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From 'Worcester County, Maryland's Arcadia'
FASSITT HOUSE
"In the days when names were flexible Fassett, Fawsett, Fausett, Fossitt, Fosett, Fassit and Fassitt appeared in the records in England and the Colony. Capt. William Fassitt of nearby Carmel Plantation, prominent in founding the family in Maryland, used Fassitt and it became a fixture. Fassitt House overlooks Sinepuxent Bay. It was built by Capt. Fassitt for his daughter Mary as a wedding present upon her marriage to Southey Wittington [jsh - note spelling], C. 1717. The Wittington's later sold the devise to Rouse, Mary's brother and neighbor on the Gosehn-Mayfield tract."
"Rather than a myth, it is a fact that a British warship entered Sinepuxent Inlet, during the War of 1812, and caused consternation along the tributary bays. Fassitt House, like Mt. Ephraim and others, exerienced intense fear, and when the bombardment started the family evacuated the premises, and in so doing, they buried the family silver a a secure point removed from the house. It was not recovered. This story of buried silver has prompted exploratory digging in search of the treasure-trove in this century. This home remained in the Fassitt family until Julia Ann married Edward Lee Carey, 1863, grandfather of the late Lee Carey, husband of Margaret Rogers, present owner and occupant of enchanting Fassitt House."
FASSITT HOUSE
"In the days when names were flexible Fassett, Fawsett, Fausett, Fossitt, Fosett, Fassit and Fassitt appeared in the records in England and the Colony. Capt. William Fassitt of nearby Carmel Plantation, prominent in founding the family in Maryland, used Fassitt and it became a fixture. Fassitt House overlooks Sinepuxent Bay. It was built by Capt. Fassitt for his daughter Mary as a wedding present upon her marriage to Southey Wittington [jsh - note spelling], C. 1717. The Wittington's later sold the devise to Rouse, Mary's brother and neighbor on the Gosehn-Mayfield tract."
"Rather than a myth, it is a fact that a British warship entered Sinepuxent Inlet, during the War of 1812, and caused consternation along the tributary bays. Fassitt House, like Mt. Ephraim and others, exerienced intense fear, and when the bombardment started the family evacuated the premises, and in so doing, they buried the family silver a a secure point removed from the house. It was not recovered. This story of buried silver has prompted exploratory digging in search of the treasure-trove in this century. This home remained in the Fassitt family until Julia Ann married Edward Lee Carey, 1863, grandfather of the late Lee Carey, husband of Margaret Rogers, present owner and occupant of enchanting Fassitt House."
