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Phileman Bass Will
17 Dec 1814; February County Court 1815
In the Name of God Amen:
I, Phileman Bass of the State of Kentucky and County of Barren being weak in Boddy but of a perfect mind and memory thanks be given to God calling unto mind the Mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to Die Do make and Ordain this my Last Will and Testatment that is to say Principally, and first of all I give and recommend my Soul into the hands of Almighty God that gave it and my body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in Decent & Christian manner at the discretion of my Executors then it is my will that my son John Bass & Tolbert Bass shall have the tract of land that I now liv on Divided Equally between them agreeable to quantity and quality then it is my will that My son John Bass shall have a certain Bay mare then I will that my son Talbert Bass have the first Coalt of the above mentioned bay mare also it is my Will that my son Talbert have a certain Pied Cow & calf and increase then I will that my Daughter Polly have one Fether bed then it is my will that my Dearly beloved wife Patsey have a certain Grey horse now in my possession then it is my will that the Remainder of my Property Be Equally divided among the following children to wit: Elizabeth, Nelley, John, Katharine, Tolbert & William then it is my will that the following children to wit: Sally, Poole, Nancy, Methelred, Warren & Isaac be considered pationed with what I have given them it is my will that the whole of my Estate remain in the hands of my beloved wife Patsey her life time except the above mentioned bay mare to my son John to be put in possession of when he becomes of age.
Last of all I do appoint & Constitute my beloved wife Patsey Executrix & Anderson Cockrill Executors of this my Last Will and Testament utterly revokeing & Disannulling all other wills Testaments or bequeaths by me heretofore made in a any wise ratifying & Confirming this and no other to be my Last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal this Seventeenth Day of December One thousand Eight hundred and Fourteen.
Signed Seald and Acknowledge by /s/ Philman (x) Bass (Seal)
the s?d Phileman Bass as his Last
Willam and Testament in the presence of us who in this presents and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as Witnesses:
Attest: John (x) Elmore
Anderson Cockrill
Elizabeth Bass
Barren County Towit February County Court 1815 ? The foregoing writing purporting to be the last will of Philman Bass was returned into Court and proved by the oaths of James Elmore, Anderson Cockrill & Elizabeth Bass the subscribing witnesses thereto after first duly sworn deposeth and Saith that the said Phileman Bass did signed and acknowledge this Instrument to be his last Will and then believe the said Philiman Bass was in his propersion and of a disposing mind and memory and thereupon the said Instrument was ordered to be Recorded as the true last Will and Testament of the said Phleman Bass dec?d.
Teste: W. Logan, Clk.
1800 Federal Census of Union District, South Carolina
Phillimon Bass 400010-10200
4mU10,1m26-45,1fU10,2f16-25
1810 Federal Census of Barren County, Kentucky
Philimon Bass 31201-11101
3mU10,2m10-15,2m16-25,1m45+,1fU10,1f10-16,1f16-25,1f45+
1830 Federal Census of Jackson, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri
Matheldred Bass 212101-110001
2mU5,1m5-10,2m10-15,1m15-20,1m30-40,1fU5,1f5-10,1f30-40
1850 Federal Census of Haw Creek, Morgan County, Missouri (2 Sep 1850)
Vandamin Goodman 44 M Kentucky Farmer 650
Rebecca 45 F Virginia
John 94 M Virginia
Mary 62 F South Carolina
Marg. Houchins 12 F Kentucky
He was a veteran of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. Philip Bass and family lived in Union County, South Carolina before moving to Kentucky. Martha applied for widows pension in 1845 from Moniteauy County, Missouri.
2.2 Philip Bass W23482 Patsy fn50NC, in Widow Rev War Pension Application.
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.]
Will of Philemon BASS, in Barren Co., KY Will Book 1/A.
p. 276
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]
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