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Thanks to Jeff Bassett, I have a better understanding of the matters set forth in my previous post. More details will come later. However, basically Jeff has found strong confirmation for the East Keal / Luffenham origin of William Bassett in the History of the County of Rutland. From that source, we learn that the descent of the three succeeding generations of 16th - 17th century John Bassetts, married respectively to Anne Rouse, Elizabeth Lyon and Anne Kirkham, is amply demonstrated from land records in Luffenham, Rutland and the 1618 Visitation of Rutland. In other words, Donald Tucker's Ancestral File submission is pretty much on the mark, and any placement of John Bassett of Stamford & New Haven in the family of John & Elizabeth (Lyon) Bassett is erroneous.
One minor correction to what I wrote in the earlier post: William of New Haven (assuming that I'm right about his having been the son of John & Ann (Kirkham) Bassett of E. Keach and Luffenham), could not have been a nephew of John Bassett of Stamford & New Haven. That's because such a relationship would put the latter John Bassett as a son of John & Elizabeth (Lyon) Bassett. But that couple ALREADY had a son John -- i.e., the one who married Ann Kirkham. (I'm bracing myself here for stories about this or that family that had two children with the same given name ... but it's passing strange for that to happen with two surviving sons by the same wife, so I do not admit that it could have happened here.) Thus, the common ancestor between the two original New Haven Bassett colonists would have to be back at least at the level of John and Anne (Rouse) Bassett.
Another aspect of what Jeff found about the Luffenham / E. Keal Bassets fits very nicely with the known social status and education of William Bassett of New Haven. This is that John & Anne (Kirkham) Bassett were of the gentry, and thus likely able to offer their son William an unusually good education. In addition, thus far I have found no trace of Anne Kirkham Bassett's son William as having been present in England after our ancestor William had shown up in New Haven. Accordingly, unless someone disproves this connection, I am throwing the old placement of a Heyshott origin for William Bassett of New Haven in the dustbin.
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