Anne (Besson) Gassaway (abt. 1638 - 1692)

Born about 1638 in England [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 1692 at about age 54 in Anne Arundel, Maryland

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Biography

Found Born 1648 in South River, Hundred, Maryland. (Anne was not in Maryland until 1649).^[1]

Also found Birth Date 1638.

Marriage; about 1665 ( Land Deed dated 1666 shows that Nicholas & Anne were husband and wife at that time)

Marriage; 1672 Anne Arundel, Maryland (This is the date of another land deed showing that Nicholas & Anne were husband and wife at that time).

Husband: Nicholas (Col or Capt) Gassaway

Wife: Anne Besson

Child: Nicholas Gassaway

Child: Jane Gassaway

Child: Thomas Gassaway

Child: Margaret Gassaway

Child: Hester Gassaway

Child: Ann Gassaway

Child: John Gassaway

Death 1692 Anne Arundel, Maryland

Burial: All Hallows Church Cemetery

Sources

1. ↑ Original Maryland Patent Records, 1657-1658, p. 58 Available at the Maryland State Archives

• Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759, (See Image 1).
• Information developed from ; https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104517745
• Genealogy of Besson Family of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, @ http://home.netcom.com/~fzsaund/besson.html
• Thomas Besson will, MD wills 10:42-45, FHL microfilm 0,012,843.
• Anne Arundel Gentry, by Harry Wright Newman, Vol. 1, p. 148+, 1970 edition, reprinted in 1990. https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/lawrence/5836
• Emison, Jr., James Wade. Emison Families, revised: Origin and History of the Kentucky Emisons, with partial genealogies and notes on the Emisons of Virginia, Tennessee, Long Island, Massachusetts, with the following collateral families, Baird, Holmes, Clark, Love, Posey-Wade, Allen, Dunning, Ruby, Reiley, Rabb, Braun, James, Chalke, Weaver, Sinclair, Blackburn, Buckley, Randall, Chew, Browne, Porter, Shipley, Mansell, Gassaway, Sheperd, Montague-Johnson-Straughn-Haynie-Grimes, Dutton, Gee, Barr, Simpson, McCord, Hogue, Patterson-Cullop, Scott, McClellan, Brevoort, Mantle, McFarland, McClure, Barkley, Snell, Briscoe, Mitchell, McHatton, Hoopes.(Shipley/Gassaway, pp. 262 & 265 of 369), Vincennes, Indiana: c1947. Familysearch.org, FHL Repository, Book Call No. 929.273 Em48e 1954, FHL Digitized version link, https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/298537?availability=Family%20History%20Library. Accessed 16 Oct 2019 by Juliet Adams Wills.
• Rutherford, William Kenneth, and Anna Clay Zimmerman Rutherford. Genealogical History of the Gassaway Family. Authors, 1990, p. 40 (Nicholas Gassaway, son of Benjamin and Ruth Gassaway, with some listed children, Gassaway ancestry) FamilySearch.org, FHL respository, FHL Film #1033804(6), FHL Digitized Film #7953227. Accessed 24 Oct 2017 by Juliet Adams Wills.

See also:

• Bell, Geta Gina Bells in U. S. A. and Allied Families 1650-1977 (privately published, 1977) As of Jun 2021, this book is not available online due to copyright Bell Family on Wayback machine Note: The web version is excerpted from a longer document provided by June Smith. A lot of the material in it also appears in Fred Hawthorne's database.

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Besson-26 created through the import of Jackson Family Tree.ged on Oct 24, 2012 by Lee Jackson.

• WikiTree profile Besson-26 created through the import of 124-DeCoursey.ged