The following biography was written by Edward D. Harris in the genealogy "Thomas Bascom and his Descendants", 1870.
"Deacon Elias Bascom, b. May, 1738 resided successively at Hatfield, Hadley, Deerfield, and Northfield, Mass., at which latter place he settled in Dec. 1760. He was a clothier or weaver, and until an advanced age wrought all the woolen cloth, flannel and linen for his household, as well as for some of his neighbors, He served for three months in the French war at Lake George, N. Y. and was present, though not as a soldier, at the battle of Saratoga, in the American Revolution. From Northfield he removed, in 1779, to Newport, N.H., and in 1792, to Orwell, Vt. Here he spent the remainder of his days, dying Nov. 29, 1833, at the advanced age of ninety-six years. He was, till within a few years of his death, remarkably vigorous and sprightly. He was a diligent reader of the Scriptures, intelligent and discriminating in his judgments, forcible and resolute in character, simple and unostentatious in manner. "Orthodox" in faith, he held for many years the position of Deacon in the Congregational Church at Orwell.
Elias Bascom was twice married : first at Deerfield, March 13, 1761, to Eunice Allen, the mother of all his children ; and second, to Thankful Graves, of Greenfield."
"Deacon Elias Bascom, b. May, 1738 resided successively at Hatfield, Hadley, Deerfield, and Northfield, Mass., at which latter place he settled in Dec. 1760. He was a clothier or weaver, and until an advanced age wrought all the woolen cloth, flannel and linen for his household, as well as for some of his neighbors, He served for three months in the French war at Lake George, N. Y. and was present, though not as a soldier, at the battle of Saratoga, in the American Revolution. From Northfield he removed, in 1779, to Newport, N.H., and in 1792, to Orwell, Vt. Here he spent the remainder of his days, dying Nov. 29, 1833, at the advanced age of ninety-six years. He was, till within a few years of his death, remarkably vigorous and sprightly. He was a diligent reader of the Scriptures, intelligent and discriminating in his judgments, forcible and resolute in character, simple and unostentatious in manner. "Orthodox" in faith, he held for many years the position of Deacon in the Congregational Church at Orwell.
Elias Bascom was twice married : first at Deerfield, March 13, 1761, to Eunice Allen, the mother of all his children ; and second, to Thankful Graves, of Greenfield."
The following biography was written by Edward D. Harris in the genealogy "Thomas Bascom and his Descendants", 1870.
"Deacon Elias Bascom, b. May, 1738 resided successively at Hatfield, Hadley, Deerfield, and Northfield, Mass., at which latter place he settled in Dec. 1760. He was a clothier or weaver, and until an advanced age wrought all the woolen cloth, flannel and linen for his household, as well as for some of his neighbors, He served for three months in the French war at Lake George, N. Y. and was present, though not as a soldier, at the battle of Saratoga, in the American Revolution. From Northfield he removed, in 1779, to Newport, N.H., and in 1792, to Orwell, Vt. Here he spent the remainder of his days, dying Nov. 29, 1833, at the advanced age of ninety-six years. He was, till within a few years of his death, remarkably vigorous and sprightly. He was a diligent reader of the Scriptures, intelligent and discriminating in his judgments, forcible and resolute in character, simple and unostentatious in manner. "Orthodox" in faith, he held for many years the position of Deacon in the Congregational Church at Orwell.
Elias Bascom was twice married : first at Deerfield, March 13, 1761, to Eunice Allen, the mother of all his children ; and second, to Thankful Graves, of Greenfield."
"Deacon Elias Bascom, b. May, 1738 resided successively at Hatfield, Hadley, Deerfield, and Northfield, Mass., at which latter place he settled in Dec. 1760. He was a clothier or weaver, and until an advanced age wrought all the woolen cloth, flannel and linen for his household, as well as for some of his neighbors, He served for three months in the French war at Lake George, N. Y. and was present, though not as a soldier, at the battle of Saratoga, in the American Revolution. From Northfield he removed, in 1779, to Newport, N.H., and in 1792, to Orwell, Vt. Here he spent the remainder of his days, dying Nov. 29, 1833, at the advanced age of ninety-six years. He was, till within a few years of his death, remarkably vigorous and sprightly. He was a diligent reader of the Scriptures, intelligent and discriminating in his judgments, forcible and resolute in character, simple and unostentatious in manner. "Orthodox" in faith, he held for many years the position of Deacon in the Congregational Church at Orwell.
Elias Bascom was twice married : first at Deerfield, March 13, 1761, to Eunice Allen, the mother of all his children ; and second, to Thankful Graves, of Greenfield."
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