Individual Details

John Gibbs Bass

(1 Aug 1782 - 27 May 1822)

Events

Birth1 Aug 1782Virginia
Taxes-shared1801(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
Will6 May 1809Norfolk, Virginia
Will-shared6 May 1809(John Gibbs Bass) Norfolk, Virginia
Will-shared6 May 1809(William Bass Sr)
Admixture-Ethnicityfree person of colour," on 18 AUG 1812 when he married Salley Price, "free woman of colour,"
Marriage18 Aug 1812Norfolk, Virginia - Salley Price
Property5 Jul 1814sold 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
Death27 May 1822
Legal17 Jun 1822He 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."])

Families

SpouseSalley Price (1784 - )
FatherWilliam Bass Sr (1755 - 1810)
MotherLucy Short Gibbs (1755 - 1809)
SiblingWilliam Bass Jr (1784 - 1847)
SiblingElizabeth Gibbs "Betsy" Bass (1788 - 1809)
SiblingAndrew Bass (1790 - 1855)