ROCHESTER — The Cape Cod and Islands Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution will host a ceremony honoring a Revolutionary War veteran at a Rochester cemetery.

Saturday, Oct. 26 at 11 a.m., a memorial marker will be installed at the grave of Thomas Bassett, who served as a seaman and soldier in the Revolutionary War.

Bassett was married to Lydia Mendall and is buried at Center Cemetery, 26 Dexter Lane in Rochester.

The ceremony will feature a presentation of colors and musket salute by the Massachusetts Colonel Henry Knox Regimental Color Guard, and the Wareham Minutemen and Militia Companies in Revolutionary War period uniforms and dress.

Members of Boy Scout Troop 31 will also participate in the rain or shine ceremony.

Connie Eshbach, chair of the Rochester Historical Commission and vice president of the Rochester Historical Society, will be the keynote speaker. The ceremony will also include the reading  of family names of other patriots who resided in in Rochester during the Revolutionary War.

Rev. Bruce W Bassett, Jr., the fourth great grandson of Thomas Bassett and chaplain of the Cape Cod and Islands Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution chapter, will offer a invocation and benediction. 

The public is invited to attend “this colorful and dignified tribute to one of America’s first veterans,” a press release said.

Members of the Bassett and Mendall families as well as other members of the Sons of the American Revolution and the Daughters of the American Revolution are also invited to attend. 

Sons of the American Revolution and Daughters of the American Revolution chapters are national, historical, educational and patriotic societies whose members are direct descendants of the “patriots who earned our independence,” a press release said.