He was hired by John Waddill of Marksville to work on his home. īass came to Marksville, Louisiana, a town of about 6,000 people, by the 1850s. He is known to have lived in Louisiana, and he owned land in Illinois. Louisiana īass left Canada around 1840 for the United States, where he had relatives. He said that she had a temper so severe that it would have been difficult for any man to live with her. He did not have a great relationship with his wife. They built a house and had four daughters, Catherine, Hannah, Martha Maria, and Zeruah. Samuel Bass married Catharine Lydia Lane (or Lydia Catlin Lane), and they settled in rural Edwardsburgh Township.
His grandparents, Adonijah and Lydia Draper Bass, were United Empire Loyalists who lived in Walloomsac, New York, during the American Revolutionary War. John had come to Canada with his mother and siblings in the late 1770s after the death of his father. His parents were John and Hannah Lakins Bass, who had twelve children. Canada īass was born in August 1807 in Augusta Township, Upper Canada (now Ontario), where he was raised.
At risk of injury and conviction in default of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Bass mailed letters to friends of Northup that initiated a series of events to save him. Northup was a free black man from New York who was kidnapped and forced into slavery in the Deep South. Samuel Bass (1807–1853) was a Canadian abolitionist who helped Solomon Northup, author of Twelve Years a Slave, attain his freedom.
Canadian abolitionist notable for helping Solomon Northup
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