| Birth | 28 Oct 1676 | Virginia | | | |
| Legal | 20 Nov 1713 | was sued by Elizabeth Price in Norfolk Co. court | | | |
| Legal | 21 Aug 1714 | he sued Thomas Cretcher for A debt of £1.12 due on the balance of A bill. | | | |
| Legal | 16 Sep 1715 | the court Appointed A commission to view the work he had done on John Hodgson's shallop & make A report of the value thereof to the next court [Orders 1710-7, 73, 94, 130]. | | | |
| Admixture-Ethnicity-shared | | (William Basse Sr) English & Nansemun Indian descent with no Admixture of negor, Ethipopic blood; William Bass, the Bearer, tall, swarthy, dark eyes, w8 Abt. 13 stone, scar on back of left hand, is of English & Indian descent with no Admixture of negro blood, numbered As A Nansemun by his own Choosing. The sd. Bass dwells in this Co. & hath A Good name for his industry & honesty. | | | |
| Property | 12 Nov 1728 | purchased 150 Acres Adjoining his wife's land from her nephew William Lovina on 12 NOV 1728 [DB G:110] | | | |
| Marriage | Bef 20 Apr 1729 | Sarah Lovina | | | |
| Taxes | 1730 - 1732 | Southern Branch District of Norfolk Co with John Staple in his household, Deep Creek, North Carolina | | | |
| Taxes | Bet 1733 and 1750 | ), from 1733 to 1736, & in 1750 with his unnamed wife & son John Bass [Wingo, Norfolk Co. Tithables, 1730-50, 11, 30, 64, 97, 133, 163, 190]. | | | |
| Property | 18 Mar 1736 | , explaining in the deed that it was land "that Major Nichols Gave unto the said Sarah Bass before her marriage to the sd. Wm. Bass" [DB 12:188]. - sold 48 acres of Southern Branch to Thomas Deal, Elizabeth River, Virginia | | | |
| Property-shared | 8 Jul 1742 | (John Bass Sr) purchased in Southern Branch Precinct "Thomas Deall bought of William Bass, the Father of John Bass" [DB 13:17a-18a]. - 50 acres, Norfolk, Virginia | | | |
| Will-shared | 17 Sep 1742 | (William Basse Sr) Will Proved, Norfolk, Virginia | | | |
| Description | 20 Sep 1742 | swarthy, dark eyes, w8 Abt. 13 stone, scar on back of left hand, | | | |
| Legal | 20 Sep 1742 | he appeared before county clerk, After his father's will was proved, & obtained A certificate similar to the one obtained by his father: | | | |
| Taxes | May 1743 | taxable in May 1743. Her father William Bass petitioned the Norfolk Co. court on 20 May 1743 to exempt her from the tax on free African American & Indian women because of her weak constitution, & the court Agreed to exempt her during her indisposition [Orders 1742-46, 37]. - Norfolk, Virginia | | | |
| Death | 20 Oct 1751 | | | | |
| Will | 17 Apr 1752 | Norfolk, Virginia - ]. Administration on his estate was Granted to John Bass, , & the Appraisal of his estate was recorded in Norfolk Co. on 19 JUL 1756 [Orders 1750-3, 82; 1755-59, 77]., Norfolk, Virginia | | | |