Martha (or Sarah) Bass

Not the wife of Benjamin Bass, Sr., of Granville County

Biography

Martha (or Sarah) Hicks, daughter of Robert Hicks and Mary Courtney, married 1760 in Brunswick VA to Benjamin Bass (son of James Bass and Mary Lanier). He was born 1735 in Sussex., Co. VA or NC, and died February 20, 1798 in Brunswick Co., VA.

Children of Benjamin Bass and Martha Sarah Hicks include:

1. Mary Bass, b. 1761, d. date unknown.
2. John Hicks Bass, b. 1763, VA, d. date unknown.
3. Fredrick Bass, b. 1770, d. date unknown.
4. Wyatt Bass, b. Abt. 1772, VA, d. date unknown.
5. Ann Bass, b. August 23, 1773, Brunswick County, Virginia, d. date unknown.
6. Martha Bass, b. Abt. 1775, Brunswick Co., VA, d. date unknown.
7. Nathan Hale Bass, b. May 07, 1779, Brunswick Co., VA, d. September 10, 1860, Giles Co., TN.
8. Lydia Bass, b. Abt. 1781, Brunswick, Virginia, d. date unknown.
9. Sarah Eliza Bass, b. February 10, 1790, Brunswick County, Virginia, d. date unknown.
10. Henry Bass, b. Abt. 1792, VA, d. date unknown.

Note: "John James Bass" is actually two men, the sons of Thomas Bass (Benjamin's brother).

In Thomas Bass's will of 1786, he names:

• his wife Mary
• sons Hartwell, John, and James,
• daughters Tempie Warren, Elizabeth Green, and Nancy Stainback.

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Origins

From a transcription of his will, the following are probably the daughters and sons-in-law of Robert Hicks (1782):

"...Paul Tatum, Mary Hicks, Tabitha Hicks, James Vaughan, James Bruce and Lewis Peebles, and lastly I constitute and appoint my son-in-law Paul Tatum my whole and sole executor...

son Nathan and son-in-law Benjamin Bass are also named in the will.

Which daughter was married to Tatum, Vaughan, Bruce, Peebles, and Bass is not stated in the will.

References

1. "Will of Robert Hicks 1782" < link >; (document attached)
2. https://www.ancestry.com/boards/surnames.hicks/7859