Notes for Whaley Newby:
Served as a coastal patroller in Louisa Co. VA. during the Revolutionary War.
The records of Falltown show that Silas Newcomb was there 24 Sept. 1741 and again 14 Dec. 1744 when certain grants were given him. On 25 Dec. 1742 he bought of his father ten lots in 1st Division of Falltown. Owing to the hostility of the Indians, 1744-45, he was compelled to leave and returned to Lebanon, CT, his future home.
Was elected surveyor in 1784, fence-viewer in 1750-51.
The inventory of his estate at death amounted to 818 lbs+, the home was appraised at 486 pounds, and the land in Bernardston (now Leyden) at 45 pounds.
SAMUEL BASS
ORIGIN: Saffron Walden, Essex MIGRATION: 1633 FIRST RESIDENCE: Roxbury REMOVES: Braintree 1640 OCCUPATION: Yeoman. CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: "Samuell Basse" admitted to Roxbury church as member #78, in a group of 1633 immigrants [RChR <javascript:APop(p2432,130,156);> 78]. His death record in 1694 tells us that he "had been a deacon of the church of Braintree for the space of above fifty years and the first deacon of that church" [BrVR <javascript:APop(p2433,120,144);> 660]. FREEMAN: 14 May 1634 [MBCR <javascript:APop(p2434,150,180);> 1:368]. EDUCATION: Signed his will. First Braintree town clerk [MBCR <javascript:APop(p2434,150,180);> 1:329]. OFFICES: Braintree deputy to General Court, 2 June 1641, 3 May 1654, 6 May 1657, 27 May 1663, 18 May 1664, 3 August 1664 [MBCR <javascript:APop(p2434,150,180);> 1:319, 4:1:182, 286, 4:2:72, 100, 117]; commissioner to perform marriages and keep records at Braintree, 2 June 1641 [MBCR <javascript:APop(p2434,150,180);> 1:329]; committee on bridge over Naponset River (as "Deacon Basse"), 29 May 1655 [MBCR <javascript:APop(p2434,150,180);> 4:1:231]. ESTATE: On 15 January 1666/7 the heirs of William Tyng sold to Deacon Samuel Bass, Edmund Quinsey, Gregory Belcher, William Savell and Joseph Crosby, all of Braintree, for £1900 "all that farm in Braintree aforesaid, which did belong unto the said Capt: William Tyng, in the time of his life called or known by the name of Salter's Farm, in which the said Gregory Belcher doth now inhabit and dwell, with all the houses, barns, stables, outhouses, yards, gardens, orchards, with all the upland, arable land, woodland, meadows, plains and swamp" [SLR <javascript:APop(p2439,140,168);> 5:229-31, 342-43]. On 28 October 1670 "Deacon Samuel Bass of Brantery" sold to John Ruggles of the same town for £16 two acres of salt marsh in Braintree "which formerly was part of a farm called or known by the name of Salter's Farm" [SLR <javascript:APop(p2439,140,168);> 11:311-12]. On 18 February 1681/2 the purchasers of this land (or their heirs) confirmed a division of the farm, "which several parts were laid out in several divisions of land & meadow & swamp according to each man's proportion," in which Samuel Bass received one-quarter of the farm [SLR <javascript:APop(p2439,140,168);> 12:265-66]. On the same day Samuel Bass Sr., Joseph Crosby and John Savell, executor to the will of William Savell, deceased, all of Braintree, exchanged land with Lt. Edmond Quinsey of Braintree, giving him "thirty & two acres of land and meadow more or less lying and being in Braintery aforesaid and being a part of the farm called Salter's farm ..." [SLR <javascript:APop(p2439,140,168);> 12:171]. On 26 April 1668 Joshua Fisher laid out forty acres for Samuel Bass, and on 27 May 1668 the General Court confirmed the grant [MBCR <javascript:APop(p2434,150,180);> 4:2:386-87]. On 29 August 1672 Samuel Bass of Braintree, yeoman, sold to John Hull of Boston, goldsmith, for £50 two parcels at Bogastow near Medfield, one parcel being half of a two hundred acre lot, and the other being forty acres; Ann Bass wife of Samuel consented [SLR <javascript:APop(p2439,140,168);> 5:15-16]. On 20 June 1674 Thomas Bass of Braintree, yeoman, sold to John Hull for £30 "all that parcel of land at Bogastow being the one half of two hundred acres formerly sold by Daniel Morse unto Samuel Bass and the other half lately sold by said Samuel Bass unto the said John Hull"; Sarah Bass wife of Thomas consented [SLR <javascript:APop(p2439,140,168);> 5:16-18]. In his will, dated 11 May 1694 and proved 31 January 1694/5, Samuel Bass of Braintree bequeathed to son John Bass ten acres of salt marsh, a woodlot in the Captain's Plain, the malthouse and the orchard before it, half the well and half the kitchen, some lands in the Stony Field, a quarter of the upland in the farm, and any of the marsh in excess of thirty acres; to son Thomas Bass ten acres of salt marsh, a woodlot in the Captain's Field, and a quarter of the upland in the farm; to son Joseph Bass ten acres of salt marsh (valued at £100), the house he lives in and the orchard on the back side of it, the fresh meadow on the east end of it, a feather bed and the furniture and bedstead belonging to it (all of which is valued at £100), also the barn and two acres on which it stands, "two acres of land at the head of the home lot & one acre adjoining to the two acres which was John Dassitt's part of a five acre lot," half the kitchen and half the well, and seven acres in Stony Field (all of which is valued at £100), also a woodlot already set out to him in Captain's Plain (which, with the stock and movables already given to him, is valued at £100), also a quarter of the upland in the farm, and "what I have given my son Joseph Bass my will is that he shall not alienate or sell it away without the approbation of his two brothers & if he have children he may give it to them or if he have need to spend it he may for his own comfort & supply and if he marry a wife he may give her a hundred pounds of it and no more and the rest which I have not now disposed of he may give to any of his relations by blood as he shall see meet"; to Samuel Bass, carpenter, seven acres of pasture land in Stony Field, the salt meadows he already possesses, a quarter of the upland in the farm, half the woodlot given to son Joseph, and £60 out of the estate of son Joseph, and to Joseph Bass Junior £40 out of the estate of son Joseph, and to grandson Samuel Bass, cooper, £40 out of the estate of son Joseph Bass (all these to be if son Joseph has no children, if he doesn't spend the estate, and after the death of son Joseph); to daughter Mary Capen £40 and to daughter Sarah Penniman £20 out of the upland in the farm, and to these two daughters five cows; to John Bass Junior the malthouse (if he outlive his father), two acres of planting ground in Stony Field, four acres of pasture land in Stony Field, and half an acre where his barn stands; to granddaughters (except Sarah Biling) movable household goods, and Hannah Walsbey is to share with them; and to sons John Bass and Thomas Bass any uplands otherwise undisposed of, they to be executors [SPR <javascript:APop(p2446,90,108);> Case #2200, 13:538-41]. The inventory of Samuel Bass, taken 3 January 1694/5, totalled £942 1s. 6d., of which £891 was real estate: house and orchard behind it, fresh meadow at the end of it with kitchen and well, £96; malthouse and utensils for malt and orchard before the malthouse, his part of kitchen and well, £70; barn and two acres of land part of which it standeth on and two acres at the head of it and one acre bought of John Dassett and seven acres in the Slough Field, £100; sixty acres of upland in Captain's Plain, £90; thirty acres of salt marsh, £300; six acres of land lying in the Stony Field, £18; twenty acres of land at the farm at the fourscore acres, £80; twentyone acres of land at the Great Island at the farm, £60; eighteen acres of land at the ox pasture in the farm, £45; eleven acres of land in three parcels at the farm, £22; and eight acres of swamp, £10 [SPR <javascript:APop(p2446,90,108);> Case #2200, 13:541]. BIRTH: About 1600 based on age at death. DEATH: Braintree 30 December 1694 aged 94 [BrVR <javascript:APop(p2433,120,144);> 660]. MARRIAGE: Saffron Walden, Essex, 25 April 1625 Anne Savell [NEHGR <javascript:APop(p2449,110,132);> 107:220]; she is probably the Ann Savell, daughter of William, baptized at Saffron Walden 26 April 1601 [NEHGR <javascript:APop(p2449,110,132);> 107:220]; "Ann Basse the wife of Samuell Basse" was admitted to Roxbury church as member #79, immediately after her husband [RChR <javascript:APop(p2432,130,156);> 78]; she died Braintree 5 September 1693 aged 93 [BrVR <javascript:APop(p2433,120,144);> 660]. CHILDREN:
i SAMUEL, bp. Saffron Walden 11 May 1626 [NEHGR <javascript:APop(p2449,110,132);> 107:220]; m. by 1653 (and probably a few years earlier) Mary Howard, daughter of Robert Howard. (Samuel Bass had died by 1653, and on 22 December 1653 the probate court "on the widow's relinquishing her right in the thirds did judge it meet and determined that the whole estate shall be equally divided between the mother and the child, and that Mr. Howard in behalf of his daughter shall give good security to deliver the child of the said Samuel Bass deceased one half of the said estate at the age of fourteen years" [SPR <javascript:APop(p2446,90,108);> 2:109-11, 3-68-72].)
ii MARY, b. about 1628; m. 20 September 1647 as his second wife John Capen [NEHGR <javascript:APop(p2449,110,132);> 2:80], son of BERNARD CAPEN </cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=greatmigrationindex&f3=jumptoBERNARDCAPEN>.
iii JOHN, bp. Saffron Walden 18 September 1630 [NEHGR <javascript:APop(p2449,110,132);> 107:220]; m. (1) Braintree 3 February 1657/8 Ruth Alden [BrVR <javascript:APop(p2433,120,144);> 716], daughter of JOHN ALDEN </cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=greatmigrationindex&f3=jumptoJOHNALDEN>; m. (2) Braintree 21 September 1675 Hannah (_____) Sturtevant, widow of Samuel Sturtevant [BrVR <javascript:APop(p2433,120,144);> 718].
iv ANN (or Hannah), bp. Saffron Walden 25 November 1632 [from original register]; m. (1) Braintree 15 November 1651 Stephen Paine [BrVR <javascript:APop(p2433,120,144);> 629]; m. (2) Taunton 13 September 1692 as his second wife Shadrach Wilbore, son of SAMUEL WILBORE </cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=greatmigrationindex&f3=jumptoSAMUELWILBORE>.
v THOMAS, b. Roxbury about 1635; m. (1) Medfield 4 October 1660 Sarah Wood; m. (2) Braintree 30 November 1680 Susanna (Bate) Blanchard, widow of Nathaniel Blanchard [BrVR <javascript:APop(p2433,120,144);> 719; SLR <javascript:APop(p2439,140,168);> 13:355-56].
vi RUTH, b. Roxbury about 1637; m. Braintree 24 September 1656 David Walsbee [BrVR <javascript:APop(p2433,120,144);> 716].
vii JOSEPH, b. Roxbury say 1639; m. Mary _____, who d. Braintree 15 March 1677/8 [BrVR <javascript:APop(p2433,120,144);> 656]. (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 <javascript:APop(p2449,110,132);> 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 <javascript:APop(p2446,90,108);> 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.)
viii SARAH, b. Braintree 26 April 1643 (erroneously given as Mary) [NEHGR <javascript:APop(p2449,110,132);> 3:126]; m. (1) by 1663 John Stone [Bond <javascript:APop(p2467,150,180);> 586, 951; Simon Stone Gen <javascript:APop(p2468,100,120);> 56-59]; m. (2) (as "Sarah Stone widow of Deacon John Stone of Watertown") Braintree 10 May 1693 Joseph Penniman [BrVR <javascript:APop(p2433,120,144);> 720].
Immediately after his marriage, Hezekiah settled in Lebanon, CT where he spent the rest of his life. As a youth he learned the trade of carpenter and joiner. Owned considerable property in Lebanon.