# David Basset

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| name               = David Basset
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| birth_place        = [Acadia](/source/Acadia), [New France](/source/New_France)
| death_date         = 1724
| death_place        = [West Indies](/source/West_Indies)
| death_cause        = Homicide
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| education          = 
| occupation         = Merchant, privateer
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'''David Basset''' ([fl](/source/floruit) 1687&ndash;1724) was a merchant active in [Newfoundland](/source/Newfoundland_(island)) and [New England](/source/New_England). He was French born [Huguenot](/source/Huguenot).<ref>''The Global Refuge: Huguenots in an Age of Empire'' {{ISBN|978-0-190-26474-1}} p. 193</ref>

==Background==
Little is known of Basset's earlier years other than that he probably resided in [Acadia](/source/Acadia), married and had a family. He was known in [Boston](/source/Boston) as a merchant trading between New England and Newfoundland. Trade included the usual goods from Boston being traded for fish.

In 1687, he became embroiled in a dispute with [Antoine Parat](/source/Antoine_Parat), Governor of Plaisance ([Placentia](/source/Placentia%2C_Newfoundland_and_Labrador)), [Newfoundland](/source/Colony_of_Newfoundland), over transporting two Huguenots to Boston when the governor wanted to deport them to France. His ship was confiscated and he was sent to prison in France. A pardon occurred on conditions of becoming a settler at [Port Royal](/source/Port-Royal_(Acadia)), Acadia.<ref>''History of the County of Lunenburg'' (1895) p. 174</ref> Basset went to Boston for his family and did not return.

Basset commanded a ship against the French when [William Phips](/source/William_Phips), colonial governor of [Massachusetts](/source/Massachusetts), sailed for Acadia in April 1690 and captured Port Royal. He was active in trade and privateering over the next few years. He had extended his trade to the West Indies.<ref>''The Melanson Story: Acadian Family, Acadian Times'' {{ISBN|978-0-969-12191-6}} p. 59</ref>

In 1697, Basset was captured by the French and taken to Acadia. He agreed to serve the French as a pilot in an agreement arrived at with Governor [Villebon](/source/Villebon). Again, the family was to move to Acadia but never arrived. After Villebon's death, the temporary governor arrested Basset again.

It is presumed that Basset's trading and privateering career continued until his death from a slit throat in 1724 aboard his ship in the West Indies.

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=627 Biography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online'']

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Category:Deaths by edged and bladed weapons
Category:French emigrants to pre-Confederation Canada
Category:People murdered in the 1720s
Category:People of New France
Category:Year of birth unknown
Category:People who died at sea
Category:17th-century American merchants
Category:18th-century American merchants

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