Thank you for your kind words. Since my research was focused on various
records,perhaps others on the list can provide an answer to your
question. 

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Subject: Re: Indian servants/slaves

Thanks Katherine. Very interesting study.

But I wonder why scholars feel the need to quote someone from the Bass
family? Professor Rountree started this nonsense. John Bass married a
Nansemond Indian woman in 1638. There is no evidence that their
descendants had anything to do with the Nansemond tribe or that there
was ever another Indian in their ancestry. There is proof that John's
grandson William Bass married Sarah Lovina, the "Molatto" daughter of a
"Negro" woman slave of Captain John Nicholls in 1729 and that they were
the ancestors of those members of the family who remained in Norfolk
County. The present-day chiefs of the Bass family would be considered
white anywhere outside Norfolk County and surely have more African than
Indian ancestry. Most of their descendants spread to various counties in
North Carolina and married free African Americans.
http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/bailey-berry.htm
Paul