Family:Joseph Bassett and Mary Lapham (1)

Parents: William Bassett and Elizabeth Unknown Joseph Bassett b. Est 1632 d. 1712	Mary Unknown b. Bef 1639

m. Bef 1659

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Marriage^[1]

Bef 1659

Based on estimated date of birth of eldest known child.

Children

		Birth	Death
1.	Mary Bassett	Abt 1659 Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States	21 May 1734 Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
2.	Joseph Bassett, Jr	Abt 1664 Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States	Jan 1735
3.	William Bassett	Abt 1667 Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States	13 Apr 1734
4.	Lydia Bassett	1671 Bridgewater, Plymouth, MA	6 Apr 1775 Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
5.	Ruth Bassett	1671 Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States	1760 Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
6.	Elizabeth Bassett	Abt 1672 Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States	Bef 11 Nov 1724
7.	Jane Bassett	1673 Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
8.	Elnathan Bassett	Abt 1676 Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States	20 Apr 1750 East Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
9.	Jeremiah Bassett	Abt 1678 Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States	29 Jul 1768

References

↑ William Bassett, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004)
51.

Joseph Bassett … m. (1) by about 1660 Mary _____ (said to be his stepsister Mary Lapham, daughter of Thomas Lapham [see NEHGR 115:85].
Barclay, Mrs. John E. Rebecca Lapham, Wife of Samuel(3) White or John(3) Washburn
115:85.

… the daughter Mary (Lapham) may have married her stepbrother, Joseph Bassett.
Joseph Bassett, in Bassette, Buell Burdett. One Bassett Family in America: with All Connections in America and Many in Great Britain and France : Principally an Outline of What the Ancestors Did to Help Make America, Mainly from Original Records Heretofore Unpublished. (New Britain, Conn.: self-published, 1926)
11.

1658 Mr. John McIlvene of Northampton, a very keen Bassett historian, was almost certain that Joseph Bassett married (1) about this year his step sister Mary Lapham. If so he was now 23 while she was about 17.