“Goody” Mary Bassett

Family

From http://catnip13.tripod.com/Bassett.html

Robert Bassett married MARY.

They had the following children:33

• 24 M i. JOHN BASSETT was born about 1638.
• 25 M ii. ROBERT Jr. BASSETT was born about 1640., marriedELIZABETH RIGGS
• 26 F iii. MARY BASSETT was born on 8 Mar 1649 in New Haven, CT.36.She died on 17 Mar 1649 in New Haven, CT37
• 27 F iv. EMMA BASSETT. EMMA married DANIEL PEARSALL.
• 28 F v. SARAH BASSETT. SARAH married HENRY HILT on 8 Jan 1673/1674 in Stratford, Ct.38

Biography

"Goody Bassett was hanged as a witch in Stratford, Ct. in 1651. According to one source, the townspeople then accused someone else, and the husband of either that woman or a third targed sued for defamation and won, ending the accusations in Stratford.

"Her husband, Robert Bassett, apparently didn't fight the accusations against Goody, or not effectively. After her death he left for Hempstead, L.I., and died there in 1670."

-Archie (Wilder) Hobson, lttr. to me and to Dorothy Vannah dated 1/17/08

From https://bportlibrary.org/hc/featured/a-witch-hanged-in-bridgeport/

”In 1651 a woman named Goody Basset was executed in Stratford after making a confession, probably under torture, which also intimated there were other witches in the area, hinting at “others who hold their heads full high.”

Links

• http://www.bassettbranches.org/tng/getperson.php?personID=I10&tree=1B