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	\| name = Ann ~~Hasseltine~~		\| name = Ann Judson
	\| image = Portrait of Ann Hasseltine Judson (4673541).jpg		\| image = Portrait of Ann Hasseltine Judson (4673541).jpg
	\| caption = Ann "Nancy" H. Judson		\| caption = Ann "Nancy" H. Judson
			\| birth_name = Ann Hasseltine
	\| birth_date = December 22, 1789		\| birth_date = December 22, 1789
	\| birth_place = [[Bradford, Massachusetts]]		\| birth_place = [[Bradford, Massachusetts]]
	\| death_date = {{death date and age\|1826\|10\|24\|1789\|12\|22}}		\| death_date = {{death date and age\|1826\|10\|24\|1789\|12\|22}}
	\| death_place = [[Kyaikkami\|Amherst]], [[Burma]] (now Kyaikkami, Myanmar)		\| death_place = [[Kyaikkami\|Amherst, Burma]] (now Kyaikkami, Myanmar)
	\| known_for = Missionary work in Burma		\| known_for = Missionary work in Burma
	~~\| height =~~
	~~\| weight =~~
	\| spouse = [[Adoniram Judson]]		\| spouse = [[Adoniram Judson]]
	}}		}}
	'''Ann Hasseltine Judson''' (December 22, 1789 – October 24, 1826) was one of the first female American foreign [[missionary\|missionaries]].
			'''Ann Hasseltine Judson''' (December 22, 1789 – October 24, 1826), nicknamed "Nancy", was one of the first female American foreign [[missionary\|missionaries]].

	==Biography==		==Biography==
	the [[Bradford College (United States)\|Bradford Academy]] and during a [[Christian revival\|revival]] there read ''Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education'' by [[Hannah More]], which led her to "seek a life of 'usefulness'".<ref name="Dana L. Robert Spring 2006 22–24">{{cite journal \| author=Dana L. Robert \| author-link=Dana L. Robert \| title=The Mother of Modern Missions\| journal=Christian History & Biography \| date=Spring 2006 \| volume=90 \| pages=22–24 }}</ref> Born in [[Bradford, Massachusetts		Ann Hasseltine attended the [[Bradford College (United States)\|Bradford Academy]] and during a [[Christian revival\|revival]] there read ''Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education'' by [[Hannah More]], which led her to "seek a life of 'usefulness'".<ref name="Dana L. Robert Spring 2006 22–24">{{cite journal \| author=Dana L. Robert \| author-link=Dana L. Robert \| title=The Mother of Modern Missions\| journal=Christian History & Biography \| date=Spring 2006 \| volume=90 \| pages=22–24 }}</ref> Born in [[Bradford, Massachusetts]]
	a teacher from graduation until marriage. Her father, John Hasseltine, was a deacon at the church that hosted the gathering that, in 1810, founded the [[American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions]] and, according to Ann's sister ~~Ann~~, the family first met her husband [[Adoniram Judson]] at that time.<ref>{{cite book \| last=Wayland \| first=Francis \| author-link=Francis Wayland \| title=A Memoir of the Life and Labors of the Rev. Adoniram Judson, D.D., Vol. I \| orig-year= 1853 \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OojaN0ql3wMC&q=Burma+Adoniram+%22Ann+OR+Judson%22+OR+%22Ann+OR+Hasseltine%22+OR+%22Ann+OR+Hasseltine+OR+Judson%22&pg=PA31 \| access-date=June 18, 2006 \| publisher=Phillips, Samson, and Company \| location=Boston \| year=1853}}</ref>		a teacher from graduation until marriage. Her father, John Hasseltine, was a deacon at the church that hosted the gathering that, in 1810, founded the [[American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions]] and, according to Ann's sister, the family first met her husband [[Adoniram Judson]] at that time.<ref>{{cite book \| last=Wayland \| first=Francis \| author-link=Francis Wayland \| title=A Memoir of the Life and Labors of the Rev. Adoniram Judson, D.D., Vol. I \| orig-year= 1853 \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OojaN0ql3wMC&q=Burma+Adoniram+%22Ann+OR+Judson%22+OR+%22Ann+OR+Hasseltine%22+OR+%22Ann+OR+Hasseltine+OR+Judson%22&pg=PA31 \| access-date=June 18, 2006 \| publisher=Phillips, Samson, and Company \| location=Boston \| year=1853}}</ref>

	She married Adoniram in 1812, and two weeks later they embarked on their mission trip to [[India~~]]. The following year, they moved on to [[Burma~~]].<ref>~~S. W. Williams, ed., ''Queenly Women~~: ~~Crowned and Uncrowned'' (Cincinnati: Cranson and Stowe, 1885), 59–60.<~~/~~ref>~~		She married Adoniram in 1812, and two weeks later they embarked on their mission trip to [[India]].<ref>[https://www.thetravelingteam.org/articles/ann-judson The Traveling Team website, ''History of Mission: Ann Judson'']</ref> The following year, they moved on to [[Burma]].<ref>S. W. Williams, ed., ''Queenly Women: Crowned and Uncrowned'' (Cincinnati: Cranson and Stowe, 1885), 59–60.</ref>

	~~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.~~<ref>{{cite journal \| author=Richard V. Pierard \| author~~-~~link=Richard V. Pierard \| title=~~The ~~Man Who Gave the Bible to the Burmese \| journal=Christian History & Biography \| date=Spring 2006 \| volume=90 \| pages=16–21 }}</ref><ref>S. W. Williams, ed.~~, ''~~Queenly Women~~: ~~Crowned and Uncrowned~~'' ~~(Cincinnati: Cranson and Stowe, 1885), 68.~~</ref> ~~While in Burma~~, ~~the couple's first undertaking was~~ to ~~acquire the language of the locals. Missionary efforts followed, with the first local converting to Christianity in 1819~~.<ref>S. W. Williams, ed., ''Queenly Women: Crowned and Uncrowned'' (Cincinnati: Cranson and Stowe, 1885), 60.</ref> Due to liver problems, Ann returned to the United States briefly in 1822–23.<ref>{{cite web\|year=2003 \|title=Ann Hasseltine Judson: First American Woman Missionary \|work=Glimpses No. 46 \|url=http://chi.gospelcom.net/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps046.shtml \|access-date=June 18, 2006 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://archive.today/20050321091431/http://chi.gospelcom.net/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps046.shtml \|archive-date=March 21, 2005 }}</ref>

			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.<ref>{{cite journal \| author=Richard V. Pierard \| author-link=Richard V. Pierard \| title=The Man Who Gave the Bible to the Burmese \| journal=Christian History & Biography \| date=Spring 2006 \| volume=90 \| pages=16–21 }}</ref><ref>S. W. Williams, ed., ''Queenly Women: Crowned and Uncrowned'' (Cincinnati: Cranson and Stowe, 1885), p. 68.</ref> While in Burma, the couple's first undertaking was to acquire the language of the locals. Missionary efforts followed, with the first local converting to Christianity in 1819.<ref>S. W. Williams, ed., ''Queenly Women: Crowned and Uncrowned'' (Cincinnati: Cranson and Stowe, 1885), p. 60.</ref> Due to liver problems, Ann returned to the United States briefly in 1822–23.<ref>{{cite web\|year=2003 \|title=Ann Hasseltine Judson: First American Woman Missionary \|work=Glimpses No. 46 \|url=http://chi.gospelcom.net/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps046.shtml \|access-date=June 18, 2006 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://archive.today/20050321091431/http://chi.gospelcom.net/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps046.shtml \|archive-date=March 21, 2005 }}</ref>
	[[Image:Nancy visits Adoniram.jpg\|thumb\|200px\|left\|Nancy visits Adoniram in prison]]		[[Image:Nancy visits Adoniram.jpg\|thumb\|200px\|left\|Nancy visits Adoniram in prison]]
	During the [[First Burmese War\|first Anglo-Burmese war]] (1824–26), her husband was imprisoned for 17 months under suspicion of being an English spy, and Ann moved into a shack outside the prison gates so as to support her husband. She lobbied vigorously for months to convince the authorities to release her husband and his fellow prisoners, but her efforts were unsuccessful. She also sent food and sleeping mats to the prisoners to ~~help~~ their time in prison ~~to be~~ more bearable.<ref>S. W. Williams, ed., ''Queenly Women: Crowned and Uncrowned'' (Cincinnati: Cranson and Stowe, 1885), 63.</ref> During this time, Ann wrote stories of life on the mission field and the struggles she faced. She wrote tragic descriptions of child marriages, female infanticide, and the trials of the Burmese women who had no rights except for the ones their husbands gave them. Ann's health was fragile by the time her husband was released. Her efforts to be near him when he was moved to a new location, all while she was nursing a newborn child, had involved strenuous travel and living conditions that may have contributed to her illness.<ref>S. W. Williams, ed., ''Queenly Women: Crowned and Uncrowned'' (Cincinnati: Cranson and Stowe, 1885), 66–67.</ref> After her husband's release they both remained in Burma to continue their work. Ann died at Amherst, Lower Burma, of [[smallpox]] in 1826.		During the [[First Burmese War\|first Anglo-Burmese war]] (1824–26), her husband was imprisoned for 17 months under suspicion of being an English spy, and Ann moved into a shack outside the prison gates so as to support her husband. She lobbied vigorously for months to convince the authorities to release her husband and his fellow prisoners, but her efforts were unsuccessful. She also sent food and sleeping mats to the prisoners to make their time in prison more bearable.<ref>S. W. Williams, ed., ''Queenly Women: Crowned and Uncrowned'' (Cincinnati: Cranson and Stowe, 1885), p. 63.</ref> During this time, Ann wrote stories of life on the mission field and the struggles she faced. She wrote tragic descriptions of child marriages, female infanticide, and the trials of the Burmese women who had no rights except for the ones their husbands gave them. Ann's health was fragile by the time her husband was released. Her efforts to be near him when he was moved to a new location, all while she was nursing a newborn child, had involved strenuous travel and living conditions that may have contributed to her illness.<ref>S. W. Williams, ed., ''Queenly Women: Crowned and Uncrowned'' (Cincinnati: Cranson and Stowe, 1885), pp. 66–67.</ref> After her husband's release, they both remained in Burma to continue their work. Ann died at Amherst, Lower Burma, of [[smallpox]] in 1826.
	[[Image:Nancy Judson tree.jpg\|thumb\|200px\|Hopia tree near the grave of Ann Hasseltine Judson circa 1913]]		[[Image:Nancy Judson tree.jpg\|thumb\|200px\|Hopia tree near the grave of Ann Hasseltine Judson circa 1913]]
	She wrote a [[catechism]] in [[Burmese language\|Burmese]], and translated the books of [[Book of Daniel\|Daniel]] and [[Book of Jonah\|Jonah]] into Burmese. She was the first [[Protestantism\|Protestant]] to translate any of the scriptures into [[Thai language\|Thai]] when in 1819 she translated the [[Gospel of Matthew]].<ref name="Dana L. Robert Spring 2006 22–24" />		She wrote a [[catechism]] in [[Burmese language\|Burmese]], and translated the books of [[Book of Daniel\|Daniel]] and [[Book of Jonah\|Jonah]] into Burmese. She was the first [[Protestantism\|Protestant]] to translate any of the scriptures into [[Thai language\|Thai]] when in 1819 she translated the [[Gospel of Matthew]].<ref name="Dana L. Robert Spring 2006 22–24" />

	Her letters home were published in periodicals such as ''The American Baptist Magazine'' and republished after her death as devotional writings, making both her and Adoniram celebrities in America.<ref>{{cite journal \| author=Ruth A. Tucker \| author-link=Ruth A. Tucker \| title=Let Freedom Ring\| journal=Christian History & Biography \| date=Spring 2006 \| volume=90 \| pages=12–15 }}</ref> Her work and writings made "the role of missionary wife as a 'calling'" legitimate for nineteenth-century Americans.<ref name="Dana L. Robert Spring 2006 22–24" /> There have been at least sixteen biographies of Judson published, the most famous having a new edition printed almost every year from 1830 to 1856, and was described by [[Unitarianism\|Unitarian]] [[Lydia Maria Child]] as "a book so universally known that it scarcely need be mentioned."<ref>{{cite journal \| title=Did You Know? \| journal=Christian History & Biography \| date=Spring 2006 \| volume=90 \| ~~pages~~=2 }}</ref>		Her letters home were published in periodicals such as ''The American Baptist Magazine'' and republished after her death as devotional writings, making both her and Adoniram celebrities in America.<ref>{{cite journal \| author=Ruth A. Tucker \| author-link=Ruth A. Tucker \| title=Let Freedom Ring\| journal=Christian History & Biography \| date=Spring 2006 \| volume=90 \| pages=12–15 }}</ref>

			Her work and writings made "the role of missionary wife as a 'calling'" legitimate for nineteenth-century Americans.<ref name="Dana L. Robert Spring 2006 22–24" /> There have been at least sixteen biographies of Judson published, the most famous having a new edition printed almost every year from 1830 to 1856, and was described by [[Unitarianism\|Unitarian]] [[Lydia Maria Child]] as "a book so universally known that it scarcely need be mentioned."<ref>{{cite journal \| title=Did You Know? \| journal=Christian History & Biography \| date=Spring 2006 \| volume=90 \| page=2 }}</ref>

	==Publications==		==Publications==
			* Knowles, ''Life'' (Boston, 1829) [[New International Encyclopedia]]

	* Knowles, ''~~Life~~'' (Boston, ~~1829~~) ~~[[New International Encyclopedia]]~~		* Knowles, James D. ''Memoir of Mrs. Ann H. Judson, Late Missionary to Burmah'' (Boston: Lincoln & Edmonds, 1831) fourth edition

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	*[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_bb4u5bmWDGUC Google E-text of an 1829 Biography]		*[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_bb4u5bmWDGUC Google E-text of an 1829 Biography]
			* [https://missiology.org.uk/pdf/e-books/grose/judson-centennial.pdf Missiology website, ''The Judson Centennial, 1814-1914'' edited by Howard B. Grose and Fred P. Haggard] (online copy)

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	==Biography==		==Biography==
	~~Ann attended~~ the [[Bradford College (United States)\|Bradford Academy]] and during a [[Christian revival\|revival]] there read ''Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education'' by [[Hannah More]], which led her to "seek a life of 'usefulness'".<ref name="Dana L. Robert Spring 2006 22–24">{{cite journal \| author=Dana L. Robert \| author-link=Dana L. Robert \| title=The Mother of Modern Missions\| journal=Christian History & Biography \| date=Spring 2006 \| volume=90 \| pages=22–24 }}</ref> Born in [[Bradford, Massachusetts~~]], she was~~ a teacher from graduation until marriage. Her father, John Hasseltine, was a deacon at the church that hosted the gathering that, in 1810, founded the [[American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions]] and, according to Ann's sister Ann, the family first met her husband [[Adoniram Judson]] at that time.<ref>{{cite book \| last=Wayland \| first=Francis \| author-link=Francis Wayland \| title=A Memoir of the Life and Labors of the Rev. Adoniram Judson, D.D., Vol. I \| orig-year= 1853 \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OojaN0ql3wMC&q=Burma+Adoniram+%22Ann+OR+Judson%22+OR+%22Ann+OR+Hasseltine%22+OR+%22Ann+OR+Hasseltine+OR+Judson%22&pg=PA31 \| access-date=June 18, 2006 \| publisher=Phillips, Samson, and Company \| location=Boston \| year=1853}}</ref>		the [[Bradford College (United States)\|Bradford Academy]] and during a [[Christian revival\|revival]] there read ''Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education'' by [[Hannah More]], which led her to "seek a life of 'usefulness'".<ref name="Dana L. Robert Spring 2006 22–24">{{cite journal \| author=Dana L. Robert \| author-link=Dana L. Robert \| title=The Mother of Modern Missions\| journal=Christian History & Biography \| date=Spring 2006 \| volume=90 \| pages=22–24 }}</ref> Born in [[Bradford, Massachusetts
			a teacher from graduation until marriage. Her father, John Hasseltine, was a deacon at the church that hosted the gathering that, in 1810, founded the [[American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions]] and, according to Ann's sister Ann, the family first met her husband [[Adoniram Judson]] at that time.<ref>{{cite book \| last=Wayland \| first=Francis \| author-link=Francis Wayland \| title=A Memoir of the Life and Labors of the Rev. Adoniram Judson, D.D., Vol. I \| orig-year= 1853 \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OojaN0ql3wMC&q=Burma+Adoniram+%22Ann+OR+Judson%22+OR+%22Ann+OR+Hasseltine%22+OR+%22Ann+OR+Hasseltine+OR+Judson%22&pg=PA31 \| access-date=June 18, 2006 \| publisher=Phillips, Samson, and Company \| location=Boston \| year=1853}}</ref>

	She married Adoniram in 1812, and two weeks later they embarked on their mission trip to [[India]]. The following year, they moved on to [[Burma]].<ref>S. W. Williams, ed., ''Queenly Women: Crowned and Uncrowned'' (Cincinnati: Cranson and Stowe, 1885), 59–60.</ref>		She married Adoniram in 1812, and two weeks later they embarked on their mission trip to [[India]]. The following year, they moved on to [[Burma]].<ref>S. W. Williams, ed., ''Queenly Women: Crowned and Uncrowned'' (Cincinnati: Cranson and Stowe, 1885), 59–60.</ref>

	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.<ref>{{cite journal \| author=Richard V. Pierard \| author-link=Richard V. Pierard \| title=The Man Who Gave the Bible to the Burmese \| journal=Christian History & Biography \| date=Spring 2006 \| volume=90 \| pages=16–21 }}</ref><ref>S. W. Williams, ed., ''Queenly Women: Crowned and Uncrowned'' (Cincinnati: Cranson and Stowe, 1885), 68.</ref> While in Burma, the couple's first undertaking was to acquire the language of the locals. Missionary efforts followed, with the first local converting to Christianity in 1819.<ref>S. W. Williams, ed., ''Queenly Women: Crowned and Uncrowned'' (Cincinnati: Cranson and Stowe, 1885), 60.</ref> Due to liver problems, Ann returned to the United States briefly in 1822–23.<ref>{{cite web\|year=2003 \|title=Ann Hasseltine Judson: First American Woman Missionary \|work=Glimpses No. 46 \|url=http://chi.gospelcom.net/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps046.shtml \|access-date=June 18, 2006 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://archive.is/20050321091431/http://chi.gospelcom.net/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps046.shtml \|archive-date=March 21, 2005 }}</ref>		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.<ref>{{cite journal \| author=Richard V. Pierard \| author-link=Richard V. Pierard \| title=The Man Who Gave the Bible to the Burmese \| journal=Christian History & Biography \| date=Spring 2006 \| volume=90 \| pages=16–21 }}</ref><ref>S. W. Williams, ed., ''Queenly Women: Crowned and Uncrowned'' (Cincinnati: Cranson and Stowe, 1885), 68.</ref> While in Burma, the couple's first undertaking was to acquire the language of the locals. Missionary efforts followed, with the first local converting to Christianity in 1819.<ref>S. W. Williams, ed., ''Queenly Women: Crowned and Uncrowned'' (Cincinnati: Cranson and Stowe, 1885), 60.</ref> Due to liver problems, Ann returned to the United States briefly in 1822–23.<ref>{{cite web\|year=2003 \|title=Ann Hasseltine Judson: First American Woman Missionary \|work=Glimpses No. 46 \|url=http://chi.gospelcom.net/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps046.shtml \|access-date=June 18, 2006 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://archive.today/20050321091431/http://chi.gospelcom.net/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps046.shtml \|archive-date=March 21, 2005 }}</ref>

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{{Infobox person
| name = Ann Hasseltine
| image = Portrait of Ann Hasseltine Judson (4673541).jpg
| caption = Ann "Nancy" H. Judson
| birth_date = December 22, 1789
| birth_place = [[Bradford, Massachusetts]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1826|10|24|1789|12|22}}
| death_place = [[Kyaikkami|Amherst]], [[Burma]] (now Kyaikkami, Myanmar)
| known_for = Missionary work in Burma
| height =
| weight =
| spouse = [[Adoniram Judson]]
}}
'''Ann Hasseltine Judson''' (December 22, 1789 – October 24, 1826) was one of the first female American foreign [[missionary|missionaries]].

==Biography==
Ann attended the [[Bradford College (United States)|Bradford Academy]] and during a [[Christian revival|revival]] there read ''Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education'' by [[Hannah More]], which led her to "seek a life of 'usefulness'".<ref name="Dana L. Robert Spring 2006 22–24">{{cite journal | author=Dana L. Robert | author-link=Dana L. Robert | title=The Mother of Modern Missions| journal=Christian History & Biography | date=Spring 2006 | volume=90 | pages=22–24 }}</ref> Born in [[Bradford, Massachusetts]], she was a teacher from graduation until marriage. Her father, John Hasseltine, was a deacon at the church that hosted the gathering that, in 1810, founded the [[American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions]] and, according to Ann's sister Ann, the family first met her husband [[Adoniram Judson]] at that time.<ref>{{cite book | last=Wayland | first=Francis | author-link=Francis Wayland | title=A Memoir of the Life and Labors of the Rev. Adoniram Judson, D.D., Vol. I | orig-year= 1853 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OojaN0ql3wMC&q=Burma+Adoniram+%22Ann+OR+Judson%22+OR+%22Ann+OR+Hasseltine%22+OR+%22Ann+OR+Hasseltine+OR+Judson%22&pg=PA31 | access-date=June 18, 2006 | publisher=Phillips, Samson, and Company | location=Boston | year=1853}}</ref>

She married Adoniram in 1812, and two weeks later they embarked on their mission trip to [[India]]. The following year, they moved on to [[Burma]].<ref>S. W. Williams, ed., ''Queenly Women: Crowned and Uncrowned'' (Cincinnati: Cranson and Stowe, 1885), 59–60.</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite journal | author=Richard V. Pierard | author-link=Richard V. Pierard | title=The Man Who Gave the Bible to the Burmese | journal=Christian History & Biography | date=Spring 2006 | volume=90 | pages=16–21 }}</ref><ref>S. W. Williams, ed., ''Queenly Women: Crowned and Uncrowned'' (Cincinnati: Cranson and Stowe, 1885), 68.</ref> While in Burma, the couple's first undertaking was to acquire the language of the locals. Missionary efforts followed, with the first local converting to Christianity in 1819.<ref>S. W. Williams, ed., ''Queenly Women: Crowned and Uncrowned'' (Cincinnati: Cranson and Stowe, 1885), 60.</ref> Due to liver problems, Ann returned to the United States briefly in 1822–23.<ref>{{cite web|year=2003 |title=Ann Hasseltine Judson: First American Woman Missionary |work=Glimpses No. 46 |url=http://chi.gospelcom.net/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps046.shtml |access-date=June 18, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.is/20050321091431/http://chi.gospelcom.net/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps046.shtml |archive-date=March 21, 2005 }}</ref>

[[Image:Nancy visits Adoniram.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Nancy visits Adoniram in prison]]
During the [[First Burmese War|first Anglo-Burmese war]] (1824–26), her husband was imprisoned for 17 months under suspicion of being an English spy, and Ann moved into a shack outside the prison gates so as to support her husband. She lobbied vigorously for months to convince the authorities to release her husband and his fellow prisoners, but her efforts were unsuccessful. She also sent food and sleeping mats to the prisoners to help their time in prison to be more bearable.<ref>S. W. Williams, ed., ''Queenly Women: Crowned and Uncrowned'' (Cincinnati: Cranson and Stowe, 1885), 63.</ref> During this time, Ann wrote stories of life on the mission field and the struggles she faced. She wrote tragic descriptions of child marriages, female infanticide, and the trials of the Burmese women who had no rights except for the ones their husbands gave them. Ann's health was fragile by the time her husband was released. Her efforts to be near him when he was moved to a new location, all while she was nursing a newborn child, had involved strenuous travel and living conditions that may have contributed to her illness.<ref>S. W. Williams, ed., ''Queenly Women: Crowned and Uncrowned'' (Cincinnati: Cranson and Stowe, 1885), 66–67.</ref> After her husband's release they both remained in Burma to continue their work. Ann died at Amherst, Lower Burma, of [[smallpox]] in 1826.
[[Image:Nancy Judson tree.jpg|thumb|200px|Hopia tree near the grave of Ann Hasseltine Judson circa 1913]]
She wrote a [[catechism]] in [[Burmese language|Burmese]], and translated the books of [[Book of Daniel|Daniel]] and [[Book of Jonah|Jonah]] into Burmese. She was the first [[Protestantism|Protestant]] to translate any of the scriptures into [[Thai language|Thai]] when in 1819 she translated the [[Gospel of Matthew]].<ref name="Dana L. Robert Spring 2006 22–24" />

Her letters home were published in periodicals such as ''The American Baptist Magazine'' and republished after her death as devotional writings, making both her and Adoniram celebrities in America.<ref>{{cite journal | author=Ruth A. Tucker | author-link=Ruth A. Tucker | title=Let Freedom Ring| journal=Christian History & Biography | date=Spring 2006 | volume=90 | pages=12–15 }}</ref> Her work and writings made "the role of missionary wife as a 'calling'" legitimate for nineteenth-century Americans.<ref name="Dana L. Robert Spring 2006 22–24" /> There have been at least sixteen biographies of Judson published, the most famous having a new edition printed almost every year from 1830 to 1856, and was described by [[Unitarianism|Unitarian]] [[Lydia Maria Child]] as "a book so universally known that it scarcely need be mentioned."<ref>{{cite journal | title=Did You Know? | journal=Christian History & Biography | date=Spring 2006 | volume=90 | pages=2 }}</ref>

==Publications==

* Knowles, ''Life'' (Boston, 1829) [[New International Encyclopedia]]

==Namesake colleges==
* [[Judson College (Alabama)]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.wholesomewords.org/missions/bjudsonann.html Biography at Wholesome Words]
*[http://www.missionaryetexts.org/#m-judson E-text of an 1829 Biography]
*[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_bb4u5bmWDGUC Google E-text of an 1829 Biography]

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