Asa Bement

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DAR Ancestor #: A008915

ASA BEMENT removed from Wethersfield to Stockbridge, Massachusetts. between 1762 and 1764, and continued to reside at the latter place until his death. For some years, his time there, was the house built by the Reverend John Sergeant, of sainted memory, apostle to the Stockbridge Indians, and which was added to and lived in by his successor, the Reverend Jonathan Edwards, until his departure to become President of Princeton College. Both Mr. Sergeant and Mr. Bement are said to have left this house because of fever and ague (possibly malaria). (Source: Stockbridge Past and Present; or Records of an Old Mission Station. 77,260). Both he and his son Asa were Revolutionary soldiers, serving in Captain Ezra Whittlesey's Company, Third Berkshire County Regiment of Massachusetts militia, in October 1780 "on an alarm to the Westward." He represented Berkshire in the Massachusetts Legislature of 1779 and 1806, and had considerable influence and estate at Stockbridge, and large land possessions in Tioga and Broome County, New York. Shortly after the Revolution, the Chenango Purchase was made, and Mr. Bement was one of the sixty associates, largely from Massachusetts, in whom in 1787, was vested by purchase, the title to a tract comprising 230,400 acres, lying between the Chenango River and Owego Creek, in Central New York, laid out for ten townships and known as the Boston Ten Towns. The greater part of the proprietors, and their families, immediately took possession of these lands, and thus it came to pass that the section embraced in the counties of Tioga and Broome were filled with a New England population, while the fertile lands of Western New York, were yet an almost unbroken wilderness. The settlers from Stockbridge, of whom there were many, seemed to have been generally distributed throughout the Purchase.

By deed of 16 Feb 1802, which described him as "Gentleman", Mr Bement conveyed to his son-in-law, Perley Simonds, one hundred acres in Tioga County; and, by deed of 19 Jan 1807, he conveyed to his son, John Bement, a tract of land in the same county, situated between the Chenango and Owego Rivers, and, by another deed, he conveyed lands in Union, Tioga County, to his daughter Rebecca, wife of Lemuel Barnes. (Source: Tioga County Land Records, Liber 2, ff109, 540). His will of 17 Nov 1813 proved 5 April 1814, named wife Ruth, son Asa, to whom he gave land in Broome County; daughter Ruth, widow of Elisha Barnes, and the sons and other daughters hereafter named. (Source: Berkshire Registry of Probate, File Number 3174).

Chronicles of the Bement Family in America; 1928, pp. 106-108

Asa Bement served in Captain Ezra Whittlesy's company of the Berkshire County militia at the Alarm of 1780. (Source: DAR #41976, Volume 42, p. 360) He is buried in Stockbridge Cemetery at Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., MA (Source: Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Volume 1).

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