At October Term 1857, Wilson County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions appointed a team of neighbors to value and divide four enslaved people belonging to the estate of James B. Bass.
Abram ($900) and Rebecca ($400) were apportioned to George W. Bass, and Bob ($800) and Rhoda ($500) to Jesse Bass.
In a complicated exchange that I can’t quite figure out, James B. Bass came into possession of Abram/Abraham, Rhoda, and Bob from the estate of James A. Barnes. Per item 11th of Barnes’ will: “I give and bequeath the following negro slaves (to wit) Rindy, Abraham, Rody, Alexander & Bob to the three children of Theophilus Bass dec’d. George Washington Bass, Thomas Warren Bass & Jessee Jackson Bass, with this express condition that the above bound five negroes shall be bound to pay notes out of hand for fifty or sixty dollars I gave to Jacob G. Barnes Administrator of James Bass dec. to them, their heirs and assigns forever.”
In the 1860 slave schedule of Black Creek township, Wilson County, Jesse Bass is listed with seven enslaved people — women aged 35 and 20 years; men aged 24, 21, and 19; and boys aged 2 and 1.
I have not been able to trace forward the people James B. Bass enslaved.
Estate File of James B. Bass (1857), Wilson County, North Carolina Estate Files 1663-1979, http://www.familysearch.org