| Name | William BASSETT |
| Birth | abt 1590, ENGLAND |
| Death | 4 Apr 1667, Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Age: 77 |
| 1 | Elizabeth TILDEN |
| Birth | abt 1603, ENGLAND |
| Death | abt 1667, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Age: 64 |
| Burial | Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts |
| Marriage | abt 1623 |
| Children | Sarah (1630-1711) |
Peregrine [White] married Sarah Basset about 1648. Sarah's parents, William and Elizabeth Bassett, had been members of the Leiden Separatist community. They arrived in Plymouth in 1621 in the Fortune. Sarah was born after their arrival in Plymouth, sometime before 1627. The Bassets had considerable land in Marshfield and Peregrine moved onto his in-laws land, buying several adjacent pieces of property as the years progressed. Peregrine and Sarah had 7 children.
At age 78, Peregrine officially joined the Marshfield church. He lived until July of 1704, dying at Marshfield aged 83. - [1]
[William Bassett] was a large land owner in the colony, settling first in Duxbury, whence he moved to Bridgewater, where he died in 1667. He had a large library, for that time, which was bequeathed to Peregrine White. - [2]
[1] - Pilgrim Hall Museum, America's museum of Pilgrim possessions; www.pilgrimhall.org
[2] - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bdoyle795