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 Abt 1700 - 1761 (~ 61 years)
Generation: 1
| 1. | William Bass was born Abt 1700, Bertie, North Carolina, USA (son of John Bass, II and Love Harris); died 23 Aug 1761, St James Santee, Charleston, South Carolina, USA. Other Events:
- Ethnicity: Native American
- Reference Number: 869
Notes:
William3 Bass (John2, William1, John1), born say 1712, sold the land he inherited in Northampton County to John Bass on 30 December 1742 [DB 2:185]. He was one of the first members of the Bass family in Granville County where he was taxed in the list of Jonathan White in 1749. In 1761 he was taxable with his son Thomas in Oxford District. On 19 November 1762 he purchased 200 acres on the south side of Cedar Creek near the Beaver Dam Branch from Thomas Huland (Huelin) [DB F:441]. He was a "Black" taxable in Granville County in John Pope's list for St. John's Parish, Bare Swamp District, in 1762. Bute County was formed from this part of Granville County in 1764, and in 1771 he was a Bute County taxable in the list of Philemon Hawkins on 5 "Black" tithes: himself, his wife, daughter "Honner," and sons Ben and John [CR 015.70001, p.12]. He may have been the William Bass who appeared in Granville County court on 7 April 1770 as the "next Friend" of Olive Bass when she sued Jean Tylor, alias Mitchell [Minutes 1754-70, 202]. William sold 100 acres on the south side of Cedar Creek to Sampson Bass on 26 January 1771 and another 100 acres adjoining this on 17 September 1771 [Warren County DB 3:224; 4:263]. His children were
i. ?Simon1, not identified as William's son, but listed adjacent to him in Philemon Hawkins' Bute County list of taxables, taxed on 4 "Black" tithes for himself, his unnamed wife, son James, and (daughter?) Elizabeth.
ii. Thomas4, born about 1749 since he was taxable in 1761 in his father's Oxford District household. He was an overseer, taxable in Nathan Thomas's household in the 1771 Bute County list of Philemon Hawkins [CR 015.70001, p.4].
iii. ?Frederick1, born say 1750.
iv. Honor1, born say 1752, taxable in 1771 in Bute County.
v. Benjamin2, born say 1754, taxable in 1771 in Bute County.
vi. John8, born before 1760, taxable in 1771 in Bute County.
William married . [Group Sheet]
Children:
- Frederick Bass was born 1750, Granville, North Carolina, USA; died , North Carolina, USA.
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Generation: 2
| 2. | John Bass, II was born 4 Dec 1673, Suffolk, Nansemond, Virginia, USA (son of William Bass, Sr. and Catherine Elizabeth Lanier); died 18 Jan 1732, Bertie, North Carolina, USA. Other Events:
- Ethnicity: Native American
- Tribe: Nansemond
- Reference Number: 717
Notes:
John2 Bass (William1, John1), born 4 December 1673, was living in Norfolk County on 15 October 1701 when a case against him brought by Thomas Hodges, Surveyor, for being delinquent "from the high wayes" was dismissed on his paying costs [DB 6:220]. He was not mentioned in his father's will because he predeceased him. His marriage was recorded in Perquimans Precinct, North Carolina:
John Bas and Love Harris was Married ye 8th day of Janewary 1696 both of Nanse Mum County and Nanse Mum Parresh by Mager Samuel Swann Esqr. [Haun, Old Albemarle County North Carolina, 62].
Love Harris was living in Norfolk County on 19 May 1693 when the court acquitted Ann Harris, Love Harris, and Elizabeth Jennett of any wilful neglect in the death of a 5 week old child of Ann Harris. This was probably the same Ann Harris, widow of Richard Harris, who bound her daughter Jean Harris to Malachy Thruston in Norfolk County court that same day. Four days prior to this she bound her son John Harris to James Lowry, and two months later on 18 July 1693 she presented an inventory of "what little estate Richard Harris died seized of" in Norfolk County court [DB 5, pt. 2, 287, 292-3, 298]. On 30 January 1720/1 John Bass bought 200 acres in Chowan Precinct near the head of Horsepool Swamp [DB C-1:115]. A year later on 16 July 1722 he was in that part of Bertie County which became Northampton County where he bought 200 acres adjoining Urahaw Swamp [DB A:105]. Between 1722 and 1729 he purchased 5 tracts of land including a patent for 460 acres, accumulating a total of 1,060 acres adjoining Urahaw Swamp [DB A:129; C:126, 135; Hoffman, Province of North Carolina Land Patents, 225]. His 18 January 1732 Bertie County will named his children, gave his wife Mary "the liberty of the plantation ... for bringing up my small children," referred to "my sd last wife's children," and left 50 acres to his friend, Daniel Wharten Burbegg [SS 876/3:305]. Norfolk County Bass family papers record his death in the year 1732 at the age of fifty-eight. Mary remarried and as "Mary Staples widow and relict of John Bass, Sr." she sold her one third interest in the plantation where she was living on 21 November 1748 [Northampton DB 1:356].
John married Love Harris 8 Jan 1695/96, Perquimans, North Carolina, USA. Love (daughter of William Harris and Alice Stewart) was born 4 Dec 1673, Nansemond, Virginia, USA; died 18 Jan 1731, Bertie, North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet]
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| 3. | Love Harris was born 4 Dec 1673, Nansemond, Virginia, USA (daughter of William Harris and Alice Stewart); died 18 Jan 1731, Bertie, North Carolina, USA. Other Events:
Children:
- 1. William Bass was born Abt 1700, Bertie, North Carolina, USA; died 23 Aug 1761, St James Santee, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
- Sarah Bass was born 1704, Bertie, North Carolina, USA; died Bef 1785, Granville, North Carolina, USA.
- John Bass, III was born Abt 1700, Bertie, North Carolina, USA; died 11 Mar 1777, Northampton, North Carolina, USA.
- Aaron Bass was born Abt 1701, Bertie, North Carolina, USA; died 1781, Surry, North Carolina, USA.
- Edward Bass was born 1696, Bertie, North Carolina, USA; died Between 1742 and 1758.
- Moses Bass was born Abt 1697.
- Judith Bass was born 1702, Bertie, North Carolina, USA.
- Lovey Bass was born Abt 1707, Bertie, North Carolina, USA.
- Mary Bass was born Abt 1709, Bertie, North Carolina, USA.
- Anne Keziah, Bass was born Abt 1710.
- Patience Bass was born Abt 1712, Chowan, North Carolina, USA.
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Generation: 3
| 4. | William Bass, Sr. was born 29 Mar 1654, Isle of Wight, Virginia, USA (son of John Bass and Elizabeth); died 13 Aug 1741, Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia, USA. Other Events:
- Ethnicity: Native American
- Tribe: Nansemond
- Reference Number: 790
Notes:
2. William1 Bass, born 29 March 1654, married Catherine Lanier who died 17 February 1691/2. He was called William Bass, Sr., on 13 October 1715 when he admitted in Norfolk County court that he owed John Hodgson 50 pounds of tobacco [Orders 1710-17, 169]. On 17 March 1726/7 he claimed to have cleared lands near the Dismal Swamp which "hath been used by his and Their forebears since & before English governance in Virginia." He received a certificate from the Norfolk County Clerk confirming his rightful possession of the land and further stating that
William Bass, Senr. & ... his sons Wm. Bass, Thomas Bass and Joseph Bass, & spinster daughter Mary Bass are persons of English and Nansemun Indian descent with no Admixture of negor, Ethipopic blood
He was called William Bass, Senr., and was living in Western Branch District of Norfolk County on 6 January 1729 when he purchased 103 acres in Norfolk County at the mouth of Deep Branch for 25 pounds [DB G:fol.35 (p.183)]. He was taxable with his son Thomas in the Western Branch District of Norfolk County in 1730, 1731 (called William Bass, Sr.), 1732 (with William Horse/Horsey in his household), and 1733-36 living near Richard and Eliza Price and William Price whose wife was taxable in 1736 [Wingo, Norfolk County Tithables, 1730-50, 20, 38, 73, 94, 138, 183]. He was probably in debt when he made his 1 October 1740 will since he left his land to his daughter Mary, "if she can Save it." The will, proved 17 September 1742 in Norfolk County, mentioned his children William, Edward, Joseph, Thomas, and Mary (executrix), and grandson William Bass [WB H:8]. The record of his death on 13 August 1741 is in the Bass family papers which also record that his son John and his daughter Keziah, Jr., predeceased him [Bell, Bass Families of the South, 12]. .
William married Catherine Elizabeth Lanier 16 Nov 1671, Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia, USA. Catherine (daughter of John Lanier and Sarah Edmunds) was born Abt 1650, Norfolk, Virginia, USA; died 17 Feb 1692, Norfolk, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet]
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| 5. | Catherine Elizabeth Lanier was born Abt 1650, Norfolk, Virginia, USA (daughter of John Lanier and Sarah Edmunds); died 17 Feb 1692, Norfolk, Virginia, USA. Other Events:
Children:
- Edward Bass was born Abt 1675, Chowan, North Carolina, USA; died 13 May 1750, Northampton, North Carolina, USA.
- 2. John Bass, II was born 4 Dec 1673, Suffolk, Nansemond, Virginia, USA; died 18 Jan 1732, Bertie, North Carolina, USA.
- Mary Bass was born 15 Jun 1681, Bertie, North Carolina, USA; died Aft 1740.
- Joseph Bass was born 21 Dec 1679, Bertie, North Carolina, USA; died Aft 1740.
- William Bass was born 28 Oct 1676, Virginia, USA; died 20 Oct 1751, Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia, USA.
- Keziah Bass was born 30 Oct 1675, Virginia, USA.
- Thomas Bass was born 13 Nov 1687, Virginia, USA; died Aft 1740, Bertie, North Carolina, USA.
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| 6. | William Harris was born 12 Mar 1629, Henrico, Virginia, USA (son of Thomas Harris and Joane Osborne); died 24 Aug 1678, Henrico, Virginia, USA. Other Events:
William married Alice Stewart 1667, Charles City, Virginia, USA. Alice was born 1648, Charles City, Virginia, USA; died 1696, New Kent, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet]
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| 7. | Alice Stewart was born 1648, Charles City, Virginia, USA; died 1696, New Kent, Virginia, USA. Other Events:
Children:
- Thomas Harris was born 1669, Charles City, Virginia, USA; died 29 Jan 1730, Henrico, Virginia, USA.
- 3. Love Harris was born 4 Dec 1673, Nansemond, Virginia, USA; died 18 Jan 1731, Bertie, North Carolina, USA.
- John Edward Harris was born 1674, Henrico, Virginia, USA; died 1735, Virginia, USA.
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Generation: 4
| 8. | John Bass was born 7 Sep 1616, London, London, England (son of Nathaniel Bass and Mary Jourdan); died 2 Apr 1699, Nansemond, Virginia, USA. Other Events:
Notes:
Notes for JOHN BASSE:
John Basse came as an infant with his mother and father to the New World of Virginia. Jamestown was founded in 1607, nine years
before John was born. According to genealogist, Alyene Prenn, the story related to her by Justin Bass, at the time Chief of the Nansemond Tribe, was that John was the only survivor at Basse's Choice of the Good Friday massacre in 1622. John's father, Nathaniel had returned to England as presumably had his mother since she died in England in 1630. John was rescued from the carnage by Nansemond Indians and was taken to raise by them. John married a Nansemond Indian girl with the Christianized name, of Elizabeth. Elizabeth's father's name was Robin the Elder. He was the "King", or Chief (Weroance) of the Nansemonds.
Sources: John Basse: "Wittels.FBK.GED" John Basse: "The Bass Family of Black Creek, North Carolina", compiled by James Albert Bass and James Albert Bass, Jr., 1986
John married Elizabeth 14 Aug 1638, Nansemond, Virginia, USA. (daughter of Robin The Elder and Elizabeth Keziah Amopotuskee) was born 1618, Nansemond, Virginia, USA; died 4 Dec 1676, Nansemond, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet]
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| 9. |  Elizabeth was born 1618, Nansemond, Virginia, USA (daughter of Robin The Elder and Elizabeth Keziah Amopotuskee); died 4 Dec 1676, Nansemond, Virginia, USA. Other Events:
- Ethnicity: Native American
- Tribe: Nansemond
- Reference Number: 745
Notes:
(Wittels.FBK.GED)
Elizabeth was a pure blooded Nansemond Indian of the Algonquin tribe.
Children:
- Nathaniel Bass was born 29 May 1640, Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia, USA; died 30 Sep 1652, Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia, USA.
- Keziah Bass was born 4 Sep 1643, Virginia, USA; died 4 Dec 1676, Indian, Penobscot, Maine, USA.
- Elizabeth Bass was born 12 Jul 1645, Isle of Wight, Virginia, USA; died , Virginia, USA.
- Jordan Bass was born 27 Jun 1648, Virginia, USA; died 2 Nov 1651, Virginia, USA.
- Samuel Bass was born 23 Mar 1652, Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia, USA; died 14 Mar 1661, Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia, USA.
- 4. William Bass, Sr. was born 29 Mar 1654, Isle of Wight, Virginia, USA; died 13 Aug 1741, Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia, USA.
- Richard Bass was born 2 Aug 1658, Nansemond, Virginia, USA; died 26 Dec 1722, Nansemond, Virginia, USA.
- John Bass was born 14 Mar 1660/61, Norfolk, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA; died Feb 1731, Bertie, North Carolina, USA.
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| 10. | John Lanier was born 15 Oct 1631, Lewisham, Kent, England (son of Clement Lanier and Hannah Rebecca Collett); died 14 Apr 1719, Prince George, Virginia, USA. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 753
- Arrival: 1676, Virginia, USA; LANIER, JOHN, (about 1655-1719) Came from England and settled in Prince George Co. about 1676. Wife’s name Sarah.
John married Sarah Edmunds. Sarah was born 1631, England; died 1657, Charles City, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet]
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| 11. | Sarah Edmunds was born 1631, England; died 1657, Charles City, Virginia, USA. Other Events:
Children:
- 5. Catherine Elizabeth Lanier was born Abt 1650, Norfolk, Virginia, USA; died 17 Feb 1692, Norfolk, Virginia, USA.
- John Lanier, II was born 1655, London, England; died 14 Apr 1719, Prince George, Virginia, USA.
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| 12. | Thomas Harris was born 10 Jun 1586, Essex, England; died 30 Mar 1682, Henrico, Virginia, USA. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 1228
- Arrival: 1631, USA
Notes:
Birth:
Crixie, Essex, Wales
Thomas married Joane Osborne. Joane was born 1609, Little Hadham, Hertfordshire, England; died 11 Sep 1696, Henrico, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet]
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| 13. | Joane Osborne was born 1609, Little Hadham, Hertfordshire, England; died 11 Sep 1696, Henrico, Virginia, USA. Other Events:
Children:
- 6. William Harris was born 12 Mar 1629, Henrico, Virginia, USA; died 24 Aug 1678, Henrico, Virginia, USA.
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