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|Person=William Bassett
|First name=William
|Last name=Bassett
|Occupation=Grasier
|Training=Not apprentice
|Citizen=Unknown
|Literacy=Signature
|Has opening text=William Bassett
|Has signoff text=William Bassett
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|Language skills=English language,
|Res street=Shadwell
|Res parish=Stepney
|Res county=Middlesex
|Res country=England
|Birth year=1618
|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/72 f.416v Annotate,
|Deposition date(s)=Sep 8 1658
|Has infobox completed=Yes
|Has synthesis completed=No
|Has HCA evidence completed=No
|Has source comment completed=No
|Role in Silver Ship litigation=None
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==Biographical synthesis==
William Bassett (b. ca. 1618; d. ?). Grasier.

Resident in 1658 in Shadwell.

==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
Forty year old William Bassett deposed on September 8th 1658 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on a libel on behalf of William Thomas in the case of "Wm Thomas against the shipp the ''John of Barkesheire'' and against Edmund Halley and his part thereof."<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.416v Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.416v]]</ref>

William Bassett stated that "in or about the Month of Aprill 1656 there was a treaty of imployment of the arlate shipps the ''John of Barkeshire'' and the ''Sarah'' of London upon a maritime voyage and imployment from London to Greeneland and thence back for London made betwixt this deponent the arlate William Bassett the arlate Edmund Halley and William Thomas part owners of the three quarter parts of the sayd shipps, and Symon Messinger John Tarleton and Robert Browning arlate part owners of the other quarter part of the sayd shipps." An agreement was reached between all parties concerning the managing and ordering of a planned voyage to Spitzbergen ("Greeneland") to seek whales, and a contract was drawn up.<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.416v Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.416v]]</ref>

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ColinGreenstreet at 14:57, October 30, 2016

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