• Nothing is known of the English Ancestry, but in the Colonial Records the name is spelled Basse.
Deacon Samuel and wife Ann, with several children, came from England to Roxbury in 1632, and there were members of Rev. John Elliott’s Church. In 1640 he removed to Braintree (now part of Quincy) and at once took an important place in the matters of the Town, both Religious and Political.1440, p 1

• Dea. Samuel Bass, the common ancestor of Windham families, and probably of all of the name in New England, with wife Ann and probably two or three children, came over about 1632, was at Roxbury that year, removed to Braintree about 1640.1439, p 90

• From The Mayflower Planters: ...Samuel Bass was born in England in 1601, came to New England with the Winthrop Fleet, bringing with him his wife, Anne and children....
From Groliers Encyclopedia: In 1629 the Massachusetts Bay Colony in London selected John Winthrop to govern its colony in New England. With some 1800 Puritan settlers, Winthrop sailed from Yarmouth in March 1630, and landed at Salem, Massachusetts, on June 12. Shortly thereafter he settled in the Shawmut Peninsula community, later renamed Boston.2633

• He arrived in Roxbury in 1630, but removed to Braintree, now Quincy, 1640 and represented the town in the Legislature 12 years. He was an outstanding character. The records state “Deacon Samuel Bass, age 94, departed this life upon the 30th day of Dec. 1694, who has been a Deacon at the church of Braintree for the space of above 50 years, and the first Deacon of that Church, and was father and grandfather and great grandfather of a hundred and sixty-two children before he died.”1445, p 2