Shubael Bascom, an early settler, of Hinsdale, N. H., married Philena Elmore and reared a family of eleven children. His son Roswell married Sophia, daughter of Sampson and Thankful Evans. of Hinsdale, who bore him two children. He finally settled in the village of East Jaffrey, where he now resides. His son, William W., is a resident of Ashburnham, Mass., and his daughter, Lucia E., is at home with her father.