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- Richmond Whig
Richmond, Virginia
Tuesday, May 27, 1834
The Death Of Another Revolutionary Patriot
Died
At his residence, in Chesterfield County, on the 26th April, Edward Bass, Sen. in the 80th year of his age. On the first breaking out of the Revolution, in 1775, Mr. Bass enlisted as a volunteer in the minute service, and remained some time at Williamsburg, under the command of Patrick Henry. From that time to the termination of the war, by the surrender of the British Army at York, he was frequently called into service, and generally acted as Orderly Sergeant; during which time, he served under some of the most distinguished officers of the Revolution. Mr. Bass was born in the county of Chesterfield, the 15th August, 1741, and passed his long life in the same neighborhood, without reproach, and, it is believed, without ever having had an enemy. He was a man of excellent sense, and no one could look upon his countenance without being struck with the expression of goodness and truth impressed upon his features, denoting a mind at peace with itself, and with all. He was at the time of his death, and had been for more than fifty years a member of the Baptist Church; and his useful and virtuous life furnished the best commentary on the sincerity and truth of his religion - a life well spent in the service of his country and his God - blessed with sincerity and peace, and the esteem of all who knew him, in this world, and with the rich and enduring reward appointed for the just and good, in the world to come.
1830 Federal Census of Chesterfield County, Virginia
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BASS, EDWARD
S.6595
14 Aug. 1832
Chesterfield Co., VA
Edward Bass Senr. of said county, aged 78, declares that in 1775 he enlisted in Chesterfield County in Capt. Francis Good's company of minute men for one year and in October entered service in said company, George Markham being lieutenant and James Moody ensign. He marched to Williamsburg and was put under the command of Col. Patrick Henry and remained about seven weeks, returned and was discharged in Chesterfield County about the middle of December.
In the summer of 1776 he was called out in the same county under the same captain, James Moody being lieutenant and Aaron Haskins (sho is still living in this county) ensign. They marched to Hampton, crossed over the Roads to Portsmouth, were put under Col. Samuel Meredith and Col. Richard Jones, and remained there until about the commencement of winter. He was brought back and discharged in Chesterfield County in December. He acted as sergeant of the company. He came home once on a furlough for twenty days on account of his health. The company was discharged from the regiment just as he got back to Portsmouth, having served at least three months.
In the summer of 1777 he was drafted and entered service as a sergeant of militia in Capt. Henry Cheatham's company, John Farmer and Richard Elam being lieutenants and Branch Elam ensign, in the regiment of Col. Robert Goode. They marched down to Williamsburg, were attached to the brigade of Gen. Charles Scott and remained there some weeks.
In the winter of 1780-81 he was called out as sergeant of the same company commanded by the same officers, in Col. Good's regiment and stationed at Manchester at the time of Arnold's invasion in Jan. 1781 when the British army burned some houses in Richmond and destroyed the stores at Westham. He was shortly afterward discharged but was soon ordered out again and went down in the same company below Petersburg to Cabin Point and was under Baron Steuben. He was discharged there and was soon called out again in the same company and marched about through Chesterfield during Phillips' invasion. He was discharged at Ware bottom in Chesterfield a few days after the battle of Petersburg.
From this time until the capture of Lord Cornwallis' armies at Yorktown he was in the service almost continually with the exception of a few short intervals, his part of the country being all that time in a state of invasion. He was a sergeant in the same company and under the same officers, except that Bartlett Elam substituted for Branch Elam.
In the fall he was sent under Lieut. John Robertson with sbout twenty men who were stationed as a guard at Henderson's Store in Amelia County. After five or six weeks he was discharged shortly before the surrender of the British army at York in October.
He was born in Chesterfield Co., Va., 15 Aug. 1754 (record made by his father in the family Bible now in his possession) and has always lived there.
Aaron Haskins of Chesterfield Co., Va., declares he knows Edward Bass served two tours in the minute service in Capt. Good's company and his name appears on the muster roll of the company made out by Haskins as orderly sergeant. He was on a second tour and acted as sergeant while Haskins was lieutenant. They lived in the same neighborhood.
Charles Forsee, a clergyman of Chesterfield Co., Va., declares he and Mr. Bass were together on a tour at Williamsburg but belonged to different companies. He also remembers that Bass served several tours in Chesterfield County in 1781. (This declaration is also signed by Wm. Goode, Senr.)
Edward Bass of Chesterfield Co., Va., private and sergeant in the company of Capt. Goode in the regiment of Col. Henry in the Virginia line for nine months from 1775, was placed on the Virginia pension roll at $42.50 per annum under the Act of 1832. Certificate 3672 was issued 29 Dec. 1832.
Pages 23, 24
Virginia Revolutionary Pension Applications
Volume Four
Abstracted and compiled by
John Frederick Dorman
Washington, D.C.
1960
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