Deacon Samuel Bass

Abt 1600 - 1694  (~ 94 years)

• Name	Samuel Bass  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Prefix	Deacon
  Birth	Abt 1600  [5]
  Gender	Male
  Death	30 Dec 1694	Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [5, 6]
  Person ID	I39729	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	18 Sep 2025

  
  

  Family	Anne Savell,   b. Bef 26 Apr 1601   d. 5 Sep 1693, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age > 92 years)
  Marriage	25 Apr 1625	Saffron Walden, Essex, England   [5, 6]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Bass,   b. Abt 1630   d. 29 Jun 1704, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 74 years) + 2. John Bass,   b. Bef 18 Sep 1630   d. 12 Sep 1716, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age > 85 years) + 3. Hannah Bass,   b. Bef 25 Nov 1632   d. Aft Apr 1710 (Age > 78 years)
  Family ID	F23338	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Jan 2025

  
  

• Notes

  He arrived in 1633, first at Roxbury, then Braintree. He was a yeoman, literate enough to sign his will. He held several responsible offices in Braintree and was a deacon of the church there for over fifty years.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3017] Mary Lovering Holman, "Moses Paine of Braintree, Massachusetts and His Ancestry in England." The American Genealogist 21:181, 1944. [S637] Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden by Esther Littleford Woodworth-Barnes. Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1999. [S8063] The Capen Family: Descendants of Bernard Capen of Dorchester, Mass. by Charles Albert Hayden. Minneapolis, 1929. [S4249] The Mayflower Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth, 1620 by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2020. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S7111] Waldo Chamberlain Sprague, "Notes on the English Origin of Dea. Samuel1 Bass and William1 Savil of Braintree, Mass." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 107:218, 1953.