Due to liver problems, Ann returned to the United States briefly in 1822–23. Missionary efforts followed, with the first local converting to Christianity in 1819. While in Burma, the couple's first undertaking was to acquire the language of the locals.
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. The following year, they moved on to Burma. She married Adoniram in 1812, and two weeks later they embarked on their mission trip to India. 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. Born in Bradford, MassachusettsĪ teacher from graduation until marriage. Ann Hasseltine Judson (Decem– October 24, 1826) was one of the first female American foreign missionaries.Īnn attended the Bradford Academy and during a revival there read Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education by Hannah More, which led her to "seek a life of 'usefulness'".
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