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There is neither the space or time to list all of the "sources" of information documenting the many Branches of the Bassetts of New Kent Co., VA and their migration into other Virginia Counties as well as other States.
NOR does your message site a SOURCE for the information contained in your message.
This may come as a surprise to you Mr. Matson, but William Bassett, the Councillor, son of William and Anne Bassett of Newport, Isle of Wight, Southampton Co., England was NOT the FIRST Bassett to immigrate to the Colony of Virginia.
The Virginia Company of London records the death of William BASSETT 22 March 1624 (Jamestown Massacre of 1624), notice to be given to family so heirs may take heed of the property about 2 miles from Henry City, VA.
Now with regard to our Patriarch, Thomas BASSETT I and his descendants. Bassett, Virginia, home of Bassett Furniture Industries, takes its name from our BASSETT line. This distinguished family established the Bassett line of furnitre around the turn of the Century.
Thomas BASSETT I, saild on the boat "Truelove" departing from London June 10, 1635 outbound for Barbados and the Sommers Islands. On 18 April 1639 he took possession of 150 acres bounding East and West on the Chichohomony North to Pattococok, York Co., VA (taken into New Kent 1654). He and wife Mary had two children: WILLIAM b. 1643 and Mary b. 1645. Mary married after the death of Thomas I abt. 1657-59, William Felgate, Capt. Johon Underhill, buried near "Ringfield" on Felgate's Creek and lastly, Dr. Isaac Clopton. John Underhill and wife Mary sold the Felgate property, which became known as "Ringfield" to Joseph Ring 1692/93.
Our William Bassett is recorded in the Vestry Book and Register of St. Peter's Parish, New Kent and James City Counties, Virginia. (Thomas I was formerly in St. Pauls Parish, York Co until 1654.) Our William Bassett is recorded as Churchwarden in 1689 (at which time William Bassett, Jr. (son of William and Bridget Cary Bassett) was a minor, age 18 and not yet married to Joanna Burwell, daughter of Lewis Burwell and Abigail Smith, neice of Nathaniel Bacon, Sr.
The Vestry Book and Register clearly defines our William Bassett, Churchwarden as Mr. William Bassett, while at the same time clearly defines the minor (age 18) William Bassett as William Bassett, Jr.
page 20 of Mr. Chamberlayne's fine work lists the names of the Companys (teams) into which the gentlemen were assigned to remark the boundries of the lands of each man to divide the Parish into Presincts. To wit, the following teams are some of those listed:
Capt Joseph Foster, Mr John Roper Sr, Mr William Bassett, Jr, Mrs Elizabeth Littpage, William Harman and Edmund Bedford
Robert Chandler, William Moss, John Ossling, Mr Jarrett, Sam Weaver, John Howle
on Page 21 these are a few of the teams:
Abra Venable, Rouland Horsley, Robert Lancester, John Medlock, Renall Allen, John Hight
Mr. William Bassett, Mr. James Moss, Charles Fleming, James Austin
Anthony Burrus, John Guntin, William Bassett, Jr., John Peace, John Englebricht, Sam Waddy
Take note, the Episcopal Church certainly respected the difference between the elder Mr. William Bassett and the minor, William Bassett, Jr.
William Bassett, Jr. became, as denoted by historians, a member of the House of Burgess, whereafter, he was referred to as William Bassett, Esq.
Now sir, William Bassett the Councillor, son of the Yeoman William Bassett and wife Anne of Newport, Isle of Wight, Southampton Co., England, IMMIGRATED about 1665 and married 1670c in Virginia Bridget CARY born 1652, daughter of Captain Miles CARY and Anne TAYLOR. (Lyon G. Tyler, Encyclopedia of Virginia, p. 181) They lived in Eltham, New Kent County, VA, where their only child William Bassett, Jr. (the minor, later known as William Bassett, Esq.) was born in 1671. Shortly thereafter, William the Immigrant died 1671/72. Family Bible records at the Virginia State Library record the marriage of William Bassett, Jr. (the minor, later known as Esq.) 28 November 1693 to Joanna Burwell, daughter of Lewis Burwell and Abagail Smith, niece of Nathaniel Bacon, the elder, who immigrated to the Colony of Virginia in 1651, and later became president of the Council.
Now if you had done very much research on your own, you'd have discovered all of the above information for the many highly regarded sources provide not only and abundance, but rather a wealth of information on the distingued BASSETT Families. There are hundreds and hundreds of sources readily alvailable to support all of the above.
Consequently, I have NOT seen a single source that records a spouse "Iszabella" for The Immigrant William (the Councillor) BASSETT, son of William and Anne BASSETT of Newport, Isle of Wight, Southampton Co., England.
Further, the 1704 Virginia Quit Rent Rolls show taxes were paid by the following: William Bassett 350 acres, Thomas Bassett 150, and William Bassett, Esq. 1,150 acres.
Our William BASSETT, son of THOMAS I, died about May 1724. His son, Thomas BASSETT II died 20 April 1720, just six short months prior to the execution of his father's will, dated 15 October 1720.
Certainly, it is a bit confusing, what with multiple William and Thomas Bassetts, each married to a different spouse, and some having multiple spouses, like our Thomas II who was married to Elinor, Elizabeth, and Mary. Thomas III removed to Cumberland County where he owned more than 6,000 acres (some of which he possessed by virtue of 1738 British Land Grant of King George III) which he sold in 1750 prior to emigrating to the Colony of Georgia where he owned considerable acreage, again some via British Land Grants, and also was GRANTED, with others, 50,0000 acres on the Mississippi River. His son Thomas BASSETT IV, a British Royalist, fled the Patriots of Georgia c1768, removing to the interior of the British West Florida Territory where he received two British Grants of totalling 1,850 acres. Thomas IV was murdered by Indians along the Creek which bears his name, which ran through his properties. The largest Creek Stream in Washington Couonty, AL it runs on both sides of the Tombigbee River. Thomas V and his brother Nathaniel, following the Revolutionary War, swore an oath of allegiance to the Spanish Crown, and obtained Spanish Warrants for the same acreage previously conveyed by British Grant.
Nathaniel, the brother of Thomas IV, returned from Georgia to Cumberland Co., VA and purchased from William Gray 900 acres of the original 6,719 acres his father sold to Mr. Gray.
Beginning with Thomas BASSETT II, each successive Thomas had a son named Nathaniel, each of which was older than the successive sons Thomas.
The grandson of Thomas Bassett V homesteaded in 1834 several hundred acres some 25 or 30 miles southeast, as the crow flies, from his grandfather's 1,050 acre St. Stephens plantation situated on the West side of the Tombigbee River and upon which Bassetts Creek meanders, upon which, at the foot of the hill beneath the residence again, runs BASSETT's CREEK; commonly known as Richardson's swimming-hole where I learned to swim and spent many a hot summer afternoon. The Richardson Homestead, a historical landmark, is the oldest original homesite in Washington County, AL which has remained in the possession of a direct descendant of John A. Richardson, passing first to his son, then purchased by his grandson, passed to his great-grandson and now my cousin, his great-great grandson. A typical home soundly constructed of logs, with a thatched, moss covered roof, double roofed with tin in later years.
Descendants of Thomas Bassett V own and enjoy the "quiet" use and ease of upscale country living on the very acreage pioneerd by our ancestor.
Sources? I have copies, obtained from Records of England, of the original 750 acre Plantation Grant from King George III situated on McIntosh Bluff, another historical landmark, in Washington County, AL. Likewise a copy of the recorded warrant issued by the Land Commissioners in 1804/05 and recorded at St. Stephens in Washington County, Mississippi Territory for the 1,050 acre plantation also originally granted in 1776 by King George III.
Copies of the Georgia Grants from King George III to Thomas III read very much the same, but are partially printed and lack the charm of the beautifully scrolled handwriting of the other Grants.
Sources? The "wealth" of abundant sources documenting the distinguished Bassett Family Branches are readily available if one diligently pursues them. You can find them in mosts GOOD Genealogy Libraries, especially, those in the Southeast. All of our primary allied Washington County families, except one, migrated from Virginia to Georgia to the Mississippi Territory.
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