Jacob Orren Bass

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About Jacob Orren Bass

DAR Ancestor #: A007197


  • BASS, JACOB Ancestor #: A007197
  • Notice: PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED WITH AT LEAST ONE PREVIOUSLY VERIFIED PAPER - SEE ANCESTOR’S FULL RECORD (WHY?)
  • Service: NORTH CAROLINA Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE, PRIVATE
  • Birth: CIRCA 1734 PERQUIMANS PCT NORTH CAROLINA
  • Death: ANTE 12-10-1792 FRANKLIN CO NORTH CAROLINA
  • Service Source: NCDAR, ROSTER OF SOLS FROM NC IN THE AM REV, P 616; BUTE CO, NC COMM OF SAFETY MINUTES, 1775-1776, P 57
  • Service Description: 1) CAPT ELISHA RHODES, COL SAMUEL JARVIS,1ST REGT; 2) TOOK OATH OF ALLEGIANCE

Spouses 1) ANN X 2) PRUDENCE JONES PERSON

GEDCOM Note

  • Lived in Franklin County, North Carolina. Per "MuhlenbergCounty, Kentucky," Turner Publishing, Paducah, KY, 1996, p.122, col. 3 center.
  • per email of Thomas Bass of July 11, 1999, based on book by AD Bells, "Bass Families in the South": Jacob had three wives:
  • 1) Tabitha Bass, dau of Charles Bass,
  • 2) AnnFuller,
  • 3) Prudence Jones.
  • Jacob Bass had 12 children.
  • Tom is descended from Jacob's son Theophilus.
  • (per Bass GenForum posting of 9 July 1999 by Thomas Bass) He (Jacob) was the son of a line of Basses that go back to Jamestown in 1619, namely Capt. Nathaniel Bass, Esq. (per Quentin Bass, Bass GenForum posting of 3 June 1999)

Origins

John married Elizabeth Winborn on 18 January 1732 in Bertie County, North Carolina (Northampton County in 1741). [citation needed] Children named in John's will: Jacob, John, Abraham, Issac, Jethro, Drury Bass, and Alse Earp, Undin Council and Elizabeth Brittle. Some also add a son Thomas, although no Thomas is named in John's will.


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

I John Bass...loving wife Ann Bass...the land and plantation where of I now live...negroes Tom & Nan his wife, Little Tom his child, Feby, two bedds and furniture, two sows and piggs, two yews and lambs, two cows and calves, two potts...executors shall sell all my estate that I do not five away and equally divide it among all my brothers and sisters...land to brother Isaac Bass...land to brother Jacob Bass...4 October 1786. (signed). November Court 1786.

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Jacob Orren Bass's Timeline

1734
1734
Northampton County, VA, United States
1750
1750
Franklin County, North Carolina, United States
1755
1755
Franklin Co., New Caledonia
1755
Bute County, North Carolina
1758
1758
Wake Forest, Wake, NC, United States
1759
1759
Halifax, Halifax County, North Carolina, United States
1760
1760
Northampton County, North Carolina
1761
1761
Bute County, North Carolina
1765
1765
Franklin, North Carolina, United States