>From what I could gather from responses to Heinegg's book, he put native Americans in his book as Freed Blacks... Lea Dowd is the expert on Bass lineage. I am sure she will gladly help you if you aren't already set to believe the infor that has been around for years and accepted to be truth set in stone. At 07:47 PM 3/7/1999 -0500, you wrote: > >I got my Bass information first on my own and then >from Ms. McManus' book. I've wondered how >Indians had the last name of Tucker and the name Robin the Elder. Then when I >saw that there also was supposed to have been a Robin the Elder in South >Carolina Indian lore, it seemed that this might have been a story manufactured >at some point, maybe just to have Anglo names to use for legal purposes by >ancestors. Anyway, do you have other information? I was so excited to see >that Mr. Heinegg had posted a large volume of information and hoped to find >some answers but I could not access his sight. Is there an archive somewhere >that I might tap into, or do you have information in easily sendable form? >The Basses are my great obsession in research, because my grandfather had an >actual name for his great-grandfather, which nobody else in my family had until >researchers found them. His Bass ancestor must have been a memorable person >for some special reason, and I have always been intrigued with the Basses. >So, where else might one go for information, proven or not? Thanks!! >Cheryl Ellis (from Jeremiah Bass family which moved to MS and LA) > > > Carol P. Martoccia 903 East Fifth Street Greenville, NC 27858 Pridgen Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6297 Pridgen Archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl