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Bethiah (Eaton) Bassett (abt. 1668 - bef. 1736)

Bethiah (Bethia) "Bathyah, Bithiah" Bassett formerly Eaton aka Basset
Born about in Duxbury, Plymouth Colonymap [uncertain]
Ancestors ancestors
Daughter of and
Sister of [half], [half], , and
Wife of — married 5 Nov 1691 in Taunton, Bristol, Province of Massachusetts Baymap
Descendants descendants
Mother of , and
Died before before about age 68 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts Baymap
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Biography

Bethiah Eaton was born about 1668, daughter of Samuel and Martha (Billington) Eaton. She died before 12 Jan 1735/6 (husband's will).[1]

She married 5 Nov 1691 in Taunton, Massachusetts, Joseph Bassett,[2] s/o Joseph and Mary (Lapham) Bassett.[3][4][1]

Joseph's will names the three daughters: oldest, Bethia Bassett (named executor); 2nd Mehetebell Holloway of Middleboro; 3rd Lydia Phillips of Norton.[1]

"The birth of the children of Joseph & Bithiah Basset:[5][1]

Bithiah Basset was born Decemr 25th Anno Dom 1693
Mehetabel Basset was born June 22d Ano Dom 1697
Lydia Basset was born April 295y Anno Dom 1703."

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Wakefield, Robert S (revised) Van Antwerp, Lee Douglas. (comp.) Mayflower Families Through Five Generations.. Volume Nine Family of Francis Eaton. (General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1996) pp 24, 25
  2. ↑ Vital Records of Taunton. p. 164
  3. ↑ See MD 15:46 for 3 children. See Eaton Probate Appendix for will of Joseph Bassett.
  4. ↑ Roser, Susan E. Mayflower Increasings. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1995) Accessed at Ancestry.com
  5. ↑ Bridgewater, Mass, Vital Recods. The Mayflower Descendant 15: 46 Link at AmericanAncestors ($)
  • Bassett, Buell. One Bassett Family in America (F.A. Bassett Co., Springfield, Massachusetts, 1926) Page 14
  • Arthaud, John Bradley. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Volume Twenty-one. Family of John Billington. Harriet W. Hodge (original compiler), Robert S. Wakefield (Revised 2001). (Boston: General Society of Mayflower Descendants 2014.)

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