Anna Maria Dandridge Bassett
(1739-1777)
BIRTH
March 30, 1739
PLACE
New Kent County, Virginia
NAME
Anna Maria Dandridge
DEATH
December 17, 1777
PLACE
New Kent County, Virginia
FAMILY
FATHER
John Dandridge Jr.
(1700-1756)
MOTHER
Frances Jones Dandridge
(1710-1785)
SISTER
Martha Washington
(1731-1802)
BROTHER
William Dandridge
(1734-1779)
BROTHER
Bartholomew Dandridge
(1737-1785)
SISTER
Elizabeth Dandridge Henley
(1749–c. 1800)
HUSBAND
Burwell Bassett Sr.
(1734-1793)
CHILDREN
Frances Bassett Washington Lear
(1767-1796)
HOMES
Martha Washington Birthplace Marker
VA - Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
Eltham Marker
VA - Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
NICKNAMES
Nancy
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
NOT YET RESEARCHED
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MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Anna Maria Dandridge Bassett (1739–1777) was a younger sister of Martha Washington and the wife of Burwell Bassett of Eltham in New Kent County, Virginia. Her children included Frances “Fanny” Bassett, later a member of the Mount Vernon household. After Anna Maria’s death, Martha offered to raise Fanny, recalling her sister’s earlier wish that the girl live with her if she died. The surviving letter makes Anna Maria’s plans for her daughter visible within the family record.
EARLY LIFE
Anna Maria Dandridge Bassett was born on Mar 30, 1739 in New Kent County, Virginia. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Anna Maria Dandridge Bassett is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Anna Maria Dandridge Bassett died on Dec 17, 1777 in New Kent County, Virginia. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Anna Maria Dandridge Bassett was a younger sister of Martha Washington and the wife of Burwell Bassett of Eltham in New Kent County, Virginia. Anna Maria Dandridge Bassett died on Dec 17, 1777 in New Kent County, Virginia. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
Eltham Marker
1860 Eltham Rd, West Point, VA
GRAVE
MUSEUM
Colonial Williamsburg
101 Visitor Center Dr, Williamsburg, VA 23185
CHURCH
Bruton Parish Church
201 W Duke of Gloucester St, Williamsburg, VA 23185
CHURCH
St Peters Parish Church
8400 St Peters Ln, New Kent, VA
MARKER
Martha Washington Birthplace Marker
12003 New Kent Highway, New Kent, VA
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
Anna Maria Dandridge Bassett, Martha Washington’s sister and Burwell Bassett’s wife. These are related family biographies and local reference. Five dedicated biographies were not identified. These editorial selections include biographies where available, with personal writings, collective biography, reference works and related studies clearly labelled.
1. Martha Washington: An American Life — Patricia Brady. [Related biography of her sister] Find on Amazon
2. Martha Washington: First Lady of Liberty — Helen Bryan. [Related biography of her sister] Find on Amazon
3. The Washingtons: George and Martha, "Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by Love" — Flora Fraser. [Related family biography] Find on Amazon
4. Old New Kent County: Some Account of the Planters, Plantations, and Places — Malcolm Hart Harris. [Family and local biographical history; collected work] Find on Amazon
5. Some Prominent Virginia Families — Louise Pecquet du Bellet. [Family biographical reference] Find on Amazon
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