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Bass of Chesterfield County


Thomas Bass b. ca 1700 m. (1) Elizabeth Howlett m. ca Feb. 1724/1725 in Chesterfield Co., VA. She died ca June 1724/1725. Then, he m. (2) Mary, after 1747.

Depositions in Loose Papers, Chesterfield Co., VA.

"Depositions taken at Mrs. Friends, the twenty-first day of December Anno Domini 1769 between Thomas Bass, plaintiff, and Mary Bass, and other defendants as follows, to-wit: Cecily Bass, aged seventy-five years or thereabouts being first sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God as a witness in the said cause, saith that she was well acquainted with Thomas Bass and Elizabeth, his wife, many years ago. That she well remembers during the coverture of the said Thomas and Elizabeth that this deponent was with child and delivered of a son called Acrhed about a month or little more older than Thomas Bass, the plaintiff in this cause who was reputed to be the son of the said Thomas and Elizabeth and appears from the Register of Births to have been born on the 9th day of March 1725/26. This deponent further saith that she thinks that the said Thomas and Elizabeth were married about twelve months or near it before the birth of the plaintiff and that the said Elizabeth departed this life about three months after the said Thomas was born and further she saith not. Cicelely Bass (x, her mark)."

"Henry Moody, Sr., aged sixty years or thereabouts being first sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God as a witness in the said cause saith that this deponent had been married to his present wife forty-two years last August and remembers that Thomas Bass, reputed father to the plaintiff, was married to his second wife before this deponent's marriage. That this deponent was free near about two years before his marriage and knows that Thomas Bass was married to his first wife, Elizabeth Howlett before he was free. He also remembers that the said Thomas Bass had by his first wife, Elizabeth, two negroes, a boy and a girl. The boy named Jamey and the girl as well as he remembers tho' he can't say certainly, named Nan, and further he saith not. /s/Henry Moody."


Issue by first wife:

  1. Alexander Bass, Sr., d. bef 1819 m. Martha Lockett who d. 10/18/1823 Baldwin Co., GA. Martha Lockett, according to the Christian Index Obituaries 1822-1879 by Overby, was the daughter of Thomas Lockett III (his LWT dated 1770 in Cumberland Co., VA) and his wife, Judith Townes.
  2. Josiah Bass, Sr. d. bef 10/22/1812 in Green Co., KY. m. Elizabeth Robertson who d. 1818 Green Co., KY, dau. of Jeffrey Robertson and his wife, Judith Tanners.
  3. Mary Bass d. ca 1791 Powhatan Co., VA m. Richard Moseley I, his LWT dated 1/1782 Powhatan Co., VA., the son of Arthur Moseley and his wife, Martha Cocke.
  4. Martha M. Bass m. Matthew Parkinson.

JOHN HICKS BASS


John Hicks Bass b. ca 1767 Brunswick Co., VA, d. aft 11/10/1850 Eatonton, Putnam Co., GA. Listed 1820-1850 Putnam Co., Ga. Census. His Revolutionary War service as follows: 1794 Ensign, 10th Co., 2nd Regt.; 1799, Capt., 66th Regt.; resigned his commission 3/25/1805. He m. On 10/24/1791 Brunswick Co., VA, Rebecca Pattillo, b. 1774 Brunswick Co., VA, who d. 1835 Putnam Co., GA, the daughter of James H. Pattillo III and his wife, Elizabeth. He m. 2nd, Martha J. B. ca 1779 in Virginia in Richmond Co., GA on 6/14/1837. She died ca 1863 in Baldwin Co. GA. Issue:

Sources: Information donated by: Lea L. Dowd; Patillo, Pattillo, Pattillo and Pithily Families by Melba Crosse; 1881 Nathan Bass Letter; Southern Families, page 101; Putnam Co., GA Marriages; Putnam Co. Will Bk B, page 232; Southern Christian Advocate 1837-1860, Marriage and Death Notices; Floyd Co., GA Cemeteries; Memoirs of Georgia; 1850 Barbour Co., Alabama Census; Wilkins Bass Bible; 1850 Census Russell Co., Alabama; A Pathway to Perfection-A Serman Book; LWT of Thomas Bass, Sr., Will Bk 2, page 34, Chesterfield Co., VA; Deposition of Henry Moody, Sr., Loose Papers, Chesterfield Co., VA Court Records; LWT of Thomas Bass, Jr. dated 7/1804, Chesterfield Co., VA Will Bk 6, p. 219; Some Watkins Families of Virginia and their Kin by Stutesman; Thelma Boyd, Hodgenville, KY; Vol. 2, page 159, Lower Norfolk, VA; LWT Richard Moseley 1/1782 Powhatan Co., VA, Will Bk 1, page 61; published in Georgia Research Helper; Bass of Chesterfield County; Last Will and Testament of Joseph Bass of Chesterfield County, Virginia