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Collection Information
Repository: New York State Historical
Association Research Library
Special Collections
P.O. Box 800, Lake
Road
Cooperstown, NY
13326
(607) 547-1470
Collection: W.D. Bassett Papers
Collection
Number: 416
Accession
Numbers: NM-012.01,
NM-011.07
Extent of
Collection: 2.5 cubic ft. + 1
oversize folder
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Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, diaries, account
books, receipts, and cancelled checks of William David Bassett
(1827-1899), documenting his work in the international fur trade and
operation of a dairy farm in North East, Dutchess County, N.Y., as well
as his personal life. The
correspondence includes personal letters, particularly those between
Bassett and his wife, Caroline Antoinette Wheeler Bassett, along with
business letters. The letter
books are mostly business related. Bassett’s
sons, William Hopkins Bassett (called Willie in the journals) and
Clarence Wheeler Bassett (who was a physician and practiced in Sharon,
Connecticut), are mentioned often in the farm journals. The farm accounts were continued by
William Hopkins Bassett after his father’s death.
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Biographical Note
William David Bassett was born on
August 12, 1827 in the town of North East, Dutchess County, New York. On January 26, 1854 he married
Caroline Antoinette Wheeler (1831-1911) in North East. In 1855, they moved to Rochester,
N.Y. and started to raise a family.
By 1857, Bassett had moved to New
York City, where he was employed by fur dealers Charles King & Co.,
and later by George King in the same business. In the course of his work, Bassett
traveled to Europe in 1862, 1868, and 1872.
He retired from the fur trade in
about 1874 and moved back to North East to work on his dairy farm. It supplied milk to New York City,
which was shipped daily by railroad (in cans). Bassett operated the farm until his
death on July 9, 1899. Its
operation was continued by his son, William Hopkins Bassett.
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Inventory
Box 1
416.1/1 Basssett,
Caroline Antoinette Wheeler. Hair sample (Nettie’s hair). undated.
.1/2 Business
correspondence received. 1861 and April 1862.
.1/3 Business
correspondence received. May 1862.
.1/4 Business
correspondence received. June 1862.
.1/5 Business
correspondence received. 1863-1868, undated.
.1/6 Business
correspondence received (mostly from George King). 1869.
.1/7 Business
correspondence received. May 1872.
.1/8 Business correspondence
received. June 1872.
.1/9 Business
correspondence received. July 1872.
.1/10 Business
correspondence received. August and October 1872.
.1/11 Business
correspondence sent. 1862-1869.
.1/12 Cable code book. 1873.
.1/13 Cables. 1871-1872.
.1/14 Cancelled
checks. 1860-1875.
.1/15 Cancelled
checks, correspondence, collector’s bond, and other papers. 1873-1897.
.1/16 Correspondence.
Caroline Antoinette Wheeler Basssett to W.D. Bassett. undated.
.1/17 Correspondence.
Caroline Antoinette Wheeler Basssett to W.D. Bassett. 1850-1851.
.1/18 Correspondence.
Caroline Antoinette Wheeler Basssett to W.D. Bassett. 1852-1853.
.1/19 Correspondence.
Caroline Antoinette Wheeler Basssett to W.D. Bassett. 1854-1859.
.1/20 Correspondence.
Caroline Antoinette Wheeler Basssett to W.D. Bassett. 1860-1868.
.1/21 Correspondence.
W.D. Bassett mostly to family members.1870-1886.
.1/22 Correspondence. W.D.
Bassett to Caroline Antoinette Wheeler Basssett. 1852-1855, undated.
.1/23 Correspondence.
W.D. Bassett to Caroline Antoinette Wheeler Basssett. 1858.
.1/24 Correspondence.
W.D. Bassett to Caroline Antoinette Wheeler Basssett. 1859.
.1/25 Correspondence.
W.D. Bassett to Caroline Antoinette Wheeler Basssett. 1860.
.1/26 Correspondence.
W.D. Bassett to Caroline Antoinette Wheeler Basssett. 1861.
.1/27 Correspondence.
W.D. Bassett to Caroline Antoinette Wheeler Basssett. 1862.
.1/28 Correspondence.
W.D. Bassett to Caroline Antoinette Wheeler Basssett. 1863, 1867.
.1/29 Dairy
account book and milk sold and information on cows. 1895-1902.
.1/30 Dairy
account book and milk sold and information on cows, with enclosures.
1902-1930.
.1/31 Exchange
receipts. 1863-1874.
.1/32 Farm
journal, 1878-1879 / King company account book, 1872-1874.
.1/33 Farm
journal. 1879-1881.
Box 2
416.2/1 Farm journal, 1881-1883 / King
company day book, 1872-1875.
.2/2 Farm journal. 1883-1885.
.2/3 Farm journal. 1885-1886.
.2/4 Farm journal. 1886-1888.
.2/5 Farm journal. 1888-1892.
.2/6 Farm ledger. 1871-1888
.2/7 Farm ledger, with enclosures.
1888-1909.
.2/8 Household expenses and account
book. 1855-1862.
.2/9 Household expenses / King company
expenses and account book, with enclosures. 1862-1869.
.2/10 Household expenses and cash book,
with enclosures. 1887-1896.
.2/11 Ledger and family members / King
company business. 1872-1875.
.2/12 Ledger and King company
business. 1872-1875.
.2/13 Letter book. 1859-1871.
Box 3
416.3/1 Letter book. June 1862 - February
1863.
.3/2 Letter book. December 1862 -
February 1863.
.3/3 Letter book. 1871-1873.
.3/4 Letter book. 1873-1882.
.3/5 Life insurance policy. 1867.
.3/6 Receipts (Europe). 1862-1873.
.3/7 Receipts (United States).
1860-1872.
Oversize folder
416.01 Fur sales and public auctions. 1862-1873.
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