| Birth | 1763 | Norfolk, Virginia | | | |
| Taxes | 1784 - 1787 | but not taxable Again in Norfolk Co. until 1796 [PPTL, 1782-91, frames 466, 525, 562 - Norfolk, Virginia | | | |
| Marriage | 18 Dec 1786 | Norfolk, Virginia - Jemina Nickens | | | |
| Marriage-shared | 18 Dec 1786 | (William Bass and Ann Sammons) Norfolk, Virginia | | | |
| Taxes | 1790 | head of household of 4 "other free' [NC:26] - Hertford, North Carolina | | | |
| Taxes | 1796 - 1824 | Norfolk, Virginia | | | |
| Census | 1801 | Norfolk, Colonial Virginia | | | |
| Taxes | 1801 | A labourer living on Deep Creek in A "List of Free Negroes & Mulattoes," head of A household with males (his sons?) Wilson & Willis Bass & females (his wife) Jemima, (his daughters?) Viney, Lovy, & Irstellor(?) Bass - Deep Creek, Amelia, Virginia | | | |
| Census | 1810 | Norfolk, Virginia | | | |
| Marriage-shared | 1 Feb 1812 | (Andrew Bass and Lovey Leviney "Viney" Bass) Norfolk, Virginia | | | |
| Property | 4 Aug 1812 | received a land Grant between Western Branch & Deep Creek adjoining Solomon Ives & James Butt - 654 acres, Deep Creek, Amelia, Virginia | | | |
| Marriage-shared | 18 Aug 1812 | (John Gibbs Bass and Salley Price) Norfolk, Virginia | | | |
| Admixture-Ethnicity | | B.M. (Black man), free Negro | | | |
| Taxes | 1814 - 1824 | called A "B.M." (Black Man) when he was A "Free Negro" taxable in Norfolk Co. from 1814 to 1824 - Norfolk, Virginia | | | |
| Taxes | 1814 | listed with 3 "free Negroes & Mulattoes" - Norfolk, Virginia | | | |
| Property | 28 Mar 1814 | purchased from James Butt on the Gallberry Rd, adjoining his own land & the land recently patented for $85 [DB 46:160]. - 17 acres, Portsmouth Parish, Virginia | | | |
| Property | 25 Oct 1814 | received land Grant near head of Deep Creek [Land Office Grants 63:79; 64:294]. - 173 acres, Portsmouth Parish, Virginia | | | |
| Taxes | 1816 - 1824 | listed with 2 "free Negroes & Mulattoes" - Norfolk, Virginia | | | |
| Slave Owner | 1819 - 1823 | Taxable on a slave [PPTL, 1791-1812, frames 168, 222, 295, 351, 371, 383, 427, 461, 479, 555, 574, 642, 684, 720, 738; 1813-24, frames 15, 56, 96, 125, 242, 306, 589, 691]. | | | |
| Taxes | 1819 - 1823 | taxable on a slave [PPTL, 1791-1812, frames 168, 222, 295, 351, 371, 383, 427, 461, 479, 555, 574, 642, 684, 720, 738; 1813-24, frames 15, 56, 96, 125, 242, 306, 589, 691]. - Norfolk, Virginia | | | |
| Census | 1820 | Norfolk, Virginia | | | |
| Marriage-shared | 7 Dec 1820 | (Willis Bass Jr and Sally Burnham) Norfolk, Virginia | | | |
| Legal | 21 Jul 1823 | Norfolk Co. court Granted him & Thomas Newton, "free mulattos," permission to keep A firelock, powder & shot. | | | |
| Legal | 19 Jun 1826 | he was special bail for Willis Bass, Jr., & Nelson Bass in Jordan A. Wright's suit Against them for debt, | | | |
| Legal | 19 Nov 1827 | 1827 he was security for Levi Bass's debt of $6.34 to Joseph Berkley | | | |
| Property | 26 Nov 1827 | Acknowledged their deed of trust to Frances Cary in Portsmouth Parish & 17 Acres At the head of Deep Creek - 654 acres, Norfolk, Virginia | | | |
| Legal | 21 Oct 1828 | Administration on his estate was Granted to Levi Bass with Willis & Nelson Bass As his securities on $1,000 bond [Minutes 18: 165; 19:291; 20:207, 217; 21:29]. | | | |
| Legal-shared | 21 Jul 1830 | (Wilson Bass) he, William Bass, Jemima Bass, & Margaret Bass were Granted An injunction Against Thomas Kenton & Christopher Miller to restrain them from cutting timber on A 350 Acre tract of woodland which their father Willis Bass left them in his last will. | | | |
| Death | 19 May 1834 | Willis was deceased on 19 May 1834 when the Norfolk Co. court certified that Jamima Bass was the widow of Willis Bass, deceased, & only heir of her father James Nickens & his brother Nathaniel Nickens [Minutes 24:139]. - Bedford, Tennessee | | | |
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