gravestone photo used with permission of David C. Schafer, MASSAR
  • The gravestone of Samuel Bassett is made of slate and measures 18.5" wide, 28" tall, and 2" thick. Carved at its upper section is a Weeping Willow draping over an urn


Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

The grave site of Samuel Bassett is 291 feet in a northerly line from the cemetery Rte. 149 cemetery entrance



Author: David Crandall Schafer

Samuel Bassett, son of Elisha and Ruhamah (Jennings) Bassett, was born on 17 April 1747 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts. One of seven children, his siblings were Lydia, Abigail, Elisha, William, Deborah, and Lot.1

Samuel married Mary Howland, daughter of Job and Hannah (Jenkins) Howland of Barnstable, on 29 January 1777, in Barnstable, Massachusetts. Together they had three children from 1778 to 1783, Anna, Hannah, and Elisha. Mary (Howland) Bassett died on 18 June 1783 and was buried at the cemetery of West Barnstable. Samuel married his second wife, Elizabeth Luce, on 14 October 1783, at Barnstable, the daughter of John and Jemima Luce of Tisbury, Massachusetts. Together Samuel and Elizabeth had three children between 1784 and 1787, John, Charles, and Samuel. Elizabeth (Luce) Bassett died on 24 May 1790 at Barnstable. Samuel married his third wife, Rachel Fish, daughter of Edmund and Elizabeth (Howes) Fish of Sandwich, after their intentions were posted on 23 June 1792 at Sandwich. Together Samuel and Rachel had two children, Charles and Rachel.2 

American privateers had disrupted British vessels supplying goods and arms to New York and Newport, Rhode Island causing British Rear Admiral James Gambier to dispatch a fleet of ships the first week of September 1778 with 4,000 troops, commanded by General Charles Gray, to destroy the rebel privateers based in and around (New) Bedford, Massachusetts. Their arrival at Clark’s Cove at the southern tip of Bedford on 5 September prompted Massachusetts Militia General Joseph Otis to call out his militia companies of Barnstable County in defense of Dartmouth and Falmouth. Captain Ebenezer Jenkins’s militia company in Colonel Freeman’s regiment with 47 men, including private Samuel Basset, marched on the 6th and served eight days before being discharged to return home.3

In September 1779, a small fleet of Loyalists funded by the British garrisoned at Newport arrived at Tarpaulin Cove of Naushon Island just south of Falmouth and began attacking American vessels. The loyalists approached Falmouth Harbor conducting naval exercises causing General Otis to again call militia companies to the defense of Falmouth’s seacoast. The payroll of Lieutenant Ebenezer Baker’s militia company on alarm at Falmouth in September 1779 lists 16 men, including Sergeant Samuel Bassett, with service of four days.4

The October 1798 assessment of dwellings and lots lists Samuel Bassett with one dwelling on 40 perches valued at $175, with an additional land totaling 27 acres valued at $551.

Mrs. Rachel (Fish) Bassett died on 23 April 1823, aged 62, and was buried at the West Barnstable cemetery. Samuel died on 24 January 1824 in Barnstable and was buried beside his wife, Rachel.

Sources:

  1. Yarmouth Town Records, 1670-1773, Vol. 3, pg. 143.
  2. Barnstable Town Records, 1765-1783, Vol. 3, pg. 214.
  3. Muster/Payrolls of the Revolution (MA & RI) Vol. 36, page 129 (image 181)
  4. Ibid, Vol. 35, page 226 (image 543)

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