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cAnderson Family 'Rf_cords BY (v6745) W. P. ANDERSON CINCINNATI, OHIO BIDDEFORD POOL~ MAINE NINETEEN HUNDRED THIRTY-SIX Copyright_. 1936 (v6745) W. P. ANDERSON -•- Press of W. F. SCHAEFER & Co. CINCINNATI, OHIO PRI~TED 1:-; l"~ITED ST.-\TES OF .\:-.!ERIC.\ PREFACE In January, 1934, I became interested in gen scendants of the other lines, only giving enough ealogy. Since then, through correspondence and to show intermarriages. visits with relatives, I have obtained the old \Vhen sending me such information kindly records and letters reproduced herein. include, v.,here possible, the following: Names I am attempting to obtain more of such of parents, iist of their children, references records with the intention of publishing fac where further information can be found; place similes of those that ,viii throw light on our and date of birth, school or college attended, also dare of graduation; date and place of death, early ancestry. This seems a possible way to overcome the difficulties in tracing early rela name and location of cemetery; war record, tionships caused by the destruction, during the business, etc. If exact dates are not known give Civil War, of many records in Hanover County, approximations, where possible, v.rith "about" Virginia. · before the date. In listing children, v.rhere dares are lacking, This record is nor ro be considered as a fin state whether or not the correct order of birth . ished ,vork, but as a preliminary one, sent out 1s given. for correction, and to obtain additional infor mation. Where a person, marrying into the family, is a descendant of any line shown in this record, Please send me photostat copies of similar trace back his descent to an ancestor given in records of the early Virginia Andersons and the record. Where one is not so related give kindred families, or the addresses of those own references (book, volume, and page) where his ing such records. ancestry can be found. If no such reference is known, give the name of the parents and grand I am including in this record Anderson fami parents, and ,v here they were from. lies of Colonial Virginia ~vhich may or may not be related to ours, as there is no ,vay of knO"-"· It is not necessary to use n1y system of sym ing ,vho are related or who may have records. bols, but you may find my abbreviations useful. The 1nore descendants I reach the more apt I In this record symbols are used to designate am to obtain records, so I shall greatly appre individuals. Should you have occasion ro write ciate receiving, "'here lacking, full addresses of me regarding an individual v,1ith such a sym all living persons listed herein, and of those bol, please give the symbol as ,Yell as the name. who may be descendants of those listed. These symbols consist of digits and letters. I shall greatly appreciate receiving the fol The last character of a symbol represents, where lowing information v.rhich I hope to publish at kno~vn, the position of the individual among a later date. the children of the parent whose line is given. 1 represents the oldest child, 2 the second born, Kindly send me corrections and additions to etc., O being considered as 10,. a as 11, b as 12, this record covering the descendants, or those etc. One character is used for each generation. thought to be descendants, of Robert Ander Where the order of birth is unknown the last son I. I am not attempting to list all the de- letters of the alphabet are used. Capital letters :.A n d e r s o n F a 1n i l y 1{ e c o r d s are used \\·here I belieYe the order of birth is of Robert III in the accounts of Gen. T. !vL correct~ 1, 2, 3, etc., a, b, c~ etc., indicate cer Anderson and Dr. Charles Anderson, appear to tainty: Z, Y, X, and z, y, x~ etc., indicate doubt. me conjectures arrived at \Vithout the careful \-XThere t!:e sv111bols sho\Y this doubt and vou investigation made by E. L. Anderson. I an1 ; ' v ' can positi\·ely giYe correct order of birth: kindly reproducing herein the family chart of Edward do so. L. Anderson, an<l articles appearing in d:e Richn1oud. 1/ a .. Stc!71dcn-d of 1881, n1ostly by The characters preceding the last in any sy1n B. A. Brock. bol is the parent's symbol. I have used s to z as tl:e svmbols of the children of Robt. Ander I give below the account of our early ances son II, as g1ven by E. L. 1\nderson on his cbart, try given by Edv.,ard L. Anderson in ( A5 p. 3- and in r\5. So any individual having a symbol 10) "The Andersons of Gold 11ine": starting with s, t, u, v, w, x, y, or z will pre ''In the first half of the seventeenth century sumably be a descendant of Robt. Anderson II. there ,Yere several families of the name of An 11 y sy1nbol is v67 4 5 being the fifth child of derson in eastern Virginia. 111y father \vhose syn1bo l is v67 4; he ,vas tbe fourth child of my grandfather ,vhose syn1bol "O,ving to the destruction or loss of most of is v67; n1y great grandfather's symbol is v6, 1~e the records, it is impossible in these days to be£ng rbe sixth child; and the symbol of my state the relationship existing between tl:ese great great grandfather is v, the dates of birth families, but from the few remaining registers of his brothers ( and sisters, if he had any) be it appears that many of them held such official ing unknovYn. positions as to \varrant that they were persons of means, influence and social distinction, and Sy1nbols are given before tbe individual's it is probable that most of the early Andersons name. \vere of kinship. ( Charles City, York, 1642.) Abbreviations. in brackets, in11nediatel y after "On the 4th of July, 1635, Richard Anderson, a name ref er to publications listed at the end of aged 17, left England for the colqnies, and was this Record. follo\ved July 31st of the same year by Richard Roman nun1erals or letters after these abbre Anderson, aged 50 years. These were probably viations indicate the volurne, and the nu1nbers father and son, ,vho for prudential reasons took after p. indicate page. A star * after the abbre a dangerous crossing in different vessels. Both viated reference to a publication shO\\'S that d:e had subscribed to the oath of allegiance and individual's portrait is given in the publication. supre1nacy and to that conforn1able to the dis cipline of the Church of England, and it is cer These abbreviations, as ,Yell as initials of tain that tbe safe arrival of either might estab individuals \Yhich fol!o,v the list of publications lish a fa1nily of ,vealth and v.·orrh, a great addi are also used to sho\v ,vhere I obtained my in tion to a struggling colony. There can be little formation. A star * after an individual's narne doubt that these Richards ,vere d:e progenitors indicates he furnished infonnation regarding of the Hanover Andersons. The dates corre his immediate fa1nily. spond ,vith those whose ancestry we seek; the ( v675) Ed\vard L. Anderson, ( v69 l) Gen. repetition of the name Richard for many gen T. M. Anderson, and ( v697) Dr. Charles An erations, and the early appearance of their de derson have ·written of our early ancestors and scendants in the magistracy, councils and parish do not agree. Ed,vard L. Anderson gives rea vestries~ as ,vell as the marriages of the nearest sons for his conclusions, \Yl:ile tl:e ancestry back descendants with such families as the Massies, Page f otJr e-4.nderson Family 1{ecords the Cloughs, the Poindexters, the Overtons, the the fonnation of Sr. Paul's, Ne"\\' Kent County Garlands, the Dabneys and the Sheltons, are ( after 1720 of Hanover County), he appears as strong evidences that the nvo Richards "•"ere Captain Robert Anderson, his father as Robert men who were the predecessors of a distin Anderson senjor. At this time there ,vere but guished family. the two Robert Andersons in the vestries of St. "The earliest Anderson to vd-:01n the Gold Peter's and of St. Paul's and in the deeds. This Mine family may be positively traced is: captaincy appears to be of a parish militia, "ROBERT ANDERSON I, d. 1712, aged which had its origin about 1612 ,vhen the about 72 years, ,vho in the deed April 16, 1683, whole colony was an armed camp. (See Meade.) Land Office, book 7, p. 272, was grantee of 727 At this rime and long afterwards, we find the acres in New Kent for the importation of fifteen Overtons, Garlands, Massies and others regular persons; and in November, lt86, from the members of Sr. Paul's vestry. Rocert Anderson Parish Book of New Kent he is shown to have II, married Mary Overton ( sister of Capt. Jas. been a vestryman of St. Peter· s until the parish Overton) ( 1688-17 49), of Sr. Paul's vestry, of St. Paul was cut off in 1704, in which latter daughter of William Overton, who was born parish he remained a vestryman until his death in England, 3rd of December, 1628, and Eliza in 1712. This Robert Anderson I, married Ce beth Waters, daughter of Ann Waters of St.