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Derby Colonial Cemetery
Derby, New Haven, Connecticut

Reverend  Amos  Bassett


August  2007


Rev Amos Bassett D D
born in Derby 1794
graduated in Yale College 1784
Tutor in the same
four years : Ordained
minister of the Gospel
and installed Pastor in
Hebron 1794: Fellow of Yale College seventeen
years: died at Monroe
April 3 1828
in his 64 year
 High in attainments as a scholar and
Divine: esteemed and beloved wherever
known: judicious and faithful and useful in
many important public stations : ami
able tender benevolent: giving none
offence in any thing: and to be long remem
bered as the man of God
well furnished
to every good work.

Orcutt, Rev. Samuel,  History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880,
   (Springfield, Massachusetts, Press of Springfield Printing Company, 1880)
page 803

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