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Personal data Elizabeth Mary Keziah ·Äúthe Nansemond·Äù Basse (Tucker) Nansemond Pamonkey Indian 

• She was born about 1624 in Nansemond, Virginia Colony.
• She died on April 21, 1713 in Virginia, Colonial America.
• Alternative: She died about December 4, 1676 in Virginia, Colonial America.
• A child of Robin Tucker and Mary Elizabeth Keziah Amopotuskee Tucker
• This information was last updated on November 21, 2020.

Household of Elizabeth Mary Keziah ·Äúthe Nansemond·Äù Basse (Tucker) Nansemond Pamonkey Indian

She is married to Edward or John Basse.

Marriage
Date: 1648
Place: Norfolk, Nansemond, Virginia, United States

They got married in the year 1644 at North Carolina, United States.

Child(ren):

1. Edward Basse Bays  1645-????
2. Ann Bays  1646-????
3. Elizabeth McDougal (Bass Basse)  ± 1647-± 1717 
4. Mary Bays  1648-????
5. John Basse  1650-1728
6. William Basse  1654-1741

Notes about Elizabeth Mary Keziah ·Äúthe Nansemond·Äù Basse (Tucker) Nansemond Pamonkey Indian

Elizabeth The Nansemond is your 9th great grandmother.
You
¬â€  ·Üí Geneva Allene Welborn (Smith)
your mother ·Üí Henry Loyd Smith, R1b1a2a1a1b
her father ·Üí Edgar Jackson Smith
his father ·Üí Joseph Perry Smith
his father ·Üí Mary Smith
his mother ·Üí John Burke
her father ·Üí John Taylor Burke
his father ·Üí William Burke
his father ·Üí Margaret Elizabeth Burke (McDougle)
his mother ·Üí Elizabeth Basse
her mother ·Üí Elizabeth The Nansemond
her mother

3 Profiles!!

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Elizabeth The Nansemond
Gender:
Female
Birth:
1624
Death:
December 04, 1676 (51-52)
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Nansemond Chief Pattanochus Robin The Elder Winansiske and Elizabeth Keziah Amopotuskee
Wife of John Basse, Sr.
Mother of Nathaniel Basse; Keziah Basse; Elizabeth Basse; Jordan Basse; Sarah Basse; Hester Basse and Samuel Basse ¬´ less
Sister of Kalinda Tucker; Sarah Ann Tucker; Kalinda Tucker; Mary Tucker; Peter Tucker; Jean Lovina and Robin Tucker

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Keziah Elizabeth ·ÄúPrincess·Äù Basse (Tucker)
Gender:
Female
Birth:
1618
Death:
December 04, 1676 (57-58)
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Chief Elder Robin Tucker and Elizabeth Keziah Amopotuskee
Wife of John Basse, Sr.
Mother of Elizabeth McDougal
Sister of Kalinda Tucker; Sarah Ann Tucker and Kalinda Tucker

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https://www.geni.com/people/Elizabeth-the-Nansemond/6000000004089151089

Elizabeth Basse
Gender:
Female
Birth:
circa 1618
Virginia, Colonial America
Death:
October 04, 1676 (53-62)
Virginia, Colonial America
Place of Burial:
Virginia, Colonial America
Immediate Family:
Wife of John Basse, Sr.

Mother of Nathaniel Basse; Keziah Basse; Elizabeth Basse; Jordan Basse; Samuel Basse; Richard Basse, Sr.; Hester Farmer; William Basse, Sr., ·Äúelder·Äù and John Bass, Sr.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/dnabassstudygroup/ says are UNPROVEN parents. ~CHC 14 Feb 2020

Name on https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/173299758/keziah-elizabeth-basse is incorrect

The will of John Bass says she is a Virtuous Indian Maiden and was Christian with the name of Elizabeth. I read where John Bass said the reason he married her is because she was prettier than the English Women
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Anecdote* 1638 In 1638 at Nansemond, VA, We have no clue how Keziah acquired her distinctively non-Indian name except that the name Elizabeth was taken at her baptism, a not unusual occurrence at the time. Part of the Nansemond tribe were quick to embrace Christianity and English ways. By the year 1650, the Nansemonds had split into "Christian" Nansemonds and "Reservation" Nansemonds. The Christian Nansemonds survived.
In the year 1746, the Reservation Nansemonds had dwindled to the point that they sold their reservation and merged with the Nottaway tribe. The last known Reservation Nansemond died in 1806. The Christian Nansemonds survive to this day, and many live in the Bowers Hill Community near Norfolk. The tribe has revived in recent years, and the current Chief is Barry "Big Buck" Bass while the Assistant Chief is Earl Bass, so the Bass name continues. There also is possible evidence of another Indian ancestor, Love Harris of North Carolina.
A fascinating, but most unlikely possibility is that Keziah was a given name and that her mother was one of the "Lost Colonists" of the Raleigh expedition. David Beers Quinn in "The Lost Colonists - Their Fortune And Probable Fate," published by the North Carolina Department of Archives and History, presents evidence showing that the lost colonists survived with the Chesapeake Indians on the south shore of the Chesapeake Bay in the present Princess Anne County, but that both the Chesapeake Indians and the remnant colonists were wiped out by Powhatan just before the landing of the new colony at Jamestown.
The Chesapeake Indians and the Nansemond Indians (who resided just west of the Chesapeakes near the present city of Norfolk) were, at one time, allies against the growing power of the ruler, Powhatan. It was reported by the Jamestown colonists in 1622, that they had seen "a savage boy about the age of ten years which had a head of hair of perfect yellow and a reasonably white skin." Sadly, the roster of the colonists at Roanoke Island shows no surname Tucker, or Christian name Keziah. Certainly the Nansemond Indians were at the right place, at the right time, and perhaps, with the appropriate political and ethical state of mind, to be motivated to rescue an English child from the depredations of their former ruler, Powhatan.
John Basse simply states that he, "John Basse marrid Keziah Elizabeth Tucker dafter of Robin the Elder of ye Nansimums kingdom, a Baptized Xtian, in Holy Matrimonie accdg. to ye Canons of ye Church of England, ye 14th day of August in the Yeare of our Blessed Lord 1638". Elsewhere: "John Basse married ye dafter of ye King of ye Nansemond Nation, by Elizabeth in Holy Baptism and in Holy Matrimonie ye 14 day of August in ye yeare of Our Blessed Lord 1638." Keziah died Dec 4, 1676 and John Basse died April 2, 1699. [Taylor, all].
The Nansemond were one of 32 tribes in the Powhatan Confederacy, a loose empire controlling Chesapeake Bay and its tributary rivers. This area corresponds to eastern Virginia, most of Maryland, and Delaware. [www.geocities] The Nansemond Tribe is one of the eight remaining tribes recognized by the Virginia Assembly. At the time of the Jamestown settlement in 1607, the tribe was located in the general area of Reids Ferry, near Chuckatuck, in the current city of Suffolk. Their "king" lived near Dumpling Island where he kept his treasure houses. At that time, the tribe had a population of approximately 1,200 persons with 300 bowmen.
During the early days of Jamestown, the Nansemonds shared their abundant stores of grain with the settlers, but hostilities broke out when the colonists began raiding the storehouses. As increasing numbers of settlers poured into the Nansemond River area, the tribal members relocated their reservation and tribal lands on several different occasions until the last land was sold in 1792. Nansemond County was created from Upper Norfolk County in 1637. The county became the independent city of Nansemond in July 1972, and on January 1, 1974, merged with the city of Suffolk.6

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As for John Bass marrying Elizabeth Tucker, it is true, there was a John Bass who married an Elizabeth Tucker, however, saying this, the story of John BASS marrying Elizabeth TUCKER IS correct, but researchers have just picked the WRONG John Bass. it SHOULD have been John BASS born 1723, son of William Bass and Sarah LOVINA. That then makes him married to Elizabeth (TUCKER), his great Uncle·Äôs daughter, being a second cousin....

Married John 1638 14 Aug in Norfolk, VA

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Elizabeth (Nansemond) Basse was a Native American and member of the Nansemond tribe.Marriage of John Basye or Basse or Base and Elizabeth[edit source | editbeta]John Basye or Basse or Base, an early settler in Virginia married Elizabeth, the daughter of the King of the Nansemond Nation in Holy Baptism and in Holy Matrimony August 14, 1638. Bass was born 7 September 1616; died 1699.[6]They had 8 children (Elizabeth; John; Jordan; Keziah; Nathaniel; Richard; Samuel; William). They are related to the Coppedge/Coppage/Coppidge Family.
Some Nansemond claim descent from this marriage.[4] Based on her research, Dr. Helen C. Rountree says that all current Nansemond descend from this marriage, making the tribe a family affair.[5]The photo at left shows members of the Weaver and Bass families, ca. 1900:"William H. Weaver is sitting; Augustus Bass is standing behind him. The Weaver family were indentured East Indians (from modern-day India and Pakistan) who were free in Lancaster County by about 1710. By 1732 they were "taxables" [note: free blacks and Indians had to pay a tax in Virginia and North Carolina] in Norfolk County and taxable "Mulatto" landowners in nearby Hertford County, North Carolina by 1741.The Nansemond were affected by English colonial pressures in the 17th century and split apart. Those who were Christianized and had adopted more English customs stayed along the Nansemond River as farmers. "The other Nansemonds warred with the English in 1644, fled southwest to the Nottoway River, and had a reservation assigned them there by the Virginia colony. By 1744 they had ceased using the reservation and gone to live with the Nottoway Indians [note: this was an Iroquoian-language tribe] on another reservation nearby... The Nansemond sold their reservation in 1792 and were known as "citizen" Indians.[5]

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