1779 Jacob Bassler [Bosler], perhaps this one, was taxed in Donegal Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania for 130 acres [1].
1782 Jacob Bassler [Bossler], perhaps this one, was taxed in Donegal Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania for 160 acres [2].
1817 Jacob Bassler [Bawsler] Jr and Sr were listed in Woodberry Twp, Bedford County, Pennsylvania (tax list?). [3]
A biosketch of grandson Jacob S. Bassler reports [4]:
Rev. Jacob S. Bassler, pastor
of the Children of Zion church, of Martinsburg, and a member of the foundry and machine shop ?rm of Snoeberger Bros. & Bassler, is a son of Rev. Andrew and Barbara (Stern) Bassler, native of Washington county, Maryland, and was born in Middle Woodbury township, Bedford county, Pennsylvania, May 14, 1829. His paternal great-grandfather, Valentine Bassler, was a native of Basle, Germany, born August 25, 1738, who came to Pennsylvania, and settled in Lancaster county, where he died in 1806, when in the sixty-eighth year of his age. His son, Jacob Bassler (grandfather), was born in 1765, and in 1812 went to Bedford county, in which he died on March 12, 1837, aged seventy-two years. Jacob Bassler followed blacksmithing, farming and distilling. He was a federalist and whig in politics, and a member of the Mennonite church, and married Mary Shank, by whom he had seven children, three sous and four daughters. One of these sons, Rev. Andrew Bassler (father), was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, November 29, 1804, and went with his father to Bedford county, this State, from which, in 1870, he came to Martinsburg, where he has since resided. He was an active and efficient minister of the River Brethren church for over forty years, and only retired from regular ministerial work when disqualified by advanced age. He is a republican in political views, has served as overseer of the poor and school director, and now resides upon his farm. He married Barbara Stern, who is a native of Washington county, Maryland, and to this union were born seven children, three sons and four daughters.
[1] William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 17 (Lancaster Taxables) (1897), 517, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[2] William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 17 (Lancaster Taxables) (1897), 856, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[3] James B. Whisker, The Bedford County Archives, Vol. 1 (Closson Press, 1985), 45, [GoogleBooks].
[4] Samuel T. Wiley and W. Scott Garner, eds., Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Blair County, Pennsylvania, [HathiTrust].