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Personal data Samuel Bass 

• He was born on January 25, 1596 in Saffron, Walden, Essex, England.

  Attention: Was older than 65 years (71) when child (Hannah Bass) was born (June 22, 1667).

• He died on December 30, 1694 in Braintree, Bristol/Norfolk, MA, he was 98 years old.
• A child of Benjamin Bass and Mary Bouchier (Buschier)
• This information was last updated on December 11, 2016.

Household of Samuel Bass

He is married to Anne Saville.

They got married about 1629 at Probably Massachusetts.

Child(ren):

1. Samuel Bass  1626-1690
2. John Bass  1630-1716 
3. Hannah Bass  1667-1705 

Notes about Samuel Bass

Event: Pres. John Adams Descendent Note: He was a 3rd great grandfather to Pres. John Adams Event: Family Note:
1. Samuel Bass b: BEF. 11 MAY 1626 in Saffron, Walden, Engl and
2. Mary Bass b: 1628 in Roxbury, Suffolk Co, MA
3. John Bass b: 18 SEP 1630 in Roxbury, Suffolk, MA
4. Hannah Bass b: 25 NOV 1632 in Saffron Walden, Essex, Eng land
5. Thomas Bass b: 1635 in Roxbury, Suffolk Co, MA
6. Ruth Bass b: ABT. 1636 in Braintree, Norfolk, MA
7. Joseph Bass b: ABT. 1637 in Braintree, MA
8. Benjamin Bass b: ABT. 1637
9. Sarah Bass b: 26 APR 1643 in Roxbury, MA

In Braintree Town Records,he was father,grandfather and gre at grand father of 162 persons in 1694
Occupation: Yeoman Religion: Note:
Religion: the first deacon of the church of Braintree (fo r over fifty
years) BEF 1644 Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts Ba y Colony 2

Birth Location Caen (Normandy), England before 1625
Lived near Hog's Bridge, Roxbury, Mass.

FIRST RESIDENCE: Roxbury
REMOVES: Braintree 1640

CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: "Samuell Basse" admitted to Roxbury chur ch as member #78, in a group of 1633 immigrants [ RChR 78].

His death record in 1694 tells us that he "had been a deaco n of the church of Braintree for the space of above fifty y ears and the first deacon of that church" [ BrVR 660].
FREEMAN: 14 May 1634 [ MBCR 1:368].
EDUCATION: Signed his will. First Braintree town clerk [ MB CR 1:329].
OFFICES: Braintree deputy to General Court, 2 June 1641 , 3 May 1654, 6 May 1657, 27 May 1663, 18 May 1664, 3 Augus t 1664 [ MBCR 1:319, 4:1:182, 286, 4:2:72, 100, 117]; commi ssioner to perform marriages and keep records at Braintree , 2 June 1641 [ MBCR 1:329]; committee on bridge over Napon set River (as "Deacon Basse"), 29 May 1655 [ MBCR 4:1:231].
107:220]; she is probably the Ann Savell, daughter of Willi am, baptized at Saffron Walden 26 April 1601 [ NEHGR 107:22 0]; "Ann Basse the wife of Samuell Basse" was admitted to R oxbury church as member #79, immediately after her husban d [ RChR 78]; she died Braintree 5 September 1693 aged 9 3 [ BrVR 660].
CHILDREN:
i SAMUEL, bp. Saffron Walden 11 May 1626 [ NEHGR 107:220] ; m. by 1653 (and probably a few years earlier) Mary Howard , daughter of Robert Howard. (Samuel Bass had died by 1653 , and on 22 December 1653 the probate court "on the widow' s relinquishing her right in the thirds did judge it meet a nd determined that the whole estate shall be equally divide d between the mother and the child, and that Mr. Howard i n behalf of his daughter shall give good security to delive r the child of the said Samuel Bass deceased one half of th e said estate at the age of fourteen years" [ SPR 2:109-11 , 3-68-72].)

ii MARY, b. about 1628; m. 20 September 1647 as his secon d wife John Capen [ NEHGR 2:80], son of BERNARD CAPEN .

iii JOHN, bp. Saffron Walden 18 September 1630 [ NEHGR 107: 220]; m. (1) Braintree 3 February 1657/8 Ruth Alden [ BrV R 716], daughter of JOHN ALDEN ; m. (2) Braintree 21 Septem ber 1675 Hannah (_____) Sturtevant, widow of Samuel Sturtev ant [ BrVR 718].

iv ANN (or Hannah), bp. Saffron Walden 25 November 1632 [fr om original register]; m. (1) Braintree 15 November 1651 St ephen Paine [ BrVR 629]; m. (2) Taunton 13 September 1692 a s his second wife Shadrach Wilbore, son of SAMUEL WILBORE .

v THOMAS, b. Roxbury about 1635; m. (1) Medfield 4 Octobe r 1660 Sarah Wood; m. (2) Braintree 30 November 1680 Susann a (Bate) Blanchard, widow of Nathaniel Blanchard [ BrVR 719 ; SLR 13:355-56].

vi RUTH, b. Roxbury about 1637; m. Braintree 24 September 1 656 David Walsbee [ BrVR 716].

vii JOSEPH, b. Roxbury say 1639; m. Mary _____, who d. Brai ntree 15 March 1677/8 [ BrVR 656]. (On 11 May 1694, when h i s father made his will, Joseph was unmarried and childles s. On 23 December 1700 a daughter Deborah was baptized, wit h parents Joseph and Deborah Bass [ NEHGR 59:361], and th e claim has been made that this represents a second marriag e for this Joseph. In his will, dated 5 April 1710, Josep h Bass Sr. named no wife or children, and made bequests t o his siblings, to children of his siblings and to friend s [ SPR 18:447-48]. As the proposed second marriage for Jos eph rests on this single record, and as it may be a defecti ve record or may apply to another Joseph, we do not take i t as evidence of a second marriage.)

viii SARAH, b. Braintree 26 April 1643 (erroneously given a s Mary) [ NEHGR 3:126]; m. (1) by 1663 John Stone [ Bond 58 6, 951; Simon Stone Gen 56-59]; m. (2) (as "Sarah Stone wid ow of Deacon John Stone of Watertown") Braintree 10 May 169 3 Joseph Penniman [ BrVR 720].

ASSOCIATIONS: Ann Savill, wife of Samuel Bass, was sister o f William Savill, who had arrived in New England by 1641, a nd settled at Braintree [ NEHGR 107:218-20].
COMMENTS: Waldo Chamberlain Sprague commissioned research i n the parish registers of Saffron Walden, Essex [ NEHGR 107 :218-20], but in this research the 1632 baptism of the daug hter Hannah (or Ann) was missed. This conflicts with eviden ce about the daughter Mary, whose gravestone claims she die d in 1704 in her seventy-third year [ NEHGR 107:219], whic h would calculate to about 1632, and would make her about f ifteen years old at marriage. Given our knowledge of the ot her children, the options are to place Mary's birth about 1 634, which would make her impossibly young at marriage, o r about 1628, which would make her about nineteen years ol d at marriage, but which would conflict withthe graveston e evidence. We have chosen the latter course.
On 28 May 1659 in answer "to the petition of Samuel Basse , the town of Braintrje [sic] having petitioned for a new p lantation, it is ordered, that the petitioner, with his son s, may have liberty to join with those of his neighbors whi ch will carry on such a work, with allowance of one hundre d & fifty acres, within the bounds of the said plantation , more than his just proportion with the rest of his neighb ors" [ MBCR 4:1:377].
Mary, daughter of Samuel Bass, born at Braintree 26 April 1 643 [ NEHGR 3:126], has been ascribed to Samuel Junior (Cha rissa Taylor Bass and Emma Lee Walton, Descendants of Deaco n Samuel & Ann Bass [Freeport IL 1940], p. 5), but this mus t be the youngest child of Samuel Senior, and the entry a n error for Sarah. Samuel Junior would be only sixteen at t he time of the birth of this child, and the record does no t distinguish between Senior and Junior, indicating that Ju nior was not yet of age. Thus, the only child of Samuel Jun ior is his son Samuel, and from the probate proceedings w e learn that this child was born shortly before the father' s death.
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Note: *SAMUEL, Roxbury 1632, freem. 14 May 1634; rem. in 16 40 to Braintree, was the first deac. there 50 yrs. rep. 164 1, and oft. later; by w. Ann had Samuel, Mary, and Hannah , b. prob. in Eng. and John, Thomas, Joseph, and Sarah, b . here. His w. d. 5 Sept. 1663, and he d. 30 Dec. 1694, age d 93, hav. seen 162 descend. His d. Mary m. 20 Sept. 1647 , Elder John Capen of Dorchester, as his sec. w.; Hannah m . 15 Nov. 1651, Stephen Paine; and Sarah m. deac. John Ston e of Watertown, a. 1662, bore him ten ch. next m. 10 May 16 93, Joseph Penniman, and was liv. Sept. 1739. (Savage 1:135 ) 1
Birth: 04 MAY 1600 in Saffron Walden, Essex, England 2
Death: 30 DEC 1694 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusett s 2 1 3 4 5 6
Immigration: 1633 Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Note: in Winthrop's Fleet 7 4 8
Event: Freeman 14 MAY 1634 1 9 10 11
Residence: 1632 near Hog Bridge, Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk , Massachusetts 1 12
Residence: 1640 Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts
Note: (the part in which he settled is now Quincy) 1 12 4 1 3 14
Occupation: first Deacon of the Church of Braintree for mor e than 50 years 1 3 4 15
Event: Misc 1632 Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Note: was admitted as member #78 of the first church 4 16
Will: 11 MAY 1694 Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts
Note: In his will, dated 11 May 1694 and proved 31 Januar y 1694/5, Samuel Bass of Braintree bequeathed to son John B ass ten acres of salt marsh, a woodlot in the Captain's Pla in, the malthouse and the orchard before it, half the wel l and half the kitchen, some lands in the Stony Field, a qu arter of the upland in the farm, and any of the marsh in ex cess of thirty acres; to son Thomas Bass ten acres of sal t marsh, a woodlot in the Captain's Field, and a quarter o f the upland in the farm; to son Joseph Bass ten acres of s alt marsh (valued at £100), the house he lives in and the o rchard on the back side of it, the fresh meadow on the eas t end of it, a feather bed and the furniture and bedstead b elonging to it (all of which is valued at £100), also the b arn and two acres on which it stands, "two acres of land a t the head of the home lot & one acre adjoining to the tw o acres which was John Dassitt's part of a five acre lot, " half the kitchen and half the well, and seven acres in St ony Field (all of which is valued at œ100), also a woodlo t already set out to him in Captain's Plain (which, with th e stock and movables already given to him, is valued at œ10 0), also a quarter of the upland in the farm, and "what I h ave given my son Joseph Bass my will is that he shall not a lienate or sell it away without the approbation of his tw o brothers & if he have children he may give it to them o r if he have need to spend it he may for his own comfor t & supply and if he marry a wife he may give her a hundre d pounds of it and no more and the rest which I have not no w disposed of he may give to any of his relations by bloo d as he shall see meet"; to Samuel Bass, carpenter, seven a cres of pasture land in Stony Field, the salt meadows he al ready possesses, a quarter of the upland in the farm, hal f the woodlot given to son Joseph, and £60 out of the estat e of son Joseph, and to Joseph Bass Junior £40 out of the e state of son Joseph, and to grandson Samuel Bass, cooper, £ 40 out of the estate of son Joseph Bass (all these to be i f son Joseph has no children, if he doesn't spend the estat e, and after the death of son Joseph); to daughter Mary Cap en £40 and to daughter Sarah Penniman £20 out of the uplan d in the farm, and to these two daughters five cows; to Joh n Bass Junior the malthouse (if he outlive his father), tw o acres of planting ground in Stony Field, four acres of pa sture land in Stony Field, and half an acre where his bar n stands; to granddaughters (except Sarah Biling) movable h ousehold goods, and Hannah Walsbey is to share with them; a nd to sons John Bass and Thomas Bass any uplands otherwis e undisposed of, they to be executors 17
Probate: 31 JAN 1694/95 18
Occupation: representative to the General Court||many time s (2 June 1641, 3 May 1654, 6 May 1657, 27 May 1663, 18 Ma y 1664, 3 August 1664) Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts
Will: Note:
ESTATE: On 15 January 1666/7 the heirs of William Tyng sol d to Deacon Samuel Bass, Edmund Quinsey, Gregory Belcher, W illiam Savell and Joseph Crosby, all of Braintree, for £190 0 "all that farm in Braintree aforesaid, which did belong u nto the said Capt: William Tyng, in the time of his life ca lled or known by the name of Salter's Farm, in which the sa id Gregory Belcher doth now inhabit and dwell, with all th e houses, barns, stables, outhouses, yards, gardens, orchar ds, with all the upland, arable land, woodland, meadows, pl ains and swamp" [ SLR 5:229-31, 342-43]. On 28 October 167 0 "Deacon Samuel Bass of Brantery" sold to John Ruggles o f the same town for £16 two acres of salt marsh in Braintre e "which formerly was part of a farm called or known by th e name of Salter's Farm" [ SLR 11:311-12]. On 18 February 1 681/2 the purchasers of this land (or their heirs) confirme d a division of the farm, "which several parts were laid ou t in several divisions of land & meadow & swamp according t o each man's proportion," in which Samuel Bass received one -quarter of the farm [ SLR 12:265-66]. On the same day Samu el Bass Sr., Joseph Crosby and John Savell, executor to th e will of William Savell, deceased, all of Braintree, excha nged land with Lt. Edmond Quinsey of Braintree, giving hi m "thirty & two acres of land and meadow more or less lyin g and being in Braintery aforesaid and being a part of th e farm called Salter's farm ..." [ SLR 12:171].
On 26 April 1668 Joshua Fisher laid out forty acres for Sam uel Bass, and on 27 May 1668 the General Court confirmed th e grant [ MBCR 4:2:386-87].
On 29 August 1672 Samuel Bass of Braintree, yeoman, sold t o John Hull of Boston, goldsmith, for £50 two parcels at Bo gastow near Medfield, one parcel being half of a two hundre d acre lot, and the other being forty acres; Ann Bass wif e of Samuel consented [ SLR 5:15-16]. On 20 June 1674 Thoma s Bass of Braintree, yeoman, sold to John Hull for £30 "al l that parcel of land at Bogastow being the one half of tw o hundred acres formerly sold by Daniel Morse unto Samuel B ass and the other half lately sold by said Samuel Bass unt o the said John Hull"; Sarah Bass wife of Thomas consente d [ SLR 5:16-18].
In his will, dated 11 May 1694 and proved 31 January 1694/5 , Samuel Bass of Braintree bequeathed to son John Bass te n acres of salt marsh, a woodlot in the Captain's Plain, th e malthouse and the orchard before it, half the well and ha lf the kitchen, some lands in the Stony Field, a quarter o f the upland in the farm, and any of the marsh in excess o f thirty acres; to son Thomas Bass ten acres of salt marsh , a woodlot in the Captain's Field, and a quarter of the up land in the farm; to son Joseph Bass ten acres of salt mars h (valued at £100), the house he lives in and the orchard o n the back side of it, the fresh meadow on the east end o f it, a feather bed and the furniture and bedstead belongin g to it (all of which is valued at £100), also the barn an d two acres on which it stands, "two acres of land at the h ead of the home lot & one acre adjoining to the two acres w hich was John Dassitt's part of a five acre lot," half th e kitchen and half the well, and seven acres in Stony Fiel d (all of which is valued at £100), also a woodlot alread y set out to him in Captain's Plain (which, with the stoc k and movables already given to him, is valued at £100), al so a quarter of the upland in the farm, and "what I have gi ven my son Joseph Bass my will is that he shall not alienat e or sell it away without the approbation of his two brothe rs & if he have children he may give it to them or if he ha ve need to spend it he may for his own comfort & supply an d if he marry a wife he may give her a hundred pounds of i t and no more and the rest which I have not now disposed o f he may give to any of his relations by blood as he shal l see meet"; to Samuel Bass, carpenter, seven acres of past ure land in Stony Field, the salt meadows he already posses ses, a quarter of the upland in the farm, half the woodlo t given to son Joseph, and £60 out of the estate of son Jos eph, and to Joseph Bass Junior £40 out of the estate of so n Joseph, and to grandson Samuel Bass, cooper, £40 out of t he estate of son Joseph Bass (all these to be if son Josep h has no children, if he doesn't spend the estate, and afte r the death of son Joseph); to daughter Mary Capen £40 an d to daughter Sarah Penniman £20 out of the upland in the f arm, and to these two daughters five cows; to John Bass Jun ior the malthouse (if he outlive his father), two acres o f planting ground in Stony Field, four acres of pasture lan d in Stony Field, and half an acre where his barn stands; t o granddaughters (except Sarah Biling) movable household go ods, and Hannah Walsbey is to share with them; and to son s John Bass and Thomas Bass any uplands otherwise undispose d of, they to be executors [ SPR Case #2200, 13:538-41].
The inventory of Samuel Bass, taken 3 January 1694/5, total led £942 1s. 6d., of which £891 was real estate: house an d orchard behind it, fresh meadow at the end of it with kit chen and well, £96; malthouse and utensils for malt and orc hard before the malthouse, his part of kitchen and well, £7 0; barn and two acres of land part of which it standeth o n and two acres at the head of it and one acre bought of Jo hn Dassett and seven acres in the Slough Field, £100; sixt y acres of upland in Captain's Plain, £90; thirty acres o f salt marsh, £300; six acres of land lying in the Stony Fi eld, £18; twenty acres of land at the farm at the fourscor e acres, £80; twentyone acres of land at the Great Island a t the farm, £60; eighteen acres of land at the ox pasture i n the farm, £45; eleven acres of land in three parcels at t he farm, £22; and eight acres of swamp, £10 [ SPR Case #220 0, 13:541].

MARRIAGE: Saffron Walden, Essex, 25 April 1625 Anne Savel l [ NEHGR
Immigration: Winthrop's Fleet 1631 Roxbury, Suffolk, MA, USA Note: Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Note: in Winthrop' s Fleet Residence: 1632 Roxbury, Suffolk, MA, USA Note: Residence: 1632 near Hog Bridge, Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk , Massachusetts 1 12 Residence: 1640 Braintree, Norfolk, Ma ssachusetts _UID: 6CBA79111CC447FF99ABD771C6BF53FD3746 Note:
Bass notes that nothing is known of their English ancestors . They came to Roxbury in 1632 and moved to Braintree by 16 40. He immediately became very active in town affairs. Th e town clerk's obituary gives some idea of his involvement : "Deacon Samuel Bass, aged 94, departed this life upon th e 30th day of December 1694, who had been a Deacon of the C hurch of Braintree for the space of 50 years, and was the f ather and grandfather and great grandfather of a hundred an d sixty and two children before he died, the youngest wer e of was Benjimin Bass the son of Joseph Bass and Mary hi s wife, born seven days before his death. He represented th e town in no less that twelve General Courts, served on imp ortant Committees, was Selectman innumerable times and acti ve in the Church and all the time continued his farming."

There is more information about his children that has not b een entered. They married into many of the colonial familie s that we seem to come across.

"Samuel with his wife Anne and one or two young children, w ere among the first settlers of the Mass. Bay Colony, comin g to it about 1630. He settled first in Roxbury, near Hoy B ridge. He and his wife were enrolled among the earliest mem bers of the first church in that town, which was gathered a s early as 1632. He was admitted freeman May 14, 1634, an d lived in Roxbury until about 1640, when he was chosen an d ordained the first deacon of the church there. In 1641, a nd subsequent years, he represented the town in the Genera l Court, in all, twelve years. "

Source: The Ancestors of My Children by William Copeland Cl ark, published in 1906.

Savage's Genealogical Dictionary says SAMUEL, Roxbury 1632 , freeman. 14 May 1634; rem. in 1640 to Braintree, was th e first deacon there 50 yrs. rep. 1641, and oft. later; b y w. Ann had Samuel, Mary, and Hannah, b. prob. in Eng. an d John, Thomas, Joseph, and Sarah, b. here.

His will. d. 5 Sept. 1663, and he d. 30 Dec. 1694, aged 93 , hav. seen 162 descend. His d. Mary m. 20 Sept. 1647, Elde r John Capen of Dorchester, as his sec. w.; Hannah m. 15 No v. 1651, Stephen Paine; and Sarah m. deac. John Stone of Wa tertown, a. 1662, bore him ten ch. next m. 10 May 1693, Jos eph Penniman, and was liv. Sept. 1739.

Savage V.-1 AB. Comp Vy. N.E. Reg. V=2 p.80, Bonds Watertow n GS0940974 "Births, Marriages, Death of Braintree 1640-184 8" 974.4 H2hl "Hist & Gen. of the Mayflower Planters & 1s t Comers..." 1630 - from England 1632 - Roxbury, MA w/ wif e & at least 2 ch (Southern Bass...) 1634 May 14 - becam e a freeman (Southern Bass - www.gnat.net/~lea) 1640 - Brai ntree (Now Quincy), elected 1st Deacon of church (Souther n Bass
... Hancock's Century Sermons, 1739, p.28) 1660's res = Bog astow or Natick (now Sherborn) w/ son Thomas (Southern Bass ...
Massachusetts Archives 112-136: both signed petition to sep arate town 7 May 1662) 1694 May 11 date of will Inv. 3 Ju n 1694/5 (Southern Bass...) d. age 94 1694 Dec 30 (Souther n Bass...www.gnat.net/~lea/northern.htm): "Deacon Samuel
Bass, aged 94 departed this life upon the 30th day of Decem ber, 1694, who had been a Deacon of the Church of Braintre e for the space of above 50 years and the first Deacon of t hat church, and was the father and grandfather and great gr andfather of a hundred and sixty and two children before h e died, the youngest whereof was Benjamin Bass, son of Jose ph Bass and Mary his wife born seven days before his death. " (Braintree records) Michael Enfield, 5 Nov 1995, SP 2 Se p 1992 OG, married of England Ann Blake Hall, 4 Nov 1995: b irth date & place, married date & place, SP
"Descendants of Deacon Samuel & Ann Bass" by Charles Taylor
"New England Marriages Prior to 1700" by Clarence Almon Tor rey
"Ancestors of American Presidents" by Gary Boyd Boyer
"Gen. Dict. of the First Settles of New England" Vol.1 by J ames Savage
"Gen. of Fourteen Families of Early Settlers of New England " by Elisha
Thayer: "Deacon Samuel Bass, aged 94, departed this life up on the 30th day
of Dec. 1694; who had been a deacon of the Church of Braint ree for the
space of 50 years, and the first deacon of that church; an d was the father
and grandfather and great grandfather of a hundred and sixt y two children,
before he died, the youngest was Benjamin Bass, the son o f Joseph Bass and
Mary his wife, born eleven days before his death." AF 8/8/9 4: gives birth date, Maryland Anne SAVILLE on 25 Apr 1625 d /o Wm & Hannah
SAVILLE; give 2nd married abt 1622 Anne SUTTON 3rd bef 164 2 Anne STONE

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