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About Sarah Bass
- Sarah Lovinia was the daughter of Major Nichols & his slave Jean Lovinia
- He freed her & her brother in his will
- She married William born 1676
- Sarah Lovina was not the daughter of "Symon Lovina and Joan Tucker".'
William2 Bass remained in Norfolk County and married the "Molatto" daughter of "Negro" slave Jean Lovina.
From < “ Descendants of the Great Dismal” > Posted on September 23, 2017 By Nikki Bass
John Nichols, who was often referred to as Major—an indication that he was a member of a standing militia in the area—married Judith Bowers Spivey (the widow of Matthew Spivey) later in life and it is possible that he had a previous marriage (through which he fathered Sarah Nichols). Prior to marrying Judith, John also appears to have fathered two illegitimate children, John and Sarah, by his slave Jean Lovina. These details can only be inferred (not verified) through the contents of his will (which proved 17 May 1697).
From < “ Descendants of the Great Dismal” > Posted on September 23, 2017 By Nikki Bass
https://www.coastalcarolinaindians.com/bass-bible-record-nansemondc... (The Portlock Document):
Norfolk County
Virg'a
"This doth certify that William Bass, son of John Bass and grandson of William Bass, is of English and Indian descent and is not a Negroe nor y't a Mulattoe as by some lately and malitiously stated. His late Mother Sarah Ann Bass was a virtuous woman of Indian descent, a daughter of Symon Lorina and Joan Tucker lawfully begotten. Sd Joan Tucker was a sister of Robin Tucker a Christian Indian of ye Nansemund nation."
(We now know this to be FALSE) See the profile for William Bass
That entire document above "is a fake", per Bass researchers and https://www.facebook.com/groups/dnabassstudygroup/ . It’s called the Portlock doc because that’s who signed it. None of the names are real people.
Sarah Lovina was not the daughter of "Symon Lovina and Joan Tucker".
Sarah Lovina was the "Mulatto" daughter of Major John Nichols (1650-1697) and his "Negro" slave Jean Lovina/Lovenia. Nichols gave Sarah and her brother John their freedom and 200 acres by his 1696 Norfolk County will (calling them "my two Molattos"), but left her mother as a slave [Will Book 6:95a-96]. When William and Sarah Bass sold 48 acres of this land on the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River in 1737, they described it as land "that Major Nichols gave unto the said Sarah Bass before her marriage to the sd. Wm. Bass" [Deed Book 12:188].
See partial will here:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=lharmon&i...
See complete will in Brief Abstract of Lower Norfolk County and Norfolk County Wills, 1637-, Volume 1, by Charles Fleming McIntosh
The genealogy the clerk wrote (see above) is a false version of William's family history - refuted by the actual Bass family bible and family records published by Alfred Bell who was allowed to view them for his book published in 1961. (The Bass family now refuses to allow anyone to see them). However, that does not matter, because William's genealogy is also recorded in the Norfolk County wills, deeds, tax lists and court records.
Symon Lovina and Joan Tucker did not exist. Sarah's father appears to be Major John Nichols. Her mother was Jean Lovina, without a shadow of a doubt.
The evidence that Sarah was a slave are seventeenth and early eighteenth century documents in the Virginia State Archives: the 1696 will of Major Nichols [Will Book 6, folio 95a-96] and Sarah's deeds by which she and her husband William Bass sold the land "that Major Nichols gave unto the said Sarah" [Deed Book 12, page 188].
Sad to say, Sarah's "Negro" mother remained a slave.
From Heinegg's Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina:
LEVINER FAMILY
1. JEAN LOVINA, born say 1660, was the "Negro Woman" slave of JOHN NICHOLS who freed her children John and SARAH LOVINA by his 11 November 1696 will, proved 17 May 1697. He gave the children 350 acres of land and called them "my two Molattos." Since NICHOLS did not free JEAN LOVINA, she may have been identical to, or the mother of, Jenny Lovina, a "Negro" slave who Edward Murden gave to his son Malachy Murden by his Norfolk County will on 16 January 1734/5 [WB 6, fol.95a-96; DB 12:83]. JEAN was the mother of
2 i. John1, born say 1680.
ii. SARAH, born 23 June 1682 and died 2 October 1762 [Bell, Bass Families of the South, Chapter on Nansemond Indian Ancestry of Some Bass Families, 15]. She received 200 acres in the southern branch of the Elizabeth River by Nichols' will. On 21 December 1716 there was some uncertainty about the boundaries of her land when the Norfolk County court ordered that it be processioned [Orders 1710-17, 178, 179, 181]. She married WILLIAM BASS and was still living in Norfolk County when she sold part of this land on 15 March 1757 [DB 18:41].
http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/Lemon_Lytle.htm
BASS FAMILY
5. William2 Bass (William1, John1), born 28 October 1676....
He married Sarah Lovina/ Leviner on 20 April 1729 [Bell, Bass Families of the South, Chapter on Nansemond Indian Ancestry of Some Bass Families, 15]. Sarah was the "Molatto" daughter of John Nicholls' "Negro" slave Jean Lovina. Sarah received 200 acres on Western Branch of Elizabeth River by her master's 11 November 1696 Norfolk County will, proved 17 May 1697 [WB 6, fol.95a-96]. William purchased 150 acres adjoining his wife's land from her nephew William Lovina on 12 November 1728 [DB G:110]. He was taxable in the Southern Branch District of Norfolk County near Deep Creek from 1730 to 1732 (with John Staple in his household), from 1733 to 1736, and in 1750 with his unnamed wife and son John Bass [Wingo, Norfolk County Tithables, 1730-50, 11, 30, 64, 97, 133, 163, 190]. On 18 March 1736/7 William and Sarah sold 48 acres on the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River to Thomas Deal, explaining in the deed that it was land "that Major Nichols gave unto the said Sarah Bass before her marriage to the sd. Wm. Bass" [DB 12:188].
http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/bailey-berry.htm
more here: http://www.afrigeneas.com/forum-fpoc/index.cgi/md/read/id/10355/sbj...
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Sarah Bass's Timeline
| 1682 |
June 23, 1682
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Norfolk, Virginia, United States
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| 1731 |
February 20, 1731
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Norfolk, Virginia, United States
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| 1762 |
October 2, 1762
Age 80
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Virginia, United States
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