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Generation: 2
| 2. | Lewis Anderson was born 1713, Bertie, North Carolina, USA (son of Elizabeth 'Betty' Anderson); died Abt 1785, Granville, North Carolina, USA. Other Events:
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]
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| 3. | Sarah Bass was born 1704, Bertie, North Carolina, USA (daughter of John Bass, II and Love Harris); died Bef 1785, Granville, North Carolina, USA. 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].
Children:
- Tamor Anderson was born Abt 1740, Granville, North Carolina, USA; died Aft 1785, North Carolina, USA.
- Lewis Anderson was born Abt 1743, North Carolina, USA; died Bef 1805, Granville, North Carolina, USA.
- Sarah Anderson was born 1745, North Carolina, USA; died 1802.
- 1. Shadrack Anderson was born 1739, Granville, North Carolina, USA.
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| 6. | 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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| 7. | 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:
- William Bass was born Abt 1700, Bertie, North Carolina, USA; died 23 Aug 1761, St James Santee, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
- 3. 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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| 11. | Kate Anderson was born 1670, Norfolk, Virginia, USA. Other Events:
Notes:
The Anderson family was freed by the 29 October 1712 will of John Fulcher in Norfolk County, Virginia. He appointed Lewis Conner executor and granted his
Negroes men and women and Children there freedom...
And he left them 640 acres of land on Sewall's Point in Norfolk County [WB 9:223]. The freeing of these fifteen slaves prompted the Council on 5 March 1712/3 to recommend that the General Assembly provide by a law against such manumission of slaves, which may in time by their increase and correspondence with other slaves may endanger the peace of this Colony [McIlwaine, Executive Journals of the Council, III:332].
On 20 March 1712/3 the Andersons exchanged with Lewis Conner the 640 acres left to them by Fulcher's will with 300 acres of land by a deed of confirmation which identified them by name:
Robert Richards, Maria Richards, Kate Anderson, Hester Anderson, Betty Anderson, Lewis Anderson, Sarah Anderson...and our Children to witt -Peter Anderson, George Anderson, Dinah Anderson, Nedd Anderson, Rachell Anderson, Mingo: Anderson, Tony Anderson, and Susan Anderson Infants [Norfolk DB 9:240, 249].
In response to Conner's petition of that same day the Norfolk County court ordered him to transport "the negroes lately set free by the said Fulcher's will" out of the colony and ordered the sheriff to assist him.
On 11 August 1714 Robert Richards was called "a free Negro man" when the Norfolk County court ordered him to stand trial at the General Court in Williamsburg for receiving stolen cloth from John Chichester's slave. Kate Anderson, who was not charged, was found making a shirt for Richards from three yards of the material [Orders 1710-17, 90-2].
The Norfolk County grand jury issued a presentment against "the free Negroes," but the case was dismissed on 21 January 1714/5 without explanation [Orders 1711-7, 51, 103, 105].
Probably in an effort to "prevent their correspondence with other slaves" Fulcher's executor, Lewis Conner, by a deed dated 20 October 1715, swapped their land in Norfolk County with 640 acres of land on Welshes Creek in the part of Chowan County, North Carolina, which later became Martin and Washington Counties [Chowan DB B#1:109].
Although the deed of exchange for the land was acknowledged and recorded in Chowan County, North Carolina, in September 1715, it appears that the Andersons never took possession of the land. And there is no record of the Andersons ever selling the land in North Carolina. There was also a Norfolk County deed of 15 July 1715 from James, a free Negro of Princess Ann County, whereby he sold to Lewis Conner for 50 pounds "land lying and being between Tanner's Creek and Sowell's Point in Norfolk County being an equal part and all that share of land which was given the said James by his deceased master Mr. John Fulcher" [Norfolk County DB 9].
On 18 December 1715 Lewis Conner charged George, a slave of Margaret Willoughby, with attacking him when he met Kate Anderson and George on the "King's Road" [Orders 1710-7, 103, 105, 137].
On 20 May 1715 Lewis Conner sued the Anderson family to get the Chowan County deed admitted into the Norfolk County record and thus reclaim his bond as administrator of Fulcher's estate, but the Anderson family refused. The case was postponed, alternately at the request of plaintiff and defendants for two years, until 21 June 1717 when a Norfolk County jury found in favor of the Andersons that Conner had not fulfilled his obligations [Orders 1710-17, 118-9, 134, 137, 138, 141, 145, 150, 155, 158, 171, 191]. Lewis Conner appealed to the court at Williamsburg which ruled in his favor on 22 October 1717 [Orders 1710-17, 119, 191; The Williamsburg court ruling is referred to in Norfolk Orders 1734-36, 1, 10-11].
On 16 May 1718 the Richards and Anderson families brought suit against Lewis Conners for debt, but the case, "not being prosecuted," was dismissed, and on 20 June 1718 the court presented Robin Richards for "harboring negroes." A 19 August 1718 Norfolk County deed referred to land on the east side of the path that leaves the road to Sowell's Point to where Black Robin and the rest of the free Negroes now lives" [DB 10:2a, 42b].
On 20 December 1734 Edward/ Ned Anderson, one of the children freed by Fulcher's will, sued Lewis Conner's heirs over "Whether there be deed or no deed relating to the land in Bath County in Carolina." The court ruled against Edward, referring to the 22 October 1717 suit at Williamsburg [Orders 1734-36, 1, 10-11].
Kate Anderson, born say 1670, may have been the mother of Hester, Betty, Lewis, and Sarah Anderson, the other adults listed after her in the above mentioned Norfolk County deed [Norfolk DB 9:240] since the 17 March 1717/8 Norfolk County court case referred to the family as "Kate Anderson and all the free Negroes" [DB 1710-17, 191]. Her son Edward was called "son Born of the Body of Kate a Negro woman set free by the will of said Fulcher" on 20 December 1734 in Norfolk County court [Orders 1734-36, 10-11].
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| 12. | 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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| 13. | 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.
- 6. 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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| 14. | 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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| 15. | 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.
- 7. 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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