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Anna
Hun Bassett
Anna Hun was born in September 1763. She was the older of the two children of Market Street residents Thomas and Elizabeth Wendell Hun.
In
May 1795, she married Rev. John Bassett. Although
then in her thirties, the marriage produced five
children - some of whom who were baptized in the
Albany Dutch church where her Brooklyn-born husband
was the interim pastor!
In
1800, she was named co-executor of her father's estate.
In 1811, she was co-executor of the estate of her
brother. Previously (1764), she was left 250 acres
in Sacandaga in the will of her grandfather, Johannes
Hun.
These
Bassetts lived in the parsonage on Market Street.
But in 1804, the family left Albany as Bassett's
tenure at the Albany church was troubled. Over the
next twenty years, they made stops at the Boght
and in Bushwick, Long Island where he died in 1824.
After that, Anna lived with her children.
Anna
Hun Bassett died in Penn Yan, New York in October
1848. The widow had lived eighty-six years.
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Sources: The life of Anna Hun Bassett is CAP biography number
4771. This profile is derived chiefly from family
and community-based resources.
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
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