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 1770 - 1854 (84 years)
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| Name |
Elijah Bass |
| Born |
1770 |
Anson, North Carolina, USA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Reference Number |
2857 |
| Died |
Jun 1854 |
Kershaw, South Carolina, USA |
| Person ID |
I2857 |
Families |
| Father |
Frederick Bass, b. 1750, Granville, North Carolina, USA , d. North Carolina, USA |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Olive Stewart, b. 1753, North Carolina, USA , d. Sep 1777, North Carolina, USA (Age 24 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Family ID |
F628 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Eliza Matilda Milbury, b. 1775, North Carolina, USA , d. 1802, Marion, Marion, South Carolina, USA (Age 27 years) |
| Children |
| | 1. Benjamin Elijah Bass, b. 1809, Robeson, North Carolina, USA , d. Aft 1880, Vernon, Wisconsin, USA (Age > 72 years) [natural] |
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| Family ID |
F638 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Elijah2 Bass (Frederick1, William3, John2, William1, John1), born say 1775, was head of an Anson County household of 3 "other free" in 1800 [NC:204]. He may have been the Elijah Bass who was counted in Robeson County that same year, head of a household of 5 "other free" in 1800 [NC:362] and 6 in Robeson County in 1810 [NC:237]. He was granted administration on the Robeson County estate of (his brother?) Frederick Bass on 200 pounds security on 9 April 1801 [Minutes 1797-1806, 149]. He was one of the freeholders of Robeson County ordered to work on a road with Breton Barnes on the first Monday in July 1807 [Minutes 1806-13, 38] but was not mentioned again in Robeson County records. He may have been the same Elijah Bass who was head of a Kershaw District, South Carolina household of 6 "other free" and 2 slaves in 1810 [SC:433]. He wrote a 28 December 1839 Kershaw County will, recorded on 16 June 1854, describing himself as a "freeman of Color." He mentioned but did not name his children and lent his wife Milbury Eliza 500 acres "on waters of Beaver Dam and Bell Branch, waters of Twenty Five mile Creek of the Wateree river in Kershaw" which was conveyed to him on 10 February 1809. And he suggested that "my wife may desire to return to North Carolina. Elijah Bass" (signing) [WB A:231]. In August 1846 a grandchild of Elijah Bass named Mrs. White sued a South Carolina tax collector for attempting to collect from her the "free Negro" capitation tax. She testified that her grandmother was a "mulatto," her grandfather a Revolutionary soldier, her father Elijah Bass a "dark quadroon if he was one," and her brother an "ordinary white sandhill boy" [Catterall, Judicial Cases Concerning American Slavery, II:400-1]. Elijah may have been the father off
i. Frederick3, born say 1795, purchased 103 acres in Robeson County on the east side of Bay Branch on 6 May 1820 [DB S:275].
ii. Joseph4, born after 1776, head of a Robeson County household of 7 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:300].
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