Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 15,566, Nathaniel Bassett, Mass. Navy
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(3-1776)

SERVICE                                         NUMBER

Mass             Bassett, Nathaniel     W 15,566
Navy                           Bethiah

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CONTENTS
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3794
Massachusetts
Nathaniel Bassett of Lee in the State of Mass
who was a Sergt in the company commanded
by Captain ........................of the Regt commanded by Col Whitney in the Mass
line for 3 mos. a Sergt
            2   "    Seaman
           19  "    P
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Inscribed on the Roll of Mass
at the rate of 86 Dollars 33 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 29th day of Dec 1832 and sent to H.W. Bishop Lenox Mass
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Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832               $129.49
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Mar 33   43.16
                                                           $172.65

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.  }

Recorded by J H Blair  Clerk,
Book D.  Vol. 2nd   Page 95
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4800
Nathaniel Bassett
Application for Pension
Lee Mass
Aug't 28, 1832
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Berkshire Ss
On this twenty eighth day of August in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court before me William Walker Judge of the Court of Probate within for the County of Berkshire now sitting 
Nathaniel Bassett a resident of Lee in the County of Berkshire & Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged seventy four years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated
In the winter of 1775 I resided in Sandwich in the County of Barnstable & Commonwealth of Massachusetts & in view of the situation of the Country united with a company of volunteers which was formed in Sandwich as minute men
ready to march on any alarm to the defense of
our country; for the purpose of preparing
ourselves to discharge the duties of soldiers we hired a man to instruct us in military
discipline & tactics for three months, We were frequently called out on alarms once to Bedford which was threatened by the British fleet & once to Falmouth the fleet lying off Holmes Hole. We
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marched for Lexington, but the British having retreated into Boston we received orders to return. In the latter part of the Spring on the forepart of the summer of 1775, I  enlisted at Sandwich into a company of State troops under Capt Grannis and served as a soldier for the defence of the seacoast for the term of six months We were stationed the whole time on Mashawn Island.
In Jany 1776 I again enlisted at Sandwich into the State troops under Captain Elisha Nye for the term of one year
I was in the first place stationed on Nashawn Island. In the latter part of February on the forepart of March 1776 I was marched to Dorchester Heights where I assisted
in building two forts, which Gen Washington inspected the morning after they were finished. I continued at Dorchester & Roxbury doing duty till the British evacuated Boston. I went in company with Major Sprout on to Castle Island in the first boat after the enemy left it. The officers that I recollect being at Dorchester & Roxbury besides those named are General Patterson & Colonel Berckiah Bassett After two months service at Dorchester I returned to Nashawn Island where I was
stationed till the time of my enlistment
expired, the whole term of which I was in
actual service
In February 1777 I enlisted on board the Continental Brig Cabbot
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at Boston & served two months on board of her when the Brig was drove ashore on the coast of Nova Scotia by the British Frigate Milford which was then cruising off our coast. We were obliged to abandon the Brig; The commandant of the Brig was Captain Joseph Olney of Providence; most of his crew enlisted for a year but I enlisted at Boston for the cruise only. 
In the summer of 1777, I again enlisted into the service of the State under Capt Joseph
Palmer of Falmouth for the term of two months, which term I served at Providence  & the vicinity in the State Rhode Island Colonel Josiah Whitney of Harvard commanded the Regiment.
On my leaving the place of my nativity in March 1780 the Selectmen of Sandwich gave me a "pass" containing a certificate of my services as a soldier, which paper in the hand writing of Benjamin Fessenden the town Clerk of Sandwich & signed by Seth Freeman Mich
Blackwell & Silvanus Nye is hereto annexed
the memorandum below their signatures was made by me at a subsequent period.
In July 1780 I enlisted as a volunteer
in the town of Petersham in the County
of Worcester in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for three months under Captain
Ephraim Stearns, the name of one of the
tenants was Rogers. I marched with the Company in the first place to Great Barrington in the County of Berkshire aforesaid, there to await further orders
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We were thence ordered to Claverack in the
County of Columbia & State of New York
thence to West Point, where after a few days a detachment was made from the Regiment to which I belonged of two Lieutenants & sixty men. The Lieutenants detached were Lieut Walker & Lieut Taft. I was among the men detached. A list of the men detached, made out at the time by me is hereto annexed; it is in
my possession as  I acted as orderly Sergeant 
and for the detachment, the names thereon
on which are underlined were substitutes for those erased. This detachment were ordered to Verplancks Point where I remained in service during the time of my enlistment three months. I saw, Gen. Washington & Gen Knox with other officers land at Verplancks Point on
their way from West Point to Hartford to meet same French Officers. I assisted in drawing from the block house a cannon which was fired at the British Ship Vulture lying in the river below Verplancks Point, which caused her to
haul off & thereby prevented Major Andre
going abound & ultimately caused his capture. I saw Gen Arnold sail down the river in his barge, & being met by a barge from the Vulture, after a few moments delay he went aboard the Vulture.
I was born in Sandwich in the County of Barnstable & Commonwealth of Massachusetts on the 26th day of January
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1758. I have no original record of my birth or
age, the time of my birth is recorded on the
town records in Sandwich. I was living in
Sandwich at the time I first went into
the service in 1780 I went to Petersham
in the County of Worcester Massachusetts
where I resided a few months until I enlisted
as a volunteer as above stated in the
winter of 1781 I removed to Lenox in the
County of Berkshire & resided there till
April 1783 when I removed to Lee in said
County of Berkshire where I have since
& now reside I always enlisted as a volunteer. I never had any written discharge
Silvanus Dimmock now of Lee aforesaid served with me in 1775 at Nashawn Island
Cornelius Bassett now of Lee served with me in 1776 at Dorchester & Providence  & on board
the brig Cabbot. Nathan Dillingham
lately of Lee but now of Pittsfield in said
County of Berkshire served with me in
1776 at Nashawn Island & in 1777 at Providence. The above named persons have
been acquainted with me from that time
to the present & the sd Dillingham & Cornelius Bassett from the time of my childhood The Rev. Doct. Hyde has been acquainted with me, for more than forty years
I hereby relinquish every claim whatever
to pension or annuity except the presents and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
  Nathaniel Bassett
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Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid.

W. P. Walker  J. Probate
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I Silvanus Dimmick residing in Lee in the County of Berkshire & Commonwealth
of Massachusetts hereby certify that Nathaniel
Barrett who has subscribed & sworn to
the foregoing declaration enlisted into
the service of the State of Massachusetts
in 1775 & served as a soldier for the term
of six months on Nashawn Island I was with him in the service at that place during the whole of said term I have been acquainted with him from that time to the present & have
resided in the same town with him ever since he removed into Lee. He is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & I concur
in that opinion I have never heard any doubts expressed in relation to the said Bassett having been a soldier of the revolution & believe the Bassett to be seventy four years of age
  Sylvanus Dimmick
Sworn to and subscribed the day and
year aforesaid
W. P. Walker J. Probate

I Cornelius Bassett residing in Lee aforesaid hereby certify that I have been acquainted with Nathaniel Bassett who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration from my childhood to the present time. I recollect that he enlisted under Capt John Grannis at Sandwich in 1775 for
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six months & that he went to Nashawn Island & I have no doubt served out his time. In 1776 I enlisted with said Bassett into the service of the State for one year under Capt Elisha Nye & went with him to Nashawn Island, thence to Dorchester Heights & afterwards returned to 
Nashawn Island, I enlisted aboard a state
Sloop of war & left the sd  Nashawn Island
Nathaniel Bassett at Nashawn Island I verily believe & have no doubt the sd Nathan
served out his term of one year. In the month of February I think, 1777 I enlisted with Nathaniel for a cruise on board the Continental Brigg Cabbot & served with him thereon two months. I enlisted with Nathaniel afterward into the State service for two months & served with him that term at Providence.
The said Nathanial subsequently during the
Revolutionary war came to see me in Lee
aforesaid & told me that he had again enlisted for three months that his fellow soldiers were waiting further orders at Great Barrington, at the expiration of the three months, he returned this way and said that he had been stationed at Verplank Point & I have no doubt he served in the Revolutionary Army the last mentioned three months, I believe him to be
seventy four years old. I have lived in his
neighborhood ever since he removed into
this town. I never have heard any one
express any doubt that the said Nathaniel
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Bassett served in the revolutionary army
I have no doubt that he served at different times the full term of two years & one month
  Cornelius Bassett
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid
W. P. Walker   J. Probate

I Nathan Dillingham now of Pittsfield in the
County of Berkshire & Commonwealth of Massachusetts  lately of Lee in said County of Berkshire hereby certify that I have been acquainted with Nathaniel Bassett who has
subscribed & sworn to the above declaration
from my childhood to the present time
I well recollect that the said Bassett, belonged to a minute company in Sandwich in the County of Barnstable in the winter 1775 &
subsequently in the same year he
enlisted into a company of State troops
under Capt Grannis & served at Naushawn
Island as I then supposed & now believe for the term of six months. In January in 1776 the
said Bassett enlisted with him for one year and a company of State troops at Sandwich under
Capt Elisha Nye. I served with the sd Bassett
at Naushawn Island until he was detached
to go to Boston; after the British evacuated
Boston the said Bassett returned to Naushawn Island & did duty as a soldier there until about the month of (Illegible) I was
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discharged which was about the month of November 1776. At which time I left him there doing duty & believe have no doubt that he served out the full term of one year. I enlisted again into a company of State troops with the said Bassett under Capt Joseph Palmer & he served two months in said company at Providence & the vicinity. I heard at the time
then believed & now have no doubt that the
said Bassett served two months on board the Continental Brig Cabbot. The paper annexed to the said Bassett declaration signed by the Selectmen of Sandwich I know to be in the hand writing of Benjamin Fessenden who was for a great many years the town Clerk of Sandwich
I well recollect that Seth Freeman Micah
Blackwell & Silvanus Nye were frequently the
Selectmen of Sandwich. Afterwards during the
revolutionary war the said Bassett came to
me then residing in Richmond in the said County of Berkshire & said that he had enlisted & that his company were then at Great Barrington waiting further orders After the expiration of three months the said Bassett
came to see me again in Richmond &
said that he had been stationed at Verplancks
point. I have no doubt the said Bassett, served
in the Revolutionary army the last mention
time the term of three months and he was
at Verplancks Point as I verily believe during the time of Arnold treason
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I believe the said Bassett to be seventy four
years of age. I have lived in his neighborhood & been acquainted with him from the time he removed to Lee about the year 1783 until 1819 when I removed from Lee- I never have heard any one express a doubt that the said Bassett
served in the revolutionary war I believe & have no doubt that he served at different times as above stated the full term of two years & one month
  Nathan Dillingham
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year
afores
W. P. Walker   J. Probate

I Alvan Hyde a clergyman residing in the town of Lee aforesaid, hereby certify that I am well acquainted have been for more than forty years with Nathaniel Bassett who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration & I believe him to be seventy four years of age
that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that I concur in that opinion
  Alvan Hyde
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year
aforesaid
W. P. Walker   J. Probate
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And the said Court do hereby declare its
opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the
above named applicant was a revolutionary
soldier and served as he states and the Court
further certifies that it appears to the Court
that the Rev. Alvan Hyde who has signed the
preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident
in the town of Lee, and that Sylvanus Dimmick & Cornelius Bassett who have sworn to the foregoing certificate by them respectively subscribed are residents in the said town of Lee and that Nathan Dillingham who has sworn to the foregoing certificate by him subscribed is a resident in Pittsfield in said County of Berkshire and they are all credible persons & that their statements are entitled to credit--
  W. P. Walker    J. Probate
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I Henry W Bishop Register of the Court of Probate within & for the County of Berkshire do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Nathaniel Bassett for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this twenty
eighth day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & thirty two.
  Henry W. Bishop   Register of Probate
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4800
Nathaniel Bassett
Lee,Berk'e Co,  Mass

Sergt 3 Mos    15
Seaman 2 "       8
Private 19  "     63.33
             24 "     86.33


  $86.00

H W Bishop

Lenore  7833
May.
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BRIEF in the case of Nathaniel Bassett
of Berkshire County in the State of Mass
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 74 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period.                     Duration of Service
In 1775.                        6 Mos
76                                 1 Year
77 Feby                         2 Mos
77                                  2 Mos
80                                  3 Mos

Rank               Names of General and Field                  
                       Officers under whom he served.

Priv't               Capt Grimes
     "                    "    Elisha Nye
Seaman            Brig "Abbot" Capt J. Olney
Priv't                 Captn Jo"Palmer. Col J Whitney
O- Sergt-            "  Ephraim Stearn

5. In what battles was he engaged? None

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Sandwich
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by
incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary Evidence Living Witness
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Defective not- properly connected
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Passed by Mr E.    J H Mc Blair Examining Clerk.
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Reported
1755
Massachusetts
Bethiah Bassett
widow of Nathaniel Bassett
who served in the Revolutionary war
as a pri & Mariner Mass.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars 77 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4. day of September, 1848 and sent to
  Hubbard Bartlett,  Lee Mass.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 7 Vol. 2
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of
Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled, " An act
granting half pay and pensions to certain
Widows" the act of March 3,1843 and the "Act of June 17 1844, supplementary thereto.

State of Massachusetts Berkshire SS.
On this seventh day August in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty six personally appeared before the Judge of Probate of the County of Berkshire, Bethiah
Bassett a resident of Lee in the County
aforesaid, aged eighty four years, who being
first duly sworn, according to law doth, on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7 1838, entitled, "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" the act of March 2nd 1845 and the Act of June 17th 1844 supplementary thereto.
That she is the widow of Nathaniel Bassett, who was a Pensioner under the Act of Congress passed 7th June 1832, and
who was a Sergeant & Private in the Army
of Revolution, That he enlisted for six months
under Capt Granace for the defense of the sea coast in 1775. That in 1776 he enlisted for the same service, one year, under Capt E. Nye, that in 1777 he enlisted for two months under Capt Parmer and served as a soldier at Boston Neck & Providence & that in 1780 he enlisted in the town of Petersham
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12985
in the County of Worcester & State of Massachusetts for the term of three months under Capt Ephraim Starnes and served part of sd term at & about West Point N.Y. as his pension papers now on file in the Pension Office will fully show.
She further declares that she was married
to the said Nathaniel Bassett at Sandwich
in the County of Barnstable and State of
Massachusetts, on the twenty seventh day of September in the year seventeen hundred and eighty one,
and that her husband the aforesaid Nathaniel
Bassett died on the sixth day of May, at Lee
in the County of Berkshire in the year Eighteen hundred and forty six, that she was not married to him previous to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time above stated, and that she was never afterwards married.
  Bethiah Bassett
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year
above written, and I certify that the said
Bethia Bassett by reason of old age and infirmities was unable to attend in open Court-
Before me, William P. Walker, Judge of Probate
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A. 44.451
No 12985
Bethiah Bassett
widow of Nathaniel
Mass
act 7 July 1838
Married 1781
Rejected husband
and 6 May 1841
Adm Act 17 June 1844
21mos 25 days pr $72.77
2   "                           8
                              $80

FRVA. 44.451
No 12985
Bethiah Bassett
union of Nathaniel
Mass
act 7 July 1838
●
Married 1781
Rejected husband
and May 1844
Adm
Act 17 June 1844
21mos 25 days pr $72.77
2    ""
 from 6 May 1846


H. Bartlett
Lee
Mass
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An account of persons baptized by the
Rev Alvan Hyde who was ordained to the work of the Gospel Ministry and charge of this Church on the sixth day of June in the year
seventeen hundred and ninety two.
On the eighteenth day of November same year
Deborah Webb, Hannah, John Smith, Nebby &
Polly, children of Nathaniel & Bethiah Bassett were all baptized,
I Hubbard Bartlett Clerk of the Congregational Church in Lee in the County of Berkshire
State of Massachusetts, do hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the record with the
exception of the date which is expressed on
the record in fair legible figures as follows,
An account of persons baptized by the Rev Alvan Hyde who was ordained to the work of the Gospel ministry and charge of this Church June 6, 1792.
Nov 18th Deborah Webb, Hannah, John Smith,
Nabby & Polly, children of Nathaniel & Bethiah
Bassett were all baptized,
Hubbard Bartlett Clerk of the Church in Lee.

I Hubbard Bartlell above named, depose and
say that I hold the office of Clerk, in the Con
gregational Church in Lee, in the County of
Berkshire State aforesaid, and that the above
is a true extract from the records of said
Church with the exception above named as
certified by me.
Hubbard Bartlett, Clerk of the Congregational Church in Lee
Sworn before me this 7th day of August A.D. 1846
Caleb Belden   Justice of the Peace
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I Hubbard Barttell of Lee in the County of
Berkshire, and State of Massachusetts, do depose and say, that the within named Nathaniel Bassett, of Sd Lee, and husband of the within named Bethiah Bassett, died on the sixth day of May A.D. 1846, and I do further depose and say that the said Nathaniel Bassett
was a Revolutionary Pensioner under the
Act of Congress of June 7th 1832 receiving annually the sum of $86.33, that he drew his pension up to the fourth day of March A.D. 1846, and that the sd Bassett has not drawn his pension or any part thereof since that time,
Hubbard Bartlett
Sworn and subscribed on this 12th day of
August A D 1846
Before fore (sic) me Caleb Belden Justice Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Berkshire Ss.
I Charles Sedgwick Clerk of the Judicial Courts of said Commonwealth for the County of Berkshire do certify that Caleb Belden Esquire of Lee is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly commissioned & qualified & duly authorized to take Depositions and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine whereof I have hereto set my hand affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court at Lee this twelfth day of August 1846.
Charles Sedgwick Clk
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"Nathaniel Bassett & Bethiah Smith both
of Sandwich in the County of Barnstable
Commonwealth of Massachusetts were
married on the twenty seventh day of
September in the year of our Lord one
thousand seven hundred and eighty one",
I Isaac Bassett son & Executor of the above Nathaniel Bassett do hereby certify that the above is a true copy of a record, in the Family Bible of my late father, with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows:  Nathaniel Bassett & Bethiah Smith both
of Sandwich in the County of Barnstable
Commonwealth of Massachusetts were
married on the 27th of September, A.D. 1781.
  Isaac Bassett

I Isaac Bassett above named do depose and say that I am the son & Executor of the above named Nathaniel Bassett, late of So. Lee, and that the above is a true extract from the record in the Family Bible of my late Father with the exception above named, as certified by me, and that I verily believe, that said record, is in the handwriting of one John Gager,
  Isaac Bassett

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Berkshire SS. Augt 7. 1846.
Personally appeared Isaac Bassett, well known
to me as a credible witness, and made oath to the truth of the facts stated in the foregoing affidavits by him subscribed - Before W. P. Walker   Judge of Probate
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In reply to your request of..........., received........
for a statement of the military history of Nathaniel Bassett a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.          W. File 15,566
DATES of ENLISTMENT        LENGTH OF
OR APPOINTMENT.              SERVICE
Spring or summer 1775         6 mos.
Jany. 1776                               1 Year
Feby. 1777                               2 mos.
Summer 1777                          2 mos.
July 1780                                 3 mos.
RANK     Private    Orderly Sergeant (1780)

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.           COLONEL
Grannis                  / 
Elisha Nye              /
Joseph Olney        Brig "Cabot" *
Joseph Palmer       Josiah Whitney
Ephraim Stearns    John Rand
COLONEL.
STATE.
Mass.
Navy
Mass.

*She was beached & abandoned in Nova Scotia and captured by British "Milford"

-Battles engaged in, /
-Residence of soldier at enlistment, Sandwich  Mass. (in 1780 Petersham, Worcester Co. Mass.
-Date of application for pension, Aug. 28, 1832. His claim was allowed.
-Residence at date of application, Lee Berkshire Co. Mass.
-Age at date of application, born Jany 26 1758 at Sandwich, Mass.
-Remarks:
Nathaniel Bassett mar. Barnstable Co. Mass. Sept 27 1781. Bethiah Smith both of Sandwich. He died at Lee, Mass. May 6. 1846. She was allowed pens. on her appln. executed Aug 7. 1846, while a resident of Lee and 84 years of
age. Children referred to Isaac, Hannah, Deborah Webb, John Smith, Nabby & Polly.
Respectfully,       Commissioner.
6 -- 2856
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Nathaniel Bassett
Pass.

Nathaniel Bassett Jr.
His pass  Sandwich
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This certifies that the Bearer hereof Mr Nath
Bassett Tun'r is hereby remitted (sic) to depart from this Town & Travel to any part of the United States where best Suits him and that we can recommend him as a firm friend to the Rights & Liberties of this County. & further certify that he easley exerted himself in the cause of his County
In the beginning (sic) he entered into the minute company formed in this Town - and hath always been forward to attend whenever called out on any alarmin (sic) - That in the year 1775 he entered & served as a Soldier for the Defense of the Sea coast six months- That in 1776 He entered into the same service for one year two months of which he served in the Lines near Boston in a very Severe Session- That he served two months on Board the
Continental Brigantine Abbot which was cast away on the Nova Scotia Shore & got home after great (Illegible) with the loss of almost all his clothes for which he never obtained
any compensation or any wages for his service
In 1777 he served two months as a soldier for
this State at Providence- For none of which
services we have reason to think he hath rec'd any reward but what was given by the Publick- at other times, when men have been hired by the Town, he hath paid his proportion-
Sandwich March 24th 1780
Seth Freeman
Micah Backwell
Silvanus Nye
Selectmen & Commitee

In 1781 I served three months for the town
of Petersham for the County of Worcester
at West Point and Point Verplane
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Sarjant   Bassett
Sarjant   Lamb
Sarjant   Clark
Sarjant Frink
Corperal Pond
Corperal Rugg
Corperal Jacob
Corperal Pratt
Philemon Allen
Isaack Annible
Bejaman Barton
John Brown
Marten Bridges
Sollemon Blackmore
Jabez Dexter
David Denne
Henry Dunnel
Thomas Graten
Zacheous  Garts
Jonas Gara
Paul Gale
William Hunt
William Hagget 
Jonathan Harrod
Jeams Howard
Elijah Haden
Thomas Harres
Joel Hubbard
Titus Homar
Jeremiah Lord
Bemsle Lord
John Mageam
Moses Mahas
Joshua Nichols
Levi Nichols
Elihab Pierc
William Rich
Benjaman Richardson
Nathan Read
Hennerd Robbins
Elisha Robbinson
Jeduthan Rice
Samuel Rice
Judah Southgait
Abaham Samson
Zacheriah Senah
George Smith
Jeams Tiffene
Lemuel Tiffene
Ebenezer Walles
Judah Whitne
Ely Watson
Thomas WQeight
Jacobb Warren
Notton Woodbury
Simeon Wright
Joseph Oals
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Boatsmen
Sarjant Upton
Benjaman Barre
Elisha Forester
Moses Mory
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Reported
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356
Massachusetts
Bethiah Bassett
widow of Nathaniel Bassett
who was a Private and marine
in the Revolution
husband died 6th May 1846

H.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars 77 Cents per annum, 
to commence on
the 6th May, 1846
Certificate of Pension issued
the 22nd day of March 1847
and sent to H. Bartlett Esq
Lee, Mass.
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[Act of JUNE 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2    Page 26.
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feb 25 '47

on.
Aceeelter case

B. Bassett
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Hon. J.L.Edwards Esq.                PAID
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington City D.C.
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Lee Mass Feb 19. 1847
Hon J.L. Edwards Esq Comm of Pensions
Hon'd Sir
I send you the evidence of the Service of Nathaniel Bassett as obtained from the office of the Secretary of State and hope it will be satisfactory. There was no evidence to be obtained from Sandwich, as the Town Clerk, was not able to find his name on the town Books, Yours Respectfully   Hubbard Bartlett
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
February 4 1841.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Nathaniel Bassett is borne upon a Pay Roll of Capt John Granner's company stationed at Elizabeth Islands as a private from June 27 December 31 1775, 6 Month,s and 20 days, so stated upon the roll. Upon several Muster Rolls of Capt Elisha Nye's  Company stationed at said Island as a private from February 1 to
November 21 1776, 9 months and 21 days.
Upon a Pay Roll of Capt Joseph Palmer's Company, in Col. Josiah Whitney Reg't for
service at Rhode Island, as a private from
Sandwich from May 16 to July 12 1777, 
2-3  including allowance of 7 days for
18-14   travel. 2 Months and 3 days. Upon a
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18 -14 Pay Roll of Capt Ephraim Stearns
Company, in Col John Rand's Reg't  from
the County of Worcester as a private from July 11 to October 11 1780 including allowance of 10 days for travel
3-18 3 months and 11 days.
21-25 Upon an order in Treasurer for pay for the amount of his service as borne upon Capt
Ephraim Searns all in the year 1780 at
West Point said order is dated Petersham
May 16, 1783." No evidence of his service as
a privateeer.
And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written
John G. Palfrey;
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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Application for certificate of Revolutionary
Services made by the Widow of the Party who
rendered the Service
State of Massachusetts,
County of Berkshire, Town of Lee.
The Secretary of the Commonwealth,
of Massachusetts, is hereby requested, to furnish evidence, from the Rolls in his office, of my husbands service in the war of the Revolution.
Nathaniel Bassett,
In the year 1775 he enlisted under Capt Granice for six months in defense of the sea coast. In 1776 he entered the same service for one year under Capt Elisha Nye and served part of the time near Boston, after the year was up he shipped aboard a privateer & lost all. In 1777 he served as a Soldier at Providence &
Boston Neck under Capt Palmer, and in 1780
he enlisted in the town of Petersham County of
Worcester for three months under Capt Ephraim Stearns and was subsequently at West Point at the escape of Benedict Arnold.
I am now 85 years old and my memory
does not enable me to state my husbands
services more fully than above stated,
Witness my hand this sixth day of January 1847. And I hereby empower the Hon.
Samuel A. Hulbert Esq. Senator from the County of Berkshire, to act for me in the premises,
Bethiah Bassett
{Signed by said Bethiah Bassett, in my }{presence, this sixth day of January AD } 
{1847 at Lee, Mass. }

Hubbard Bartlett   Justice of the Peace
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18 Aug 1846
12985
Bethiah Bassett
Jul 7, 1838
B
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Hon. J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Office
Washington City D.C.
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Lee Mass Aug 14, 1846
J.L. Edwards Esq. Comm of Pensions
Hon'd Sir
I enclose you the declaration of Bethiah Bassett, widow of Nathaniel Bassett late of Lee deceased a Revolutionary Pensioner, and hope that they may prove satisfactory, as there can
be no doubt, but that she is entitled to a pension, and if it could be so ordered that she could draw from the fourth of March last, instead of May sixth, it would save some trouble and expense, Please let me hear from you as soon as can be consistent. I remain,
Yours Respectfully
Hubbard Bartlett
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Nathaniel Bassett Mass Act 7 June 1832 $86.33
per annum
To what date was he last paid?
GCMurry
 
Pension Officer}
 March 18, 1847}
paid  to 4 March 1846
M.T.
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Dec 21, 1846

Ad atler case

Bethia Bassett
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Hon. J.L.Edwards Esq          Paid
Comm'r of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
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Lee Mass Decem 18 1846
Hon J. L. Edwards Esq. Comm'n of Pensions
Hon Sir
Yours in the case of the Widow Bethiah Bassell was duly received directing her to procure further evidence of the services of her dead Husband, But having incidentally learned, at that time, that an act was passed, near the close of the last Session of Congress, rendering such evidence unnecessary, I have waited until this week in order to obtain a copy of said "Act". This Act would seem to cover the whole ground as it relates to the case of Mrs Bassett, with the exception of the "Proviso that the Commissioner of Pensions be satisfied, that the Pension was properly granted, Now sir, when I state to your Honor, that Mr Nathaniel Bassett, the deceased
pensioner, was a man whose character stood high in the estimation of the community, a man of unimpeachable veracity and uncommonly conscientious in all things, and that the declarations now on file, in the Pension Office were made by him under the solemn sanction of an oath, and that at
a time when he was in full possession of his
mental faculties, I hope your Honor will be
fully satisfied, that his Pension was properly
granted, and not subject his Widow, to any further expense, to prove the services of her deceased Husband, and that you will forward her Pension Certificate to me, immediately.
Yours Respectfully
Hubbard Bartlett
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.
David C. Freeman, Town Clerk of the Town of Sandwich in the County of Barnstable and State of Massachusetts being duly sworn do depose and say that I hold the office of Clerk
in the Town, County and State aforesaid and that I have made diligent search in the Town Book of Records of Marriages and do not find
any record of the marriage of Nathaniel Bassett to Bethial Smith.

David C Freeman {Town Clerk of Sandwich }

Barnstable ss.  July 18, 1846. Then personally appeared Freeman the above named David C. Known to me to be the Town Clerk of Sandwich aforesaid, and made solemn
oath to the truth of foregoing affidavit by him subscribed; before me
C. B. H. Fessenden  Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth Massachusetts
County of Barnstable  ss.
I Timothy Reed Clerk of the Court in and
for said County of Barnstable hereby certify
that Charles B. Sessenden Esquire is an
Justice of the peace in and for said County
duly commissioned and qualified and was so on the Eighteenth instant, and that full credit is due to his official acts as such - and that the signature to the within certificate purporting to have been made by him is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas this twenty first day of July in the year of Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty six.
Timathy Reed    Clerk &c
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Lee Mass Aug 10th 1848
Hon J.L. Edwards Esq 
Commissioner of Pensions,

Sir
I enclose you the declaration of Widow Bethiah Bassett, in order that she may obtain a pension under the Act of Feb 2 1848; for which you will please forward me a Pension Certificate, for her. 
Yours Respectfully
Hubbard Bartlett,
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Rev
WIDOW, &c.

File No.........15566 
Bethiah Bassett
Widow of
Nathaniel Bassett
Marine Rev War
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Act:-.....Feb 2d 48
Index:- Vol....A....Page.... 35
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Feby. 21, 1905 Hist to
Mrs. E. Barkley Price
Elizabeth, N.J.
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1915 Jan. 15 Mrs. John V.
Miller.
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1922, Aug. 3 to Miss Grace
Benton - Env.
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Elizabeth Feb 7th 1905
Dear Sir
Will you kindly send me copy of original application for pension in Revolutionary war
of Nathaniel Bassett of Sandwich Mass.
Very truly yours
Ella S Price
-
Address Mrs E Barkley Price
West Grand street
Elizabeth
New Jersey

W 12985
Bethiah Bassett
Mass
Rejected
Let to H. Bartlett  Sept 9.'46
Same Decr 31. 1860.

act 7 July 1838
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Stamped envelope retd CLW
one 2ct stamped envelope recd  RWS
Hotel Martin

HOTEL MARTIN COMPANY, Prop
JOHN J SWEENEY, Mgr
MILWAUKEE
Dear Sirs
Will you please send me the record of Nathaniel Bassett as serving in the Revolution?
In the "History of Lee Mass he is marked as a pensioner as follows:
In 1841 there were six Revolutionary
Pensioners living in Lee whose names
and ages were: Joseph Willis 82, Reuben Marsh 78, Nathaniel Bassett 84, Joel Hayden 78, Cornelius Bassett 79, Levi Robinson, 78.
Nathaniel Bassett was born in Sandwich & died in Lee Mass, he was my great, grandfather and I wish to join a D.A.R. Society on his record.
Mrs. John V. (Eva Bassett Miller
Jan 12-1915   This letter was post marked
 Philadelphia Pa.  Jan. 12, 1915
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2 Postage Stamped & w' Env. Rec'd AHE
Rev W
1617 Shattuck Ave.
Berkeley, Calif.
June 12, 1922.

Commisioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Can you send me any information concerning the Revolutionary War record of Nathaniel Bassett of Sandwich, Massachusetts, who
enlisted in the regular service soon after the Battle of Lexington and served under Captain Elisha Nye? He was stationed, for a time,
on Dorchester Heights. In 1777 he was stationed at Boston and Providence under Captain Palmer.
Thanking you for any information you may be able to give me in this matter,
Very truly yours,
(Miss) Grace Benton
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Admitted

Hubbard Bartlett
Lee
Mass
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DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of 2d February, 1848, entitled "An act
making further provision for surviving Widows and Soldiers of the Revolution."
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, }
Berkshire COUNTY, } Ss.
On this fifth day of August 1848, personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the county aforesaid,
Bethiah Bassett a resident of Lee in the county of Berkshire aforesaid aged Eighty six 
years, who being first duly sworn, according to
law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 2d February, 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Nathaniel Bassett who was a resident of Lee Mass and who was a private and marine
in the War of the Revolution and is the identical person who drew a pension under the Act of 17th June, 1844, on account of the Revolutionary service of her late husband
aforesaid, at the rate of eighty dollars and
Seventy seven cents per annum. She further declares that she is still a widow.
Bethial Bassett
Sworn to and subscribed on the day }
and year above written, } Before me,
Hubbard Bartlett  Justice of the Peace
In presence of Nathl B. Tobey

I Certify, That the declarant is personally known to me, a widow and a pensioner, as she declares.
Hubbard Bartlett Justice of the Peace

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, }Berkshire COUNTY, } ss.
I Charles Sedgwick Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Hubbard
Bartlett is a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; and that his signature, above written, is genuine.

Given under my hand, and the Seal of said Court, this Ninth day of August 1848.
Chas. Sedgwick CLERK.