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that struggle. Capt. Barzillai Besse went out
under a commission in an armed sloop in the
privateer service and was successful. Samuel
Besse was one of the thirteen men of Wareham
who yielded up their lives in the Revolution.
(I) Anthony Besse, aged forty-six, came in
the "James" in 1635. He was for a time at
Lynn and was among the first from that point
who settled in Sandwich. He preached, it is
said, to the Indians. In his will of Feb. 10,
1656, he mentions his wife Jane, and children
Nehemiah, David, Anne, Mary and Elizabeth.
The widow Jane remarried, marrying (second)
George Barlow. Her will bears date of Aug.
€, 1693, in which she mentions daughters Anne
Hallett, Elizabeth Bodfish and Rebecca
Hunter, and sons Nehemiah Besse and John
Barlow.
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ana, born Sept. 27, 1763; Elizabeth, born Oct.
3, 1765, who married in 1798 Lot Sturtevant;
Seth, born Dec. 22, 1767; David, born Dec.
11, 1769, who married in 1799 Betsey Conant;
Alden, born Oct. 11, 1772; Sylvanus, born
Oct. 13, 1773, who married in 1799 Thankful
Bates; Rebecca, born Feb. 24, 1775; Lot, born
March 9, 1776; Rebecca, born March 24, 1779;
Jedidah, born Feb. 20, 1781; Charity, born
April 4, 1783; Samuel, born Aug. 31, 1785;
Polly, born Mav 29, 1788; and Abigail, born
Jan. 9, 1790.
(VII) Samuel Besse, son of David, born
Aug. 31, 1785, in Wareham, married Dec. 13,
1812, Elizabeth (or Betsey) Young, who was
born in 1786. Their children were: Charles
(II) Nehemiah Besse, son of Anthony, married
Mary, and their children were : Mary, born
in November, 1680, who married Dec. 3, 1700,
Benjamin Curtis, of Plymouth; Nehemiah,
born July 3, 1682; Hannah, born in 1684-85,
who married Oct. 5, 1708, Thomas Jones;
Eobert, born April 30, 1690, who married May
S, 1712, Ruth Pray, of Bridgewater; Joshua,
born Feb. 14, 1692-93; David, bom Dec. 23,
1693; Benjamin, born Sept. 20, 1696, and
Ebenezer, born April 30, 1699.
(III) David Besse, son of Nehemiah and
Mary, born Dec. 23, 1693, married July 18,
1717, Mary Pray, of Bridgewater. This David
Besse, it is assumed, is the David of Plymouth
who had by wife Mary children: Samuel, born
in 1726; Thankful, born in 1727; and Nehemiah,
born in 1729.
(IV) Samuel Besse, of Wareham, father of
a David there, it is assumed was the son of
David and Mary (Pray) Besse.
(V) David Besse, son of Samuel, married,
and his children were : Jabez, Elizabeth, David,
Rebecca and Samuel. The father is, perhaps,
the David Besse of Wareham who was a private
in Capt. John Gibb's company, Col. Ebenezer
Sprout's regiment (4th Plymouth
County), who enlisted Sept. 6, 1778, and was
discharged Sept. 10th of that same year, the
company marching to Dartmouth ; and David
Besse, Jr., of Wareham, who was a member of
that same company and regiment which
marched Dec. 10, 1776, on an alarm to Rhode
Island, performing eleven days service, was
with hardly a doubt the son.
(VI) David Besse, Jr., of Wareham, son of
David, married May 12, 1762, Jedidah Burgess,
who was Henry,
baptized Aug. 28, 1747, daughter
of Jedidiah and Jedidah , (Gibbs) Burgess,
of Wareham. Their children were: Laur-
born April 23, 1815, died Jan. 11,
1892; Samuel Burgess and Isaac Young,
twins, born March 2, 1815, died, respectively,
June 22, 1860, and March 27, 1849; Zerviah
Young, born Feb. 22, 1819, died March 28,
1851; Alden, born April 9, 1821, died June
27, 1903; and Rodolphus, born April 21, 1823,
died March 5, 1878. Samuel Besse in his early
manhood was occupied in seafaring pursuits.
During the war of 1812-15, while on a visit
to his brother on West island, he was taken
prisoner, pressed into service by the British,
and made pilot of one of their vessels as far
as Bird island, he in time being given his
freedom. Both he and his wife lived useful
lives and were esteemed and respected by the
community. He died Aug. 16, 1863, when in
his seventy-eighth year.
(VIII) Capt. Alden Besse, son of Samuel,
born April 9, 1821, in Wareham, passed his
childhood amid the coming and going of the
ships, and being of a seafaring family it was
but natural that he imbibed a taste for the
water, which at the early age of twelve years
he began to gratify in employment on a
coasting vessel, on which he continued six
years. He then shipped before the mast on
the whaling brig "Inga," which cruised for
seven months in the North and South Atlantic
oceans. He made a second cruise on th^ same
vessel and in the waters named, this time as
boat steerer. His third and fourth voyages
were on the "Inga," and his positions those of
second mate and first mate, respectively. As
noted his promotions came steadily as the
years passed, and it was as master he made his
next sail from New Bedford, on the bark
"Charleston Packet" a cruise of eighteen
months from the home port. The following
three years he was in command of the bark
"Hecla," the time being passed chiefly in the
North Pacific ocean. On his return after this