Person:Joseph Bass (5)

Joseph was probably born at Roxbury. Joseph Bass "joyner" was elected tithingman 1705.

    The will of Joseph Bass Sr. is dated 5 April 1710:

Joseph Bass in his will dated Apr.5,1710, gives his estate to his brothers and sisters, so had no wife or child living then. On Jul.22,1717 the selectmen voted to inquire about a legacy given by Joseph Bass deceased to Hannah Walesby. To brother John Bass Sr. Ð10. To sister Hannah Wilbore Ð5. To sister Sarah Penniman Ð5. To kinsman Samuel Bass, carpenter, 1/2 my woodlot at the at the plain & other half divided between my cousin Joseph Adams Sr. & cousin Theophilus Curtis. To cousin Samuel Capen of Dorchester 40/. To kinsman John Bass of Lebanon 40/. To my loving friend James Freeman of Boston 30/. To friend Samuel Tompson 6/. To Hannah Walesby liberty to use the S. end of my dwelling house while unmarried and use that land I bought of John Dosset Sr. of Boston & 1 cow for her use & 1 barrel cyder & fire wood at her door, and if she go away or marry Ð5 & a bed etc. All rest of estate 1/2 to cousin John Bass, drummer, and after him to his two eldest sons John & Samuel & other 1/2 to his brother Samuel Bass, deacon of the South Church in Braintree & after him his son Jonathan Bass. Executors my two cousins John Bass & Dea. Samuel Bass with brothers John & Thomas overseers. Witnesses: Samuel Tompson, Samuel Baxter, Bethiah Tompson.

    Inventory of Joseph Bass was taken 15 February 1714/1715 by Joseph Allen, John Cleverly & Benj. Webb: 2 acres .. House barn & 2 acres Ð220/0/0; 4 acres salt marsh, lands in Stoney field, other lands.

"On 11 May 1694, when his father made his will, Joseph was unmarried and childless. On 23 December 1700, a daughter Deborah was baptized, with parents Joseph and Deborah Bass [NEHGR 59:361], and the claim has been made that this represents a second marriage for this Joseph. In his will, dated 5 April 1710, Joseph Bass Sr. named no wife or children, and made bequests to his siblings, to children of his siblings, and to friends [SPR 18:447-48]. As the proposed second marriage for Joseph rests on this single record, and as it may be a defective record or may apply to another Joseph, we do not take it as evidence of a second marriage."^[4]

1. ↑ Waldo Chamberlain Sprague. Notes on the English Origin of Dea. Samuel Bass and William Savil of Braintree, Mass. (Boston: The New England Historic Genealogical Register, July 1953, Vol. 107)
   pp. 218-220.
2. ↑ Waldo Chamberlain Sprague. Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, MA 1640-1850. (Frank E. Dyer)
   p. 344, 348.
3. ↑ Charisse Taylor Bass & Emma Lee Walton. Descendants of Deacon Samuel and Ann Bass. (privately printed, Freeport, IL, 1940)
   pp. 1-5.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4} "Samuel Bass", in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
   I:126.