Ancestry of
Elizabeth Bassett

(1730–c1792)

Joanna Burwell

View famous kin of Joanna Burwell

• • Grandmother of Elizabeth Bassett — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 5 
  • Father:
  • Lewis Burwell Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Smith   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1675 
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Oct 1727 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Eltham, New Kent, Virginia 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • William Bassett
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 Nov 1693 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Carter's Creek, Gloucester Co., Virginia 
  • Children:
  
  

  William Bassett (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  Martha Bassett

  • Notes: 

  • Della Gray Barthelmas, in her book The Signers of the Declaration of Independence mistakenly identifies Joanna Burwell as the mother of Elizabeth Bassett, who in turn was the wife of Benjamin Harrison V, the signer of the Declaration of Independence. She was in fact the maternal grandmother of Elizabeth Bassett.

• Sources for Joanna Burwell

  • ¹ Barthelmas, Della Gray, The Signers of the Declaration of Independence: A Biographical and Genealogical Reference, Jefferson, N.C. and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers (1997), 34, 105-106.
  • ² Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 345.
  • ³ Dorman, John Frederick, Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5, 4th ed., Vol. 1, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 434.
  • ⁴ Hardy, Stella Pickett, Colonial Families of the Southern States of America: A History and Genealogy of Colonial Families Who Settled . . ., New York: Tobias A. Wright (1911), 43.
  • ⁵ Keith, Charles P., The Ancestry of Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America 1889-1893 . . ., Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company (1893), 36.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 842.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 468.