| Birth | 1769 | Norfolk, Virginia | | | |
| Marriage | 18 Dec 1786 | Norfolk, Virginia - Willis Bass Sr | | | |
| Taxes-shared | 1801 | (Willis Bass Sr) 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 | | | |
| Legal-shared | 19 Nov 1827 | (Willis Bass Sr) 1827 he was security for Levi Bass's debt of $6.34 to Joseph Berkley | | | |
| Property-shared | 26 Nov 1827 | (Willis Bass Sr) Acknowledged their deed of trust to Frances Cary in Portsmouth Parish & 17 Acres At the head of Deep Creek - 654 acres, Norfolk, Virginia | | | |
| Census | 1830 | Norfolk, Virginia - Norfolk, Virginia | | | |
| 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. | | | |
| Admixture-Ethnicity | | Not free Negro or Mulatto but Indian descent | | | |
| Death | 1835 | Norfolk, Virginia | | | |
| Legal | 10 Apr 1835 | She was 66 yrs. old on 10 APR 1835 when she deposed that she was the only child of James Nickens who served As A seaman in the Revolution [Revolutionary War Rejected Claims, Nickens, James, Digital Collections, LVA; NARA, M805-0615, frame 0192]. | | | |
| Legal | 19 Aug 1933 | She was called Jemima Bass, Sr., when the Norfolk Co. court certified that she was not A "free negro or Mulatto" but of Indian descent on satisfactory evidence of white persons" [Minutes 24:43-4]. | | | |
| Property-shared | | (Willis Bass Sr) | | | |