Jethro Bass

Other Events:

• Race: Mulatto
• Reference Number: 767
• Bondsman: 30 Oct 1828, Mercer, Kentucky, USA; Posted marriage bond for his daughter, Emeline Bass
• Residence: 1830, Vigo, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1840, Vigo, Indiana, USA
• Residence: 1850, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA; Age: 70
• Residence: 1860, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA; Age: 80

Notes:

Free People of Color Register of (NC-born) Negroes & Mulattoes: Vigo County, Indiana.
by Lisa Y. Henderson
Jethro Bass registered 2 July 1853. Age 70. Mulatto. Born Granville County NC. Resided Lost Creek township.

Jethro Bass and Polly Mitchell married in Granville County NC on 3 Apr 1809. In 1830, Jethro Bass headed a household of 13 free people of color in Vigo County, Indiana. In the 1850 census of Harrison township, Vigo County, Indiana: Jathro Bass, 70, wife Polly, 60, Emily, 17, and Alfred Bass, 6.

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Lost Creek AME Church was founded in 1839 by Jethro Bass and others.


Died:
Estate Records

Jethro married Polly Mitchell 3 Apr 1809, Granville, North Carolina, USA. Polly (daughter of Thomas Mitchell and Rebecca Stewart) was born 1788, Sussex, Virginia, USA; died 1865, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet]

1. Nelson Bass was born 1814, North Carolina, USA; died 4 May 1877, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried 6 May 1877, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
2. Rebecca Bass was born 1820, North Carolina, USA; died Between 1870 and 1880, Indiana, USA.
3. Michael Bass was born 10 Mar 1818, North Carolina, USA; died 15 Jan 1875, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried , Roberts Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
4. Duphena Emily Bass was born 1834, Indiana, USA; died 1870, Coles, Illinois, USA.
5. Emeline Bass was born Abt 1811, North Carolina, USA; died , Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried , Vigo, Indiana, USA.
6. George Washington Bass was born Abt 1809, North Carolina, USA; died , USA.
7. Eliza Bass was born Abt 1833, Indiana, USA.

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• Reference Number: 770

Jesse married Prudence Bass 6 Nov 1782, Granville, North Carolina, USA. Prudence (daughter of Edward Bass, II and Tamor Anderson) was born Abt 1768, Granville, North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 766

Notes:

Prudence Bass (Edward3, Edward1, John1), born say 1768, posted her own Granville County bastardy bond in April 1791, and in January 1794 Edward Bass and Jacob Anderson paid the bond for a child she had by Jesse Day [Camin, N.C. Bastardy Bonds, 87]. She bound her children Jethro and Cullen to her brother Jason in 1801 [Bell, Bass Families of the South, 159]. Her children were

i. Jethro4, born April 1787, married Polly Mitchell, 3 April 1809 Granville County bond, Henry Anderson bondsman. Jethro and Polly were living in household #874 of Harrison Township, Vigo County, Indiana in 1850.

ii. Cullen, born May 1795.

Other Events:

• Ethnicity: Native American
• Reference Number: 769

Notes:

Edward3 Bass (Edward1, John1), born say 1728, received 50 acres in Northampton County by his father's will. He sold this and another 20 acres in Northampton County on 15 May 1758 [DB 2:462]. By 1761 he was taxable in the Granville County list for Oxford District with wife Tamer--probably Tamer Anderson, daughter of his neighbor Lewis Anderson, a taxable in her father's household in John Sallis' 1754 tax list. She was also taxed with her father in 1755, but did not appear in his household in the next extant list of 1757 [CR 44.701.19]. On 22 December 1762 Edward purchased 100 acres in Granville County from George Anderson [DB F:281]. On 8 April 1767 he purchased 200 acres at the head of Fishing Creek in Bute County [Warren County DB 1:304] and sold this land twelve years later on 7 May 1779 [Warren DB 7:230]. In 1782 he was taxable in Granville on 100 acres, a horse, and 14 cattle. He had 11 persons in his Raglands District, Granville County household in the 1786 state census. On 9 November 1792 he bought an additional 206 acres on Boling's Creek in Granville for 75 pounds and a month later on 10 December 1792 sold his 100 acres on the north prong of Fishing Creek for 100 pounds [DB N:165; P:77]. His 17 March 179_ will was proved in Granville County court in November 1800 [WB 5:116].

Edward married Tamor Anderson 1760. Tamor (daughter of Lewis Anderson and Sarah Bass) was born Abt 1740, Granville, North Carolina, USA; died Aft 1785, North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 764

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• Ethnicity: Native American
• Tribe: Nansemond
• Reference Number: 836
• Residence: 1741, Northampton, Virginia, USA; Urahaw Swamp
• Death: 25 Jul 1748, Northampton, Virginia, USA
• civil: Aug 1750, Northampton, North Carolina, USA

Notes:

Edward1 Bass, born 19 October 1672, was living in Norfolk County on 16 November 1699 when he purchased 15 acres of land on the Western Branch of Elizabeth River from John Fulsher who was the slave owner who freed the Anderson family by his Norfolk County will in 1712. Edward appeared in Norfolk County court on 17 November 1698 and admitted that he owed Hugh Campbell 500 pounds of tobacco, in June 1702 he admitted that he owed Thomas Whinfield 70 pounds of tobacco for goods he purchased at the sale of the estate of William Whitehurst, and on 15 February 1709 he sued Henry Lawley for a 3 pound debt. On 20 July 1711 he was presented by the Norfolk County court for retailing liquor without a license but the presentment was dismissed at his cost when he convinced the court that it was a mistake. On 16 December 1715 he sued Joseph Muns, Jr., for 20 pounds damages for riding his mare [DB 6, no.2, fols. 36, 170, 255; Orders 1708-10, 124b, 141a; 1710-17, 14, 100, 136]. On 30 January 1720/1 he was called "Edward Bass of Norfolk County, Virginia, Parish of Elizabeth" when he purchased 100 acres adjacent to his brother John, near the head of Horsepool Swamp in Chowan Precinct, North Carolina [DB C-1:113]. On 26 March 1723 he was granted 200 acres on Urahaw Swamp in what became Northampton County after 1741 [Hoffman, Province of North Carolina Land Patents, 192]. He and his wife Love sold their land in Chowan County by deed of 28 March 1726 [DB C-1:609].

Between 12 August 1728 and 15 May 1744 he purchased another 615 acres adjoining his land [Bertie DB C:135, Northampton DB 1:40, 89, 129]. His 25 July 1748 Northampton County will was proved in August 1750 and left over 525 acres to his children with the remainder to be sold to discharge debts [Original at N.C. Archives]. He left his wife Lovewell 100 acres during her life. More than ten years later on 7 May 1761 she and her heirs, Lucy Jones and Thomas Cugley, sold this land for 75 pounds to Jethro Bass, her deceased husband's grand nephew [DB 3:121].

Edward married Lovewell. was born 1692, Norfolk, Virginia, USA; died 7 May 1761, Norfolk, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Reference Number: 837

Other Events:

• Reference Number: 762

Lewis married Sarah Bass 18 Jan 1732, Granville, North Carolina, USA. Sarah (daughter of John Bass, II and Love Harris) was born 1704, Bertie, North Carolina, USA; died Bef 1785, Granville, North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Ethnicity: Native American
• Reference Number: 763

Notes:

Sarah2 Anderson, born say 1704, wife of Lewis Anderson, received 100 acres in Northampton County by her father's will. She and her husband Lewis sold this land on 10 November 1757 [DB 2:233].