Sixteenth Generation

23. William Walter BASSETT Jr. was born in 1600 in Of Sandwich, Kent County, England. From the research of J. (Bayes) Howard: "William Bassett was the husband of Elizabeth Unknown and Mary Tilden. Father of my 7th great-grandmother Sarah Bassett White, wife of the first pilgrim child, Peregrine White.

William Bassett's origins are unknown at this time. He was among the very early arrivals in New England, arriving on the "Fortune" in 1621. His first wife Elizabeth may have also been among the passengers, either as a single woman or recently married to him.

He was a freeman of Plymouth, MA, among those already admitted before Jan 1, 1632/3. By 1639 he had removed to Duxbury. He was a blacksmith by trade. He wrote his will on April 3,1667, probably dying very shortly thereafter. His estate inventory was taken May 12,1667.

He married, first, Elizabeth ____, probably before 1623. Sometime after 1651, he married Mary (Tilden) Lapham, the widow of Thomas Lapham.

Children (all by first marriage): William Bassett Jr, Elizabeth Bassett Burgess, Sarah Bassett White, Nathaniel Bassett, Joseph Bassett, and Ruth Bassett Sprague." He died on 4 April 1667 at the age of 67 in Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.

William Walter BASSETT Jr. and Elizabeth Ann TILDEN were married in 1623 in Bridgewater, Worcestershire, England. They had 8 children. Elizabeth Ann TILDEN, daughter of Nathaniel TILDEN and Lydia HUCKSTEP, was born in 1603 in Of Bridgewater, Worcestershire, England. She died about 1636 at the age of 33 in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.

William Walter BASSETT Jr. and Elizabeth Ann TILDEN had the following children:

+24	i.	Elizabeth BASSETT.
25	ii.	William BASSETT was born in 1624 in Plymouth County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. He died on 10 June 1670 at the age of 46 in Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. He was buried in Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. in the Old Town Cemetery.
26	iii.	Nathaniel BASSETT was born in 1628. He died on 16 January 1710 at the age of 82 in Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
+27	iv.	Sara BASSETT (').
+28	v.	Joseph BASSETT.
+29	vi.	Ruth BASSETT.
30	vii.	Jane BASSETT was born (date unknown).

William Walter BASSETT Jr. and Mary TILDEN were married on 13 March 1637 in Scituate Township, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. Mary TILDEN, daughter of Nathaniel TILDEN and Lydia HUCKSTEP, was born on 20 May 1610 in Tenterden, Kent County, England. She died on 28 March 1690 at the age of 79 in Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.