I recently discovered that the DNA of my Bass cousin (4th cousin) paper and Family Finder confirmed is R-S1051. Which is, according to the R1b project, Scottish. It was believed that his (and my Bass) cousin were descended from a son of John Basse and Mary Jordan, name of Richard Bass m.1st Jane Bryant, 2nd Mary Burwell.
The existence of Richard and his two wives is documented. It was believed that his (and my Bass ancestor) were descended from his second wife Mary Burwell.
However DNA tells another story. My cousin's DNA is R-S1051 R1b1a1a2a1a2c1a9 which is considered to be Scottish.
The DNA of those who claim descent from Richard Basse's first wife Jane Bryant is R-L47 R1b1a1a2a1a1c2b1, which is considered to be English (actually Frisian).
Said Richard Basse was the son of John Basse of London, a proslytizer, son of Nathaniel Basse and Mary Jordan, who set sail to the Virginia Colony to convert the "heathens", he married the daughter of a Christianized Indian weroance (chief), and virtually all Bass families of the south claim descent from this couple.
However DNA is upsetting the DNA apple cart. There are even Bass's who claim this ancestry, but are of Haplogroup A, with which they share ancestry to the Khoi or San people of South Africa.,
It is known that at least one free African joined or was taken in by the Bass family and took the Bass surname.
Also the descendants of John Basse and his Indian bride (Elizabeth) could not legally marry in Virginia because of miscegenation laws and had to move to NC.
After the slave revolt of Nat Turner, laws were passed that permitted the re enslavement of free blacks, and there are records of whole Bass families applying to the court, and succeeding, for recognition as Indians and not mulatto's or coloreds (1833)
So many cherished family trees will have to be redone (including mine), there is an off chance of an NPE somewhere along the line, but as it stands, without an NPE, R-S1051, which has at least six claimants in the Bass Family project is mutually exclusive of R- L47 which has three claimants in the Bass family project. Logic has it that R-L47 would be the proper lineage of a man who was born in London, not my R-S1051.
It very well could be the cased that said John Basse the proslytizer, was actually of Scottish origin,
But my research of on line lineages, including the Lost Colony site, reveals the possibility of a lot of overturned apple carts.
Such a pain, to have to now recconstruct a branch of the tree..Drats.