Individual Details
(1 Aug 1782 - 27 May 1822)
Events
| Birth | 1 Aug 1782 | Virginia | | | |
| Taxes-shared | 1801 | (William Bass Sr) A "List of Free Negroes & Mulattoes" & head of A household with males John, Andrew & William Bass & females (his wife) Lucy & Betsey Bass - A planter on Deep Creek, taxable on 2 tithes, Norfolk, Virginia | | | |
| Will | 6 May 1809 | Norfolk, Virginia | | | |
| Will-shared | 6 May 1809 | (John Gibbs Bass) Norfolk, Virginia | | | |
| Will-shared | 6 May 1809 | (William Bass Sr) | | | |
| Admixture-Ethnicity | | free person of colour," on 18 AUG 1812 when he married Salley Price, "free woman of colour," | | | |
| Marriage | 18 Aug 1812 | Norfolk, Virginia - Salley Price | | | |
| Property | 5 Jul 1814 | sold on the north side of Deep Creek & head of Southern Branch, bounded by the south by their own land for £30 [DB 46:250]. - 20 acres, Deep Creek, Chesapeake, Virginia | | | |
| Death | 27 May 1822 | | | | |
| Legal | 17 Jun 1822 | He was called A "Molatto man, A free man of color," in Norfolk Co. court on 17 JUN 1822 when Joseph Lewis, A labourer, was charged with shooting him on 27 May 1822, which caused his death the following day. Lewis was sent to the Superior Court for trial At which no members of the Bass family testified because Lewis was A white man [Minutes 17:291-2, 325-6]. He was convicted of second-degree murder & sentenced to 8een years imprisonment [Superior court Orders 1820-25, 233, 238]. (Lewis believed John had cast A spell on his wife According to the 11 JUN 1822 issue of the Genius of Liberty [No. 22, [http://VAchronicle.com, "Jack Bass."]) | | | |
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