Mary Burwell Basye/Bass was my seven times great grandmother. She was the second wife of Richard Basye/Bass. His first wife had been named Jane Bryant Basye/Bass. They had had 7 children before she died in 1690.
Richard and Mary Burwell married in August of 1695. They then had 7 more children. My grandfather Andrew, was their oldest child born to this marriage, though the household had the 7 older children from his first marriage.
Unfortunately, there's no information of Mary Burwell's family.
There is a Burwell family which settled in New England. I have yet to find a family that was in both New England and Virginia in the early colonies.
She has some records saying she was born in 1662. Another one says 1665. I'll take those extra 3 years, because her children were born between 1698 and 1719, when she would have been 54 (even with the 1665 birth for the last son's mom. Not very likely. Let's check to see if he might have been born a bit earlier. No luck there either. So for now I think one or another record is slightly off still.
She died in December of 1722.
The family may have been among the first to settle North Carolina. Some records give the marriage in 1695 as taking place in NC, and that she died there. Another source says they lived, married and died in Nasemond County VA.
Apparently many of the Bass children (of the 14) moved to North Carolina.
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