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As told by my dad on Facebook April 27, 2019
Rev. (Congregational) Amos Bassett, my first cousin, six times removed (first cousin seven times removed to my children and my first cousin's children--you know who you are):
Seymour Past and Present, 388:
208. Rev. Amos, D.D., son of Deacon Amos and Olive (Glover) Bassett, married, first, Sally Tinker, of Hebron, Conn., march 30, 1796, at Hebron, Ct.; married, second, Sophia Bull, of Farmington, Ct., May 21, 1801; married, third, Eunice Pomeroy, Jan. 18, 1807. Sally Tinker was born, 1774. Sophia Bull was born Oct. 24, 1769. Rev. Amos, D.D., graduated from Yale college in 1784, was licensed to preach by the New Haven West Association, in 1792. In 1794 he was called to preach at Hebron, Conn., where he remained until 1824. In 1824 he succeeded the Rev. Mr. Daggett as principal of the Cornwall Mission school. He was a member of the Yale college corporation from 1810 to 1824. He is said to have been an excellent scholar, and an upright and Godly man. Rev. Amos died April 3, 1828. Sally died Feb. 26, 1798. Sophia died, 1805.
Child by Sophia Bull.
212. [sic.; 211] Martin Bull, born May 8, 1802, at Hebron, Ct.
Child by Eunice Pomeroy.
212. John Glover, born Aug. 17, 1808.
The Cornwall Mission School was in Wendy's neck of the woods: http://cornwallhistoricalsociety.org/exhibits/foreign_mission_school.html
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An interesting bit of history. Sort of an Horatio Alger kind of endeavor to perfect young men of the world in a Yankee mold. However, perfection only went so far as it was a scandal for them to fall in love with the local girls.
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