| Birth | Bet 1700 and 20 Feb 1706 | Bertie, North Carolina, British Colonial America | | | |
| Marriage | 1722 | Bertie, North Carolina, British Colonial America - Elizabeth Winborne | | | |
| Property | 10 Apr 1722 | purchased - 200 acres, Urahaw Swamp, Bertie, Virginia | | | |
| Property | 17 Jan 1727 | purchased on Plaquet Branch of Antonkey Marsh, 150 Acres - 100 acres, Virginia | | | |
| Legal | 2 Aug 1727 | received A patent for 410 Acres south of Bear Swamp on [DB A:108; B:348, 360]. | | | |
| Will-shared | 18 Jan 1732 | (John Bass Sr) 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," & 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 | | | |
| Legal | 7 Feb 1736 | 1736 the Bertie Co. court fined him for selling brandy without A license [Haun, Bertie Co. Court Minutes, I:199]. | | | |
| Property | 16 Aug 1736 | bought 200 acres [DB:1:164] - Beech Swamp, Edgecombe, North Carolina | | | |
| Property-shared | 13 Jan 1738 | (George Thomas Anderson) bought 260 acres of landfor "2 pounds silver money" from John Bass. Sold this land 1 Mar 1745. He sold 410 Acres of his land in Northampton Co. to George Anderson on 13 JAN 1738 [Bertie DB E:530]. - south side of Bear Swamp, Bertie, North Carolina | | | |
| Property | 16 Dec 1740 | purchased [DB:F:190] - 150 acres, Edgecombe, North Carolina | | | |
| Slave Owner | Aug 1742 | when he proved rights on 5 "whites" & 3 "blacks" in Northampton, North Carolina | | | |
| Property | Bet 2 Oct 1742 and 30 Dec 1742 | sold by deeds [DB:1:40,56] - 400, Northampton, North Carolina | | | |
| Property-shared | 6 Nov 1747 | (Elizabeth Bayse) deed of Gift on the south side of Hunting Quarter Swamp by her brother John Bass - 100 Acres, Northampton, North Carolina | | | |
| Voter Registration | 1762 | voted for Joseph Sikes in election, [SS 837 by NCGSJ XII:170]. - Northampton, North Carolina | | | |
| Death | 11 Mar 1777 | Northampton, North Carolina | | | |
| Will | 14 Jun 1777 | Northampton, North Carolina | | | |