Individual Details

Benjamin H Bass Sr

(1722 - 1800)

Events

Birth1722North Carolina
Will-shared25 Jul 1748(Edward Bass Sr) will was proved in AUG 1750 & left over 525 Acres to his children with the remainder to be sold to discharge debts. He left his wife Lovewell 100 Acres during her life [Original At N.C. Archives]. More than 10 years later on 7 May 1761 she & her heirs, Lucy Jones & Thomas Cugley, sold this land for £75 to Jethro Bass, her deceased husband's Grand nephew [DB 3:121]. Grandfather Gave him "land where my late son John dwelt." Benjamin1 Bass (Edward1, John1), born say 1722, was the executor of his father's Northampton Co. will by which he received 125 Acres where his father was living on Quarter Swamp in Northampton Co. [Original At N.C. Archives]., Northampton, North Carolina
Property18 Aug 1757sold the 50 Acres which he received by his father's will on 18 AUG 1757 & A further 50 Acres in Northampton while A resident of Granville Co. on 2 SEP the same year [DB 2:399, 489]. - Quarter Swamp, Northampton, North Carolina
Property7 Mar 1758bought 103 Acres [DB C-2:429]. - Fishing Creek, Granville, North Carolina
Property4 Apr 1758sold 50 acres - Northampton, North Carolina
Property22 May 1758bought land from his brother Samuel [DB 2:460, 461]. - adjoining 50 acres, Northampton, North Carolina
Taxes-shared1761(James Bass) on 3 "Black polls," & he & his wife & children were taxable in the remaining colonial tax lists for Oxford District. - Oxford District, Granville, North Carolina
Property10 Nov 1764bought from his brother James [Granville DB H:63 - near Maple Spring Hills, Northampton, North Carolina
Legal19 Nov 1772Rodey Bass, A 5-year-old orphan, perhaps his Granddaughter, was bound As An Apprentice to him [CR 044.101.2-7].
Taxes1780An Assessment of £607 for 103 acres, 2 horses, & 3 cattle - Oxford District, Granville, North Carolina
Legal-shared4 Feb 1781(Elijah Bass) ]. His children were called orphans of Elijah Bass on 4 FEB 1781 when the court bound them out to Benjamin Bass [Owen, Granville Co. Notes, vol. V]
Property5 Aug 1782paid £1,000 for 480 acres - Granville, North Carolina
Property18 Aug 1783Benjamin Jr bought from his father [DB O:331] - 100 acres, Tar River, North Carolina
Property26 Jul 1784sold 100 acres with wife Mary, [DB 7:267]. - Urashaw Swamp, Northampton, North Carolina
Census1786Tara River District, Fishing District, Granville, North Carolina
Property3 Nov 1794sold 21 acres
Property14 Dec 1797sold 20 acres
Property14 Mar 1798sold remaining property for 300 Spanish milled dollars [DB O:197, 331; P:100; Q:115, 199]
Death1800North Carolina
Census1800Granville, North Carolina
Life sketchMarried his first cousin

Families

SpouseMary Bass (1722 - )
ChildSelah Bass (1750 - 1767)
ChildSarah “Sallie” Carey Bass (1752 - 1814)
ChildWinifred "Winney" Bass (1752 - 1809)
ChildHardy Bass (1755 - 1807)
ChildBenjamin H Bass Jr (1756 - 1800)
ChildMourning Bass (1756 - 1844)
ChildWyatt Bass (1756 - 1850)
ChildMary Bass (1757 - 1844)
ChildAbsalom Bass (1760 - 1827)
ChildReuben Bass (1761 - 1835)
ChildPriscilla 'Prissy' Bass (1764 - 1782)
ChildMildred Bass (1765 - 1843)
ChildMilly Bass (1766 - 1798)
ChildFrederick Bass (1770 - 1863)
FatherEdward Bass Sr (1672 - 1750)
MotherLovewell "Love" Harris (1672 - 1761)
SiblingJoseph Bass (1707 - )
SiblingSarah Bass (1712 - 1783)
SiblingJohn Bass (1716 - 1748)
SiblingKatherine Bass (1718 - )
SiblingDinah Bass (1720 - )
SiblingSampson Samuel Bass Sr (1726 - 1790)
SiblingEdward Bass Jr (1728 - 1799)
SiblingJames Bass (1730 - )
SiblingKesiah Bass (1732 - )
SiblingMary Bass (1734 - )
SiblingReuben Bass (1736 - )