Benjamin
Bass
Born in Braintree, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay
Ancestors 
Son of Joseph Bass
and Mary (Belcher) Bass
Brother of
Mary (Bass) Miller, Joseph Bass, Moses Bass, Ruth (Bass) Trott, John Bass, Elizabeth Allen (Bass) Henshaw and Alden Bass
Husband of
Mary (Gardner) Bass
— married
3 Nov 1729 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay
Died
at age 61
in Hanover, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay
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Biography
Married Mary Gardner, daughter of Rev. James and Mary (_____) Gardner.
Benjamin and Mary (Gardner) Bass had the following (3) children:
- Mary, b. 30 Oct. 1730; died 21 March 1802
- Elizabeth, b. 18 March 1733; m. Edmund Sylvester
- Benjamin, b. 6 June 1741; m. Mercy Tolman, m. Mary Eells.
Probate
Benjamin died intestate and on 5 July 1756, his widow Mary and David Stockbridge of Hanover were granted the administration of his estate.[1]
His inventory was taken on 23 and 24 July 1756 in Hanover. He was a slaveholder. His inventory included an enslaved black man and an enslaved black woman, who is not named in the document.[2] The 1754 Massachusetts Slave Census indicates that Bass enslaved a 22-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy.[3] Furthermore, the Rev. Bass records in his church diary that he baptized his enslaved child Titus in 1742, who may be the 17-year-old in the 1754 census and the man listed as moveable property in Bass' probate file.[4]
Sources
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L97D-X453 : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1755-1758 and 1859-1862 vol 14-14E > image 52 of 498; State Archives, Boston.
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L97D-X4VY : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1755-1758 and 1859-1862 vol 14-14E > image 87-88 of 498; State Archives, Boston.
- ↑ 1754 Massachusetts Slave Census. online: PrimaryResearch.org
- ↑ Church records, 1728-1756, First Congregational Church of Hanover, Mass. Entry #255. online: Congregational Library & Archives. Boston, MA.
- Esther Littleford Woodsworth-Barnes, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Vol 16, Part 1, The Descendants of John Alden, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2002. "The Silver Book" Page 480
- Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/145441761/benjamin-bass : accessed 02 May 2021), memorial page for Rev Benjamin Bass (19 Dec 1694–24 May 1756), Find A Grave: Memorial #145441761, citing Hanover Center Cemetery, Hanover, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by James Bianco (contributor 47745493) .
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