Burwell Bassett is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A007224.
Colonel Burwell Bassett performed Patriotic Service in Virginia in the American Revolution.
Colonel Burwell Bassett
Burwell Bassett, born 3 March 1734, Burgess for New Kent County, 1762-1774, member of the County Committee of Safety, 1775-6, member of the Conventions of 1775, 1776, and 1778, State Senator 1780 and 1788, and member of the House of Delegates.[1][2]
He married (1) in 1753 Anne Chamberlayne who died in 1754.
He married (2) on 7 May 1757 Anna Maria Dandridge, born 30 March 1739, died 17 December 1777. Miss Dandridge was a sister of Martha (Dandridge) Custis-Washington.
June 1780 when Martha returned to Virginia from Morristown in she told her brother-in-law Burwell Bassett: "there was not much pleasure at the camp." [3]
Burwell is buried at his family home, Eltham Plantation, in New Kent County, Virginia.
↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 12 Dec 2021), "Record of Colonel Burwell Bassett", Ancestor # A007224.
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