• The brothers, Joseph Church Bass, aged 18 and John Bass, aged 16, sons of Dr. Adonijah MacBass, and his wife, Lydia Draper, came to Canada on foot and direct to Lots No. 10 and 11 in the fourth Concession of Augusta township in the early summer of 1789, camping the first night beside a large rock on the part of lot No. 11 now owned by Mr. H. O. Bass. I understand there is a document in the archives in Toronto showing a grant of 200 acres to Joseph Bass. There is a petition for a grant signed by John Bass, in the archives in Ottawa, dated 1790. You will notice this was the year following their advent here. John Bass had $300, and probably Joseph had a like amount when they came to Augusta.
They worked during the summer of 1789 preparing for the care of their family and livestock and in the fall returned to their old home in Vermont, returning in the winter of 1790 with their mother, sister and household effects, undoubtedly by ox-sled and drove their livestock, crossing the St. Lawrence before the ice broke up in the spring.
The deeds for lots 10 and 11 were made to Joseph Bass, possibly because of him being the elder brother. I have those deeds with “Great Seals” attached, dated 1802.1408, p 1

• 1796 Census: Augusta, Grenville, Ontario, Canada.1340
• 1806 Census: Augusta, Grenville, Ontario, Canada.1341