Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14257, Jeremiah Bassett, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Bassett, Jeremiah Hannah
W. 14257
CONTENTS

1398 Massachusetts
Hannah Basset
widow of Jeremiah Basset
who died on the 4 April 1817
of Bristol Co. in the State of Mass ts
who was a private in the Company commanded
by Captain Thayer of the reg t commanded
by Col Whitney — in the Mass Mil-
itia for 6 and 24 days Mass
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 22 Dollars 66 Cents, per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 day of Decem- ber 1837 — and sent to A. Basset Esq. Taunton.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1837 $136. — Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mch 38 11. 33
$147. 33
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 d }
Recorded by J. M. Allison Clerk
Book A Vol. 2 Page 45

2628
Hannah Barrett W o of Jeremiah Barrett
admitted 6 mo. 24 days No s 22,66 100
Bristol Co. Mass.
roll 25 page 91 for last day Feb to 1 st Jan 1777
5 mo. 1 st roll within show 1 mth 24 days same as for Jan. which is the same as put into the roll in roll 24, on roll 24 page 204
from 1 st Jan 1780 - 8 days roll 10 page 80. = see page 207 roll 24 page 204 one account 1.12. 8
roll 24 page 204 2.2.8 for 8 days within, leaving roll within 1 st Jan 1780 12.8. which is the same 24 days.
Balance of £1.10.00 on the within roll within 1 st Jan 1780 days.
Commence with the of Massachusetts Bristol Co. of Annun Barrett Register of

State of Massachusetts Bristol County
On this fifth day of September 1837. Personally appeared before the Court of Probate within and for the said County of Bristol Hannah Bassett a resident of the Town of Taunton in said County of Bristol, & State of Massachusetts, aged seventy nine 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 4 th 1836. That she is the widow of Jeremiah Bassett who was a private in the Army of the Revolution and served a number of terms or campaigns in that war. He enlisted from the said Town of Taunton in the year 1776, and as she believes in the Month of June in that year, into a company commanded by Captain Isaac Thayer of Braintree in said State of Massachusetts for six months, and served to the end of his engagement, he was placed in Col. Whitney's Regiment and stationed at Dorchester, Nantasket, and at a place called Noolets Island during said six months, all of which places are not far from Boston. He again enlisted and served one other campaign of nearly two months in the year 1780, and a part of the service was in the Month of August of that year the service, according to the best of her recollection and belief was not less than one month and twenty four days he was (as she believes) drafted at this time, he served in a company commanded by Captain Peletiah Eddy of the said Town of Taunton and was stationed at a place

called Howlands ferry, and in that vicinity in the State of Rhode Island during this term. She offers for proof of his services at this campaign to the affidavit of Noah Smith, and also to an ancient Muster roll which was found by an agent which she employed for that purpose, among the papers of the said Pelitiah Boddy late of the said Town of Scituate deceased, and for proof of his services at the first mentioned term or campaign, to an affidavit of Timothy White all of which are herunto annexed.
He was again drafted and it was at the close of his last above mentioned campaign for three months, but she does not know that he served in person the whole of the said three months, but believes some part of the said term might have been served by his substitute, namely, Noah Smith, and whether in a company commanded by Isaac Hodge of Norton, or the above named Pelitiah Boddy or some other Captain. She is not certain and would refer to such rolls and evidence as may be in the war office at Washington for proof of which services he might have performed during the said three months and any and all other services that he may have performed during the revolutionary war. She has no ancient documentary evidence of any of her said husband's services except the above said roll which is herunto annexed, and which shows (as she believes) by the amount of pay set against the name of her said husband which is shown on said roll, not far from two months service at that campaign.

She further declares that she was Married to the said Jeremiah Basset on the third day of February in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty, and that her said husband the said Jeremiah Basset died on the fourth day of April one thousand eight hundred and seventeen. Her Marriage was solemnised by a Clergyman then living in the said Town of Taunton but who soon after removed to a distance from the said Taunton and died, and she does not know where his private papers and records can be found, and she has caused diligent search to be made on the Town records of Taunton and her said Marriage is not there found, but she has there found recorded the intention of Marriage between herself and the said Jeremiah Basset, and also the birth of their Children, a Certificate of which is herunto annexed. She has also annexed to this declaration two leaves from a book which has long been kept in their house as their family record. And she further declares that she was a widow on the fourth day of July 1836, and that she is now a widow and has never been married since the death of the said Jeremiah Basset her late husband, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof which is herunto annexed.
Hannah Basset
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year first above written in the Court of Probate held at Taunton in the said County of Bristol - Before Oliver Prescott Judge of the Court of Probate for Bristol County

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bristol ss. I Amos Barrett Register of the Court of Probate in for said County do hereby certify that Oliver Prescott whose signature is affixed to the within certificate is the Judge of said Court of Probate -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this Seventh day of September Eighteen hundred & thirty seven.
A. Barrett

I Edmund Anthony of Taunton in the County of Bristol & Commonwealth of Massachusetts testify and say that I am Clerk of said town of Taunton & have the custody of their books of records - That it appears of record in one of said books, that Jeremiah Bassett Jr. and Hannah Woodward both of said Taunton entered their intention of marriage December the twenty ninth seventeen hundred and seventy nine - That I have not been able to find on said books of record, their marriage -
(315)
I further testify and say that in one of said books of record is the following viz.
"The register of the children of Jeremiah Bassett of Taunton & Hannah his wife - (192) " Sarah Bassett born in Taunton March 5-1781 and died December 27 th 1796 - " Samuel Bassett born in Taunton Nov. 12-1782 " Stephen Bassett was born in Taunton March 21. 1785 " Jeremiah Bassett born in Taunton April 28-1787

" Hannah Basset born in Taunton December 19 th 1788. " and died June 17. 1792 " Mary Basset born in Taunton October 12 th 1790. " Deborah Basset born in Taunton Feb. 2 d 1792. " David Basset born in Taunton Sept r 18 th 1793. " Rachel Basset born in Taunton Dec r 19 th 1795. " Lois Basset born in Taunton Nov r 12 th 1798. " Abner Basset son of Jeremiah Basset was born " in Taunton June 13 th 1800 — "
I further testify and say that in another book I find a record, of which the following is a copy viz.
" The Register of the Children of Jeremiah Basset Jr. (78.) " of Taunton by his wife Hannah — " Sarah Basset daughter of Jeremiah Basset Jr. " was born in Taunton March 5. 1787. " Samuel Basset son of Jeremiah Basset Jr. " was born in Taunton November 12 th 1782. " Stephen Basset son of Jeremiah Basset Jr. " was born in Taunton March 21 st 1785. "
I further testify and say that I have used the words & figures of

The records of the births of said children as there expressed -
Edmund Anthony
Commonwealth of Massachusetts -
Bristol ss. September 7. 1837
Edmund Anthony made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by
him signed —
Before me A. Barrett Just. of the Peace
Said Edmund Anthony is a credible witness - A. Barrett

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Bristol ss. I Amos D. Basset Register of the Court of Probate in for said County, do hereby certify that Cromwell Leonard and Amos D. Basset are Justices of the Peace in for said County and that the signatures to the foregoing certificate purporting to be theirs are genuine -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this fourth day of September Eighteen hundred and thirty seven - A. Basset

Jeremiah Baffe u 2 d Born Feb, ye 20 th 1752 on Sunday
Hannah Basset, his wife born Jan y 1 st 1758 on Sunday
Married Feb, ye 3 d
1780. n r
Their Children's Birth. 1
Sarah born March ye 5 th 1781 monday morn
Samuel born Nov m ye 12 1782 Tuesday Evening
Stephen born March ye 21 st 1785 Monday morn
Jeremiah born April ye 28 th 1787 Saturday Morn
Hannah born Dec m 19 1788 Friday 3 P.M.
m b w

I Certify that I found these leaves in a book entitled the young man's best companion, and caused them to be taken from said book. And the said book I found in the family of Hannah Bapst of Taunton in the County of Bristol & State of Massachusetts and the said book did contain other family records which I did not remove. I have not the least doubt, but the said book has been held for very many years as a book of family records by the family of the late Jeremiah Bapst of Taunton deceased. Cromwell Leonard Bapst July. 5. 1837.
Je
Mary
Hoover Bapst
b Child

Mrs. Ed. St. M.C.
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 14257
Hannah Bassett
Widow of
Jeremiah Bassett
Pre Rev War
Act: July 4th 36
Index:—Vol. a , Page 35
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Apr. 95' Mil. Dist 66 Helen F. Yeaton 33 All Allston, Mass.
1931, Dec. 17. Photo to Eben P. Bassett Jan. 5 1932, Ac. Div. Vet. Adm. adv. 30 to be credited to Misc. Receipts Recd.

I Timothy White of Taunton in the County of Bristol State of being seventy six years of age do testify and say that I was well acquainted with Jeremiah Bapeth of Taunton in said County and that the said Bapeth was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution and served one campaign in that was in a company with me, our company was commanded by Captain Isaac Thayer of Bristol in Col. Whitney Regiment, and our service was in the year 1776. and we were stationed a part of the time at a place called Muddles Island which is situate not far from Boston Boston, we were also a part of the time at Dorchester and Nantasket which are also in the vicinity of Boston, the above said term or campaign was six months, and I believe the said Bapeth served the whole of the said term we enlisted as volunteers at this time And I do further testify and say that the said Jeremiah Bapeth is now deceased, and has been dead not far from twenty years, and that he left a widow, namely Hannah Bapeth who is now living in the said Town of Taunton and that she has remained the widow of the said Jeremiah Bapeth up to the present day And I do further testify and say that I was well acquainted with the said Jeremiah Bapeth and also with the said Hannah Bapeth, (whose maiden name was Hannah Woodward) long before their marriage, for they were both inhabitants of the said Town of Taunton, which was also my native Town, I well recollect the circumstance of their marriage for they were then members of the same Religious over

Society with which I did then, and do now belong and worship, I also knew them to live together as man and wife up to the time of the death of the said Jeremiah Bayliss, and they had a large family of Children, and were always persons of Respectability & of good moral Character, they were Married not far from fifty seven years ago. I have also some knowledge of other Services in the war of the Revolution performed by the said Jeremiah Bayliss but was never Stationed with him at any place excepting what I have already set forth in this affidavit.
Saunton September 1 st 1834.
Timothy White
State of Massachusetts
Bristol County) ss Before me one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Bristol personally appeared Timothy White Subscriber to the above affidavit and made oath that the same is true in all its parts. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and quality this 1 day of September 1834.
Com d Leonard Justice Peace
I certify that the above named Timothy White is a Respectable and disinterested Witness, and that I have for many years been acquainted with him, and that he sustains an unblemished Moral Character. Com d Leonard Justice Peace

I Noah Smith of Taunton in the County of Bristol and State of Massachusetts being Seventy Seven years of age do testify and say I was well acquainted with Jeremiah Bapst late of Taunton deceased and that the said Bapst was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution and served one term or campaign in that war in a company with me, and it was in August 1780 and it was a little short of two months, I believe one month and twenty four days, we were stationed at a place called Howland's ferry and in that vicinity, in the State of Rhode Island. The company in which we served was commanded by Captain Pelatiah Eddy of Taunton.
And I do further testify and say that the said Jeremiah Bapst was married to Hannah Woodward not far from six months before the said service above mentioned, and they were living together as man and wife in the immediate neighbourhood where I then lived, I well recollect it was very unpleasant to Mrs Bapst the wife of the said Jeremiah Bapst to be left alone in the house, and have her husband go into the service. And I do further testify and say that Hannah Bapst the widow of the said Jeremiah Bapst is now living in the said Town of Taunton, and has never been married since the decease of the said Jeremiah Bapst which took place twenty years ago. I was born, and have always lived in the said Town of Taunton & near the location of the said Jeremiah Bapst and his wife, his said widow now lives on the same spot and in the same house where they his lived at the time of the above said war. Witness Lois Bapst Groomwell Leonard Noah Smith marks

State of Massachusetts ss. Before me one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Bristol personally appeared Noah Smith within named, & who has subscribed the within affidavit and made oath that the same is true in all its parts, In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and quality this first  11th day of September 1837.
Crom d Leonard Justice Peace
I do further certify that the said Noah Smith is, (according to the best of my belief & knowledge) a disinterested and credible witness
Crom d Leonard Justice Peace

Sept 11
W. I. Schurkoff Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington - D.C.

Taunton Mass. Sept. 7. 1837
Sir
Accompanying this is the application of Hannah Barrett W o of Jeremiah Barrett late of said Taunton De d for a pension — Any communication you may make relative thereto, may be made to me —
Yours Respectfully A. Barrett
H. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington —

Rev. & 1812 No. 52.
December 9, 1931.
Rev.&1812 Wars section.
541 cur
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Rev. War claim for pension of Jeremiah Bassett, File No.
W.14257.
Actual 2 of each page. 1 copy for official use.
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30¢.....2 pages
Kindly leave margin of 1½ in. at top of each page and return papers in each case in folder with corresponding name and number. The word "omit" written in pencil on those pages which are not to be copied.
Chief, Rev.&1812 Wars Section.

December 9, 1931.
Administrator of Veterans Affairs, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
Please furnish uncertified photostatic copies of two pages from Revolutionary War pension claim of Jeremiah Bassett, W.14257.
Very truly yours,
Remitter:
Ebene P. Bassett 14 Chestnut St. Albany, N.Y.
Received payment December 9, 1931 30¢
Ada Helfung
Rev.& 1812 Wars Section.

Jeremiah Bane
Born Feb y 2 nd 1752 on Sunday
Hannah Balsott, his wife born Jan y 3 rd 1758 on Sunday
M arried Feb y 3 rd 1780 m r
Their Children
Sarah born March 5 th 1781 monday
Samuel born Nov y 1782 Tuesday Evening
Stephen born May 21 st 1785 Monday
Jeremiah born April 28 th 1787 Saturday
Hannah born Dec r 3 rd 1788 Friday

I certify that I found this book in a room entitled the young men's best companions caused them to be taken from said book the said book I found in the family of Hannah Bapeth of Farmton in the County of Bristol & State of Massachusetts and the said book and other family records which I did not remove I have not the least doubt, but the said book has been for very many years as a book of family records by the family of the late Jonathan Bapeth of Farmton deceased, Brown Leonard July 5. 1837.
1837 Hannah Bapeth b Child

33 ATHOL STREET, ALLSTON, MASS.
mk w " R
Dear Sir,
In looking up my ancestry I find one Ann Basset of Taunton Mass on the list of those drawing a Revolutionary Pension in 1840. Will you kindly give me the name and military history of the man on whose account she was pensioned.
By complying with the above you will greatly oblige
Yours respectfully
(Mrs) Helen F. Yeaton To Judge W m Lochren Washington D.C.

✓ Jeremiah Bassett (Mass.) W. 14257
Pay roll of capt. Pelatiah Eddy's co. that went on the alarm August 1780, dated Taunton Nov. 9, 1781 has been removed from this claim to be sent to the War Dept.
D.G. Feb. 28, 1911
Sent to War Dept. Jany. 16, 1913.