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From: "Mary M. Zashin" <>
Subject: DA(I)NGEFIELD, BASSETT, ALLEN, Spotsylvania Co., mid 1700s
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 10:13:57 -0800
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Hello list, Here is my current obsession. Most of the sources I have found
state that Edwin DAINGERFIELD (b. abt. 1712, prob. New Kent County, d. ?)
married Mary BASSETT (b. Aug. 7, 1716, New Kent Co., d. Aug. 23, 1755), abt.
1737 in New Kent. She was the daughter of William BASSETT (1670-1723) and
Joanna BURWELL (1674-1727). Mary later married Edward Hack MOSELEY, Sr.
However, the Journal of John Harrower (the journal of an indentured servant
who served as tutor to William (son of Edwin) DAINGERFIELD's children from
1774 to abt. 1777; ed. by. E. M. Riley, Director of Research of Colonial
Williamsburg, published 1963) states in the notes, p. 172, that Edwin
DAINGERFIELD married HANNAH BASSETT, not Mary. Hannah was b. Mar. 9,
1713/14. No source is cited for the marriage of Edwin and Hannah. The
spouse I had listed for her (from the R. Bolling Batte Papers) was Peter
HACK. The Journal notes also report that before she married Edwin
DAINGERFIELD, Hannah BASSETT married Joseph ALLEN and had at least one
child, William ALLEN (d. 1783). According to the Journal, "In a note added
to the will [William] DAINGERFIELD asked his half-brother (actually the will
note just says brother) William ALLEN to act as executor." The R. Bolling
Batte Papers say that William ALLEN (d. July 1783) was the son of Joseph
ALLEN and Hannah ??. So she could be Hannah BASSETT who later married Edwin
DAINGERFIELD.

So. . .my questions are, does anyone have more information about the name of
Edwin DAINGERFIELD's wife, or about the name of the wife of Joseph ALLEN?
Failing that, does anyone know where I might find such information? Sorry
this was so lengthy, and thanks for any help. Polly Zashin

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