She married first 8 Nov 1648 at Sandwich, Thomas Burgess, Jr. of Sandwich, MA. They were divorced June 10, 1661.[2] Thomas Jr., and Elizabeth Bassett had no children though they were married 12-1/2 years. Then on June 10, 1661, Elizabeth was granted what is reputedly the first divorce in Plymouth Colony. Adultery was the only grounds for divorce at the time, and Thomas was found guilty of the act with a woman named Lydia Gaunt. He was punished by being whipped and forced to give up one-third of his net worth. He then married Lydia, and the couple moved to Newport, Rhode Island, where their only known child, a son, Thomas III was born in 1668.
Elizabeth was said to have married 2nd to William HATCH[3] although no marriage record is found.
Sources
↑ Cape Cod Library, Vol. 1, The Bassett Family of Yarmouth (C. W. Swift, Publisher and Printer; The "Register" Press 1912), pg. 1260
↑ 2.02.1 Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1995, vol. I, pp. 127-130. AmericanAncestors .org($)
Burgess, Ebenezer. Burgess Genealogy, Memorial of the Family of Thomas and Dorothy Burgess (T.R. Marvin & Son, Boston, 1865) Page 12
Bassett Family Association of America, Report of The Proceedings of the Second Reunion. (Price, Lee & Adkins Co., New Haven, Conn., 1898) Page 13
New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1568/i/21174/248/426916740
Vital Records from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB522/i/21073/313/1427086195
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Same name, birth and death dates and places. No other information or relationships on 1240. Suggest that if none is available, these be merged (as it seems that 1240 is of little use without some identifying information)
you had a death date for Elizabeth Bassett as November 5, 1988. Was this a typo? Should it have been 1688? Where is your source? There is no link to ancestry listed under your source. Thank you for your help, Mary
Same name, birth and death dates and places. No other information or relationships on 1240. Suggest that if none is available, these be merged (as it seems that 1240 is of little use without some identifying information)
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you had a death date for Elizabeth Bassett as November 5, 1988. Was this a typo? Should it have been 1688? Where is your source? There is no link to ancestry listed under your source. Thank you for your help, Mary