Fanny Bassett descends from #5B William Bassett as follows:
William Bassett (d. 1646) and wife Anne
William Bassett (b. 1604) and wife Bridget Cary
William Bassett (b. 1671) and wife Joanna Burwell
Col. William Bassett (b. 1709) and wife Elizabeth Churchill
Burwell Bassett (b. 1734) and wife Anna Maria Dandridge
Frances “Fanny” Bassett (b. 1767)
Anna Maria Dandridge was the sister of Martha Washington, wife of President George Washington. Burwell Bassett and General George Washington were intimate friends and brothers-in-law, and it is certain that George Washington spent more time at Eltham than at any private home in America outside of Mt. Vernon. He visited Eltham frequently, stopping on his way to Williamsburg to meetings of the General Assembly, and on business trips to the Pamunkey River Estates of which he had charge for the Custis Heirs. He hunted at Eltham, he fished for sturgeon in the Pamunkey, he hauled seine, and visited in the neighborhood. There are many records of his social activities with Col. Burwell Bassett in New Kent around Eltham.
Fanny Bassett portrait hanging at the George Washington home in Mount Vernon, Virginia
Frances Bassett, daughter of Burwell and Anna Maria (Dandridge) Bassett, was born on 19 Dec 1767 in New Kent County, Virginia. She died in March 1796 within a year of her second marriage. She married (1) George Augustine Washington, son of Charles and Mildred (Thornton) Washington, and nephew of President George Washington, on 15 Oct 1785 at Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, Virginia. George Augustine Washington died 5 Feb 1793. She married (2) Tobias Lear, George Washington’s secretary.