Mézières-Sur-Couesnon, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France before 1460. He married Marie Genevieve Belanger.
GUILLAUME (WILLIAM) BASSE (1480‒1539) was born in Mézières-Sur-Couesnon to Thomas Bilodeau Basse and Marie Genevieve Belanger. His wife, Rosalie Benoite (1480‒1500) died soon after their marriage, perhaps during the birth of their son Joseph.
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| 1488 Battle of Saint-Aubin-du-Cornier |
In July 1488 the Battle of Saint-Aubin-
du-Cormier took place a mile south of Mézières-Sur-Couesnon.
JOSEPH BASSE (1500‒1534) was born in Mézières-Sur-Couesnon to Guillaume (William) Basse and Rosalie Benoite. In 1518, in his hometown, Joseph married Josephine Pilote. Josephine was born in Paris, September 15, 1500 to Jean Baptist Bilodeau Pilote and Jeanne Bilodeau.
WILLIAM BASSE (1518‒1616) was born in Dammartin, Haute-Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France, to Joseph Basse and Josephine Pilote. William attended Oxford University. In 1542, he married Mary Carkin (1525‒1616), St. James Garlickhite, England. William died in London May 13, 1616 and buried St. John the Baptist, Hillingdon, Middlesex, England. (The church is 14th century, with the tower dating from 1629.)
HUMPHREY BASSE (1565‒1616) was born June 5, 1565 in Safron, Walden, Essex, England, son of William Bass and Mary Carkin. He died there on June 4, 1616. In 1589, Humphrey married Mary Buschier, was born about 1570 in Roanne, Loire, France, to Genevieve Clerke and Dominick Buschier, a native of Italy. (He appears on several lists of aliens during the reign of Elizabeth I.)
Humphrey Basse was a haberdasher and merchant. He also owned shares in the Virginia Company. (The Virginia Company was a joint stock company established in 1606 by royal charter by King James I, with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.)
Humphrey and Mary Buschier Basse died within a month of each other and were buried at Saint Helen’s Church, Bishopsgate, London, England. (St. Helen’s is the largest surviving parish church in London; it was the parish of William Shakespeare when he lived in the area in the 1590s.) Church records below.
Samuel Basse, the seventh son of Humphrey Basse and Mary Buschier, is supposed by some genealogists to be the same Samuel Basse of Braintree, Massachusetts who was the father of John Basse who married Ruth Alden, daughter of John Alden and Priscilla Mullens of the 1620 Mayflower, and great-great grandfather of John Adams, 2nd President of the United States. Humphrey and Mary’s wills were proven in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
NATHANIEL BASSE (1589‒1654) was born in London on December 29, 1589, son of Humphrey Basse and Mary Buschier. Nathaniel was christened, December 29, 1589, at the Church of Saint Gabriel Church, Fenchurch St., London, England. He married Mary Jourdon on May 21, 1613, in Middlesex Parrish, London. Mary was born about 1591 in London and died January 17, 1629/30.
Captain Nathaniel Basse was commissioned to bring settlers to the New World. On April 27, 1619, they arrived at Jamestown, Virginia, with one hundred settlers in a ship commanded by Captain Evans.
Nathaniel was given 300 acres of property in what is now Isle of Wight County. They immediately settled near the mouth of a creek on the south side of the James River still known as Lawne's Creek. Captain Basse and others undertook to establish another plantation in the same neighborhood. This plantation was known as “Basse's Choice” and was situated on the Pagan River. Nathaniel represented his area at government meetings. He returned to England in early 1621/22 and but returned to Virginia in 1622. He was commissioned to seek colonists for Virginia in New England and elsewhere.
The houses of Captain Basse's plantation were being built when a great calamity happened to the infant colony. At midday on Good Friday, March 22, 1622, there were 1240 British inhabitants in the state of Virginia. Of these, 347 were killed by Indians in the 80 settlements on the north and south sides of the James River, of which 53 were residents of this county (Isle Of Wight County). At the house of Nathaniel Basse everyone was slain. Fortunately, Nathaniel and wife Mary were in England at the time.
A muster of the inhabitants of Virginia taken in 1625 includes Nathaniel Basse, age 35. Nathaniel was a member of the House of Burgesses in 1624, 1625, 1628, and again in 1629. He was a Councilor in 1630.
Nathaniel Bass returned to England before his death on July 3, 1654, and was buried at the Church of St. Alphage, Cripplegate, London.
JOHN BASSE (1616‒1699) was born in Middlesex Parrish, London, England on September 7, 1616 to Nathaniel Basse and Mary Jourdan.
John Basse came to the new world as an infant with his mother and
father. According to genealogist, Alyene Prenn, the story related to
her by Justin Bass, at the time Chief of the Nansemond Tribe, was that
John was the only survivor at "Basse's Choice" of the Good Friday massacre
in 1622. At the time, John's parents had made a trip back to England, leaving John, and perhaps some of his siblings behind, likely thinking they would be safer there than on the high seas. [map source: Helen Rountree]
John was rescued from the carnage by friendly Nansemond Indians and was raised by them. On August 14, 1638, he married a Nansemond Indian girl “Elizabeth, the daughter of the "King" of the Nansemond. All their descendants would be part Native American.
Below is the transcription from a page from the John Basse prayer book:
John Basse married ye dafter of ye King of ye Nansemond Nation by name Elizabeth in Holy Baptizm and in Holy Matrimonie e 14th day of August in ye yeare of Our Blessed Lord 1638 Dyed 1699 A.D.
John Basse died April 2, 1699 in Norfolk, Nansemond County, Virginia.
RICHARD BASSE (1658‒1722), born August 2, 1658 in Nancemond, Virginia, to John Basse and Elizabeth, married Jane Bryant on November 6, 1680 in Norfolk, Virginia. On August 25, 1695, Richard married Mary Burwell. Richard died December 26, 1722 in Norfolk, Nancemond County, Virginia.
RICHARD BASSE JR. (c1707‒1790), born June 24, 1707 in Nancemond, Virginia, to Richard Basse and Mary Burwell, married Elizabeth Smith.
Richard Bass and his brother Andrew Bass were granted land patents in Craven County, North Carolina, June 7, 1739. Richard’s Will was probated in 1781, Duplin County (later Sampson County), NC.
JAMES BURWELL BASS (1752‒1831) was born in Duplin County, to Richard Bass and Elizabeth Smith. “Burrell” Bass served in the Revolutionary War. He married Elizabeth Jane York about 1790 and migrated from Anson County, North Carolina to Alabama in 1813. He died August 23, 1831 in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, and was buried there.
WILLIS PINCKNEY BASS (c.1791‒October 6, 1852 in Union County), born in Sampson County, North Carolina to James Burwell (Burrell) Bass and Elizabeth Jane York, married Nancy Trull, before 1820. In 1817, Anson County, he received a land grant for 100 acres on the west side of Bull Branch. Willis was buried in Bass Family Cemetery in Monroe. [Bass Cemetery note: In 2004 the young man who owned the land where the cemetery is located meant well and cleaned the cemetery up. It was terribly grown up and some of the markers couldn't even be seen. Problem is, he sprayed the undergrowth to kill it and then set it on fire. Several of the stones were completely destroyed and a lot of them broke from the heat. There were about 25 or 30 small field stones that marked the graves of slaves. They are all gone.]
BURWELL BASS , born about 1827 to Willis Pinckney Bass, married Jane B. Trull Bass in Union County, April 14, 1847; bondsman John C. Bass. The 1850 Union County Census recorded Burwell 25, Jane 25, with 1-year-old W.J. Bass. The 1870 census found a family of eight children (minus W.J.) in Providence, Mecklenburg County. On August 17, 1883, at age 56, Burwell married Martha Nichols in Gaston County.
WILLIAM JASPER BASS (1849‒1910)
William Jasper Bass was born in Union County, August 24, 1849 and died May 16, 1910. He married Martha J. “Mattie” Sharp on September 13, 1870. Mattie was born April 19, 1853 and died November 10, 1889. She and Jasper were parents of:
▪ Samuel Watson Bass (1849‒1935) married Minnie Ann Morris on May 26, 1890.
▪ Bessie P. Bass (1875‒1948) married Isaac Grier Hood on April 8, 1925.
▪ James Allen Bass (1878‒)
▪ Dora "Effie" Bass (1879‒1896)
▪ William “Will” Gribble Bass (1881‒1949) married Virgie Wentz on March 6, 1901.
▪ Lillian M. Bass (1884‒1948) married Jessie Alexander Baker on May 9, 1903.
▪ John Bunyan Bass (1886‒1970) married Annie Belle Conder on Nov 20, 1904.
▪ Margaret Bell Bass (1888‒1923) married Roy Neil Goodrum on June 19, 1919.
William Jasper Bass' wife Mattie died in 1889. In 1892, he married Margaret J. McCall (1851‒1917) – he was 43, she was 41. [Mecklenburg County marriage certificate noted W.J. Bass as son of Burwell and Jane Bass.] The 1900 Providence Township Census recorded: William 50, Margaret J. 49, William G. 19, Bessie 25, Lillie 16, John 14, and Maggie B. 11, with servant 75-year-old Daniel Watt.
SAMUEL WATSON BASS (1872‒1935)
JESSE REA BASS (1900‒1993)
ELEANOR MAE BASS (1922‒ .....................................................................................................................
Compiled from many sources, including research by John C. Bass; “The Basse Family of Black Creek, North Carolina” by James Albert Bass and J.A. Bass Jr.; and Ancestry.com.
*Along the little river La Couesnon* - photo credit: panoramio1415
du-Cormier took place a mile south of Mézières-Sur-Couesnon.
JOSEPH BASSE (1500‒1534) was born in Mézières-Sur-Couesnon to Guillaume (William) Basse and Rosalie Benoite. In 1518, in his hometown, Joseph married Josephine Pilote. Josephine was born in Paris, September 15, 1500 to Jean Baptist Bilodeau Pilote and Jeanne Bilodeau.
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| St. John the Baptist Church, Hillington |
HUMPHREY BASSE (1565‒1616) was born June 5, 1565 in Safron, Walden, Essex, England, son of William Bass and Mary Carkin. He died there on June 4, 1616. In 1589, Humphrey married Mary Buschier, was born about 1570 in Roanne, Loire, France, to Genevieve Clerke and Dominick Buschier, a native of Italy. (He appears on several lists of aliens during the reign of Elizabeth I.)
Humphrey Basse was a haberdasher and merchant. He also owned shares in the Virginia Company. (The Virginia Company was a joint stock company established in 1606 by royal charter by King James I, with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.)
Humphrey and Mary Buschier Basse died within a month of each other and were buried at Saint Helen’s Church, Bishopsgate, London, England. (St. Helen’s is the largest surviving parish church in London; it was the parish of William Shakespeare when he lived in the area in the 1590s.) Church records below.Samuel Basse, the seventh son of Humphrey Basse and Mary Buschier, is supposed by some genealogists to be the same Samuel Basse of Braintree, Massachusetts who was the father of John Basse who married Ruth Alden, daughter of John Alden and Priscilla Mullens of the 1620 Mayflower, and great-great grandfather of John Adams, 2nd President of the United States. Humphrey and Mary’s wills were proven in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
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| Saint Helen's Church, Bishopsgate, record of burial of Humphey and Mary Basse |
NATHANIEL BASSE (1589‒1654) was born in London on December 29, 1589, son of Humphrey Basse and Mary Buschier. Nathaniel was christened, December 29, 1589, at the Church of Saint Gabriel Church, Fenchurch St., London, England. He married Mary Jourdon on May 21, 1613, in Middlesex Parrish, London. Mary was born about 1591 in London and died January 17, 1629/30.
Captain Nathaniel Basse was commissioned to bring settlers to the New World. On April 27, 1619, they arrived at Jamestown, Virginia, with one hundred settlers in a ship commanded by Captain Evans.
Nathaniel was given 300 acres of property in what is now Isle of Wight County. They immediately settled near the mouth of a creek on the south side of the James River still known as Lawne's Creek. Captain Basse and others undertook to establish another plantation in the same neighborhood. This plantation was known as “Basse's Choice” and was situated on the Pagan River. Nathaniel represented his area at government meetings. He returned to England in early 1621/22 and but returned to Virginia in 1622. He was commissioned to seek colonists for Virginia in New England and elsewhere. The houses of Captain Basse's plantation were being built when a great calamity happened to the infant colony. At midday on Good Friday, March 22, 1622, there were 1240 British inhabitants in the state of Virginia. Of these, 347 were killed by Indians in the 80 settlements on the north and south sides of the James River, of which 53 were residents of this county (Isle Of Wight County). At the house of Nathaniel Basse everyone was slain. Fortunately, Nathaniel and wife Mary were in England at the time.
A muster of the inhabitants of Virginia taken in 1625 includes Nathaniel Basse, age 35. Nathaniel was a member of the House of Burgesses in 1624, 1625, 1628, and again in 1629. He was a Councilor in 1630.
Nathaniel Bass returned to England before his death on July 3, 1654, and was buried at the Church of St. Alphage, Cripplegate, London.
JOHN BASSE (1616‒1699) was born in Middlesex Parrish, London, England on September 7, 1616 to Nathaniel Basse and Mary Jourdan.
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| Click image to "John Basse, a Story of the New World" |
John Basse came to the new world as an infant with his mother and
father. According to genealogist, Alyene Prenn, the story related to
her by Justin Bass, at the time Chief of the Nansemond Tribe, was that
John was the only survivor at "Basse's Choice" of the Good Friday massacre
in 1622. At the time, John's parents had made a trip back to England, leaving John, and perhaps some of his siblings behind, likely thinking they would be safer there than on the high seas. [map source: Helen Rountree]John was rescued from the carnage by friendly Nansemond Indians and was raised by them. On August 14, 1638, he married a Nansemond Indian girl “Elizabeth, the daughter of the "King" of the Nansemond. All their descendants would be part Native American.
John Basse married ye dafter of ye King of ye Nansemond Nation by name Elizabeth in Holy Baptizm and in Holy Matrimonie e 14th day of August in ye yeare of Our Blessed Lord 1638 Dyed 1699 A.D.
John Basse died April 2, 1699 in Norfolk, Nansemond County, Virginia.
RICHARD BASSE (1658‒1722), born August 2, 1658 in Nancemond, Virginia, to John Basse and Elizabeth, married Jane Bryant on November 6, 1680 in Norfolk, Virginia. On August 25, 1695, Richard married Mary Burwell. Richard died December 26, 1722 in Norfolk, Nancemond County, Virginia.
RICHARD BASSE JR. (c1707‒1790), born June 24, 1707 in Nancemond, Virginia, to Richard Basse and Mary Burwell, married Elizabeth Smith.
Richard Bass and his brother Andrew Bass were granted land patents in Craven County, North Carolina, June 7, 1739. Richard’s Will was probated in 1781, Duplin County (later Sampson County), NC.
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| 1746 Patent - Colonial Records of North Carolina |
WILLIS PINCKNEY BASS (c.1791‒October 6, 1852 in Union County), born in Sampson County, North Carolina to James Burwell (Burrell) Bass and Elizabeth Jane York, married Nancy Trull, before 1820. In 1817, Anson County, he received a land grant for 100 acres on the west side of Bull Branch. Willis was buried in Bass Family Cemetery in Monroe. [Bass Cemetery note: In 2004 the young man who owned the land where the cemetery is located meant well and cleaned the cemetery up. It was terribly grown up and some of the markers couldn't even be seen. Problem is, he sprayed the undergrowth to kill it and then set it on fire. Several of the stones were completely destroyed and a lot of them broke from the heat. There were about 25 or 30 small field stones that marked the graves of slaves. They are all gone.]
BURWELL BASS , born about 1827 to Willis Pinckney Bass, married Jane B. Trull Bass in Union County, April 14, 1847; bondsman John C. Bass. The 1850 Union County Census recorded Burwell 25, Jane 25, with 1-year-old W.J. Bass. The 1870 census found a family of eight children (minus W.J.) in Providence, Mecklenburg County. On August 17, 1883, at age 56, Burwell married Martha Nichols in Gaston County.
WILLIAM JASPER BASS (1849‒1910)
William Jasper Bass was born in Union County, August 24, 1849 and died May 16, 1910. He married Martha J. “Mattie” Sharp on September 13, 1870. Mattie was born April 19, 1853 and died November 10, 1889. She and Jasper were parents of:
▪ Samuel Watson Bass (1849‒1935) married Minnie Ann Morris on May 26, 1890.
▪ Bessie P. Bass (1875‒1948) married Isaac Grier Hood on April 8, 1925.
▪ James Allen Bass (1878‒)
▪ Dora "Effie" Bass (1879‒1896)
▪ William “Will” Gribble Bass (1881‒1949) married Virgie Wentz on March 6, 1901.
▪ Lillian M. Bass (1884‒1948) married Jessie Alexander Baker on May 9, 1903.
▪ John Bunyan Bass (1886‒1970) married Annie Belle Conder on Nov 20, 1904.
▪ Margaret Bell Bass (1888‒1923) married Roy Neil Goodrum on June 19, 1919.
William Jasper Bass' wife Mattie died in 1889. In 1892, he married Margaret J. McCall (1851‒1917) – he was 43, she was 41. [Mecklenburg County marriage certificate noted W.J. Bass as son of Burwell and Jane Bass.] The 1900 Providence Township Census recorded: William 50, Margaret J. 49, William G. 19, Bessie 25, Lillie 16, John 14, and Maggie B. 11, with servant 75-year-old Daniel Watt.
SAMUEL WATSON BASS (1872‒1935)
JESSE REA BASS (1900‒1993)
ELEANOR MAE BASS (1922‒ .....................................................................................................................
Compiled from many sources, including research by John C. Bass; “The Basse Family of Black Creek, North Carolina” by James Albert Bass and J.A. Bass Jr.; and Ancestry.com.
*Along the little river La Couesnon* - photo credit: panoramio1415
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