{"id":2050,"date":"2020-04-17T18:18:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T01:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/?p=2050"},"modified":"2020-04-17T18:18:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T01:18:44","slug":"francis-bassett-washington-portrait-at-happy-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/francis-bassett-washington-portrait-at-happy-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis (Bassett) Washington Portrait at Happy Retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frances Bassett descends from #5B. William Bassett of Virginia as follows:<\/p>\n<p>William Bassett of England and wife Anne<br \/>\nWilliam Bassett and wife Bridget Cary<br \/>\nWilliam Bassett (b. 1671) and wife Joana Burwell<br \/>\nWilliam Bassett (b. 1709) and wife Elizabeth Churchill<br \/>\nBurwell Bassett and wife Anna Maria Dandridge<br \/>\nFrances Bassett (b. 1767) and husband George Augustine Washington<\/p>\n<p>The mother of Frances is Anna Maria Dandridge, sister of Martha (Dandridge) Washington making Frances the niece of George Washington. She married George Augustine Washington, son of Charles and Mildred (Thornton) Washington. Charles was the brother of George Washington making George Augustine the nephew of George Washington. Happy Retreat is the home of Charles and Mildred (Thornton) Washington. Happy Retreat recently received a reproduction of the painting of Fanny Bassett that currently hangs in Mount Vernon, home of President George Washington. To read more about Happy Retreat, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.happyretreat.org\/\">click on the link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/FrancesBassettWashington.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2051\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/FrancesBassettWashington.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"383\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/FrancesBassettWashington.jpg 383w, https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/FrancesBassettWashington-244x300.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><\/a>Portrait (Reproduction) of Frances Bassett Washington courtesy of Ladies of Mount Vernon now hanging at Happy Retreat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frances Bassett descends from #5B. William Bassett of Virginia as follows: William Bassett of England and wife Anne William Bassett and wife Bridget Cary William Bassett (b. 1671) and wife Joana Burwell William Bassett (b. 1709) and wife Elizabeth Churchill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/francis-bassett-washington-portrait-at-happy-retreat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2052,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050\/revisions\/2052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bassettbranches.org\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}