Voices and influences
Ann Hasseltine Judson
The first American woman sent overseas as a missionary, who kept her husband alive through seventeen months in a Burmese death prison.
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- Lived 1789 to 1826, American.
- Quoted here most in Matthew: 1 of 1.
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Ann Hasseltine Judson
- Lived
- 1789 to 1826
- Nation
- American
- Tradition
- Baptist missionary
1 of 1 quotations
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“I feel willing, and expect, if nothing in providence prevents, to spend my days in this world in heathen lands.”
letter of 8 September 1810, in Knowles's Memoir (1829), 1810
Matthew 19:29 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life. BSB
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Ann Hasseltine married Adoniram Judson in February 1812 and sailed for Asia thirteen days later, the first American woman commissioned to go. Her father had let her go with a line people quoted for a century: he would not stand in the way of her doing good. In Burma she learned the language faster than her husband, taught women who had never been taught anything, and translated the Gospel of Matthew into Siamese — the first Scripture that language had. When war broke out between Britain and Burma in 1824, Adoniram was chained in the death prison at Ava. For seventeen months Ann walked there with food, argued with officials who could have killed her for it, gave birth in a nearby hut, and hid the manuscript of his Burmese New Testament sewn into a hard pillow the guards thought worthless. He survived. She died of fever at Amherst a year later, aged thirty-six.
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