Person:Metheldred Bass (1)

Name: Philemon BASS
Written Dec. 17, 1814.
Contains the following genealogical data.
My sons: John & Talbert
My daughter: Polly
My wife: Patsy
My children: Elizabeth, Nelly, John, Katherine, Tolbert, William.
My children: Sally, Polly, Nancy, Metheldred, Warren & Isaac.
Co-Executors: My wife & Anderson Cockerill
Witnesses: John Elmore[next door neighbor], Anderson Cockerill [deacon with their Baptist congregation], Elizabeth BASS [sis-in-law?].
Probated Feb. 1815. [Philemon had died 12 JAN 1815]

Males Females
<10 10-15 16-25 26-44 45+ <10 10-15 16-25 26-44 45+

Phillemon Bass 4 0 0 1 0 - 1 2 2 1 0 total: 11

4 male <10 b. 1791-1800 [Metheldred, William, Isaac, & John]
1 male 26-44 b. 1756-1774 [Philemon]
1 female <10 b. 1791-1800 [Nelly]
2 female 10-15 b. 1785-1790 [Mary “Polly” & Elizabeth]
2 female 16-25 b. 1775-1784 [Nancy & Sarah “Sally”]
1 female 26-44 b. 1756-1774 [Martha “Patsy”]

NOTE: apparently the family moves to Barren Co., KY by 1803.
cf. John BUSH to Nancy BASS 15 Jan 1803.
and daughter Catherine, b. ~1803 KY.

Males Females
<10 10-15 16-25 26-44 45+ <10 10-15 16-25 26-44 45+

Philemon Bass 3 1 2 0 1 - 1 1 1 0 1 total: 11

3 male <10 b. 1801-1810 [John, Warren & Talbert]
1 male 10-15 b. 1795-1800 [Isaac]
2 male 16-25 b. 1785-1794 [Metheldred & William]
1 male 45+ b. <1765 [Philemon]
1 female <10 b. 1801-1810 [Catharine]
1 female 10-15 b. 1795-1800 [Nelly]
1 female 16-25 b. 1785-1794 [Elizabeth]
1 female 45+ b. <1765 [Martha “Patsy”]

[
Name: Bass, Methridrid
Place: ALABAMA TERRITORY, CHEROKEE COUNTRY
Date: ~June 1819
]
Your petitioners believing that the same indulgence would be extended to
them as has been the constant practice to others in similar
circumstances, induced them to settle on the lands lately ceded to the
United States by the Cherokees on the north side of Tennessee River nor
did the order ever appear until late in the month of May of this year,
leaving a removal of the citizens impracticable if not impossible. Your
petitioners are poor but industrious farmers and to deprive them of
their hard earnings in the wilderness and thus destroy their labor,
where will your petitioners apply for bread for their starving families;
this order enforced will involve at least ONE THOUSAND families in total
ruins, nor will the evil end here. Your petitioners must subsist
somewhere & thus become unwelcome guests to the frontier counties to buy
a little support for their starving children. The Indians are not
desirous of having the intruders driven from this land North of
Tennessee (River), those being few in numbers, & most of which have
taken reservations and are good neighbors, your petitioners therefore
knowing the _lenity_ of their government and believing they will take
our case into consideration will ever pray: "

There were 237 signatures on this Memorial. A large number of these
men were among the first to purchase land in Jackson County [Alabama] when
government land was first offered for sale in this county in June 1830.
A sampling of names found in the first land plat books and the 1830
Jackson County, Alabama census include ( but are not limited to) men who
were among the first settlers of King's Cove, Doran's Cove, Bolivar,
Big Coon, and Crow Creek Valley:
Metheldred Bass, Isham Burks, Absolem Forbush/Forbes, Lewis Cargile, Daniel Cameron, John Looney Benjamin, Charles and Thomas Corbitt, Robert Morris, William Thornton William, Richard and Joshua Jenkins, Patrick Byrd, Thomas Williams, John Matthews, J. Hardwick, Richard Farris, John Johnson, Wilson Allen, Oliver Charles, James Rutherford, Peter Blancett, John Maxwell, Thomas Boas, Joshua Townsend, Israel Blagg, Joseph and Thomas Frost, R. B. Clayton, William Hutton, John Hutton, Joshua Townsend, Robert Parker, Enagey Price, Kinchen Price, James Gilliland, William Dawson, Edwin Price, John Price, Henry and James Lollar, Joel Wimberly.

Males Females
<5 5-10 10-15 16-20 20-30 30-40 - <5 5-10 10-15 16-20 20-30 30-40

Matheldred Bass 2 1 2 1 0 1 - 1 1 0 0 0 1

2 male <5 b. 1826-1830 ?AL/MO
1 male 5-10 b. 1820-1825 ?AL
2 male 10-15 b. 1815-1820 ?KY/AL
1 male 16-20 b. 1810-1814 KY
1 male 30-40 b. 1790-1800 VA [Metheldred]
1 female <5 b. 1826-1830 ?AL/MO
1 female 5-10 b. 1820-1825 ?AL
1 female 30-40 b. 1790-1800 [?Lucretia]

Pension application of Philip Bass W23482 Patsy fn50NC

Transcribed by Will Graves

State of Missouri, Moniteau County

On this 25th day of November 1845 before the subscriber one of the Judges of the County Court in and for the County and State aforesaid (the same being a Court of Record and so decided by the law creating it) personally appeared Patsy Bass-- a resident of said County, aged 81 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed 7th June 1838, Entitled “An Act granting half pay and Pensions to certain Widows.” That she is the widow of Philip Bass who was a private in the Army of the revolution, and served in the whole two years in different tours of duty in the Militia of North Carolina: She is not able to state the names of his Officers as she had no personal knowledge of them – Nor the times of his entering the service – In the year 1786 she was with her husband at Guilford Court House North Carolina, and he then pointed out to her the field of Battle and showed her some cannon which had been used in the engagement and said he was in that Battle under General Green [sic, Nathanael Greene]; she further Declares that she was married to the said Philip Bass on the 22nd day of January in the year 1782, in the County of Pittsylvania in the State of Virginia by Publication, that her Maiden name was Patsy Mullins, and that her husband, the aforesaid Philip Bass died the 12th day of January 1815, and that she still remains his Widow. She further Declares that she was not married to the said Philip Bass prior to his leaving the Service – But that the marriage took place previous to the first day of January 1794, viz. at the time above stated.

S/ Patsy Bass, X her mark

Subscribed and sworn to before me on the day and year first above mentioned.

S/ Buford Allec, Judge

[Katherine Sortore gave an affidavit dated November 25, 1845 in Moniteau County, Missouri, in which she states that Philip Bass died in the state of Kentucky on January 12, 1815 leaving a widow named Patsy Bass, who remains his widow; that the family records of Philip and Patsy Bass were destroyed in a house fire of Matheldred[Metheldred] Bass in the State of Kentucky.]

[Esther Renfro, 83, widow of John Renfro, gave an affidavit in Barren County, Ky, dated Sept. 9, 1846; she states that she first became acquainted with Philip and Martha Bass in 1791 in Union District, SC; that their families removed to Ky at the same time; that Philip died in Ky and is buried about 7 miles from where Esther gave her affidavit [in Barren County, Ky], that Martha Bass continued the widow of Philip as long as she lived in Ky; that Philip and Martha had a son named William in the spring after they settled in SC; that they already had two children at that time, Dread and Sarah and that they thereafter had several other children, to wit: Nancy, Isaac, Bird, Elizabeth, Polly & Kathy; and that Philip was reported to have been a soldier of the Revolution.]

[On April 12, 1851, Catherine Sortone[Sotore] gave an affidavit stating that Patsy Bass at the time of her death only has four [other] children living, namely Elizabeth Bass of Cedar County, Missouri; Polly Goodman, wife of John Goodman of Morgan County, Missouri; Talbert Bass of Cooper County, Missouri; and Sally Wood, widow of Pleasant Wood of Barren County, Ky.; Catherin Sortone[Sortore], formerly Catherine Bass and her husband John Sortone[Sortore] reside in Moniteau County, Missouri.]