Lawrence Bass b. 17 Nov 1780 Baltimore, Maryland d. 27 Apr 1856 Boone, Missouri, USA: Tofterå Slettemoen

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Name	Lawrence Bass
Born	17 Nov 1780	Baltimore, Maryland
Gender	Male
Died	27 Apr 1856	Boone, Missouri, USA
Buried	New Salem Baptist Church Cemetery, Ashland, Boone County, Missouri, USA
Person ID	I20791	Tofterå Slettemoen
Last Modified	8 Nov 2021

Father	Peter Bass, b. Maryland , d. Yes, date unknown
Mother	Sarah M. Jackson, b. Kentucky , d. Yes, date unknown
Family ID	F11275	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Nancy Patton, b. 1786, North Carolina, USA , d. 1874, Henry, Missouri, USA (Age 88 years)

Married 15 Oct 1803 Davidson Co., TN, USA

Children

	1. Sarah M. Bass, b. 1804, Boone, Missouri, USA , d. 28 Feb 1854, Howard, Missouri (Age 50 years)
	2. George Patton Bass, b. 26 Dec 1805, Davidson Co., TN, USA , d. 22 Mar 1863, Fayette, Howard Co., MO, USA (Age 57 years)
	3. Augustus Bass, b. 5 Feb 1809, Tennessee , d. 11 Dec 1883, Shasta, Shasta, California, USA (Age 74 years)
	4. Hon. Theophilus Bass, b. 2 Feb 1811, Columbia, Murray Co., Tennessee, USA , d. 11 Mar 1849, Jefferson City, Missouri, USA (Age 38 years)
	5. Parilee Bass, b. 10 Sep 1816, Nashville, Davidson Co, TN , d. 7 May 1907, Armourdale, Kansas (Age 90 years)
	6. Julia Ann Bass, b. 13 Oct 1818, Nashville, Davidson Co, TN , d. 3 Nov 1904, Calhoun, Henry, Missouri, USA (Age 86 years)
	7. John Steven Patton Bass, b. 12 Feb 1821, Boone, Missouri, USA , d. 5 Dec 1909, Chico, Butte, California, USA (Age 88 years)
	8. Ely Meredith Bass, b. 4 May 1821, Ashland, Boone, Missouri, USA , d. 15 Feb 1882, Bass farm, Boone, MO (Age 60 years)
	9. Peter Bass, b. 2 Dec 1822, Ashland, Boone, Missouri, USA , d. 26 Jan 1862, Tebo, Henry, Missouri (Age 39 years)
	10. Thomas L. Bass, b. 30 Mar 1825, Ashland, Boone, Missouri, USA , d. 18 Jan 1892, Missouri, USA (Age 66 years)
	11. Edwin Bass, b. 23 Feb 1827, Boone, Missouri, USA , d. 15 Oct 1882, Windsor, Henry, Missouri, USA (Age 55 years)

Last Modified 18 Nov 2018

Family ID F6726 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Notes

Parents: Peter Bass of Maryland and Sarah M. Jackson of KY.

Brothers Peter (b 1771) and Lawrence (b 1780) BASS moved from Bardstown KY to Davidson county, Tennessee about 1803. Peter had just married Anna Stone and Lawrence married Nancy Patton on Oct 15, 1803 (in Nashville?). Peters wife died in childbirth May 14, 1809 in Nashville where she is buried. Lawrence and Nancy had may have had son George in Nashville. Both families left shortly after 1810.

Notes in Bass Family Bible state that Peter Bass (abt 1769-18. May 1829 Smithland, Livingston, KY) came to Baltimore from Holland, was originally surnamed BEST, and was 99 years old when he died in 1829.

Home in 1840: Cedar, Boone, Missouri, 7 free white persons, 12 slaves.
1850: District 8, Boone County

Lawrence said to have had 13 children.
He was one of the "Commissioners" to locate a "Seat of Justice" in Boone County, Missouri. A town company was formed and called the "Smithton Company" which bought a tract of land, surveyed and laid out the town of Columbia.

Will, December 18th, 1852: "To My beloved wife Nancy Bass in lieu of her driver, the plantation on which we now recide, being the West half of section No one of Range No 12 and the west half of the North West quarter of section No eight all in township No Forty Six of Range No Eleven, containing in all about four hundred acres, during her lifetime of widowhood, together with all my slaves and their increase, during her lifetime or widowhood, should my wife Nancy Bass wish at any time to give or distribute any of our slaves to any of our children herinafter named she can do so by having them carefully appraised and the child or heir receiving the slave or slave shall receipt to my executor for the valuation of the said slave or slaves who shall charge the same to said child or heir, which amount shall stand agains said child or heir and be deducted out of his or her par of my estate on a final settlement, toghether with all my horses, cows, oxen, mules, sheep and hogs or stock of all kid which may be in possession of at the time of my death, also all the household and kitchen furniture, farming utensils of all kinds together with all other atricles not otherwise disposed of in this will during her lifetime in widowhood and at the death or marriage of my said wife all the property hereby divised or bequeathed to her as aforesaid, on so much or may remain undisposed of whall be sold or divided by my executor so as to make an equal division of all my estate amongst all of our children : Sarah Jackson, George P. Bass, Augustus Bass, John S. Bass, Peter Bass, Edwin Bass, Eli M. Bass, Parilee Duncan, Julyanne Stone and the heirs of Theophilus Bass and Thomas Bass, to their heirs and assigns forever.
Peter Bass and Edwin Bass, executors."
Probate June 20-23rd, 1856, Boone county, Missouri.