THOMAS BASSETT
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1635 on the Christian
FIRST RESIDENCE: Windsor
REMOVES: Stratford by 1651, Fairfield by 1653
OCCUPATION: Carpenter (carpentry tools appraised separately from rest of estate [Fairfield PR 2:41]).
FREEMAN: On 9 April 1640, "Tho[mas] Bassette" was one of eleven Windsor men made free at a Connecticut Court of Election [CCCR 1:46].
CHILDREN:
With second wife
i (probably) THOMAS, b. say 1660; m. by about 1690 Sarah, possibly daughter of Josiah and Mercy (Camp) Baldwin (as argued by Donald Lines Jacobus [Ackley-Bosworth 244-46, 250]).
ii Child (implied by court order which speaks of "settlement of the estate and children").
WILLIAM CURTIS
ORIGIN: Nazeing, Essex
MIGRATION: 1632
FIRST RESIDENCE: Roxbury
OCCUPATION: Yeoman.
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admitted to Roxbury church as member #37: "William Curtis, he came to this land in the year 1632 & soon after joined to the church; he brought 4 children with him, Thomas, Mary, John, Phillip, & his eldest son William came the year before; he was a hopeful scholar, but God took him in the end of the year 1634" [RChR 75].
FREEMAN: 4 March 1632/3 [MBCR 1:367].
EDUCATION: Signed his deeds.
OFFICES: Petit jury, 19 September 1637 [MBCR 1:203].
BIRTH: Baptized Nazeing 12 November 1592, son of Thomas and Mary (Camp) Curtis [Ackley-Bosworth 204].
DEATH: Roxbury 9 December 1672 "aged 80" [RChR 180].
MARRIAGE: (1) St. Margaret Moses, London, 3 December 1615 Mary Rawlyns ("William Curtis of Nassinge in the County of Essex yeoman and Mary Rawlyns of Wormley were married the iijth of December with a license" 1615); died at or very soon after the birth of her son William.
(2) Nazeing 6 August 1618 Sarah Eliot; she was baptized Widford, Essex, 13 January 1599/1600, daughter of Bennet and Lettice (Agar) Eliot [Eliot Gen 3]; "Sarah Curtis, the wife of William Curtis" admitted to Roxbury church as member #38, immediately after her husband [RChR 75]; died Roxbury 27 March 1672/3 "aged about 73" [RChR 180].
CHILDREN:
With first wife
i WILLIAM, bp. Nazeing 21 June 1618; d. Roxbury late 1634 ("He was a hopeful scholar, but God took him in the end of the year 1634" [RChR 75]).
With second wife
ii THOMAS, bp. Nazeing 12 March 1619/20; d. soon.
iii THOMAS, bp. Nazeing 19 January 1622/3; d. Roxbury 26 June 1650 ("Thomas Curtis, the son of William Curtis, died of a long & tedious consumption") [RChR 174]; presumably unmarried.
iv ELIZABETH, bp. Nazeing 13 February 1624/5; bur. there 16 January 1627/8.
v SARAH, bp. Nazeing 5 August 1627; as there is no burial for a Sarah in Nazeing, and no room in the sequence of births for another child, this daughter is very likely the same as the Mary named by Eliot at the admission of her father to Roxbury church; no further record.
vi JOHN, bp. Nazeing 17 July 1629; m. (1) Roxbury 26 December 1661 Rebecca Wheeler; m. (2) after 1675 and before 1682 Dorcas Peake, daughter of CHRISTOPHER PEAKE [Parker-Ruggles 426, 465-66, citing SLR 16:342; NEHGR 51:166].
vii PHILIP, bp. Nazeing 25 March 1632; m. Roxbury 20 October 1658 Obedience Holland [see SCC 811]. She m. (2) Roxbury 11 February 1677/8 Benjamin Gamlin.
viii HANNAH, b. say 1634; m. Roxbury 25 August 1651 William Gary [RVR MS 129].
ix ELIZABETH, b. say 1637; m. Roxbury 14 December 1659 Isaac Newell.
x ISAAC, b. Roxbury 22 July 1641 [RVR MS 3]; m. Roxbury 10 May 1670 Hannah Polly.
