| Birth | 1722 | North Carolina | | | |
| Will-shared | 25 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 | | | |
| Property | 18 Aug 1757 | sold 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 | | | |
| Property | 7 Mar 1758 | bought 103 Acres [DB C-2:429]. - Fishing Creek, Granville, North Carolina | | | |
| Property | 4 Apr 1758 | sold 50 acres - Northampton, North Carolina | | | |
| Property | 22 May 1758 | bought land from his brother Samuel [DB 2:460, 461]. - adjoining 50 acres, Northampton, North Carolina | | | |
| Taxes-shared | 1761 | (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 | | | |
| Property | 10 Nov 1764 | bought from his brother James [Granville DB H:63 - near Maple Spring Hills, Northampton, North Carolina | | | |
| Legal | 19 Nov 1772 | Rodey Bass, A 5-year-old orphan, perhaps his Granddaughter, was bound As An Apprentice to him [CR 044.101.2-7]. | | | |
| Taxes | 1780 | An Assessment of £607 for 103 acres, 2 horses, & 3 cattle - Oxford District, Granville, North Carolina | | | |
| Legal-shared | 4 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] | | | |
| Property | 5 Aug 1782 | paid £1,000 for 480 acres - Granville, North Carolina | | | |
| Property | 18 Aug 1783 | Benjamin Jr bought from his father [DB O:331] - 100 acres, Tar River, North Carolina | | | |
| Property | 26 Jul 1784 | sold 100 acres with wife Mary, [DB 7:267]. - Urashaw Swamp, Northampton, North Carolina | | | |
| Census | 1786 | Tara River District, Fishing District, Granville, North Carolina | | | |
| Property | 3 Nov 1794 | sold 21 acres | | | |
| Property | 14 Dec 1797 | sold 20 acres | | | |
| Property | 14 Mar 1798 | sold remaining property for 300 Spanish milled dollars [DB O:197, 331; P:100; Q:115, 199] | | | |
| Death | 1800 | North Carolina | | | |
| Census | 1800 | Granville, North Carolina | | | |
| Life sketch | | Married his first cousin | | | |