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Ann was born on December 22, 1789 at Bradford, Massachussets, United States. She was the daughter of John and Rebecca (Barton or Burton) Hasseltine.
She was named Nancy but later changed her name to Ann.
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Ann was born on December 22, 1789 at Bradford, Massachussets, United States. She was the daughter of John and Rebecca (Barton or Burton) Hasseltine.
She was named Nancy but later changed her name to Ann.
Judson was educated at the well-known academy in Bradford.
For a short time after studies Judson taught in nearby towns of Bradford. Her own account of her early religious experience reads like a continuation of the Great Awakening. In this religious experience one can discern that missionary spirit which found its opportunity in her marriage, February 5, 1812, to Adoniram Judson, who was about to embark as a pioneer American missionary to Burma. Although her personal qualities would have carried her far in a social career, she chose the life of a missionary and she was the first woman dedicated to the evangelization of the heathen to leave America.
In 1822-23 Ann returned for her only visit to America, and while here published her Account of the American Baptist Mission to the Burman Empire (1823). She rejoined her husband only to undergo a series of terrible experiences during his seventeen months of imprisonment with other foreigners at Ava and Oung-pen-la. It was especially while he was a prisoner and she herself completely isolated from the civilized world. When relief at last came and the missionaries took up again their task in a new field at Amherst, in Burma, she did not have the reserve of strength to resist the ravages of a severe tropical fever, and she died during the absence of her husband.
Ann Hasseltine Judson was one of the first female American foreign missionaries. She wrote a catechism in Burmese, and translated the books of Daniel and Jonah into Burmese. Besides, she was the first Protestant to translate any of the scriptures into Thai when in 1819 she translated the Gospel of Matthew.
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Ann Hasseltine had tact and spirit which is discernible throughout her life. With exceptional courage and devotion she made her husband's tasks her own, supplementing his great talents in many ways.
Ann married Adoniram Judson on February 5, 1812. She had three pregnancies. The first ended in a miscarriage while moving from India to Burma; their son Roger was born in 1815 and died at eight months of age, and their third child, Maria, lived for only six months after her mother's death.
