Individual Details
Basil SAUNDERS
( - 15 May 1657)
Events
| Marriage | 8 Sep 1617 | Battersea, Surrey, England - Richard SWAIN |  |  | |
| Marriage | By Abt 1619 | Richard SWAIN | | ||
| Miscellaneous | 5 Oct 1652 | Henry Green sued Richard Swaine for defamation for reporting that Greene "had attempted the chastity of Bassill Swaine and used beastly and unseemly carriages and temptations toward Grace Boulter." This was withdrawn but at the same court, Green was "fined for uncleanness and bound to good behavior" - Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Death | 15 May 1657 | | |||
| Alt name | Basselle | ||||
| Alt name | Bazill SAUNDERS | |
Families
| Spouse | Richard SWAIN (1595 - 1682) |
| Child | William SWAIN (1619 - 1657) |
| Child | Francis SWAIN (1620 - 1665) |
| Child | Nicholas SWAIN (1623 - 1650) |
| Child | Grace SWAIN (1627 - 1693) |
| Child | Richard SWAIN (1630 - ) |
| Child | John SWAIN (1634 - ) |
| Child | Elizabeth SWAIN (1638 - 1712) |
Notes
Marriage
"Addition: A marriage of 'Richard Swayne and Bazill Saunders' in Battersea, Surrey on 8 September 1617 is almost certainly for the immigrant as it is about two years before the birth of his eldest known child and has the unusual given name of his wife.[67]""67 St. Mary, Battersea, Surrey, parish register, 1559-1632, included in London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials 1538-1812, database online at Ancestry.com."
Death
Name is spelled Bassell Swaine in record.Date is recorded as 15th of the 5 mo 1657, so could be 15 July 1657.
This info comes from an image provided by Ancestry with no provenance: https://www.ancestry.com/media/viewer/viewer/ce7d4389-defc-41a5-9d6a-1eed4a3783a0/35569257/18828176213?destPersonId=240074192927&destTreeId=62812056&_phsrc=pNp3614&_phstart=default
Endnotes
1. Randy A. West, "Updates from English Records for Some Great Migration Immigrants who Came by 1635: (concluded from 172 [2018:359)," The NEHGS Register, 173 (Spring 2019): 187-190, specifically p. 189, "Richard Swain".
2. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, 7 volumes (Boston: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1999-2011), vol 6, p 613; indexed database of page images, NEHGS, AmericanAncestors.org (https://www.americanancestors.org/search/category-search/503850/great-migration-study-project : viewed 18 March 2017); "Marriage: (1) by about 1619 Basil ____ (assuming she was the mother of all of his children)".
3. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, 7 volumes (Boston: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1999-2011), vol 6, p 615; indexed database of page images, NEHGS, AmericanAncestors.org (https://www.americanancestors.org/search/category-search/503850/great-migration-study-project : viewed 18 March 2017); citing Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686, 9 volumes (Salem 1911-1975), 1:269.
4. Randy A. West, "Updates from English Records for Some Great Migration Immigrants who Came by 1635: (concluded from 172 [2018:359)," The NEHGS Register, 173 (Spring 2019): 187-190, specifically p. 189, "Richard Swain".