----- Original Message ----- From: "Guy Potts" <gpotts1@nc.rr.com> To: <LHODGE@NYCAP.RR.COM> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 6:52 PM Subject: PML Search Result matching "Blackledge" > ===================================================================== > A result of your requested PML search. To refine or cancel this > search, please visit http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > ===================================================================== > Source: NCWAYNE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [NCWAYNE] Early Bass families in Wayne County > > > Wayne County Heritage Book > > ANDREW BASS FAMILY OF DOBBS AND CRAVEN COUNTY > > Andrew Bass lived in Craven County, N.C. and died there in 1767. > He was a large land owner, in Craven and Dobbs County. One vast > holding of his was referred to by some of the local gentry as > Bass's Folly. It has not been proven where this man was from, or > who his parents were. However, he seemed to be an educated man and > well liked by all his comtemporaries. > > Richard Bass, son of Andrew Bass and wife Anne Bass, was born in > Craven County, N.C. ca 1730, died in Wayne County, N.C. in 1814. > He is thought to have married Sarah McKinnie of Wayne County. > > Anne Bass was born ca 1732 in Craven County, N.C. She married > Richard Blackledge, Esq. of Craven County, N.C., son of Benjamin > Blackledge, Sr. > > Andrew Bass born ca 1734 in Craven County, N.C., died 1791 in > Wayne County. He married Alice Anne Rhodes, a daughter of William > Rhodes and Sarah (Nancy) Pipkin of Wayne County. Andrew was Wayne > County's first physician. Waynesboro was built on the lands of > Dr. Andrew Bass. They were the parents of Alice Anne Bass who > married General James Rhodes. > > Sources: Wills, gift deeds, etc. > > Gladys Bannrick Weeks > > > DR. ANDREW BASS - GENERAL JAMES RHODES > > General James Rhodes (b. 1765 d. 1810) was the son of James and > Elisabeth Rhodes. General James Rhodes stands out in Wayne > County History as a merchant, land owner and the husband of Anna > Bass (b. 1776 d. 1817), the daughter of Dr. Andrew Bass and Alice > Rhodes, daughter of William and Sarah Rhodes. Dr. Bass was a > leader in the American Revolution and one of the founders of the > town of Waynesborough. He willed to his daughter, Anna, twenty-two > slaves and more than four thousand acres of land. His will was > probated April 1791 Wayne County Court. Henry Rhodes of Dobbs > County, will probated 25 January 1774, is thought to be the > grandfather of General Rhodes. > > The Rhodes Family Bible shows that General Rhodes and Anna Bass > were married April 10, 1793 and that they had three sons and three > daughters to wit: Joseph Andrew, James, William Thomas, Sallie Ann, > Anna Maria and Rhodes Clarissa. James was the only son who lived to > marry and that was to two daughters of Daniel Kornegay. > > After the death of General Rhodes in 1810, his widow married > Cullen Blackman. Daughter Sallie Ann married Stephen Smith; Anna > Maria married (1)General Edward Ward (2) Buckner Lanier Hill; and > Rhodes Clarissa married Richard Blackledge Hatch. > > Sources: James Rhodes Bible, Wayne County Wills, Grimes Abstract of > Wills and records of Cullen Blackman Hatch. Jr. > > Yvonne C. Hatch (Mrs. Cullen B.) > > > DR. ANDREW BASS AND FAMILY > > Revolutionary War. They settled in Waynesborough. He was a > physician and soldier during the War. He went to Halifax, N.C. > to help make the laws. > > His daughter, Anna, married General James Rhodes. After his death, > she married Cullen Blackman. Their daughter, Rhodes Clarissa Rhodes, > was married to Richard Blackledge Hatch. I have copy of the wills of > General Rhodes and Rhodes Clarissa Rhodes and Dr. Andrew Bass. > > Their daughter, Maria Louisa Hatch married Dr. Daniel Everitt Smith. > For information on John Smith see the John Smith article. John Smith > was father of Everett. Dr. Andrew Bass is buried at old Waynesborough > cemetery. > > Sources: Bass Familes of the South by Albert D. Bell; family records. > Margaret K. Tolson > > > ANDREW BASS, JR. > > Andrew Bass, Jr., son of Richard Bass and Sarah McKinnie, was born > ca 1751 in Wayne County, N.C., in what was formerly Dobbs County. He > died in Wayne County in 1790 or 91. He married Kiddy , last name > unknown, and had five children. After the death of Kiddy, he married > Christian and had two children. > > He owned several tracts of land in Wayne County on both sides of > Neuse River. After the death of Andrew, Jr., Christian married William > Bennett. > > John Smith was appointed guardian for his children at his death, > later Henry Stevens was appointed guardian for Thomas Alexander Bass > until his twenty first birthday. Children of Andrew Bass, Jr. were: > Ann Bass born ca 1770. She married Holland. > > Elizabeth Bass was barn 8 Nov., 1772. She married on 23 April, 1807 > in Johnston County, N.C. to Henry Stevens, M.D., son of Jacob > Stevens and Belinda Jernigan. > > Sally Bass married Admiral John Thompson. > > Uriah Bass was born ca 1776 in Wayne County. He married Sarah Green > born 1777, died 1846, the daughter of Col. Joseph Green and Sarah > Whitfield of Wayne County, N.C. > > Thomas Alexander Bass, born 1785 in Wayne County, died about 1876 > in Sampson County, N.C. He married Ist, Ferebe Thornton, 2nd, Lucretia. > > John Bass, son of Andrew, Jr. and Christian, was born in Wayne Co., > N.C. after 1786. Richard Bass, son of Andrew Bass, Jr. and Christian, > was born in Wayne County, NC after 1786. > > Sources: Wills, deeds, guardian papers, land divisions, census records, > family Bibles and personal records. > > Gladys B. Weeks > > >