Individual Details

John Bass Sr

(4 Dec 1673 - 3 Feb 1732)

Events

Birth4 Dec 1673Nansemond, Virginia, British America
Marriage8 Jan 1696Albemarle, Virginia - Mary Love Harris
Legal15 Oct 1701In Norfolk, VA, 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].
Property-shared30 Jan 1720(Edward Bass Sr) Edward Bass of Norfolk Co., VA, Parish of Elizabeth" when he purchased 100 Acres Adjacent to his brother John, near the head of Horsepool Swamp in Chowan Precinct, NC [DB C-1:113]. - Norfolk, Virginia
Property30 Jan 1720/21near the head of Horsepool Swamp [DB C-1:115]. - Chowan Precinct, North Carolina
Property1722 - 1729he 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 NC Land Patents, 225].
Property16 Jul 1722which became Northampton Co. where he bought 200 Acres Adjoining Urahaw Swamp [DB A:105]. - Bertie, North Carolina
Property-sharedAbt 1730(Lovisa Lovey "Love" Bass) received 100 Acres on the north side of Urahaw Swamp by her father's will.
Will18 Jan 1732will 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," & left 50 Acres to his friend, Daniel Wharten Burbegg [SS 876/3:305]. Norfolk Co. Bass family papers record his death in the year 1732 At the Age of fifty-8., Bertie, North Carolina
Death3 Feb 1732Bertie, North Carolina
Property-shared7 Apr 1744(Judith Bass) received 100 Acres by her father's will. She & husband William sold this land on 7 APR 1744 [Northampton DB 1:175]. - North Carolina
Property-shared21 Nov 1752(Moses Bass) received land on the north side of Bear Swamp by his father's will. He entered 100 Acres on the west side of the Northwest River About 3/4 mile from Raft Swamp including his improvements - Raft Swamp Township, Robeson, North Carolina
Property-shared10 Nov 1757(Sarah Bass) received 100 Acres in Northampton Co. on the north side of Urahaw Swamp by her father's will. She, her husband Lewis & (their son) Shadrack Anderson sold this land on 10 NOV 1757 [DB 2:233]. - Northampton, North Carolina
Property-shared9 Feb 1758(Ann Bass) who received 100 Acres by her father's will. While living in Orange Co., NC, on 9 FEB 1758 he sold this 100 Acres in Northampton Co. [DB 2:455]. He may have been the Aron Johnson who was counted As white in Wake Co. in 1790 [NC:104]. - Northampton, North Carolina
Admixture-Ethnicitymullato - William1 Bass's other sons, Edward1 & John2 Bass, moved to NC & had free African American descendants.
Property-shared(Patience Bass) received A plantation on the south side of Bear Swamp by her father's will. - Bear Swamp, North Carolina

Families

SpouseMary Love Harris (1673 - 1732)
ChildJohn Bass Jr (1700 - 1777)
ChildWilliam Bass (1700 - 1771)
ChildSarah Bass (1704 - )
ChildAnn Bass (1706 - )
ChildEdward Bass (1710 - )
ChildJudith Bass (1712 - 1732)
ChildLovisa Lovey "Love" Bass (1714 - 1771)
ChildMary Bass (1722 - )
ChildAaron Bass (1724 - )
ChildPatience Bass (1726 - )
ChildMoses Bass (1728 - 1777)
ChildElizabeth Bayse (1730 - )
FatherWilliam Basse Sr (1654 - 1741)
MotherCatherine Lanier (1655 - 1691)
SiblingEdward Bass Sr (1672 - 1750)
SiblingKeziah Bass (1675 - 1704)
SiblingWilliam Bass Jr (1676 - 1751)
SiblingElizabeth Basse (1677 - 1758)
SiblingAnn Basse (1678 - 1758)
SiblingJoseph Bass (1679 - )
SiblingMary Bass (1681 - )
SiblingCharles Bass (1681 - 1780)
SiblingWilliam Thomas Bass (1687 - )