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- Lived mainly in USA, Boston.
some info here https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NFDUyV_BYAYC&lpg=PA380&ots=8RBHGcUibU&dq=William%20Vassall%201715%20-%201800&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q=William%20Vassall%201715%20-%201800&f=false
Leonard Vassall of Jamaica granted land for the construction of
Boston's Trinity Church in 1730. His son William (1715?1800) studied
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at Harvard, where he graduated in 1733 and received an MA in 1743.
William's brother Florentius later arranged for a marble memorial
from London to be erected in the King's Chapel in Boston, com-
memorating Samuel Vassall's stance against Charles I's extra-parlia-
mentary taxation, and also the action of John Vassall in fighting the
Armada.57 The timing of this gesture, executed during the Stamp Act
controversy, is significant. Once war broke out in 1776, however, the
Vassalls elected to remain loyal to Britain, whatever sympathies they
may earlier have harboured for colonial grievances. The family's private
business affairs were too closely aligned with the apparatus of colonial
administration and regulation for detachment to be a feasible option.
Because of his Loyalist stance, William Vassall was forced to return to
England in 1775; subsequently, he suffered confiscation of his American
property.58
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