Mary Richardson

Marriage bond was posted by Elijah Bass and Richard Scott in Bute County, North Carolina for the marriage of Elijah Bass and Mary Bass on 13 February 1777. In her application for Revolutionary war widows pension, Mary states that she was married to Elijah on 14 February 1777.[3]

After the death of Elijah in 1781, Mary married Benjamin Richardson on 14 February 1783 in North Carolina.[1] Three known children of Mary and Benjamin were living at the time of Mary's death in 1844: Jesse Richardson, Lucy (Richardson) Evans, and Absalom Richardson.[1]

http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/bailey-berry.htm

The Bass family descended from John1 Bass of Norfolk County, Virginia, who married Keziah Elizabeth Tucker, a Nansemond Indian. Their descendants lived in the English colonial community. Some of them became part of the white community. However, their son William1 Bass's son William2 Bass remained in Norfolk County and married the "Molatto" daughter of "Negro" slave Jean Lovina.

The Nansemond Indian Bass Family of Granville

[https://nativeamericanroots.wordpress.com/2015/05/22/the-nansemond-...]

Kianga stated in 2017 about the two Mary's: I will update this blog post when I can confirm my research. Please check back again later. (not confirmed yet)

• UPDATE: Mary Bass (1757-1844) and her husband Benjamin Richardson (1750-1809) are my 5th great-grandparents and are the main progenitors of the Haliwa-Saponi tribe. Before Benjamin Richardson, Mary Bass was married to her first cousin Elijah Bass (1743-1781). It had been assumed by earlier researchers that Mary Bass (1757-1844) was the same Mary Bass who was the daughter of Thomas Bass and Thomasine Bunch of Bertie Co. Thomas Bass was a grandson of John Bass (1673-1732) and Love Harris. However I have extensively reviewed the records for Thomas Bass/Thomasine Bunch and their children and it is very clear that Mary Bass (1757-1844) was not their daughter. A closer examination of the records as well as DNA cousin matches, shows that Mary Bass (1757-1844) was the daughter of Benjamin Bass (1722-1802) and his wife Mary Bass (b. 1722). This means that Mary Bass (1757-1844) was the granddaughter of both Edward Bass (1672-1750) and his brother John Bass (1673-1732).

My North Carolina Roots [http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dwilliams...]

- Patty LaPlante (revised 23 Aug 2018)

Name of great grandmother of Elijah Bass profiled: Elijah Bass has the published name of Keziah Elizabeth Tucker.

http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/revolution.htm states that
Elijah Bass, great grandson of John Bass and an Indian woman named Keziah Elizabeth Tucker, enlisted in the 10th Regiment of the North Carolina Line as a substitute for Ebenezar Riggan on 10 February 1781 and was killed in the battle of Eutaw Springs on 8 September 1781. His widow married Benjamin Richardson with Philip Pettiford as bondsman [NARA, W.4061, M804, Roll 2038, frames 533, 528; https://www.fold3.com/image/14161295].