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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.&nbsp;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.&nbsp;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]]
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[[Category:Missionary linguists]]
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