Person:John Bass (1)

He was the son of Deacon Samuel Bass, of Roxbury, who came from England with his wife Ann in 1630 with Gen. John Johnson and Winthrop.

John and Ruth were ancestors of the Presidents Adams

From Frank Dyer <FrankD1075@@aol.com>

John Bass was elected fenceviewer in 1695, tithingman in 1701, and constable in 1710 but refused it. He was a wheelwright and malster.

Three of John's children married children of Joseph Adams.

Abstract of Will of John Bass

Sons: Daughters: John Bass Mary Copeland Samuel Bass Sarah Thayer Joseph Bass

Grandchildren: John Bass, Jr. Samuel Bass (son of John) Two granddaughters, children of deceased Ruth & Hannah

To son John who is to be executor 1 acre called calf pasture & all other estate not here disposed of to him for life, then to his son John or the next heir if he does not survive. To son Samuel all lands at Stand Brook in Salter's Farm, part of the four score acres & half my land at Rye Island (whole is 10 acres) on the N. side and a strap of land in the house lot in Salter's Farm near 2 a. of the plain lot as far as the fence goes etc. To son Joseph I have already given his full part and add 5/. To two daughters Mary Copeland & Sarah Thayer 1 acre each salt marsh for life, then to son John etc. and £10 and the household moveables. To grand daughters that are children of my two deceased daughters Ruth & Hannah 10/ each, at age. To grandson John Bass a spot of land where he built a house, 1/2 my barn etc. Witness: Susanna Webb, Jonathan Webb, Benjamin Webb.

19-270 Inventory of John Bass Feb.11,1716 by Solomon Vesey, John Cleverly, Peter Adams: 14 acres in Captains Plain 10 a. in pasture & Stoney field 1 lot in the 600 acres 1 share in the Pine Swamp 10 a. at Rye Island 4 a. in the Farm

S.P. 8-326-7 New Series: Joseph Bass & Ephraim Thayer object to probate of will of John Bass 1716 & say he was insane and non - compos etc. Oct.22,1716. Several reasons given in petition.

As for son Joseph Bass, the will stated that he had already received his full portion to which was added five shillings. Joseph Bass, on October 1716, petitioned that his father's will be not proven for several reasons, including the report that his father was "under great insanity of mind" and "stricken in years" and "non compos mentis".

1.   Alden, Mrs. Charles L. Alden Genealogy. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1898)
   52:435.

   "John Bass was born about 1632, son of Samuel and Ann Bass. He married second, Hannah Stuartephant of Plymouth, 21.7.1675. She was also called Ann. He died "12 Sept. 1716, in ye 84 year of his age." I am told there is no stone at the grave of Ruth. He made his will 5 June, 1716. He gives to his three sons, John, Samuel, and Joseph, and to two living daughters, Mary Copeland and to Sarah Thayer and to "all my granddaughters that are the children of my two deceased daughters, Ruth and Hannah -- ten shillings apiece to be paid to each one of them by my Executor in convenient time after my decease to such as are of age.""

2.   James Bowen Johnson. JOHNSON: The Johnson Memorial. (Washington DC: Howard University Print, 1895)
   p. 16.
3.   Waldo Chamberlain Sprague, AB. Genealogy of the Families of Braintree, Mass 1640-1850
   p. 18, 123, 344, 347.
4.   Vital Records - Miscellaneous Sources.

   Braintree, Mass Deaths & Marriages

5.   William Kenneth Rutherford & Anna Clay (Zimmerman) Rutherford. Genealogical History of Our Ancestors. (Privately printed Lexington, Missouri 1971).

   baptized

6. ↑ Roberts, Gary Boyd. Ancestors of American Presidents. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009)
   pp. 3-6.
7. ↑ Waldo Chamberlain Sprague. Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, MA 1640-1850. (Frank E. Dyer)
   pp. 18; 123, 344, 347, 6154.
8. ↑ Sprague, Waldo Chamberlain, "Notes on the English Origin of Dea. Samuel Bass and William Savil of Braintree, Mass.", in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   107: 218-220, July 1953.